Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-09-11
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
A Young Girls Dementia- il was
observation-disclosures New and Start.
ling Truths.


The st. Louis express, on the New
York Central road, was crowded one
evening recently, when at one of the
way stations, an elderly gentleman, ac-
companied bya young lady, entered
the cars and finally secured seat, As
the conductor approached the pair, the
young lady arose, AMI in a pleading
voice said:
please, sir, don't let him carry me
to the asylum. / am not crazy; am
little tired, but not mad. Oh! no indeed.
Wont you please have papa take me
back homer"
The conductor, accustomed though
he was to all phases of humanity, look
ed with establishment at the pair as did
the other passengers In their vicinity. A
few words from the father, however, suf-
feed, and the conductor passed on
while the young lady turned her face to
the window. The writer CHANGED to be
seated just behind the old gentleman
and could not forego the desire to speak
TO HIM. With sad face and trembling
voice the father said:
"My daughter has been attending
the seminary in distant town and
was succeeding remarkably. Her nat
ural qualities, together with q great
ambition, placed her in the front ranks
of the school, but she studied too
closely, was not careful of her health,
and her poor brain has been turned.
am taking her 70 private asylum
where / hope she will soon be better "
At the next station the old man and
his daughter left the cars, but The Incl.
dent so suggestive of Shakespeare
Ophelia awakened strange thoughts in
the mind of the writer. 1t is an abso-
lutte fact that while the population of
America increased thirty per cent'during
the decade between 1870 and 1880. the
insanity increase was over one hundred
and hirty.fce per cent. for the same
period. Travellers by rail, by boat, or
in carriages, in any par; of the land,
see large and elaborate buildings, and
inquire what they are.
Insane asylums!
Who builds them?
Each state; every county; hundreds
of private individuals, and in all cases
their capacity is taxed to the utmost.
WhyP
Because men, in business and the
professions, women, at home or in So
cietv, and children ut school overtax
their mental and nervous forces by
disorders, indigestion and eventually
mania.
1t is not always trouble with the head
that causes insanity. IL far oftener
arises from evils in other parts of the
body. The nervous system determines
the status of the brain. Any one who
has periodic headaches, occasional dir
illness; dimness of vision; ringing
in the ears; feverish head; frequent
nausea or sinking in the pit of the
stomach, should take warning at once.
The stomach and head are in direct
sympathy and if one be impaired the
other can never be in order Acute
dyspepsia causes more insane sui
cides than any other known agency,
and the man, woman or child whose
stomach is deranged, is not and can
not be safe. from the coming on ut
any moment of mania IN some one
of its terrible many forms.
The value of moderation and the i'm
perative necessity of care in keeping
the stomach right must therefore be
clear to all. The least appearance of
indigestion, or mal-assimilation of food
should be watched as carefully rs the
first approach of an invading army.
Many means have been advocated for
meeting such attacks, but all have
heretofore been more or less defective.
There can be little doubt, however,
hat for the purpose of regulating the
stomach, toning it up TO proper action,
keeping its nerves in a normal condi-
tion and purifying the blood, Warmers
Tippecanoe The Best, excels all ancient
or recent discoveries. 1t is absolutely
pure and vegetable; it is certain
TO add vigor to adults, while it can
not by any possibility injure even a
child. The fact that it was used in the
days of the famous Harrison family is
proof positive of IFS merits as it has so
thoroughly withstood the test of time.
As a tonic and revivifier it is simply
wonderful. 1t has relieved the agony
of the stomach in thousands of cases;
soothed the tired nerves; produced
peaceful sleep and averted the coming
on Of a mania mere to be dreaded than
death itself.