Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
A TOUCHING INCIDENT
Young girls Dementia-How IL
was observation-disclosures New and
Startling Truths.

Startling 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, &C
companied by a young lady, entered
the cars and finally secured seat As
the conductor approached the pair, the
young lady arose, and in a pleading
voice said:
please, sir don't let him carry me to
the asylum. | am not crazy; / am a
little tired, but not mad. Oh! no indeed.
Won't you please have papa take me
back homer"
The conductor, accustomed though he
was to all phases of humanity, looked
with astonishment at the pair as did the
other passengers in their vicinity. A
few words from the father, however,
sufficed, 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 gentlemanand
could not forego the desire to speak TO
him. With a sad face and a trembling
voice the father said:
my daughter has been attending the
seminary in a distant town and was
succeedingly remarkably. Her natural
qualities. together with a great am
bitten, 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 TAX
ing her 70 a private asylum where we
hope she will soon be better
AT the next station the old man and
his daughter left the cars, but tse Incl
dent so suggestive of Shakespeare 5
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 dur
ing the decade between 1870 ana 1880
the insanity increase was 0rer one bHH-
bred and tbirtY-tUe per cent. for the
same period. Travellers by rail, by boat,
or in carriages in any part of the land
see large and elaborate buildings, and
inquire what they are:
Insane asylums
Who builds the N
Each state; every county; hundreds of
private individuals, and in all cases
their capacity is taxed to the utmUst.
Why?
Because men, in business and the pro
fessions, women, at home or in society,
and children at school overtaX their
mental and nervous forces by work,
worry and care. This brings about ner-
yous disorders, indigestion and event
ually mania.
1t is not always trouble with the head
that causes insanity. 1t far ottener
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.
! ziness; dimuess of vision; ringing III
! the ears: = teverish head; frequent
nausea or a sinking at the pit OF the
4 stomach, should take warning at once
/ The stomach and head are in direct
/ sympathy and ii one be impaired the
other can never be in order. Acute
/ dyspepsia causes more insane suicides
/ than any other known agency and the
man, woman or child whose stomach is
/ deranged is not and cannot be safe from
| the coming ON at any moment of manif
| IN some one Of its many terrible forms
The value of moderation and the i'm
| perative necessity of care in keeping
! the stomach right must therefore b'
clear to all. The least appearance o.
| Indigestion, or mai-assimilation O
| food should be watched as care
fully as the Grst approach of IL
invading army. Many means have beer
advocated for meeting such attacks
but all have heretofore been more o.
| less defective There can be little doubt
however. that for the purpose Of
regulating the stomach, toning it up tC
proper action, keeping its nerves IN
normal condition and purifying the
blood, Warmers Tippecanoe The Best
excels all ancient or recent discoveries
/ 1t is absolutely pure and vegetable; it j
certain TO add vigor to adults, while i
cannot by any possibility injure even 1
child. The fact that it wes used in thu
days of the famous Harrison family il
proof positive of its merit as it has SC
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 more to DO dreaded thar
death itself.