Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-09-06
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
Young Girls Dementia-How It was
Occasioned-Some New and Startling
Truths.

Young Girls Dementia-How 1t was
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES New and 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, ac-
companied 10y young lady, entered the
car and finally secured seat. As the
conductor approached the pair, the
young lady arose, and in pleading
said:
please, sir, don't let him carry me to
the asylum. | am not crazy; am little
tired, but not mad. Won't you please
have papa take me back homer
The conductor, accustomed though he
was to all phases of humanity, looked
with establishment at the pair as did the
other passengers in their vicinity. A
few words from the father, however, SUIT
feed, and the conductor passed on while
pthe young lady turned her face to the
window. The writer CHANGED to be seat
ed just behind the OLD gentleman and
could not torego 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 sue
ceeding remarkably. Her natural quail
ties, together with great bition, plac-
| ed her in the front ranks of the scnool,
but she studied t. o closely, was not care
full of her health, and her poor brain
has been turned. am taking her to 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 the incl
dent, so suggestive ofShakspeare's Ophe-
liza, awakened strange thoughts in the
mind of the writer. 1t is an absolute
fact that while the population of Ameri-
ca increased thirty per cent. during the
decade between 1870 and 1880 the insan
ity increase was over one hundred and
thirty-five 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 them?
Each state; every county; hundreds OF
| private luulNluudlo, anu III oil SdoCo IAiCil
capacity is taxed to the utmost.
Why?
Because men, in business and the pro.
fessions, women, at home or in society
and children at school overtax their men
tai and nervous forces by work, care and
worry. This brings about nervous dis
orders, indigestion and eventually ma
mia
1t is not always trouble with the head
that causes insanity. 1t far oftener arises
from evils in other parts of the body
The nervous system determines the sta
tus of the brain. ANY one who has peri
odic headaches; occasional dizziness; {
dimness of vision; ringing in the ears
feverish head; frequent nausea or ;
sinking at the pit of the stomach, SHOULD
take warning at once. The stomach anC
head are in direct sympathy and if on,
be impaired the other can never be il
order. Acute dyspepsia causes more in
sane suicides than any other known
agency and the man, woman or chile
whose stomach is deranged is not ant
cannot be safe from the coming on a
any moment of mania in some one of it
many terrible forms.
The value of moderation and the i'm
perative necessity of care in keepin
: the stomach right must therefore b
. clear to all. The least appearance of in
,, digestion, or mal-assimilation of foo
! should be watched as carefully as tn
first approach of an invading army
Many means have been advocated fo
meeting such attacks, but ali have here
tofore been more or less defective. Their
can be little doubt, however, that for tn
: purpose of regulating the stomach, tor
J ing it up to proper action, keeping il
' nerves In normal condition and purify
ing the blood, Warmers Tippecanoe Tn
Best, excels all ancient or recent disco'
s cries 1t is absolutely pure and veget;
y BILE; it is certain to add vigor to adult
while it cannot by any possibility injur
y even a child. The fact that it was use
in the days of the famous Harrison fan
lily is proof positive of its merit as it hs
b SO thoroughly withstood the test of tim
As a tonic and revivifier it is simpl
wonderful. 1t has relieved the agony {
the stomach in thousands of cases; scott
> ed the tired nerves; produced peacef
sleep and averted the coming on ola M
e mia more to be dreaded than death itsel