West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-12-04
UNDER THE oALLowsi
Frightful Condemnation of a Mother by
Her son-what Does a. Mean7

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Not long ago a weeping mother called TO
bid goodbye to her only SOL who was soon
10 be executed.
Woman" he exclaimed, in a momentary
frenzy, woman, L would never AVE
been here had you done your duty by me
when l was youngi"
This was a terrible partingl IL Mortified
the spectators, it nearly crazed the CON
science striker mother.
One can scarcely overestimate tho moth
ers nhuence in the moldinR OF the charac-
ter of her offspring. But how often, oh,
how ofteni do mothers seem to ignore this
responsibility
During a recent trip on the rail the writer
made the acquaintance of DIR. A. j. Bene-
dict, of Sackett's Harbor, n. ", n person
who has made "a study of human develop
ment. Referring to the murderous tendency
OF tho times, We asked that eminent man II
the outlook was not discouragingl
ut looks So" be said, "but / fancy we
have "A cause and the remedy for such evils.
In my professional career 1 have found by
hard study that we have emerged from saw
agery by development of the nervous sys-
tenn and the intellectual life, and we return
TO sayagery as we ignore the fact that with
out the solid, trustworthy nervous system,
we can not hope TO save tho race. Boys
stuff dime novels, ndthe pistol is to them the
only respectfully glorious instrument to Sc
cure fame. Women read trashy literature
ana ~straightway try to murder their hus-
bands and friends by poison: Business
men yield TO the tempter, and forge and
steal and default. Ministers, charmed by
beauty, forget the behests Of conscience.
On every side we sec the weakness of per-
Bonal integrity
"Do you regard it as a diseaseir
More especially as the result of disease
which, however, may be preyented.n
PLEASE define how"
81 can not now enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies, their blood,
their bones. They ncUer see their nerves aud
consequently many do not suppose hey hare dny.
Tho farmers wife r%ejoices in abig, physical
trame, and yet she dies pPematurely. The
nerve can not stand the strain of continual
work. The minister falls deadin his pulpit,
but he never did a days physical work in
his life. The lawyer faints in the presence
OF the court and issoon n wreck or a corpse,
and yet the work is nervo work. The man
OF affairs is overcome with apoplexy; the
politician and publicist, with Bright's dis
ease. The mind of the untutored man is
fired by the exploits of crime and he longs
Tor such fame. These persons overwork or
o~yer-excitet the ervou system and this fact
kills or demoralizes them"
IL all this be so how would you rectify it
thenl"
"Let me tell you. A few years ago l had
n lady patient who was an utter wreck. She
was the mother of several children. She
lost her mind and imagined she was cursed
OF God. She was a farmers wife, and
worked early and late. never saw a finer
specimen of physical womanhood than she,
but she was n nervous wreck She became
~bloodless, had the very worst of female dis
orders and was in the last stages of albumi-
nuria or Bright's disease. This latter dis
ease works particular havoc with the nerv-
Gus system and produces insanity and de-
spair. She was insane and desperate and |
fear tainted the blood Of her Offspring with these
terrible tendencies. / treated her for sew
eral years. One by one the standard RENE
dies of tho schools failed, butt finally cured
her with Warmers safe cure, and she is to-
day strong and well. Yet thousands of
women like her, every year bringiIl-formed
and criminally-inclined children into the
world. is it m wonder that nervous dis
eases prevail and that the whole moral
sense is demoralizedi If that remedy were
generally used, we would have stronger
mothers, stronger children, stronger men
and women, and with perfect physical and
mental health, crime would decrease and
society be more secure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering.