River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-11-19
UNDER THE GALLONS.
Frightful Condemnation ola Mother by
Her SOMEWHAT Does it Mean?

Not long ago weeping mother
called TO bid good bye to her only son
who was soon to be executed.
woman he exclaimed in a
momentary frenzy, woman, would
never have been here had you done
your duty by me when | was young!'
This was a terrible parting! II
Mortified the spectators, it nearly
crazed the conscience stricken mother.
One can scarcely oyerestimate the
mothers influence in the moulding Of
the character of her offspring But
how often. oh. how often, do mothers
seem to ignore this responsibility!
During a recent trip on the rail the
writer made the acquaintance of DIR. A.
j. Benedict, OF Sackett's Harbor, n.
r., person who has made a study OF
human development. Referring to the
murdcrous tendency of the times, we
asked that eminent man if the outlook
was not discouragingP
1T looks so, he said, "but fancy
we have a cause and the remedy foI
such evils. In my professional career
have found by hard study that we
have emerged from savagery by
development of the nervous system and
the intellectual life, and we return to
savagery as we ignore the fact that
without the solid, trustworthy nervous
system, we cannot hope to save the
race. BOYS stuff dime novels. and
The pitsol is to them the only res
pcctably glorious instrument to
secure fame Women read trashy
literature and straightway try TO
murder their husbands and friends
by poison. Business men yield to the
tGmpter, and forge and steal ard de-
fault. Ministers, charmed by beauty,
forget the behests OF conscience. On
every side we see the weakness of per,
7onal integrity
'.Do you regard it as a diseased
More especially as the result OF
disease which, however, may BE-
prevented.
.Please define how"
II cannot now enter into details.
Our people can see their bodies, their
blood, their bones. 1hey neCcr see
their ,aerues and consequently many d
not suppose they hare ony. The
furmers wife reioices in big, physic j
frame, and vet she dies prematurely
The nerve cannot stand the strain OF
continual work. The minister falls
dead in his pulpit, but he never did q
DAYS physical work in his life. The
lawyer faints in the presence of the
court and is soon wreck or corpse,
and vet the work is nerve work. The
man of affairs is overcome with
apoplexy; the politician and publcist,
with Bright's disease. The mind OF
the untutored man is fired by the ex-
PLOTS of crime and he longs for such
fame These persons overwork OF
Cver-excite me nervous system and
this fact kills or demoraIizes them
eff all this be 50 how would you
rectify it then?"
Let me tell you. A few years ago
| had 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 a nervous wreck! She became
bloodless. had the very worst of female
disorders and was in the last stages Of
albuminuria or Bright's disease. This
latter disease works particular havoc
with the nervous system and produce
insanity and despair. She was insanA
and desperate and | fear tainted Tho
blood Of her oG$pri'sq with these terrible
tendencies | treated her for several
years. One by one the standard RENE
dies of the schools failed. but l finally
cured her with Warmers safe cure, and
she is to-day strong and well. Yet
thousands OF women like her, every
year bring Informed and criminally-in-
clined children into the world. Is II
any wonder that nervous diseases pre-
vail and that the whole moral sense is
demoralized? If that remedy were gen
orally used, we would have stronger
mothers, stronger children, stronger
men and women, and with perfec!
physical and mental health, crime
would decrease and society be more
secure.
Such candid opinions are surely
worth considering.