The Daily Tombstone., 1885-11-17
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Frightf'ul Condo mn alton of a Mother by her SOn..W hat
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 Not long ago weeping mother | called to bid goodbye to irer only son who was soon to be executed
 "Woma1l," he exr.iui1nrd in mo- mentary frenzy, "Woman, 1 would never have been here had you done your duty by me when was young." This was terrible parting! It l horritied the spectators, it nearly craxed the conscience striken mother.
 One can scarcely overestimate the mothers influence in the mouldi lg of the. character of her offspring. But | how often. ob, how of.en. do mothers seem to ignore this responsibility
 During a recent trip on the rail the writer made the acquaintance of Dr. A. J. Benedict, of Sackett's Harbor, W. r., person who has made a study of human development. Referring to the murderous tendency of the | times, We asked that eminent man if the outlook was not discoursging? "It looks so," he said, but l fancy we have a cause and the remedy for such evils. In my professional career l have found by hard study that we have emerged from savagery by devel- | opment of the nervous system and 1 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 pistol is to them the only respectfully ! glorious instrument to secure fame. Women read trashy literature and straightway try to murder their hus- bands and friends by poison. Busi- ness men yield to the tempter. and | forge and steal and default. Minis ters, charmed by beauty, forget the behests of conscience. On every side we see the weakness of personal in tesrity."
 "Do you regard it as disease?"
 "More especially as the result of disease which, however, may be pre- vented"
 1 "Please define how"
 "I cannot now enter into details. Our people can sec their bodies, their blood, their bones. "They never see their nerves and consequently many do not suppose they have any" The farmers wife rejoices in big, physi- cal frame, and :. ct she dies premature lv. The nerve cannot stand the strain of continual work. The minister falls dead in his pulpit, but he never did a days physical work in his life. The lawyer faints in the presence of the court and is soon wreck or corpse, and yet the work is nerve work The man of affairs is overcome with apo plexy; the politician and publicist, with Bright's disease. The mind of the untutored man Is fired by the ex- ploits of crime and he longs for such fame. These persons overwork or over-sxcite the nervous system and this fact kills or denoralizes them."
 "Ii all this be so how would you rectify it then?''
 Let me tell you. A few years ago I had lady patient who was an utter wreck. She was the mother of several children. She lost her mind and imagined sho was cursed of God. She was farmers wife, and worked early and late. l never saw . finer specimen 1 of physical womanhood than she, but she was & nervous wreck She be- came bloodlsss, had the very worst of female disorders and was in the last stages of albuminuria or Bright's dis- ease. This latter disease works partic- ular havoc with the nervous system and produces insanity and despair. She was insane and desperate and I l fear tainted the blood of her offspring" with these terrible teodencies. treated her for several years, One by one the standard remedies of the schools failed, but 1 finally cured her with Warmers safe cure, and she is to- day strong and we'll. Yet thousands of women like her, every year bring Informed aud criminally-incIined children into the world Is 1t any wonder that nervous diseases prevail and that the whole moral sense is de- moralized? If'that remedy were gem erally used, We would have stronger mothers, stronger children, stronger men and women, ard with perfect physical and mental health, crime would decrease and society be more secure"
 Such candid opinions are surely worth considering. n17-lw
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