Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-28
UNDER THE GALLowa
Frightful Condemnation Of . Mother BY

Frightful Condemnation Of . Mother BY
Her son-Wha. Does 1t Meant
Not long ago weeping mother called to
bid good bye TO her only son who was soon
to be executed.
woman" he exclaimed In . momen.
tary frenzy, Woman, would never have
been here had You done your duty by me
when I was youngP
This v.s . terrible perting' It horrifed
the Spectators, IL nearly craxed the con-
science suiken mother.
One can scarcely overestimate the moth.
er's influence in the moulding of the char
acter of her Offspring, But how often, oh,
how often. do mothers seem to ignore this
responsibility!
During Q recent trip on tl,e rail the Wi.
ter made the acquaintance of Dr.. A. ].
Benedict, Ct Sackett's Harbor, N, Y, par
son who has made Q study of human de-
velopment. Referring to the murderous
tendency Of the times, We asked that
eminent man If the outlook was not dis
ooursgingf
have cause and the remedy for such evils.
In my professional career ! 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 savagery a. we ignore the fact that
without the solid, Trustworthy nervous sys-
tenn, 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 litera-
ture and straightway try to murder their
husbands and friends by poison. Business
men yield to the temper, and forge and
default. Ministers, charmed by beauty,
forget the behests Of conscience. On every
side We see the weakness ofpersonal integ-
rityi"
"More especially as the result of disease
which. however, may be prevented"
please define how"
II can not enter into details. Our
people can see their bodies. their blood,
their bones. They never zee their nerves
and consequently many do not suppose
they have any. The farmers wife rejoices
In big, physical frame, and yet she dies
prematurely. The nerve cannot stand the
falls dead in bis pulpit but he never did a
days physical work in his life. The law.
yer faints in the presence Of the court and
ID soon wreck or corpse, and yet the
work is nerve work. The man of affairs is
overcome with epoplexy; the politician and
publicist, with Bright's disease. The mind
of the untutored man is fred By the *.
plots OF crime and he longs for such fame.
These persons overwork or over excite tho
nervous system and this fact kills or de-
moralixss them"
IF all this be 30 how would you rectify
itthsn."
LET me tell you. A few years ego had
q lady patient who was an utter wreck,
She was the mother of several children.
She lost hsr mind and imagined she WAS
cursed of God. She was g farmers vita,
and worked early and late. I never saw q
finer specimen of physical womanhoo6
than she, but she was q nervous wreck
She became bloodless, had the very worst
of female disorders and was in the last
stages of slbun,inuris or Bright's diseaye.
This latter disease works particular havoc
with the nervous system and produces In
sanity and despair. She was insane and
desperate and I fear tainted the blood OF
her offspring with these terrible tendencies.
treated her for several years. One BY one
the standard remedies Of the schools failed,
but finally cured her with Warmers safe
cure, and she il to day strong and we'll.
Yet thousands Of women like her, every
year bring ul-forn ed and criminally-in-
clined children into the world. Is it any
wonder that nervous diseases prevail and
that 1.-THE whole moral sense il demoralizedi
If that remedy were generally used, We
would avestrcnger mothers, stronger chill.
dren, stronger men and women, and with
perfect physical and mental health, crime
would decrease and society b. more Sc.
cure"
Such candid opinions are surely worth
considering.