The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-18
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WaEELiso, W. va, AUGUST IS, 1885.
!. yo,se ffom . Living Tomb,

WHEELING, w. va, AUGUST IS, 1885.
a Voice From . Living Tomb,
1.-THE story Of Miss Brinkle, Of Phila.
iielphia-a sane woman shut up for TWEEN
ty.seyen years in amad house-had been
told inromapce form 1t would have been
at down as impossible. The critics would
have declared 1t absurd for an author TO
write that physician Of high standing in
his community hadput his daughter in
mad house because to save her family from
the notifying consequences Of her ex.
trayavance. The g unnatural parent" OF
the cheap novel has rarely been painted
: in colors 60 sombre. The critic would have
foundfurther that the author had chosen
badly his time and his seene, for in the
middle Of the nineteenth century, in so
enlightened commonwealth as Pennsyl-
y,,asnria, and ID It's capital city, such things
could not be.
a recently published book, ga Prison
Palace tells the story Of young girl
wearied with mental labor, incarcerated In
q mad house. shewas not mad when she
entered, but the terrifying surroundings
an atmosphere Of mental decay, the
shrieks and bowls and curses Of madmen,
atender heart longing for sympathy and
love, hope that give way to the agony Of
! despair-these conditions did their work.
The girl who was sick went mad. sheno
longer lived in herself, nolopger realizsd
her situation. Heaven had been kind to
her. The writer Of A Prison Palace pro-
fesses to relates story from life. After
the revelation in Mics Brinkle's case 1t
WILDE hard for the book-mekersto invent
amad house story that will outrage the
possibilities
Last year AR. George L. Harrison, Of
Philadelphia, formerly President Of the
Board Of Pablo Charities of Pennsyl-
vania, printed at his own cost large vol
lune bringing together the lunacy laws Of
the States and Territories Of the United
1 States and Of certain foreign countries.
Mr.. Harrison's motive was to show the
defects Of those laws and to incite inquiry
which might leadto better and more hui
name policies. In his introduction Mr..
Harrison dwells on the ease with which
persons may be committed to hospitals for
the insane and made prisoners beyond
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