The Daily Tombstone., 1885-11-24
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Not long ago weeping mother called to bid goodbye 10 her only son who WAS soon to be executed.
 "Womau," lIe exclaimed in a mo- mentary frenzy. Woman. l would never have been here had you done "your duty by me when was young"
 This was terrible parting, It mortified the spectators, it nearly craZed the conscience s;likcn mother.
 One can scarcely oveTcytimate the mothers influence in the moulding of the character of her offspring But how often. oh, how oi.en, do mothers seem 10 ignore this spOnsibiiItyl
 During a recent trip on the rail the writer made the acquaintance of h.. A. j. Benedict, of Sackett's Harbor, &. Y. person who has made a study of human development. Referring to the murGerous tendency of the times. we asked that eminent man if the outloci, was not discourlging?
 It looks so,' Le said. ''but l fancy we have a cause and the remedy for such evils. In my professional career l have found by hard study We that have emerged from sayagory lay devei. opment ui the nervous system and the intellectual life, and We re.arn to saVasvYy as We ignore the fact that without the solid, trustworthy ners ous system, We cannot hope to save tlsa race. Bows stuff dime novels, and the pistol is to them the only rcspcctahly glorious instrument tO secure fame. Women read trashy literature and straightway try to murdes heir hua- bands and friends by poison. Bu~i- ness men yield to the tcmptcr, and forge and steal and default. Minis ters. charmed by beauty, forget .hc hehests cf conscience. On every aiIe We see the weakness of personal in- tcglity.'
 Do you regard it as q diseasc?"
 "More especially as the result oi disease which, however, may be pre- vented"
 "PlcaSe define how"
 "I cannot ROW enter into details Our people can sec their bodies, their blood. their bones. "lhcv never see their nerves and consequently many do not suppose they have any" The farmers wife rcjoiccS in a big, physi- cai frame and yet she dies premature ly. The nerve cannot stand the strain oi con: inual work The minister ialis dead in his pulpit, but he never did q days physical work in his lie. The lawyer iaints in the presence Cf the : court and iS soon a wreck pr q corpse. and yet the work is nerve work The 1 man ui affairs Is overcome with apo i plcSy; the politician and publicist, with Bright's disease The mind oi ! thr untuIored man is fired by the CX- : ul,;;s of crime and he longs for such ] fame. These persons Oyerwork or ovcr-eycite the nervous system and this fact kills or deIr oraiizes them."
 "If all this be 50 how would you ractify it then"
 Let me tell you. 4 few years ago had lady patient who was an utter wreck. She wa> the mother of several children. She lost her mind and imagined she WIS cursed of God. She was q farmers wife, and worked early and late. l never saw f4,er specimen of physical womanhOod tlLan she, but she was Il nervous wreck, She he, came bioOdie-s, had the very worst oi female disorders and was i'll the last stages Of albuninuria 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 fear tainted the blood of her offspring
 with these terrible teodeucics. treated her for several years. One " one the standard remedies of th, schools failed, but l finally cured hcl with Warmers safe cure, and she is to day strong and well. Yet thousand: of women like her, every year bring ilI-iormed and criminally-inciiue, children into the world. !s it any wonder that nervous diseases prevai and that the whole moral sense Is de
 moralized? Ii that remedy Were gen orally used, We would haze strOnge
 mothers, stronger children, stronge
 men and women, and with pcrfec
 physical and mental health, crime
 would decrease and society be nor,
 secure"
 such candid opinions arc surel,
 worth considering. plI-lw