The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-26

he doesn't want to do. He doesn't know
what it will he, but be constantly fears
The other dav he was standing beside man
who was shooting at q target, when the
feeling came over him that something
would make him swing in front of the pistol
just as it was discharged. He was conscious
all the time that he didn't want to be shot,
but the impulse was very nearly the death
of him. Here is another man who used TO
20 on sprees, but was suddenly converted
and entered a monastery. He led the life
prescribed with the most scrupuOus care,
and studied hard for the priesthood, but he
was not mentally fitted for such a career,
and it is likely that it has destroyed his
reason lie also believes in mysterious
penalties for trivial acts Doubtless the
system of life where there are penances for
minor violations of duty was bad thing
for him. AT any rate, he is unsettled. One
day monk found him measuring off line
on the floor with a rule, and when asked
what he was doing he replied that he was
measuring the distance to heaven. But he
is sane to all Appearances
What do you find is the relative danger
of insanity to different classes of people" l
asked. "Do brokers and Wall street men
generally go off eaSyl"
1.-The stock gambler does not become
insane while he sticks to his business re-
piled the doctor. "When he retires ard
devotes himself to inglorious ease he is in
danger. 1t is not the active employment
but the cessation of it that hurts. Brokers
are frequently men who have grown up
from office boys and have not any solid
foundation of education. They are entirely
wrapped up in their business, and when
they leave it they have nothing to occupy
their minds. II is then that decisions take
possession of them. | would like to see men
enter business later after solid education
in schools, and colleges if possible. A man
with a mind thus trained knows what to do
with himself when he is thrown upon his
resources 1t is much the same with ignor-
ant men in trades. They have, nothing TO
think of but their business, and their minds
are not occupied Where there is any
hereditary faint such a state of things leads
to bad results. Among men and women
of eisure the immunity from insanity aside
from inheritance depends upon the heath
full variety of pursuits. The blase creature
who thinks Of nothing but a poodle is
in danger. We frequently hear that the
rush of business life in America makes
lunatics. Ny experience shows, on the con-
trary, that it is injudicious use of leisure; "
SIN the case of children at SCHOOL, l
asked, ''what should be done when they
begin to worry over their studies and dream
of them at night? Would you take them
AWAY and let them rest?n
''TH tell YOU what | do with my boy"
replied Dr. Hamilton. II let him go to
school and go through the motions of study
ing without really applying himself He
picks up what he can from the others for a
while till he has recovered from the effects
of an unwise direction of his faculties. Per-
haps he has worked too hard at some one
thing which is not suited to his mind. Some
children will do that. Because they are
backward in mathematics they will grind
away at that and nothing else They need
variety, but it is a mistake to take them
away from the rontine of school life, the
regularity Of duties, which is generally good
for them. Regularity is different from
monotony A child should not be forced