Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-12

the risk she was running, and advised her to
e home and change her clothing She replied
recognise the existence of pain or sickness
She had pneumonia, nevertheless. and came
near dying"
The mind curers, Christian s.scientists, !" mes
merists, and all who practice the art of healing
mentally enjoy lucrative business working on
patients who are unconscious Of the fact that
they are patients. Women who want their
husbands or sons cured Of the tobacco habit,
the liquor habit, or some other dissipation pay
literally for the thing they desire to be accom-
plished. One mother whose little daughter il
| q victim Of the disease known Al St vitus'
dance, has spent more that o. 900 within .
brief time in vain efforts to cure her. Another
woman, whose lame son is the one thought Of
her life, has patiently waited for the results
she was assured would come, and 50 far has
waited in vain. Many nervous, half-worn-out
women in and beyond middle life, who expend
what energy they have in trying to cure mag
inarg ills, are the best patients Of the mind
curers, and are almost the only ones who are
helped by them.
The business is one easy to learn, and a.
easily taught. The only preparation IL course
Of twelve lectures. These are about an hour
long, and people who can succeed. SO it is put,
in self-mesmerizing themselves easily will be
equipped at the end Of the course for the bust
ness of mesmerizing Others Nothing is re-
CURED. except to master the argument, 10
be silently used with the patient. The Chris
tan scientists" use formula slightly different
from the mental healers but they are alike in
the important essential Of absolute surrender
OF will and abject submission to the power of
another mind exerted upon them. Mrs Choate,
Mrs. Newman, Mrs. Stuart, Mrs. Plunkett Mrs
Eddy, and other originators of the ''cure"
have many pupils in Brooklyn who are teach
ing and practicing. Miss Tice, Miss Isabella
Beecher, Mrs. Silsbee, Mrs. Hunt, Miss Woods,
and many others have large practices. The
majority Of pupils are elderly women; very
few young ladies care for it, and the classes
are usually taught by women in their own
homes. Men are not committed to it to any
extent yet, and 30 violent is the opposition
on the part of some husbands that Sc
rious domestic trouble has arisen. The state of
ecstacy in which the new convert to the mental
science delights in, is very trying to practical
people, who believe that there is matter in the
world as well as sin and folly, and poverty and
pain, and that hard endeavor is required of all
to overcome it. After time many lose their
early ardor and settle down to healthier state
Of mind, but the enthusiasts outnumber them.
One OF the latter undertook to remove by men,
tai treatment some abuses which came under
her observation, and failed ignominiously
that she gave up the science and resumed her
that the ''science" had no perceptible effect
upon any one but the pupil or patient who
willingly surrendered individual will to that
Of the healer.
1t is a strange craze which has come upon
the country, and it is affecting the Protestant
community seriously. The Catholics seem to
have avoided it almost entirely though nothing
has been said or done to keep them out of this
modern acheme