The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-11

efforts viii be sufficient for the purpose.
During the past six years she has received
considerable sums from visitors and attend
ants, but it was only che other day we dis
covered where she concealed her hoard. Ger
tainly notin her room, for a careful search
Of the apartment revealed nothing, and
close watch OF her mornings and outgoings
brought no results. By accident we found
that her bank is a tin pail concealed in the
grounds of the asylum beneath stone It
is nearly full of all sorts of coin. We have
not disturbed it, but simply keep guard to
see that the old lady is not made victim of
theft"
"Can you lend me 81 75g" queried a middle
aged, smooth shaven man.
No, John; not today and as we continued
our stroll the physician continued THAT
man and his wife are both here under treat
ment for acute mania. They became imbued
with the idea that it was obligatory on them
to make human sacrifice. So they broke
up al their furniture, placed the fragments
ia heap, put their child, bound hand and
foot, on top and set the pyre ablaze. The
baby was rescued just n time, and the parents
are now here The father thinks if he secures
So. IS he can pay for burning down the house
and secure bis release"
a queer case is that Of a young fellow who
is deranged on the subject of patent medi-
cines. He wandeTs around with bottle of
water in his hand. This, be insists, has pc
culiar virtues, and declares: Il was very
sick, and an examination showed I had no
liver and my lights were diseased. l took
two bottles Of this remedy, and now I have
new liver and electric lights. Won't you try
a bottle?"
"Who, have you found" asked my med
icaI friend, ''in your experience as an expert,
to be most prone to mental troubled"
The wives Of unsuccessful farmers.
They are generally faithful, loving help
meets, who start their welded career with
hearts full of hope They work hard, and
their husbands also work hard. A bad sea-
son or big storm causes failure of the
crops. The farmer is compelled to mortgage
his place to provide for current expenses and
next years seeding and stock. Then the
couple must toll more than ever, for they not
only have to live, but to pay interest, with
the big black principal besides always loom
ing up in the background. The man is away
in the fields each day, busy. The woman
finds little leisure after performing her
household duties and sits down TO think.
For few months she plans simple econo-
mics and sacrifices. Then, as prospects fail to
brighten, she ceases thinking and begins to
brood. Next she gets melancholy, discour-
aged, tired of life. The weary brain gives
way, and the happy girl of a few years back
is the mad woman of today. Talk of the
fierce conflict for existence in big cities! 1t
is nothing to the ceassIesS grind of daily toll
on a farm whose soil is stony and crops
scanty. The cities pour the victims of vice
into the asyluns, the country the honest poor
who can't make both ends meet"
Bloomingdale, in New York city, as well
as nearly all the large asylums throughout
the United States and Canada, was arranged
with these objects in view: cure if possible,
make comfortable anyway. The general plan
is to have sunny rooms, recreation halls,
entertainments, gardens, gymnasiums and
every possible device for pleasantly occupy
ing and diverting the distracted mind. The
old days of brutal treatment passed away
with a generation that is dead and gone. OF
course, from time to time the public hears of
outrages at various places perpetrated by at
tendants, but they may be set down the
exceptions that prove the general existence
of skilled and humane treatment of the in
sane. FRED e. DAYTON.