Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-01-19
THE SILENCE CURE.
A Physician Who Says Women Hurt Their
Nerves by Talking too Much.

Il have two or three patients who are
I'll with nervous pro~stration and who
could be cured if they would stop talk
ing, said a nerve specialist the other
day. "They waste their nerve tissue as
fast as | can supply it, and they are oil
the verge of Mysteries and acute nervous
pain ali the time. A woman. if she be
inclined to talk too much, should time
herself just as she would take medicine,
and q ow herself only just so many
minutes of talk.
Now, the other day q woman who IS
troubled with insomnia came in my
office for treatment. She bad been TAX
ing drugs. She told me about her
troubles and her tongue ran like the
ciapper Of a farmhouse bell al dinner
time. | thought she never would let up.
Finally | stopped her.
do you talk as much as that very
often. madam | asked.
She drew herself up and said in an
offended tone. This is no laughing mat
ter, doctor, | assure YOU. | am worn
ont from lack Of sleep; aud though my
family do all things possible to divert
my mind, and | make calls and see peo-
pie all the time | get steadily worse. |
am worn to a shadow. Why last sum-
mer--
,"And o her tongue ratified on, until
again had to stop her.
NOW listen to my prescription, |
said. Go home and keep still. Don't
talk. Time your tongue waggings. At
breakfast allow your husband to read
the newspaper without interruption.
After breakfast sew a little in your own
room. Read as much as you please.
Walk long distances if You are strong
enough. Do not make many calls. AT
dinner talk all you please, but spend a
quiet evening. If you go to the theatre
do not talk much during the play. Ex-
ercise a little sclf-denial. 1t will be
hard at first, for you are a chatterer,
but il you perseyere YOU will succeed
and your nervous system will get rest
"What did she say to that? Well. |
do not think she liked it. But il she
took me seriously think can cure her
in n month.
"Do | have many such cases? Well.
/ should say | did! 1t is almost safe to
declare that there never is a case of real
acute nervousness unless the woman is
a talker. With 4 man it is different.
He may worry himself into insanity, or
complete loss Of brain power, if his busi-
ness goes wrong. But the very nervous
woman is seldom n worrier. She is the
woman of leisure with a small family
few in numbers | mean-to direct. She
buys their food, their clothing. hires the
servants and keeps house She has no
real worries. But does she think she
has? Oh dear yes! She thinks she has
more to do than any other woman of her
acquaintance. =
".Keep quiet a few hours every day
aud you will be a well woman is what
l tell half my woman patients. When
I can persuade them to try it they come
back aud say: Why doctor | haven't
been nervous enough to fly since | be-
gan TO try your queer prescription. "
Old Irish Schools.
The buildings of the monastic school
were generally constructed in the neigh.
borhood of a little stream or clear
springs. They were always protected,
says a writer in Donahoe's Magazine. by
o circular or oval Enclosure called a
rath lis, cashel or dun. Sometimes there
were two or more of these Enclosures,
made OF earth and occasionally faced
with stone.
Between these ramparts there were
deep dykes. A single entrance, guard
ed day and night, controlled the egress
and ingress. The monks could not 60
put without consent of the abbot. As q
rule women were not allowed to enter
the iunermost Enclosure. The principal
building was the church, usually small.
The largest of these ancient Celtic
churches Is not more than 80 feet IL
length and many measure but from ~
to 40 feet. II needed several churche,
were built. Groups of seven churches
were much beloved, such rs we find at
Gl~endalough, Cashel, Kells and else.
where.
The churches were usually built Of
oakeu planks. covered with osier OF
wattles, woven into various designs OF
trellis or checker. and neatly painted Sc
that the exterior often looked like .
page Of their own elegant manuscripts
Sometimes the walls were built Of earth.
but then they were incased to q certain
height with wicker-work or artistic
carpentry. The first churches we hear
| OF in Ireland are the oaken churches Of
| Palladius aud the mud church built by
st. Patrick at Tirawley. In the south
or west. where stone was more abundant.
the churches were built occasionally o.
stone. But wooden churches were the
delight OF the ancient Celts up 10 the
twelfth century. st. Malachy got into
serious trouble by trying to INTRODUCES
stone churches Of the Cistercian pattern
Tho old monastic churches were usually
rectangular. with a very steep. often .
double, roof. the outer one being OF lead
or stone. They had no pillars but fro
quently the doorways aud the arches
were carved with great elegance; del
icate incisious. graceful scroll and spirs
work and grotesque intricate designs
show tho rich fancy and bold. inventive
mind Of these good old monkx