The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-03
Gan SBE EVER LOVE-!
Phrcn logiSts viii Watch
Little Marcia Bricia.
PART OTHER BRAIN EXClSED
In Which Their Theory Local
ICES the Affections.
PART OTHER BRAIN EXClSED

When Maria Briciaw was born in this
city on Oct. II last, she seemed doomed
to die almost Immediately. Indeed, death
seemed blessed relief from life that
must be brief and full of pain.
A freak of nature had fastened upon
| the back of the poor little head a great
! humorous growth Of a sort that previous
| ly had proved fatal. But she was re-
moved at once to the Harlem Hospital,
and there, for the first time in this coun-
try, an operation was performed which
| saved her life
Skillful physicians carefully cut away
the foreign growth and sewed the edges
Of skin together so deity that there will
be but a tiny scar remaining to tell Of
the operation, and this will be entirely
concealed by the hair at the nape of the
neck.
In the operation it was found necessary
to remove, with the tumor, a portion of
the actual gray matter Of the brain; and
this gray matter came from the region
assigned by phrenologists to the faculty
of love-
Love for her parents, her playmates,
her home her country, love for her low
er, eighteen or twenty years from now
this may be to Maria Brcia a never
known experience.
Science may have saver her life al the
expense of all that makes life worth liv-
ing.
No one has yet proved-perhaps Maria
Bricia will be the first to prove-quite
how definitely the seates of the passions
are mapped out in the brain, or how in
evitable is the effect of the lack of any
portion of its matter upon the character.
Jessie a. Fowler, president of Fowler
& Wells, says of the case of Maria Bricia
''PhrenologicalIy speaking, the loss of
cerebral matter was from the occipitaI
lobe which Dresides over the home life,
the domestic feelings and the desire for
social intercourse.
I'm the case of this babe the loss of
brain tissue was also from the region
where is located love of animals and pets
and the patriotic spirit.
But as phrenology supplies IN anti !
dote for all small qualities in the form |
oe advice and how to cultivate faculties |
that are deficient, we would suggest to |
the mother that she take pains to devel- /!
op in the child love for children and |
some special pets. and encourage friend
Illness for other children. so that she may
grow UP a companionable woman"
Physicians, who in general fight shy of
hold as a rule that a trif-
ing loss of brain matter does not weak
en- the faculty; nor do phrenologists dis
pute the conclusion. The contour of the
skull remains the same; the brain mat
ter left does double duty. Often in bat
tie brave soldiers have suffered blain
wounds and recovered completely, men
tally and physically.
But cases are where a larger loss of
brain matter has effected the mind;
where head wounds and loss of the gray
ooze of the brain have made merry men
moody and irritable: have weakened the
memory, changed the process of The in
-ellect
If this shall be the case with Maria
Bricia, her fate will be a strange one.
Her mother, Louisa Bricia. is a very
pretty woman; she herself. if her 5evel-
opment follows the precedent of other
italian children here, will be taller,
stronger. more beautiful. She VIII be
educated. wear pretty. clothes ana be
.ome an attractive child, a lovely woman.
Prosperity will give her beautiful cloth
ng; education will add charm of man
Ter to physical beauty.
But as a child she may be loveless: as
woman. cold. ,
In vain-if the worse follows from the ,
peration-yiil her little playmat.s ap-
zeal to her to toin ITEM in their games.
he will not care for seats, rabbits,
r kittens. She will not love her home.
Another fireside will be the same as her
wn Her father and her mother will
7eap bitter tears over her, but never
all to life in her an answering throb Of
fectionate sympathy.
And love may come-the love of n low
r II will find her unmoved, heartless
late she may love she cannot. Protes :
atoms of undying fealty she viii meet
9Th laughter. She will be an Undin2.
ne will wonder at the feeling that :
lakes the tears start to her suitor's eyes.
ut she cannot share It. She WI he
rnel without blame, because she does
20 understand.
Il love You: kneel to yon; I implore
on not to be heartless."
So may some lover address beautiful Il
iti Ia DIANld III 41LA- NlitFllIB dl IitI III
e feet. gazing up into her hooking eyes. il
'Heartless? I don't know what you f
we that you and all the others TAX b
oout?" a
why. love is-is-is Just love" he 5
tanners. AZ love you: II IS the dearest C
ssh of my life TO marry you p
Marry? All. yes; You stand in the q
lurch and the good Father says-but a
lere again. would have 10 promise TO q
we, honor and-howshau promise to 2
We You when I do not know what love C
? Why should : marry your j
Because I love You. and-and"-a d
right thought this-"to have q home all
our own"
But. I don't want q home" the beat \
fUl girl 1aughingly replies. what IS o
1me? rs a place where you eat and
eep and read novels: and I can do that "
2ywhere. need no home" c
All. yes" the young man cries eager Vi
You say that now, but you are
Jung. beautiful ne;ted. admired loved
III you not he lonely when You are Old -.
ii wrinkled? VIII You not then wish TO :. =
eI the arms Of children and grsHdchild- :
Y about you: to-
Children" the girls tone IS full Of
ntempt. "Oh. yes. I've known girls -
at have married-my sisters and 9TH q
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