The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-08
MUSIC CURE FOR
STRAINED NERVES
Harmonies for Blues sndChords
for Observation-Disclosures That
Drive Away Toothache.

NEW YORK, May TT am taking
the music cure" said the pretty girl
with the mandolin case under her arm.
II go once day for fifteen minutes.
am learning how to quiet my nerves
and cure my ills by the making of
sweet sounds.
do 1 play the same harmony for all
my aches and pains? Oh, no.
2''There are sounds that drive away
the blues. There are other sounds that
encourage pious thoughts. These are
the Sunday tunes. They bring you to
a 1proper frame of mind. l play these
when am tempted to fiirt or to be
cross to mother.
Then there are distinct harmonies
for active pains. There is a melody
which works upon neuralgia and an
.other one which has a mervelous eff
feet upon the toothache. rheumatism
and all acute pains-of the purely nerv-
GUS system can be put to rout by the
right chords.
There is really nothing very new.
In Bible times the women cheered their
souls by music, and there is more than
one mention made of curing sickness
with sweet melodies. I think it is one
of the great coming cures.
Il enjoy taking my music lessons
and [ am getting better every day. I
used to get up in a blue haze. But,
when this happens now, | get out my
mandolin, and by breakfast time l am
in good spirits.
How does it work upon the rest of
the family? Why, in the same manner.
Only more so.
when stocks went down / operated
on father and the burrows went away as
he listened to my playing.
But that isn't a circumstance to
what / did for mothers indigestion.
One day l played for her while she ate
her supper off her tray. The next
night she was able to come down to
supper and after that she steadily i'm
proved.
There are regular chords for blues,
others for pain, others for evil thoughts
and others to promote good feeling"
A Few "Musts."
But music will not do everything
Here are the "musts" for the amateurs
who are taking the musical cure:
Learn the chords and melodies that
best suit your moods
Be unselfish and treat others as well
as you treat yourself.
Eat white meat and the flesh of fish.
Conflne your vegetarian diet to those
fruits that ripen in the sun and to
vegetables that grow on top of the
Do not associate with people who af-
feet you unpleasantly.
sanitarium has been opened in
Berlin for the treatment of nervous pa
tients by musical sounds.
The patients can eat what they like
and drink all they can get. They can
walk, run, jump, drive or ride and no
one will say them nay. They can talk,
sleep or lie awake, and there will be
no one to call them or give them medi-
cines.
But if these are the negative rules,
there are certain positive ones. And
the first of these is that the patients
may not go outside the grounds, which
are quite spacious.
The object of living in the grounds is
apparent to the most casual visitor.
AT opposite ends there are stationed
musicians, who play sweet music. At
no place in the grounds is one entirely
free from the concord Of sweet sounds.
The music is not loud. But If one
listens, catches from afar the strains
of band.
Within the house the patients are
provided with all kinds of musical in
struments and are invited to play. New
music lies around and there is music
at every meal of the day, and in the
evening there is a concert in the par
Tor.
One rule is placed upon all who en-
ter, No patient can become a mem
Der of this family who is not fond of
music. 1t might be called a music
cure, though 1t is rest cure.
Silence Is Enforced.
A feature of this rest cure besides its
music. is its silence. The patients are
required to keep silent at least two
hours in the morning and two hours in
the afternoon. The object of this is to
rest the nerves.
Nothing" says the physician in
charge, tires patient like talking.
The patient who is worn out, tired, suf-
fering from disturbed mind and gen.
eral agitation of the nerves, will re-
cover if she will keep quiet.
1--WE had case of insomnia a while
ago. The woman talked necessarily.
She was vastly entertaining, but it
wore upon her nervous system and
nearly wore her out.
I'VE put her upon the quiet diet. We
had her keep still nearly all day. For
two hours she could talk. Then we
had her keep still. Fortunately she
was a musician and loved to play the
mandolin, so she was not lonely.
f'In a few days she began to sleep,
and when night came she was ready
to sink into nice, sound slumber. 1t
was slowly but surely curing her, this
enforced quiet.
There is a great difference in wom-
en-. 1t Injuries some to talk, while it
helps others. There are people to
whom converse ton is the very breath
of life.
"Others are under a nervous strain
all the while they talk. 1t is a very
wearing thing, this nervous talkative-
ness, and the woman who is afflicted
with it should call a halt and stop
rOrnpIatelNy for a whilen