New-York tribune., 1904-10-11
WHAT ARE HYPNOTIC DRUGS7
Mothers Club Knows Them Not, but Dis
approves of Them.
49, nre ..h,rnotic drgs?''

What are hypnotic drugs!
Mrs. Harry Hastings. ex-president Of the Mothers
Club. would very much Ike 10 know. She told
the Mothers Cub so at yesterdays meeting in the
Tuxedo Madison-ave. aud Fifty-ninth-st' the open
ing meeting Of the season, by the way.
IN the cou-sa Of her report OF the convention OF
the New-York Assembly Of Mothers Clubs IN
Sandy Hill. y. Z, earlier in the month, Mrs Hast
ngs expressed regret that certain lecture by DIT.
ouackenboss Of Columbia University, on the
psycho-hypnouc cure OF moral delinquency in chill
6ren. should have found place on the programme.
especially as the lecture was delivered before
promiscuous audience
''Of course" she said, "Dr. QuackenboSs IS an
expert in psychology and all such subjects, but
when it came 10 recommending that the mother OF
q naughty child should administer a hypnotic drug.
and then sitting beside it. endeavor by suggestion
60 TO appeal its subjective self as inst good
principles into it--wlIicil understood TO be in
practical way what he meant must say it struck
me as very questionable. especially when one con
siders that his audience was largely from villages
and small Towns. where every one knows the drug
habit is sufficiently intrenched. as it is"
Well. don't think this Mothers Club ought TO
give the lecture its unqualified d;sapproval all the
same, objected Mrs Almon Eensey. OF New
hoehelle ne president. We al know that the
He called it the trans-sublnal self. didn't her"
corrected Mrs Hastings.
NO, It wasn't transsublimal," replied Mrs
hensley, medtatively, half closing her eyes IN an
the fluid tablets of memory. 4 think be caila5 IT.
way. ' '
His theory was that while the child slept the
mother should suggest good and pure things 10 IL
but he recommended that the drugs should be
administered only by order Of q doctor
80 ne did, agreed Mrs. Hastings. Il stand
corrected IN that detail. As / wanted TO s,now
Mhai The hypnotic drugs we're that We're to help
~ ihis renovation Of naughty child. l have since
mace a point OF asking all the physicians ! met
Not one knew anything about them.
Al the hypnotic drugs I think OF are the
o4o fashioned ones Of opium and paregoric
=, We ought 10 analyze things Of this sort To me
nv very expression hypnotic drug is cOnfradiC-
ION OF terms Hypnotism is a recognized psychic
agtce. drugs, on the other hand belong 20 the
plaIhnscopoeia- anc when touch on those we
lily, 1 orug Ior the purpose OF strengthening his
Ms James P Cahen and Mrs. Edgar Street were
cs aloo-.eo delegates. with the president, TO the
51elo AZ the new Hotel Astor. Forty-fourth-st and
Dloq9uNay, on Friday. October 28. The morning
siel' ,t's a. ~ CLOCK. i was announced would be
a. se WIN reports by the legislative and pub
saLety committees. while the afternoon session
ee,L.!s az z;SV ococlI, would be given TO reports
tLls piiIidlIhrope. educational and child labor
~ me music. and at ] O'Clock a buffet luncheon
WI Oe served AlteTnates from the Mothers Club
- IS 1Ss CIIs Federation were Miss Johanna Morris
anq Mrs George T. Peabody.
mrs Hensley and Mrs William II Porter with
-e!s- btneolct and Mrs. Lille DevereuX Blake, as
,,as.ss salts, ~lH represent the club at the
,,guloh OF The State Federation. IN Syracuse, on
- 'tslnpef 70 3 The delegates win 20 unnstruct-
81 Doth with regard TO the election and the trade
s55ool & Dol question, which is 10 be thrashed out
q. over again.
yesterday one Of the members asked II It was
s5s1e 0lat the idea Of the trade school had been
tth up, and that instruction in domestic science
cc,s.s - 3e SUBSTITUTED This Mrs. Hastings char
been circulated