Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-24
DR.. Franchere Tells Mothers
Club at Sioux City HighWinds
Breed Nerve Disorders
INCREASE OF CHILD AILMENTS
Our Strenuous Civilization Also Re-
sponsibe for Much of the Nervous
ness Noticeable Among the Young
Children Sent to School Too Young
General News.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Sioux City. Nov. 24.-Sioux City Is a
hotbed for the cultivation of nervous
disorders of children, according to DR..
T.. II. Franchere, who read scholarly
paper before the members of the Moth
ers' Child Study club this afternoon on
Nervous Disorders of Children"
This particular condition In Sioux
City is due to the fact. he says that
the wind blows here at greater veloc-
ity every day in the year. than in most
any other city in America. The aver
age velocity last year was nearly twen-
ty miles per hour, he pointed out.
enthusiastically such as the tenn
perate, where electrical conditions OBJ
tain and high winds are prevalent. pro-
woke nervous disorders, especially
neuresthenia, and in fact nowhere else
In the world is this disease so com
mon as In that part of the United
States east of the Rocky mountains
line" said DR.. Franchere In his address
" TIE CIlilu Stuuy CluD.
Our civilization is responsible for
the increase Of neural and mental dis
eases" continued the doctor. I'VE are
always in such n hurry. The blasts of
whistles. the ringing of bells. the clat-
ter of wagons and carriages over the
cobble stones and the thousand other
shocks which child's nervous system
receives daily produces nervous and
mental disorders. as we'll as the climate
and the clustering winds which pre-
vail here.
Then. our school system Is not free
from the universal stress of America.
Our children go to school too young
and go out of school too soon. While
they are In school they are forced like
asparagus shoots In a hot house, so
that even In the grades the best gifted
children and those of the most robust
health are compelled to take their
books home and study until late at
night when they ought to be in bed"
DR.. Franchere struck the liquor habit
a blow when he said, II know OF no
more potent factor in the production of
diseases of the mind and nerves than
alcoholism in the parents. Epilepsy,
IIlSdT1llV, CIlOTed, HSStSIIt ANU iGdiSS.
thenia are frequently produced by alco-
holism. and many writer's go so far as
to say that epilepsy almost invariably
appears In the children Of parents who
use liquor to excess. ai
In the course Of his address, the
Sioux City physician said heredlty had
great deal to do with the nervous dis
orders of children, and parents could
not be too careful in controlling them
selves If they desired their children to
be free from nervous troubles.
Someone has said the mind of
child is like a blank piece of paper,
upon which you write what you will.
dispute that" vehemently declared DR..
Franchere 1.-THE child's mind is like
a piece Of paper which has been writ
ten full Of invisible ink, needing but
the heat Of circumstances to bring 1t
out in all it's beauty or decay.
"Our whims Of today are the habits
of our children, and tomorrow they
will be the lives of our grandchildren.
We must have a care as to our whims.
Special maladies are not often Inherit
ed but tendency toward nervous dis
lease is general"