The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-20
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TRAINING BY HYPNoTISM.

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TRAINING BY HYPNOTISM.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1o-Dr. Quacken-
bos' paper on the training and refor-
nation of children by hypnotism, read
at Sand Hill last week, at the New
York State convention of Mothers
| Clubs, was criticized by Mrs. Harry
| Hastings today in her report to the
New York City Mothers Club.
DIR. Quackenbos advised the giving
| of hypnotic drugs" she said and /
| am very sorry he gave so many moth
ers that advice. Besides, I can't find
| out what hypnotic drugs are. I've
asked half a dozen doctors since 1
came home from the convention, and
! they do not know
DR.. Quackenbos said tonight that he
| evidently had been misunderstood. He
had distinctly stated, he said, that
| the drug in such cases should be sug-
| gested by the family physician. In
/ describing the treatment for a trouble
some child, DR.. Quackenbos said:
| Let the mother take her place by
| the bedside at night, when the child
| is asleep, and begin in a firm, low
| voice to repeat the desired sugges-
| tions. If the child is nervous and
awakens at the sound in each of sew
eral trials, administer some simple
hypnotic. suggested by the family ply
| stefan and wait the action of the
| drug. If correction by precept and
| castigation has failed to check the
| vicious propensities of your boy, do
| not hesitate to give him a hypnotic,
and formulate the suggestion that he is
I no longer disrespectful, untruthful and
| disobedient, but that he will be affec-
tionate and attentive to the requests
of his mother and teacher. A sudden
change of attitude will be noticeable.
The same treatment will cure your boy
of cigarette smoking"
RIIs' LIFE OF ROOSEVELT.
| COUNCIL BLUFFS, oct. lion the
ground that it is political work, Jacob
Riis' life of Roosevelt was today re-
jected by the trustees of the public Ii
| brary, who were engaged in a revision
of the list of books to fill the shelves
of the new Carnegie building. The list
| under consideration had been prepared
| by the librarian, who urged that there
| had been a number of calls for the
work. The question was raised by a
| Republican trustee, What do you De-
mocratic members think of this book"
/ Trustee Binder replied: IF you put
| it that way 1 say throw it out of the
window. We cannot afford to buy po-
| litical works for this library"
| The book was thrown out.
ANDRES MONUMENT SOLD.
NEW YORK, Oct 1.-THE monument
/
Tappan, n. Y, to the memory of Major
| Andre was sold for non-payment of
| taxes today at New City, Rockland
county. The monument stands on An
Dire Hill, exactly over the spot where
the unfortunate British officer was
buried after his ignobie death by hang
| ing.
! Since the death of Field the family
has neglected to pay taxes on the plot
of ground, 100 feet square, within
which the monument stands. This
property was one of several pieces sold
by County Treasurer w J. Randolph,
but when it was put up there were no
bidders. The amount of taxes due is
$6.3s, and for the sum the ground and
monument were bought in by the
Treasurer for the county.
KANSAS IS CRAZY.
IOWA CITY, Oct. 11-"Western
Kansas" said Professor Wilcox of the
department of history of the Univer-
sity of Iowa in an address to his stu
| dents today, lis more than half the
time crazy, and this I declare to you
because of its geographical position.
If it were not just where it is it
would in all likelihood be as sane as
any other part of the country.
History is more often determined
by the geographical position of the
countries in which it is made than by
the acts of the men high in power in
their Governments. I state with all
earnestness and confidence that the
Alps have had more to do with shap-
ing the political enterprise and COM
plexion of Europe than have the acts
of any rulers or despots. however,
great or powerful SO the geographi-
cal position of the western half of
Kansas, say. has had more TO do
with shaping the political and social
complexion of that region than any
other agency whatsoever
ACUTE INSOMNIA.
NEW YORK, Oct 11.-Jacob Caster
line. 81 years old. employed as a Iaborer
by the Passafc (N.J) Water Company,
says he has not slept for twenty years.
Casterline's neighbors bear witness to