The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-12-21
ALONG pRAorIcAL LINES.

Some time since this column con
tanned an article descriptive of the In
dustrial School at Waqkesha. Wiscon-
!. sin, and suggesting that Maury coun-
ty ought to have such school for
homeless orphans, or incorrigible
boys and girls. Monday we referred
TO the Home for the. Poor in that coun-
ty, and in this article we wish to tell
of their Asylum for the Insane.
1t is in a a few hundreds of yards
Of the Home for the Poor. and is under
the same management and the arch
itecture of the two buildings is much
the same, both being large, two-story,
brick buildings The most striking
thing to the visitor is the, order. the
quiet, and the absolute cleanliness of
the institution.
! How the Superintendent, Mr.. Geo.
F. Carroll manages his patients we
do not know; but this we do know,
our attention having been called es-
itNtldilN " II. arc hO OdlS Oh
the windows. neither any grated doors
in the building. What becomes of the
violent, dangerous patients? We do
not know They are brought there,
the Superintendent said in ropes and
chains he takes these off and con-
trolls without them: how, We do not
know. BY frmness and kindness and
will-power. he says; but how he man
ages to exercise his will over them
when he is asleep. we cannot answer.
But this we saw: Their sleeping
wards have no barred windows to
them; there. is nothing to prevent
them from breaking out or jumping
out, and they do not do it, so we were
informed.
We saw the inmates all in the din
ing room at lone time; there were
perhaps half hundred present; and
more quiet, orderly dinner party,
excepting one gabby woman we new
er saw together.
But as we said, the most attractive I
feature. was the absolute cleanliness
of the institution From the kitchen
TO the parlor, everything was clean;
the floors were clean, the walls were
clean, the furniture, the little there
was, was clean. We venture there is
not a hotel in Tennessee as void of
dirt as that Asylum was that day. and
is today, and every day.
Downstairs they have the kitchen.
he dining room, the parlors, recep-
lion rooms, etc. Upstairs are the
work rooms and sleeping wards.
These work rooms are the favorite
'etreats of the inmates, we were told,
md the buster they are kept, the bet
er satisfied they are; therefore the
tries to make them
hink they are doing something and
accomplishing something all the time.
md you would be surprised at their
and the pride they take in =
heir work and how they entertain
ach other talking about their accom- ,
lishments. -. =
In the sleeping wards you will see "
row of white iron bedsteads, all COW
red with white spreads. The floors, u
he beds, everything is spotlessly g
lean. There are no carpets on the
cor, and the house is easily Kept d
lean; and from kitchen to parlor, and u
ON cellar TO. garrett II is~kepts elean: ~
This humane. christian charity, we e'
ere told, is not very expensive to the u
X payers of the county Nearly ev- ~
rything they eat is raised on the h'
rm: and with one hired man to d. az
,ct. the work is all done by the in &c
ates: and the buster they are kept, ne
e happier they are. System, man. III
cement, are the foundation stones up Su
! which this institution. and the la
ONE for the Poor, which is under IN
e same management are run. Would la
be impossible to have such system Ia
Id management in Maury county?
The Asylum for the insane is not as FOL