The Washington herald., 1908-02-02

Ana when fUH le done lnese tAlNss 10 a.
And done them al with care.
That breakfast food sill taste 20 good
YUuu never know its there.
RrincarnatIOn and Insanity.
Il have finally persuaded the family Of
one Of my patients that she is as sane as
the average woman a physician told me
the other day. II you knew. the woman
you'd recall that after the birth Of her
first child, about six years ago, there was
"a rumOr that her family had been obliged
to send her to a sanatOrium where mental
disorders are treated She was sent.
though ! protested against IT, and she
was kept there for a year. 1 don't believe
she was ever insane but her family do.
They don't know that she still has the
so-cllIed delusion that frightened them
so. She Is wise enough not % talk about
/ it. but she declares 10 me that she be-
! lieves just what she believed six years
ago. When the baby was three days old
I found the patient very much excited
and her husband and mother and nurse
frightened half 70 death. The nurse had
heard the baby cry at Z IN The morning,
and going into the room, found the y0ung
mcther holding IT,
" The baby spoke to me-, she said
"She went on TO declare that she hadn't
dreamed if. She had noticed the time by
I the clock. and had heard q leaky faucet
drip. so she knew she wasn't asleep.
" The baby stirred and took it in my
arms she said. and / said to it, How
do you like being IN the wOrldg II an
swercd me and said. Not at all but !
/ had 10 come. I didn't learn the lessons
/ well when ] was IN the world last time.
so had 10 come into il again
Then I asked it 10 tell me all about
the life that isn't IN the world. That's
when it began 10 cry.
/ "''I am forgetting IT," IL said. Il am
+ forgetting it so fast, and / shall never
remember IT again tn die
+ "WeI YOU can imagine how a story
+ like that-a three-days-old baby talking re
( Observation-Disclosures the family. The
young mother persisted in her story, and
nothing could shake her belief IN it.
f When she suggested that the babys soul
might have lived iu "a wicked body In its
+ former Internationally. they simply sent
+ her Of 10 a retreat and took the baby
away from her. Shes not very i'm
agiuative woman. So far as anybody
can find out she never had another queer
+ idea in all her life but she's got this one
and she's going 60 keep II. On the whole
it viii make her a better mother, for
F she'll take pains 10 heip the poor soul
ia
1 learn us life lesson "elI this tliLle- ne
child is a normal heaItly' common place
small boy No TcnemOef'hs and no
queerness ABOUT Alhi' ana 80 lai as 'e
ever oeeh aoie 10 see t"e oi'y slsh VI an
. aonuTiAaI Hlhd tL-e iLiolIlsI sI'o" Gu "'9
. heI Gaming l-e D""y it, az il'u'
/ OF less crazy 'a' d so0"e
cans A'l "lsl D"oy IL O''i-'' '0'''-
i't'te 10 lle more sue
"oFfie" A"""' 'ie
+ met dear little woman al some
/ body.s house not long ago ana sne olo
f her best f" hold up her end When lmpof-
/ tant events OF the day began 10 pop up
in the general talk
ell. see MI lie-I.]e i,ss D'-.l -.i'll,l
..o,' -. -. 80 Sto tr,iD,, not to
look ,.sg,rs "TIas be9 VINO In the world
win we get pickles from now?"
She Can Pronounce H-u-g-h-e-s.
whenever anybody asks me whom I'm
/ for for President just say Hughes and
+ let II go az that" says the wife Of a Re
! publican CONGRESSMAN. Mr.. Hughes isn't
nv husbands preference. but / tell him
that a man whose name can be pro-
nounced in two aays hasn't any right to
F ba President out home Ne always call
-. p-.si5.,. .pav.s,.,.aI. hut ,ba first
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