The National tribune., 1908-03-26


ness by return mail
| Address Deafness Specialist Sproule,
| Trade Building, Boston, Mass.
girls. He proposes to live in this coun-
| try and to go into business here, be-
| coming the New York and Partisan rep.
resentative of an international financia
! firm dealing in railroad matters. Tha
| is as it should be. Miss Shonts will MOI
be weaned from her love and allegiance
to our customs by the fatal fascination
of any effete civilization. She will re-
main right here, and spend most of heI
money here, and will probably end by
making a good American of her titled
husband.
That the theory of mental suggestion
as a cure for physical ills is gaining
ground all the time, the growth oi
Christian and Mental Science and the
recent movement along these lines in
augurated by the church are among the
most notable proofs Of this truth. The
old implicit confidence in drugs has
passed, and people realize that the
thousand and one sO-called nervous dis
eases are the direct result of "a mind
disease" and cannot be cured by any
Sweet, oblivious antidote" or other dose
of medicine. A celebrated doctor from
Holland now in this country says that
there are only II drugs, anyway, that
posses real value in aiding outraged ma
ture to readjust herself in the diseased
body, and that the old-fashioned or, in
deed, the present-day doctor, who still
employs drugs, is rapidly becoming OBJ
solete. Everyone knows the wonderful
effect of words on the body, and that
an imaginative, nervous person can act
ually be made i'll by the unwise remark
of thoughtless person suggesting ill
ness. And, on the other hand, we all
know how marvelously we have been
helped when feeling physically out OF
condition by the bright, encouraging,
cheerful suggestion of health. If the
mind can only be made to throw off the
idea which is working mischief on the
body, nature very soon restores order
in the system, and 1t is this old and
ever-existing truth that not only the
doctors, but people generally, are be-
ginning to recognize. Physicians them
selves confess that in cases where they
have been in doubt and unwilling TO
give drugs, they have administered the
simple, sane and safe bread pill, which
the faith of the patient made most
effective The wonderful cures that
have been brought about thru superStf-
tion, like the visits to Lourdes and other
holy places, the kissing of stones, use OF
holy water, etc, shows this effect of the
mind over the body. Invalids who have
been bedridden for years, who have
taken quarts and quarts of nauseOus
drugs. and upon whom thousands OF
dollars have been spent in the vain ef-
fort to regain health, have, under the
influence of some powerful and different
mental suggestion which has some
times come in the shape of a fright OF
shock, risen from their beds a well man
or woman. OF course, in the case of a
broken limb, for instance, the mind
cannot be disabused of the idea that
the leg Is broken, but 1t Is a fact thai
the great majority of physical diseases
could be avoided If the mind were kept
occupied by cheerful, engrossina
thoughts on impersonal matters, and
that many of these ills when established
might be cured If the patients mind
could be diverted into such channels
and given the faith to believe that al
would be well. This Holland doctor be-
lieves that hypno-suggestion is the best
substitute for medicine, and that an in
visible fluid passes from the fingers OF
the demonstration, doctor or whoever II
may be, to the brain of the patient. II
makes little difference what the person
is called.-hypnotist, Mental Scientist
Christian Scientist or a believer in the
New Faith-if actual pain can be driven
out of these earthly bodies of ours, and
the mind rid of its horrible imagin-
ings" by their methods or any other lei
us open our minds to this new thought
and at least help those who are strug-
Cling to accept it by uttering no word
of doubt or disbelief.
Little Abe Hummers year of confine-
ment in the penitentiary on Blackwelrs
| Island is up, and he is once more able
to saunter up Fifth avenue or attend
| first night" performances If he sc
chooses. On account of good conduct
his term was shortened by two months
and he slept on his hard, narrow bed in
his little cell for the last time a few
nights ago. bidding his fellow prisoners
a cordial good-by when he departed He
| is probably not particularly anxious to
show himself in public for awhile, and
| 1t is said will leave as soon as his ar
rangements can be made for the south
| of France. There, among the gay
| throngs at Nice or some other fashion
able resort along the Riviera, he will
probably soon be his own gay, dapper
little self again and his recent unpleas-
ant experience pass from his mind as
| quickly and easily as water from a
ducks back. Before, he left the prison
ne planned dinner party to celebrate
his return to the Metropolis, his guests
to be the same friends who dined with
him the night before he went to the
penitentiary.
Anna or Nine. Gould has arrived in
this country with her three children
their tutor aad valet, her two maids and
chauffeur, delighted to be in her native
land again after an absence of nearly
| five years. The boys are nice little
fellows, aged nine. eight and five re-
spectively, and think they want to sec
Niagara Falls more than anything else
in America. Nine. Gould will visit her
sister Helen. and intends to remain sew
eral months. She was very amiable in
her reception of several reporters. who
boarded the steamer as soon as she
landed and sought Mme Gould In her
cabin, stating expressly and emphat-
ically to them that she had no idea of
marrying Prince Helle de Sagan orsany
other man. II have had quite enough
Of married ufe.n she naId with a laugh.