Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-13

hard on insufficient food because of poor pay may
develop the illnesses that come of the unnourished
body; but you will find her nerves clear and her
mind unintrospective as concerns her own ailments
There is something completely picturesque and
fascinating about the average rav1ng lunatlc. He
has his proud Authorizations struts in the personality
of Nero, Napoleon, the Creator of the universe
Playfully and with straws in his hair he chases
house fly, under the impression that he is the
trail of eagle or 1nagnifcently endowed with the
strength of giant he strains at his straps and sends
his terrible laughter echoing from his barred win
dows until the merely seem pygn1ies of unmpor-
lance going about their daily tasks puny slaves of
Things as They Are.
But there is of this dramatic charm about the
Neurasthenic. His dementia is spineless coopera-
ton with god of his making christened Bad
Luck; or, Love maybe has left him. and SO he sinks
back among his pillows dipping in his cigarettes
continuation Of his existence while some hard work
ing and contemptuous but professionally sympa
thetic physician ministers to him for the
that makes it worth while to keep such above
the ground "A suicide, wrote philosopher, pays
the highest possible com pliment to humanity
Happily for the American nation, Neurasthenia is
classed purely feminine complaint. In
: London man may say that he has the Jumps,
they call it there but what they call the Jumps
is mild reside attitude this side of the water
When Neurasthena won its first vogue. few i'll ad
vised men tried to make it stand for all their faults
of oyerwork and everyday.
y A Strenuous Cure
THEN it that genius invented a system of
r. training farms where the very harshest physical
regimen insisted cure, for which the pa
tent " paid at the rate of a hundred week. For
this he forced to rise at daybreak ride and walk
for unaccustomed and weary miles, live chops and
baked potatoes, with much water and no smokes and
if he baked at any of the Treatments" he in
suited and douched with cold water until a con-
sciousness of his condition brought the color back
to his cheek.
This system of petting a nervous wreck masculine
has failed when the taken time.
On the face of it. it like inspiration and the
day may dawn when there will be farms,
where nervous ladies with ''Vapors" might be
drenched of their temperamental weaknesses with
air, water, sleep, and plain food rather than the
faddy methods of that offered o-day every
shape from mental vibrations to ocean voyages.
For if there is general symptom that can be
noted from the great conglomerat1on that marks
complaint it is maudlin mentality, an obses-
sion with what has been called the Ego which Bat
tell LOOMS describes as the I-I-Meself!
Man being by nature and through circumstance
the active animal out in the street. the Office
the shop, has his mind diverted from the action of
his daily life the motions to to speak, of his
istence. Woman still sits by the fire, though she has
She overworks socially and of late politically
She is all tangled up in herself, the aims and prob
lens OF her sex. She attalns certain wabby
prehension of wrongs which she cannot possibly
right and after going in for some special cult like an
unhtched cyclone, she coapses and then begins the
merry 60 round of electrical messages vegetarian
diets. antifat baths, and cameback rides on me-
chanical animals which send her home seasick and
miserable, to sleep with her head in window tent
and her mind concentrated upon her condition
When the Family Butts In
A BOUT this time her family range themselves like
tin soldiers round the situation. She becomes
the Loud Noise the Person Who Cannot Sleep, Who
Does Not Care to Eat. Sanatorium literature begins
to arrive with every mail and sadness rules except
on the pillowed couch where, harassed with inag
nary horrors the poor self corked soul wrthes in the