Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-04-30
EA0LETs.


doned drugs as the cure for those pa
tients who, living under high pressure,
have overtaxed their mental and ply.
steal resources and become nervous
wrecks. Many brilliant practitioners
now treat such cases, not with medl'
cine or knife, but with thought, or the
use Of suggestion with the aid Of hyp.
notisnf. They say to the exhausted.
nervous society woman: you do not
need medicine. You must teach your
brain and your nerves to rest. You
must receive into your mind the com.
polling message that the only thing
which can help you is calm and repose.
We can give 1t to you, but not by the
use Of medicine or drugs"
To the business man, who has gone
under such pressure that he can con.
troll neither his nerves nor his brain.
they give the same advice. Hypno.
tism, which was once regarded a.
witchcraft and later as an instrument
only for harm, has become a benign
influence on modern American life, a
practical remedy for the distinctively
American ailment Of nerves" It has
saved countless men and women from
insane asylums, and 1t has been dem.
onstrated as q reliable cure Of certain
cases of drug and cigarette habits.
There Is q popular impression that
hypnotism Is harmful because 1t puts
a persons mind under the domination
Of another's ideas; also that to submit
to hypnotism Is to weaken ones Will
power. As a matter Of fact, 1t has
been scientifically proved that the hyp-
notist cannot make the patient COLI.
'mit any act or entertain any thought
contrary to that persons idea Of NOR.
ality and principle. Hypnotism can be,
and sometimes Is, abused by the pro.
fessional fakir and operator, but, In
the hands Of physician. 1t Is merely
cure for ailments that cannot be
reached by other means. The only op.
portunity for It to impair the will
power arises when person makes a
habit Of submitting to the same opera.
ton for purposes Of exhibition and
freakish tricks. In this way, In The
course of time, the person hypnotizcd
does train his mind to certain ex
tent to do whatever the hypnotist sug
gests.
The great power OF hypnotism over
the physical functions Of the body ha:
been demonstrated by Pittsburg ply
sician. who put a patient into a hy2
motto sleep and told him that he would
suffer no pain when his tooth was OK
tracted. The tooth was pulled, and
the patient suffered absolutely no pain
Whether It can ever be used instead
Of an anesthetic In surgical operations
of a grave. character, Is one OF thu
problems of the art for future years
Street vendors o: combestibles pla!
no such conspicuous part in the lif'
Of New York's public ways rs they
once did, and not SO long ago. Per
haps the city has grown more digni
fed, but whatever the reason people
no longer walk abroad munching, re
gardless Of appearances. However
these open.air meals have not vanished
In the financial district Of the Juvenile
business men Of New York, for In th'
first block of Ann street, In the moor
hour, newsboys, messenger boys, ant
Office boys, still in knickerbockers
make hearty luncheons from a variet,
OF tins or from hot dog" In spill
roll. This is but survival from ,
bygone period when the elders pa
tronized the waffle baker on the cor
ner.
Other cities yet retain the pristin
simplicity. Hunger Is not to b.
cribbed, nor will 1t regulate itself b!
the dropping OF any time ball. Their
still are towns where the hungry mn,
may eat and be not ashamed OF eatlnl
ON the crowded highways. San Fran
cisco still has Its tamale, the retaile
selling his wares upon the streets b,
night and the wayfarer welcoming h
Wand. Scoffers may suggest that sea
gull is the principal component Of tn
peppery combination OF meat and corr
meal. and the unalterable price .
three for two bits lends color to tn
aspersion. The tamale Ia none the les
satisfying meal. q meal OF tn
streets, not q thing for knife an
fork and dainty napery.
Cincinnati still hears OF late ever
Ing the plaintive cry OF "winnewish.
1t demands the resources OF philolog
to discover that It Is but the negro a
tempt to compass "wienerwurst." TIL
nocturnal food finds a ready sal
among such as are going home at VI
holy hours.
Richmond streets are still the ma
ket place for fried chicken--yelloV
legged chicken ON q slab OF pone n
less yellow. The purchaser Of this r
freshment may wonder how he gets (
much at price 80 small. He ma
estimate that the two levies wit
which he pays the ancient darby ca
scarcely cover the cost OF manufa
ture; the cost of material 10 una
counted for. Far better leave 1t u
accountable. save that the chicke
was cheaply acquired In the natur
way.
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