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and by itself. When so considered the
natural tendency would probab he as
Dr. WINSTON has suggested. but social
conditions are not To he so simply con-
sidered. They are always extremely
complex by being surrounded and in
fiuenced by other conditions that mod
ify the results. There is hardly liv-
ing species today, but what. if it went
on producing at it's normal rate with
out being interfered with by surround
ing and modifying conditions. would in
a marvelOusly short time populate the
entire surface of the globe But we
know that this does not happen. In
fact, if you will measure off plot of
ground few feet square in which are
contained plants and animals. of
numerous species and habits. any one
of which if left to itself would populate
the globe in a few years. YOU will find
at the end of a few months that the
relative proportion between the sew
eral species has not materially varied
This fact was pointed out many years
ago on the basis of actual observation
by Darwin
DR.. WinslOw is quoted as stating also
that in every part of the world civiliza-
ton is advancing, and insanity. is
bound to advance, l added. lis in
sanity necessary accompaniment OF adj
vanced civilization? WEI not higher in
telligence. produced by advancing civil
dency toward madness?
1.-The E.Ich mooted question as to wheth-
er the Increase of insanity Is incident To
higher civilization is difficult to answer"
DIR. White replied. 1.-TWO matters suggest
themselves for consideration. In the first
place it is fair TO presume that as the
struggle for existence has, through the
ages, shifted from Il. struggle that throws
the major part of mans work upon hts
system To a struggle that throws
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to the southwest corner of the old church.
1t represents partly unrolled scroll and
is of sheet iron painted black. In gilt
letters is this inscription:
''St. Johns Church. Founded i'm 1916
Roland Cotton Smith. Pastor.
In addition to this it gives the hours Sf
service and announces Holy Communion
Thursdays at noon.'
In this sign the word Pastor" was
Rector but instead of erasing rector
and substituting pastor the word was
changed by making alterations in the let
ters and the tail of the r. in rector was
not quite got rid Of SO that a careful
scrutiny of the sign shows that what at
a glance appears to be pastor" is really
'raStor.
A dictionary gives the following infor-
nation as to pastor and rector
''Pastor-a shepherd. One who feeds
the Christian flock a minister of the gOs-
pei having charge of a church and con-
greeation.
"Rector-one who rules, governs or adj
ministers: a ruler. governor In the
English Church a clergyman who has the
care of a parish, and has the PARSONAGE
and tithes: the clergyman of parish
where the tithes are not appropriate, as
distinguished from vicar.
I'm the Protestant Episcopal Church the
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farms, the produce from which
helps to feed the people of Washington.
The wagon road leading into this coun-s
try runs by New GlatZ and while STUN
bling down Broad Creek hill, one of the
steepest and toughest of the hill roads
in the environs of Washington branches
to the west. This road, straying from the
main way. is used only by the Broad
creek people and is one of the numerous
little roads in that nei9hborhood abound
ing in picture views. 1t follows its
course through fields that are turning dun,
though still showing autumn flowers. The
roadside is Redeemed in places with
patches of sumac, now Ike flaming
plumes, and is decked along it's weedy
edges with asters. Half a mile from the
Washington Broad Creek road this little
old branching road passes two rOtting
houses. long deserted by man. and enters
a stretch of gloomy woodland, where the
trees are twined round and round and
interlaced with honeysuckle vines, still
holding their hardy green leaves.
n little farther along this crooked road,
it's bed strewn with loose. smooth stones,
the way shambles down hill through a
wood dim-lghted by the sun. but flaming
with red foliage and sparkling with the
scarlet berries of the doswood. Even the
old oaks are clothing themselves in gold
and crimson, while the star-shaped leaves
Of the sweet gum are of deep purple,
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CENSUS
OFFICE COrIPUTERS

Il greater part of Mis- work upon his mind
that as this change has taken place his
brain.> which is subjected to u greater
amount of use. may suffer more frequent
~ from disease. And, second. il must be
remembered that with advancing civilian
ton the problem of preventive medicine
has come more and more To the front
and that human life is prolonged mate
rally beyond what it used to be. The
greatest Incidence of insanity is between
the ages of approximately thirty and for
ty y very much larger proportion of
people today I've to this period of life
than used Ia he the case. Therefore the
increase of civiliZa ton may produce an
increase in the actual number of the in
sane by the mere fact Of prolonging HUI
man life.
''Anthropologists have advanced the
theory that savages are insane. as com
pared with enlightened man. Is not the
reverse of DIR. Winsiow's rule. therefore,
the true tendency? The lower we get in
the scale of civilization. is there not more
Insanity" | further asked.
so far | KNOW, said the alienist,
insanity does not increase the lower
go in the scale of civilization.
Before the euSenics congress the other
day DIR. Mott stated that the general in
crease in lunaey is more apparent than
real. DO YOU agree with him?' was the
next question.
Il do agree with DIR. Mott
rs not the alienists conception of in
sanity steadily, widening. with the result
that many cases are now recognized and
appear in the statistics which were
OverlOoked?''
The general answer to this question
would be yes. although il calls for GER
tain criticism as to the use of the word
insanity. Insanity, in my eatima ton is
not medical term at all. The mind is
subject to various diseases. When such
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sexes is practically equal"

sexes is practically equal"
Does not the general decrease i'm the
size of families tend toward relieving
/, women of worries which Law the founda-
ton for insanity
THAT is too complex 4 question to be
answered categoricaliy. The presence of
children in a family that is poverty
stricken becomes source of drain which
the mother particularly is i'll fitted to
maintain. The actual etiology of the
mental breakdown under such cireum-
stances has largely to do wit. exhaustive
work and poor nutrition, which of course
in such an instance is localized about the
presence of the child. OF course. the pres
ence of the child is merely incidental
Such causes might Well produce actual
disease for other reasons than the mere
fact that there We're too many children
The absence of children in certain other
types of families might readily leave to
ideness an opportunity for indulgence
that would be distinctly opposed to the
best tenets of mental health, and so the
question might be considered YOU see
from many standpoints."
is insanity becoming more and more
curable?"
We are learning how to influence men,
tai disorder never before. So far. now
ever. the general result on the durability
of that whole mass of conditions which
are comprised under the term insanity
is not material.
Are there any new forms of insanity ~
L asked Dr. White, in conclusion.
In all probability there are no new
forms of insanity he said. eff they are
not recorded in the older works ii was
simply because they. Were not observed.
Probably they all existed, and the more
We are acquainted with the older writer's
the more We are astouhded to find re-
corded in their works observations of con-
ditions which we thought we had dis
covered -
But let us get back to the original
question: Are We growing era Zier?'' and
to the census office. whose recent figures
would Indicate that We are. 1t appears
from these statistics that the number of
persons becoming insane, in the average
American community of 1oo,010 persons:
has increased nearly eighteen i'm six
years. Commenting on these figures. DR..
]. a. Hill, chief statistician, has this to
say:
1T mus. be remembered that these fig
ures include only the insane who are
committed to hospitals. As to the num-
Der of cases of insanity not resulting i'm
such commitments the census has no
data. 1t is entirely possible that the in
crease in the number of commitments per
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wAsangGToFps BOHEMIA, !

stage joke, or if it he a stage joke. it's
basis is in fact. In these cheap restau-
rants for colored folk generous portions
OF fried chicken and pigs feet are piled
in public display. You can look in and
see the roysterers grouped at the tables
RECALLING themselves with these foods.
You can hear them talking politics
Roosevelt Taft and Wilson-plays and
motion pictures. base ball prize fighting
and horse racing. They seem to he faith
full readers of the sporting supplement.
They are having just good time as
other persons further up town who are
sitting around tables covered with fine
linen being served Ivy quiet and obse-
quious men in evening clothes and who
are eating things that cost much more
money.
You should always take a peep at the
patrons of the outside lunch counter
where you will also see fried chicken
piled on platters. pigs feet in big pickle
jars and a giant coffee pot pouring out
fragrant steam. Go into some of the
cheaper colored eating rooms. and you
can get a plate OF ham and cabbage. or
bacon and greens, or pork and beans with
coffee and corn bread or shortcake, for Is
cents. Stand around one of the clam
carts. with its three bottles Of vinegar,
shaker of damp salt Over all is the wa
vering glare OF a coal oil torch In the
depths of the cart are clans and oysters.
with cake of ice on top, all covered with
piece of jute bagging. Stand there. and
the proprietor of that perambulatlng
stand will shuck you good oysters or
open medium or big Enthusiastically big
ones-at l cent apiece. Those men eating
them are enjoying themselves quite as
much as gentlemen uptown. with their
on fhn hall h Ix-a.
horseradish, brittle crackers and sill
ver-plated oyster fork. 1t all depends
German cellars in Washington? OF
course! Washington has them. Stems and
orchestras, kartoffel salad, pipes, stems,
gutterals, pumpernickel frankfurters
more stems. floods of foam, faderlaud
songs, plenty of good music and more
stems! Washington Is good 0A town..
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Near the edge of the bluff i hundred
feet above the shimmering water, two tall
sad cedarS nod in every breeze. At the
foot of each of these trees is a marble
Gravestone. one marking the head and
one the foot of grave. On the head
stone is chiSeled this:
Here lies john G. Lindsey.
Born August -. 1871.
Died November 2nd, 1876.
All the lands about there at one time be-
longed to the Rozier family. The Diggeses
owned from Fort Washington north
ward to Broad creek, and the Roziers
northward from BROAD creek to the Berry
lands on OXon run.
Lindsey:s lot. now a part of Indian
Queen farm, belongs to John p. Webster.
who was born III the neishborhood. and
has never lived out of it, and who is
known to all the country round as Jeff
Webster. because as a boy. he says. he
bit the knuckles of a Yankee soldier who
leased him. and was nicknamed jeff
Davis by the Federal troops who held
possession of that part of Maryland
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DR.
%AWhrTE

diseases are of nature or degree as t.
render the individual untitled to live in
the community either because of danger
to himself to others-when. in other
words. the community is unwilling
tn put up with him any longer
he is by that community segre-
gated to the confines of an institution
The process of this segregation is a
legal process 1t is a legal process to
determine sanity. Sanity, in the meaning
of this process. is fitness 10 live in the
community; insanity the opposite The
physician sees the presence of mental dis
ease, the lawyer fixes the legal status.
Naturally as civilization advances it be-
comes more and more complex, and,
therefore. the difficulties of a given indi-
become greater and greater, and there
fore. again departures from the normal
of less and less extent become matters
which may lead to ones commitment as
insane.
Which do YOU regard as the more
dangerous factor in insanity today, eX-
citing predsposing causes?'
X X
The general tendency today is to be-
lieve that the more important factors in
the production of mental disease are those
that are resident in the individual, or the
"A noted alienist lately named WINE
women. worry and work as the chief ex-
citing causes. Do YOU agree with him."
NO. that is a good example of allitera-
ton: that's all"
How can the chief exciting and pre-
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CAT HER

cd barley makes u strong appear, ana IL
inclined 10 extravaganza, the patron or
ders the basic ingredients of this dietary
melange changed to chicken instead OF
beef and pork People who would spurn
plain boiled spaghetti dressed with a
couple of slices of smoked pork swimming
in pot liquor will revei in yockamy, which
seems to be spelled yet-gew-main.
1t is said that the Chinese in some
places provide opium joints for the pleas
SURG of the victims of that narcotic, but
of this the cnronicler has no kno" edge.
Where the Washington Chinese congre-
gate there is much smoke from AmerI-
can cigars and cigarettes and from small
brasS-bowled pipes. fed With ChlneSe TO-
bacco-a weed that is very dark In color,
astringent to the tongue and palate ana
sliced up after the fashion OF nhe-cut.
Police and veteran FOUNDERS can point
out the usual number of dope hends'
but nearly all these take their peoples
by injection instead OF inhalation
Colored Washington has its restaurants
and cpnvivial resorts of varying degrees
of responsibility and cost. Those that
are of the upper ton have no right to
figure In story of Bohemian Washing
ton, because there is about them the
air of regularity, quiet manners and
propriety comparable with white res
taurants of corresponding scale. But,
look in at a colored restaurant where
the man with a dizzy necktie, DIAMOND
horseshoe scarfpin. check or plaid trous-
ers and pearl colored spats. HES him
self with his girl, who is usually Juliet,
Marguerite. Genevieve or Blanch, instead
of Lizzie, Susie Or Maria. and you Will
see another phase of Washington.
A piano is always going. Somebody is
always singing, or shouting. The gas
jets may be burning dim and yellow. per-
haps oil lamps are suspended from the
ceiling or ranged about the wall on side,
brackets with refiectors behind them.
There is no printed menu. not even a
printed bill of fare. but there are plenty
of fried pork chops, fried chicken. pigs
feet, CLAIMS, deviled crabs, fried sausage
and watermelon when the season per-
mits. This native fondness for fried
chicken, pigs feet and watermelon is no
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and House soldiers of fame, judges and
men who have commanded fleets. meet
here. The back room is sometimes full or
CHEEKY big wigs, good trenchermen and
sturdy tipplers and the paSt-the golden
past-is the theme. When an ancient ac-
tor or other olden-ti,ne celebrity comes to
town he will probably be mysteriously
dragged from the theater after the SHOW
or away from his more elegant quarters,
and escorted to this room. where bygones
are never hygoneS. Freshmen sometimes
call this the Has Been Club but the
drinking is good and hearty and the food
and stories also.
A garish feature sof the Washington
night is the Chinese restaurant This
should be read restaurants, for there are
many of them. Some blaze on the main
streets and some glimmer in the byWays.
Some of them are rotous with red and
yellow dragons, banners with strange de-
vices brazen gongS with crimson tassels
and Canton ware that is pretty and Can
ton ware that is not pretty: Others have
deal tables, bare floors and walls on which
decorators have not worked overtime IN
these places the day-sleeping crowds eat
war men, fan = gare-gow. thoon how
gown-gock chop-suey, gair-soo-m n. foo
yong-haw. chow-ye-pen and many other
preparations of pork. chicken. duck, crab,
lobster, celery, onions, peppers, sprouts,
eggs and mushrooms.
These Chinese places range from those
that are garish and brazen to those that
are dingy and humble Some are exclu
sively for white patrons, some for all
races and others have a colored clientele
all to themselves. On the lower Avenue
are Chinese restaurants where the kitch-
en- and the dining room are separated
only by an imaginary line, and where the
e MI x-inxx-
of the patrons recalling in way those
ancient chophouses and oyster houses
where the cooking was done at one end
of the room and the eating at the other.
The colored citizen develops taste for
chop-suey Just as has the citizen who is
not colored With many the mixture of
beef and pork, onion. mushrooms, par
boiled celery, bamboo. sprouts and sprout-.
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A Crooked Road.

THE channel OF the Potomac from
Jones point about a mile below the
Alexandria wharves. sweeps diagonally
across the river in a southeasteriy direc-
ton to the wooded bluff on which Fort
Foote stands The green shore line is
followed for mile, when wide in
dentation in the Maryland shore shows a
large body of calm and shining water.
That. is Broad bay, ten miles in direct
line and due south from the capital.
Around this placid bay is a rim of bluffs,
green in summer. red and russell now,
and grim. gray and brown i'm winter If
they happen not to be snow white. Along
and on those bluff lands are quiet and
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CENSUS Office Finds Many
~ More Lunatics Than Six
Years Ago-Increase Said to
Be World-wide-It Alarms
Noted Scientist, Who Pre-
diets That a Majority of
Earthlings Will Be Mad
Three Centuries Hence-His
Predictions Discussed in
Snappy Interview by Uncle
Sans Chief Alienist, Who
Gives Interesting Opinions
on Effects of Race Suicide
and Other Modern Condi-
tons on Mental Health
Our Greatest Increase in
Lunatics Found in the North
and East-Soutil and Par
ticularly the West Show De-
crease = Difference Partly
Due to Flow OF Healthiest
Elements of Population to
Newer Districts.
EY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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Wine ana pink. At the bottom Of the hill
the road crosses a brook which flows
softly and soothingly into Broad
bay. This is Salmon branch. Horses ford
it, but in the forest shadows near the
roadside is a rustic footbridge.
Passing Salmon branch the road climbs
a hill and settles to its course through
fields. patches of small pines and au-
tumn-painted gums. Soon one comes to
a fork in the road. where the way to the
left is bcrdered by a double row of
gnarled cherry trees, which, for count
less springs, have eathed themselves
in sweet white blossoms. This is an an
Gent ''cherrywalk. Back of these old
trees on both sides of the road are fields
of strawberry vines, potatoes topped with
purple bloom and orchards glowing with
rcd apples.
-
The end of this road brings you to the
bluff overhanging Broad bay and over
looking the bay and long stretches of the
river. This place is called Indian Queen
Point. Why it is so called is another
story. There are three big farms on this
land-Indian Queen farm, Sandy Bar
farm ard Belmont. For many genera
tons there was smaller farm called
in the olden records "Lindseys Lot
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good old town has its human as well as
its inhuman side.
Washington has its own bohemia Surely,
Bohemia is a hard word TO define. 1t Is an
elastic and Elusive word II means many
things to many men and women WASH
ingtons Bohemia is not obvious or as
intrusive as the Bohemias in those cites
that wear no lid, or that wear a lid at
intervals Washingtons Bohemia does
not strut up and down the streets calling
10 every passer-by to take out naturalist
ton papers and join the citfZenry OF fast
livers and quick diers.
Though no guide goes with this story,
let one point to resort conducted by a
porty man on Il shabby street hard by
the Main Way and within hail of Sou
brette Row. There is no style about this
place. Some fox think ii is too comfort
able for that. However, there Is plenty
of atmosphere. even though it is shy on
ventilation There is hospitable bar and
the rooms are closely strewn with tables.
What matter If the napery has been
darned in places, and has not been darned
in other places? What matter if the near
damask of the tablecloths has been
marred by splashes of soup. gravy spots,
the red stains of catsup. or slushed by
some luckless coffee drinker? No matter
al al When all the shows are out when
the gaudy electric signs OF brewers and
distillers have ceased to glare, and when
the capital streets are nearly as lonely
as village lanes, why, bid farewell to care
and enter the place that shall be I'M
named here.
A bunch of good Indians (and not dead
ones) is gathered at the tables. Merry
talk and song. festal drink and heaps of
slang greet the Nillet and the ear. Here
is host of creatures whose light hearts
throb. in most cases with good i'm
pulses and whose sympathies have not
been frozen stiff. even though. perhaps,
they have stumbled over Il few of the
donts in the decaloSue. PharseeS may
tilt their noses at these big kids and
JOY folk. Covert wassalers and secret
rogues may roll their cold eyes and pat
ter maledictions Oh these jewellers. but
perhaps their epitaphs Will not lie so
much.
The room is smoky as a roundhouse.
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clergyman who has charge of a parish.
''In the Roman Church, the head OF q
religious house; among the Jesuits the
head OF a house that is a seminary or
college.
THE principal of university i'm France
and Scotland also the heads of Exeter
and Lincoln Colleges. oxford. In Scot
land, the head master of AN academy or
important public school"
The reason for the change in the st.
Johns sign is not clear To the man who
stops in his ramble to read il.
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entire world was announced the other
day by the famous DIR. Forbes Winslow.
who at the same time made the grim
prediction that there will be more
Iunatics in the world than sane people
three hundred years hence; that I'VE
are rapidly approaching a mad world"
Hideous picture this, IL thef majority
is 20 rule by direct vote in the golden
future. what is posterity To do in the
sad year 2212, when that majority is
mad" Haunted by such horrible
thought. rushed over the river the
other day to seek consolation from
tncie Sans chief aiienist, DIR. William
y. White superintendent Of the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane Dr.
White refused To trembIe, nor did his
color blanch.
DIR. Forbes Winslow's view is un-
duQbtedly alarmst's one quoth
h. 1T is based apparently upon the
assumption that a single social condi-
lion may be isolated from all other
= cial conditions and considered alone
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neutralizing any Of these causes that
may be increa sng?"
improved methods of living so far as
improved sanitary conditions are con-
cerned undoubtedly materially diminish
the number of cases of insanity due to
causes of an infectious, toxic and eX-
hallstive character
Are there any sex differences in mod
eIn tendencies toward insanity? Does
the rate of increase seem to be greater
among men women"
The percentage of insanity in the two
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:. ~, retic@d. who lives about a third
of mile from the dueling ground.
IF the Rurr-HamiltOn duel was the
the United States, the second most notNd
personal encounter was that between
Commodore Stephen decatur and Capt.
James Barron. who had commanded the
Chesapeake i'm the encounter with the
Leopard. Decatur was mortaliy wounded
and Barron severely injured i'll this tan
gle. by the branch.