Evening star., 1913-05-22
ALL TO Be INSANE,
DOCTOR PREDICTS
|Crazed Persons Will Outnum-.
ber Others in Century, AS
serts Dr.. RubIe.
SLIT SKIRTS, LOW NECKS
FOR WOMEN CENSURED
People Committing Suicide on In
stallment Plan, Speaker Charges
at Hygiene Symposium.

The world is rapidly going insane. and
the present-day women's fashions are re-
sponsible for much OF the immortality of
the period. These statements were made
by speakers at a symposium on hygiene
last night under the auspices Of the de-
partment OF health and heredity OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
The speakers We're DR.. W. A. Ruble.
president OF the College Of Medical Evan
gelists and superintendent Of the Iona
Linda (Cal) Sanitarium; DR.. A. B. Oh
sen. superintendent Of the Caterham
Sanitariun, London. England: DR.. Abbie
Vinegar Simpson. Long Beach (Cal)
Sanitadum. and DR.. d. H. Kress. Chi
cago. ILL.,. formerly superintendent OF the
Sydney (Australia) SanitariLm.
DR.. Winegar-Simpson was most pro-
nounced in her disapproval Of the meth
DDS OF women's dress of the times. De-
claring that clothing was first worn to
cover our SINS she continued that the
methods of dress of the present day at
tracted attention to the clothing and was
only advertising our sins" The greatest
of evils, in the dress Of women, she con-
tinued, was the construction of the body
at the waist. When this part Of the body
is compressed, she went on, every func-
ton of the system is interfered with She
in dress Is not greater is because the
people are afraid Of their convictions and
will not appear in public unless clad In
fashionable dress
Attacks Low-Neck Dresses.
The girls graduate from our high schools
practically physical wrecks, she declared.
wholly due to their inexpedence in prop
er dress. She attacked low-neck dresses
and bare arms. and likewise criticised
high collars. which. she said, caused the
brain to become congested. High-heeled
shoes also were condemned.
She declared much immortality was pro-
duced by the fashions of the present day
Not content. she said, with Tightening the
clothes on the body and around the feet
the women have gone step farther and
cut slit up the side Of their dresses
and many young men have been led to
evil by the appearance OF such dresses in
public"
Predicts Growth of Insanity.
DR. Ruble declared that IL insanity con-
tinued to increase at the rate it had that
within the next hundred years there
would be more insane people in the world
| than sane and that the insane would set
the few sane crazy. Alcohol, he declared.
was directly responsible for 20 per cent of
the insane, and indirectly responsible for
much more than that. This, together
with the social evil. are the principal
causes OF insanity, he declared.
There Is not one person who is perfect
mentally. We have lapses OF memory.
and this shows that we are not perfect
mentally. Then. why should we worry?
There is none of US but what can over
come these difficulties. The habit Of
worry may be overcome"
He told his audience that every one
should take an inventory Of his mentality
| every day to ascertain whether or not
he was failing. But he continued, it is
well known fact that the person who
fears he is going insane is the furthest
away from this condition, and the per-
son who thinks he knows his mind Is in
good order IL right on the verge OF In
sanity.
Coffee and Tea Held Bad.
DR.. Olsen said that coffee and tea
were worse than alcohol, and that one
might as we'll take beer as coffee. Beer
l must admit he said does contain
trif1ing amount Of nutrition, but coffee
or tea not a bit" Some people. he went
on. get the craving for alcohol by first
taking tea or coffee Children start with
tea or coffee at home. and then when
the nerves become weakened they seek
alcohol. He said the children ought to
be protected by denying them any of
these beverages. Coffee he said, should
be used only under certain circumstances,
and then only upon the prescription of a
reputable physician. for 1t is q drug.
From hygienic standpoint no house
is clean If there Is just one fly walking
about continued DIR. Olsen. 'They are
the most dangerous things in the world.
They cause more deaths than the tigers
Of India. They first visit your garbage
pail and then sample your milk. We say
in England kill the fly; you say over
here swat the hy.' However. you say it
does not matter but at any rate kill II.
for II also is responsible for more dis
eases than anything else known"
DR.. Olsen also criticised the habit OF
eating flesh and urged his audience to
take only vegetable products and water.
Scores Use Of Tobacco.
Tobacco is responsible for as much OF
the degeneracy Of today as alcohol. said
DR.. Kress. He cited figures to show the
cigarettes during the past year. and de-
clared that this was due to the increased
consumption on the part Of women and
children. Between 80 and so per cent OF
| the boys in our public schools. he said
use tobacco in some form.
He declared that the people today were
not dying from germ diseases but were
committing suicide on the mstallment
PLAN" They are wearing out their ar
teries, hearts and other vital organs by
| the consumption Of alcohol and tobacco.
AMI TCEMFNTC