Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-20

your mental AOui
Think of what terrible influences
for a person but slightly unbalanced
to be shut up in an institution where
! everybody is thoroughly convinced
that you are not right, that you are
mentally deficient, and that you are
I liable at any moment to do some act
of violence to yourself or others.
Over and over again Harry Thaw
has said that he would rather be shot
than be sent back to the Matteawan
institution, which was go horrible in
its perpetual suggestion of insanity.
/ One of the cruelest things in our
civilization is the manner in which
we treat our insane, and especially
those who are but slightly unbal-
anced. Yet our State institutions are
wonderfully improved since the days
of Dickens and much has been done
to make them attractive and home
like and to eliminate the horrors OF
confinement. Theatres or auditoriums
are provided. musical instruments
supplied, and some of the well-known
professional artists frequently lend
their services in entertaining the in
mates. However. the suggestion oil
weakness, of their abnormality, is
continually presented to these unfor-
/ tunate people, and as a consequence
/ their recovery is greatly retarded and
sometimes made impossible.
| How could anybody build up a
! strong, healthy character by holding
constantly in his mind picture OF
his weaknesses, his defects, his de-
formities? We must hold the perfect
| image IN the mind to build up the
perfect man. We must think of our
selves as we ought to be. Mental
/ healers tell us that as long as there
/ is any picture of the disease or the
! physical or mental defects of their
patients condition in their mind they
! cannot heal them. They must hold
! the perfect image, the ideal man or
woman which God intended, whole,
/ complete, full free from all deforml-
ties, defects, deficiencies.
In proportion as the healer is able
to annihilate the sick image, the dis
ease image. and picture vividly the
Goldman. the divine image in all IT'S
Wilderness and completeness, he IS
successful. When the mind is changed
the man Is changed.
| Not long ago a young man whom
/ 7 had not seen for several years called
= L
mendous change in him. When had
last seen him he was pessimlstlc,
discouraged. almost despairing; ne
had soured on life, lost confidence in
human nature and in himself. Dur
ing the interval he had completely
changed. The sullen, bitter express
sion that used to characterize his
face was replaced by one of 10y and
sladness. He was radiant. cheerful.
hopeful and happy.
The young man had married an op-
timistic wife. who had the happy
faculty of laughing him out of his
blues or melancholy. changing the
tenor of his thoughts. cheering him
up and making him put a higher es-
innate on himself. His removal from
an unhappy environment, together
/ with his wife's helpful new though"
/ influence and his own determination
to make good. had all worked to-
gether TO bring about revolution in
his mental makeup. The love-prin
ciple and the use of the right thought
force had verify made a new man OF
him. and instead of being victim
of melancholia, he was a useful men,
Der of society.
J Open, free life in the country;
bright, optimistic. cheerful. environ
ment, travel. interesting scenery. has
cured manv people who have had
insane tendencies.
People who believe themselves in
danger of becoming insane ought to