The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-25
is INSANE.
Lad Is Years Old Must Go to
State Hospital.
BMglt and Happy Until a
Short Time Ago.
DUE TO LACK OF development
That Is the Cause of His TrOu-
BILE, Doctors Say.
THey Believe He Can Be Effec-
: tuaIly Cured.
Due TO LACK OF Development


hour short weeks ago Emil Mar
timex was as bright, as happy and as
care free as any 15-year-old boy who
ever hunted where the sign read no
hufiting allowed" or borrowed peaches
from a neighbours orchard. Today ne
is mental wreck-temporarily at
least. an imbecile. Tomorrow ne VIII
be taken to a state hospital for the
insane.
No one is to blame. 1t isn't one of
the cases that can be charged up TO
Society or social conditions. Physl-
clans who examined the boy today had
onfy theory to work upon but they
charge his mental condition to lack OF
development, the abnormal develop
mant or perhaps the disarrangement
of some one of the glands that regu-
late the human system.
The boy has been reared near Ross
Eilfe He has attended school, has
made good average grades and shown
excellent mental ability. He is
healthy, good looking and until his
trouble came on was manly little
fellow.
About four weeks ago his people
noticed something peculiar about him.
He began wandering around over the
farm and gave peculiar answers to
ordinary questions. After one of his
trims his mother asked him what he
81 went out to SEA if the corn is big
en9ngh to cultivate" was his reply.
The corn had already been Guilt
waited the third and last time-the
particular corn to which he referred
LATER he was put into another field
win a. cultivator to finish up the Gull
tiVAting. He went along as usual for
time then turned the team crosswise
of &the field and plowed the corn up
aszhe vent
Lies Down in the Sun.
Snce then he has shown no interest
in anything. He walks along with his
head bowed between his shoulders
with his eyes half closed. He will
walk for hours if allowed to do so.
frequently he has wandered out into a
field in the sun. lain down with the
Temperature past the century mark,
and remained there until someone
found him.
The boy took absolutely no interest
in 1his own case today His mother,
who has been saddened by the shock,
was there and told of his actions. She
told of the other boy he had been only
a few weeks ago how he worked in
school and on the farm and what
prHrnise he gave of becoming a man
among men.
One of the physicians who exam
incd him stated that such cases are
frequent among boys and girls and
thst the fact that fathers and mothers
doznot place them in some institution
where they can get proper treatment
adtis hundreds to the population of
insane asylums later on.
This case has been handled prop
cry" ne said. The boy has been
breught N during the acute stage. He
stands an excellent chance of recov-
erieg from this condition. Probably
hcFwould get better if let alone, but
he&would suffer another attack and
stin others Eventually it would be
coRe chronic and there would be
nothing to do except to place him in
some institution permanently 1 be-
HeFe that with proper treatment he
win recover 1t is a sad case but not
so Sad us hundreds of others where
thu parents try to get along and keep
ting child at home without treatment. -