The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-24

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during the Is months that l hav'
been here" Lands comes from lows
and has had 10 years experience Will
insane asylums. when a man il
assigned to his bed he never forget'
its location. Some sane people would
not remember so well.
I'VE have had trouble with jusI
one man, not because he forgot, but
because be didn't like to be alone OF
with a few. He wanted to be with
the crowd. He came up here twice
and went to bed. We changed him
to these quarters and he is now hap
Ply. Some patients dread to be alone,
The form of their dementia Is such
that they hear voices, mysterious
sounds, or, in some cases, loud noises
and dreadful shrieks. They know
that it is a hallucination. They want
to get away from such things. APP
parentiy they are not bothered in a
crowd. The large dormitories are
their fayorites.
Have Little Trouble
Sometimes we get a man who
doesn't fit with the crowd. Him we
place in a private room. We don't
have much trouble with our boys.
They are carefully looked after and
the violent ones are kept under close
watch.
.fIn the vocational department we
take special pains to see that nothing
occurs to startle the teachers. The
boys are learning to cav all sorts
of willow ware and they seem to en-
Joy it,"
Lunatics almost invariably deny
that they are insane. There is an
exception at Warm Springs. He is
in the hospital ward.
Come right in. We won't hurt
you" he exclaimed to the visitors.
"Of course we are all crazy, but that
are in a crazy house and that means
we have bats in belfry. That fell
low with you" pointing to the us
todian, lis crazy, too" and he laugh
ed heartily at his joke.
You see, my head is full of plans
and schemes" he said, in answer to
a query as to what particular variety
of bats he harbored in his Uranium.
!" am always plotting and scheming.
| am planning to make money. II
have lots of dollars hidden. Every
n has an inscription on it. You
will know my dollars by that inscrip-
ton. If you find one of them you
ear have it." and he broke into a roar
of laughter which left the visitor in
doubt as to whether the old fellow
was having fun with him.
In the mems department every
thing was roomy, airy, sunny, pains
takingly clean, and not at all over
crowded.
Women Oyercrowded
In the women's quarter things
were not so admirable. I'VE are
much oyercrowded," said the cheerful
and comedy but tired-looking head
nurse. ut is hard to keep things
as we would wish. There are $50
the number we could manage things
as they should be-"
She led the way to where the sub
normal children are kept. 1T is i'm
possible to teach these little ones
she said. "They are hope
less, but they have considerable vi
They are doomed to spend
lives in an institution under the
are of others.
I'VE let the Women patients assist
N the care of these larger children,
under supervision, of course. 1t
Keeps them busy and the little ones
get lots of loving from these women,
who are themselves mothers, but,
their ailment, separated
their own.
Here is a case that may interest
yOu," she said, and led the way to
/ ward in which lay a tiny baby
whose head was enlarged to double
hat of an adult and who lay on her
title cot staring at the ceiling out :
If film-covered eyes.
"a case of water on the BRAIN"
aid the head nurse. mo, it can't
'ecover, of course The case is abb
.olutely insurable. 1t will linger for
perhaps three months"
In an adjoining ward were num-
)ers of little ones with malformed
leads. In some instances the head !
anne to a point, in others the cranial ,
was toward the back or !
ide. They smiled cheerfully when
poken to, but none made any effort
It speech. The face of the attendant,
s she passed among them, showed
hat familiarity had not deadened
-er feelings of sympathy. She patted
ONE of them kindly on the head and
hey returned the caress with a look
I affection and confidence.
Through the window of the wom-
apartment could be seen numer-
US women patients in a courtyard
urrounded by cottages.
Those cottages are occupied as
rell as this building" the nurse said. Z
If we could only have a little more &
oom," and she sighed. &
The women in the courtyard were b
occupying themselves in different d
-ays. Beautiful lawns that surround 8
Ne buildings had been beaten in the y
ourtyard into dust by the tramp of I
lany feet. In disregard of the dust :
sveral patients were sprawled at full t
IN the ground as though
sleep. Others were pacing back and