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all wore given. After the ninth treatment,
the girl walked into tin tloetor 's otlico
tinauled.
"Yesterday,"' her mother explained,
"she told mo that she thought her arm
felt tetter, and she found that she could
raise it. Then, she said slit bolieted she
could walk; and, getting out of bed, she
crossed tho room without the least assist
ance, and without her feet clubbing under
her. ('an it be, doctor, that sho is cured?"
"You liavo said it," was the reply.
"She is cured."
As, in fact, she was; although, of
course, the magnet itself had had no
power to cure her, but was used merely
as an agent for an efficient "counter
suggestion" to dislodge nnd to uproot tho
symptom producing suggestions in the
girl's own mind.
Frightened Into the Normal
pXCKLLKNT results have also been ob
tamed in many cases of hysterical
paralysis among children by the use ot
what is known as the "method of sur
prise," the recent invention of a (German
specialist named Hruns. As employed by
Hriins and his followers, this method has
undoubtedly a certain aspect of brutal
ity; but this more than compensated by
its effectiveness. Having determined, by
a searching medical examination, that the
paralysis in any given case is functional
and not organic, what Hruns does is to
placo tho paralyzed child in a bath tub,
turn on the cold water faucet, and watch
the youngster climb out, and scamper off.
" You see," ho then says to him, at
this psychological moment, "you can walk
very well, after all. Now, let us hear no
more from vou about being unable to
walk."
Or if, for any reason, he deems the
bath tub device inadvisable, his plan is
to put the child to bed, to keep it entirely
isolated, and to deprive it of all food for
a day or so. Au appetizing meal is then
brought into the room, and left some dis
tance from the child's bed. Frequently,
this is all that is needed to effect a cure.
The. suggestion of food overcoming the
suggestion of paralysis, the child gets
nut of bed and starts across the room,
being encountered midway by Hruns, who-
of course, by accident enters tho
'room at that precise instant, and makes
use of terbal suggestion to reinforce and
to maintain tho "miraculous" recovory.
la contrast with this method of sur
prise is the "method of disregard," also
originated by .Hruns and used by him in
cubes of hysteria other than those involv
ing muscular paralysis cases, for ex
ample, of obsessions, facial "tics,"
spasms, or couvulsivo seizures. In em
ploying the method of disregard, tho
little patient is carefully watched by both
doctors and nurses, but in such a manner
that he is led to believe they are paying
scarcely any attention to him. As a re
sult, tho idea that, despite his own belief,
his malady must be quite insignificant,
gradually takes increasing possession of
him, and in proportion as it does so tho
hysterical symptoms disappear.
' Hut, the reader may ask, does this truly
mean that tho hysteria itself has leen
cured f Do not these methods, one and
all, achieve, merely the removal of symp
toms? Is not the child still suggestible
enough to develop a new variety of hys
terical disturbances, should occasion arise?
Such objections are not without force,
though in practice it has lioen observed
that the cure of the symptoms by sug
gestion does actually seem to weaken the
tendency to future hysterical outbreaks
of anv kind. To be on the safe side, how
ever, it is always well to institute environ
mental changes of a sort that will mako
for a constantly closer approach by the
child to a normal life.
And with this, wo come to the point
that is of supreme interest to parents.
Hysteria Bred in the Home
A IjMOST without exception it is in tho
" homo tlurt tho seeds are sown which
may afterward bear the bitter fruit of
hysteria, whether bearing it in childhood
or not until some critical period comes in
later years. It is the child who is" spoiled,"
who is kept by unwise parents in a state
of nervous tension nnd excitement, whoso
sense of moral responsibility is not prop
erly deeloped. nnd whose natural sug
gestibility is unduly heightened by the su
perstitions, fears, and eccentricities of its
elders; it is this unfortunate child who,
soon or late, may bo counted on to mani
fest some hysterical taint, perhaps not of
the extreme type illustrated by the cases
mentioned above, but nevertheless of a
sort making against its happiness, useful
ness, nnd success hi the world of active
effort.
"It has been my observation," said a
distinguished ncrvo specialist to me, a
short while ago, "that hysterical chil
dren usually have hysterical, neurotic par
ents. At first, I was disposed to sec in
this another evidence of the dread work
ings of heredity. Hut I am now inclined
to tho belief that it illustrates rather the
influence of environment. All children,
as you know, are essentinlly imitative.
They tend to copy, with exaggerations,
whatever models are placed before them,
and instinctively they take their parents
as their chief models. If, then, the par
ents are llighty, excitable, passing rapid
ly from extreme to extreme of mood, it is
only natural that the children should be
likewise. Their mind undisciplined, their
will power undeveloped, they easily fall a
prey to the baneful, hysteria-producing
suggestions of their unhealthy surround
ings. "To make matters worse, there is
often, even among well educated per
sons, an amazing disregard of the hygien
ic and dietetic requirements for neural
stability. Children are allowed to sit up
to unreasonable hours; they are permitted
altogether too frequent attendance nt par
ties, theaters, moving picture shows, and
similar places of entertnininent, where
they receive impressions of a novelty and
massiveness too great for them to absorb
easily. Then, too, there is a tendency to
give them nt their meals an undue allow
mice of meat, and to permit them to drink
tea, coffee, and other stimulants tending
to nerve disturbance,
"All the while they are living in an at
mosphere of parental uneasiness and tin
rest. Their mothers and, perhaps, their
fathers also fuss and fume over them.
They delight, it may be, in ' showing them
off' to admiring visitors, thus suggesting
to the already over-impressionable little
ones improper notions of their impor
tance. In their presence, the parents dis
cuss matters of a character bound to con
vey disquieting ideas. Presently, signs
of trouble appear restless sleep, 'night
terrors,' facial 'tics,' possibly even full
blown attacks of hysterical convulsions,
paralysis, deafness, or what not and
tho neurologist has another patient on his
hands."
The Duty of Every Parent
SURELY, tho duty of parents is plain.
To set before their children from
earliest infancy examples of placidity and
strength of character, to educate their
will no less than their intellect, to guard
them as inr as possible from all harmful
suggestions, to love them without idol
izing them, to study carefully their phys
ical as well as their mental and moral
needs in this way, and in this way
alone, can safetv bo had against tho
droad menace of iiysteria nnd allied nerv
ous troubles.
Every year it becomes a question with
tho housewife how to put tho stove pipe
away so that it will not rust. 1 have tried
the following plan for several years, and
it works perfectly on any kind of stove
pipe: Take sweet oil and rub it on tho
pipe with a cloth. Then, wrap tho pipe
in a sheet of newspaper, and rest easy
from the fear of rust. Sweet oil is also
effective in removing finger prints from a
Russian iron pipe. I find that by follow
ing your suggestions, I save money, and
I believe that others will find my
"Wrinkle" to bo a good one.
A good many housekeepers find diffi
culty in getting the cuffs on soft shirts
stiff enough. Here is my "New Wrinklo."
Vllen makiug clear starch, take enough
out while warm and put in a separate pan;
dissolve threo teaspooasful of gum arabic
in two tablespoons of hike-warm water,
and when smooth nnd thick add to tho
warm starch. My old mammy told me that
years ago, but I never tried it until re
cently, and it proved such a help to mo
that I thought 1 would let others know.
