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WOMEN
HYSTERICAL
I T 1b widely believed that hysteria, that grave, nervous
affliction, U especially a disease of civilized womens
The more refined the clasv of women the more sub
ject they are to hysteria is the general belief which is
held by doctors as wetl an laymen,
That hysteria in its most serious form is tbe result
of unrequited love to tbe affections *is
also a view held by the most distinguished nerve spe
cialists, although tliis Is nol ao commonly known.
Now, it has been found, as a result of Admiral Peary's
long Journeys among the Eskimos, thiu savage women
are about as subject to hysteria : civilized women. At
the same time strong confirmation is given to the spe
cialist's view that the disease is due to uurequitted love
or an Injury toe the affections. This interpretation of
Admiral Peary s observation Is accepted by Professor
A. A. Brill, of Columbia University, one of the best-
known American students of nervous diseases.
In his great book, "The North Pole,” Peary says that
Eskimo women of the west coast of Greenland, from
Cape York to Etah, frequently go wild with a form of
hysteria which they call “pibiokto." Children never
have this disease, men rarely, but some women have an
attack every day or two.
“The patient." says Peary, “usually a woman, begins
to scream and to tear off and destroy her clothing. If
How HiSTEWA Affects SAVAGES Just as It Does CIVILIZED RACES
on the ship, she wtll walk up and
dow n the deck, screaming and ger^j,
diluting, and generally In a state
of nudity, though the thermometer
may be In the minus forties. As the
intensity of the attack increases she
will sometimes leap over the rail
upon the ice, running perhaps half
a mile. The attaek may last a few
minutes, an hour or even more, and
some sufferers become so wUd that
they would continue running about
on the Ice perfectly naked until
they froze to death If they were not
forcibly brought back.” He goes
on to say that when the attack takes
place indoors nobody pays much at
tention unless the sufferer should
reach for a knife or attempt to In
jure some one. The attack usually
ends in a fit of weeping?, and when
the patient quiets down the eyes ere
bloodshot, the pulse high ilnd the
whole body trembles for an hour
or so afterward.
Professor Donald B. MacMillan,
the scientist of the Peary expedi
tion, gave further details concern
ing the malady:
I asked Professor MacMillan to
tell me something about pibiokto,
and he described the attack as fol
lows: “A woman win be beard
softly singing and accompanying
herself by striking the fist of oae
hand with the palm of the second,
making three sounds, one long fol
lowed by two short ones. The
rhythm and motion continue to in
crease for some time, during which
she usually tears off her clothing
Type* of Esquimaux Women Who Furnish Evidence
That Hysteria Is Not a Disease Peculiar
to Civilization.
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and ends to a fit of crying or screaming, in which
the woman may imitate the ery of some famil 4 '.,- animal
or bird. No two women act alike; the time singing
and rolling. Others wander away from the houses
h\to the hill*, beating their hands as if there is a cer
tain individuality to every attaek. Some drop down
on their hand* and knees and crawl around, barking
like a dog. One woman used to lie on her back on
the snow and place some ice on her breast. Some
Jump Into the water and wade among the ice cakes,
all demented.”
As further illustrations of the individuality of the
attacks, Professor MacMillan cited the following cases:
(1) Inahloo, a woman of forty-five years, was very
violent during her attacks. Sbe did not know what she
was doing, she appeared erasy and demented, and
would bite when an attempt was made to restrain her.
Her specialty was to imitate She call of birds and to try
to walk on the ceiling. She also put Ice on her chest.
(2) Whenever Elkiahsha, nicknamed Bill, had an attack
she would walk around the deck of the Roosevelt and
pick up everything lying loose and throw it up in the
air. Sihe also climbed up the rigging and foresheet
and stuck her head under the sail. (3) Inabwaho
showed h^r attack by walking qn the ice, singing and
beating her hands together. (4) Aluaha, nicknamed
‘‘Buster,’’ twenty-five years old, was the onlj woman
who jumped into the water during her attacks.
The attacks last from one to two and a half hours,
and usually end in sobbing and falling asleep, from
which they wake in a perfectly normal state. The
attacks are similar to the practise called “running
amuck” among Malays, which has been attributed to
sex causes.
The Eskimos all showed a loss of consciousness.
They were perfectly harmless when left to themselves,
but offered a blind resistance when prevented from car
rying out any of their vagaries.
Admiral Peary says mat in twenty years he saw
only one man who 'had “pibloktck” Of the twenty
women aboard the Roosevelt eight had pibiokto. This
concurs with the relative frequency of hysteria among
the two sexes in civilized people.
Professor MacMillan furnished this explanation of
the causation of the disease:
"I believe that the attacks are caused by abuse.
Most of the Eskimo women who had this disease were
of a jealous disposition. They either imagined them
selves ill treated or they actually suffered abuse at the
hands of their husbands, who often beat them with
their fists. Many Eskimos are cruel to their wives.”
ftpeaking of the attack, he said; “It reminded me of a
little child discouraged and unhappy because it imagines
that no one loves it or cares for it and therefore runs
away.”
Professor MacMillan s description corresponds closely
to a description of hysteria amoa* civilized women. In
furlner development of this theory he described the
case of Aluaha. She was twenty-five years old, and the
only unmarried woman in the country. Eskimo girls
marry at a very early age, usually at the age of twelve
years, but no one wanted Aluaha; not because she had
no charms, but because she was a very poor seamstress.
She had more attacks than any one else. He also wit
nessed many attacks of pibiokto in an Eskimo woman
immediately foUowing a rebuff by a white man who
at first showecy^er some favor.
Professor BnU thinks that this shows plainly that,
just as in civilized women, it is love that plays the
great part In the causation of hysteria. It is not neces
sarily a gross disappointment, but the ungratified desira
for affection that is the determining factor.
The IJskimos may be called an immoral people in
one sense. The woman is as much a part of the man 'a
property as his dog and sledge. They Indulge in trial
marriage, and when things do not run smoothly theyj
try again and again. By mutual consent wives are often
exchanged between friends. Divorces are very simple.
If a man grows tired of his wife, he simply tells her
there is not room for her in his igloo.
Under such conditions it is readily comprehensible
that the women may never experience those elements oC
love so essential to feminine nature. Professor Mac
Millan asserts that the Eskimo woman is just as capa
ble of loving as a civilized woman. He related many
incidents, as well as discussions, with Eskimo women
which proved this.
In fact, one may say that the alienist finds that the
greatest determinant of pibiokto is sex. As among
civilized women, it may be the psychical, rather than
the physical, factor of sex that brings on the hysterical
symptom.
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Thank MOTHER for Your BODY-FATHER for BRAINS i How FOREIGN LANGUAGES
By DR. L K. HIRSHBERG,
A. B., M. A., M. D.
T HE Mendeliati or commonly accepted laws of
heredity declare in a general way that the phys
ical structure, intellect and character of human
and other animal offspring are acquired from both the
paternal and the maternal line. Now comes a biolog
ical genius, heretofore unheard of, with a mass of evi
dence to show exactly what details of your physical
and mental make-up yon Ret from each parent.
Curiously enough, this genius was discovered through
his own advertisement inserted in various British jour
nals. in these words:
‘Workingman having found the Laws of Heredity of
Vertebrates not M r, ndel's laws die prays for an op
portunity to make his Important discovery widely
known.”
George Eshelby Is the advertiser's name.
The intolerance of scientific men and the disdainful'
assurance of most physicians, according to Mr Eshelby,
to whom 1 wrote, are well illustrated in his experience.
Other than myself not a medical man or biologist even
took the trouble to write to him. Yet Mr. Eshelby has
noted something that Is Important, even if it should
not prove wholly correct.
Mr. Eshelby has discovered, so he maintains with
modesty, exactly which parts of the living body are
Inherited from the paternal line and which from the
maternal line, and although this fact has been studied
and reported upon for starfish and other lower animals,
it has never before been applied to man or beast. All
of you. Bays Mr. Eshelby, would be happy to know
just what Is derived from your mother and what from
your father. So he proposes to give the question a
plain, straight-forward answer.
Mr. Eshelby has compiled a complete table of each
anatomical part of the living body, and beside It he
states from which parental sex It originated. He has.
he says, followed the example of Charles Darwin and
Herbert Spencer and used the investigations and
dala of others from which to draw his con
clusions.
The framework ot the human body, the skeleton,
domes accordingly from the mother’s side of the house
The nerve fibers likewise come from the female line
On the other hand, the cells in the cortex of the brain
which are the balloon heads at the end of the nerves
which are responsible for human reason, judgment, in
telligenee, discretion and mental poise—these, he says
come from the father or male; line. Similarly, the ex
ternal layer of the skin, the epidermis, comes from
the paternal side, as do the nails, the hair and the
muscles.
The under structure and foundation for these obser
vations depend upon the reports by »many investiga
tors of the parents and offspring of men, birds and
other animals. Recorded without regard to this notion
of Mr. Eshelby’s and for other purposes, he has seized
upon them to buttress his valuable study of heredity.
A cross between a cock linnet and a nen canary, he
says, always yields young that will sing with the
beauty of a linnet. This is a Mendelian fact known to
all bird fanciers. Therefore it is evident in birds that
the voice comes from the male members of the avian
tribe. Many similar facts can be adduced for plants,
animals and man. A volume of over 60,000 such ex
amples has been written, but not yet published, by Mr.
Eshelby.
He says that what he has discovered is newer and
more valuable than Mendel’s Laws of Heredity, and
also that it makes “the new St. Vitus dance of the
twentieth century,” to wit, eugenics, an absurdity. Al
though you may graft various kinds of plants, make
thornless roses, spineless cactuses, seedless blackber
ries, there never will be a time, he maintains, when
you can get rid of the male line of inherited charac
ters.
Furthermore, you may require hygienic certificates
of marriage from both the bride and the groom, yet
the inherited trouble will crop out after marriage and
despite the clean bill of health from doctors learned
In medical lore.
WEAKEN YOUR WILL
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YOU MIGHT TRY—
For New Pens.
*T* O "break in" a new pen point quickly dip it in ink and hold it in the
flame of a lighted match for a second. Wipe and dry with a cloth,
and then it will hold ink as well as one much older.
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Save Good Calendars.
F a calendar seems too pretty to destroy, paste a piece of sandpaper ow#r
the calendar pad and use it as a match scratcher.
. For Dry Hair.
T~\ R Y or brittle hair should not be shampooed more often than once every
six weeks. But good oil should be applied to the roots twice a week,
using the finger tips—thiB will overcome the dryness.
Mending Glass.
T O mend broken glass or china, melt common alum in an old iron spoon
over the fire, then apply to the pieces china or glass. When dry
these articles can be washed in hot. water and the cement will hold rigidly.
HE men who climb highest by sheer
force of character—that is, by exer
cise of will power—are very rarely
college-bred men. They may have an excel
lent general education, obtained largely by
desultory reading, but almost invariably they
“have little Latin and less Greek.”
This deficiency is not accidental, if wo may
accept as true the remarkable statement made
by Professor S. N. Pat
ten, of the University of
Pennsylvania, who de
clares that the study of
_ languages weakens the
will.
The sensory develop
ment of a child takes
place before birth. In
other words, when a
%chlld is born all its or
gans are ready to per
form their functions. The
stomach digests, the
lungs breathe, the heart
beats. The motor de
velopment of a child
takes place after birth,
because the bones are
required by the muscles
for movement and action
and bones cannot hard
en until after birth.
Immediately following
birth all impressions are
of a sensory nature, from
which the motor element
is completely absent. If
an infant is subjected to
an intense sensory ex
citement, premature
motor reaction takes
place. Thus, for instance, if an infant is in
vited to walk before its hones are ready o
support its body, the motor reaction—walk
ing in this instance—occurs prematurely, to
the detriment of the child, who becomes
bandy-legged.
In tlio normal individual there is a perfect
co-ordination of sensory and motor tleme
The moment a 3ensory stimuius is rcec- 1
the stimulus is translated into action c:
thought—that, is, work of some kind. It s
essential that the child should think , more .
quickly than it. acts. This makes for inde
pendence, self reliance, efficiency, ability tt”
cope with all the problems of life. Any delay
occasioned in formation of trains of thought
retards action, and therefore prevents the
growth of will power, and In order that there
may be no hindrance of any kind to the rap'd
and precise formation of thought, it is im
perative that the child have at its command,
concise, precise expressions to aid it in rapid
thinking. Any influence that hinders quick
decisions weakens the will.
Now it Is a well-known fact that almost
all linguists tend to write an ornate and possi
bly redundant style. A man who has read and
enjoyed Homer and Virgil in the original
Greek and Latin, in writing and speaking Eng-i
lish is apt to express an individual thought
in two or three different ways, because, in the
background of this thought linger the recol
lections of the Latin and Greek stylists. The
imitative faculty existing in ail Impels him to
give a trifold variety of expression :o he one
thought. The ensuing style is a flowing ar.d
literary style, but it spells death to rapid
motor co-ordination, and upon this circum
stance Professor Patten bases his assumption
that the study of foreign languages is bound
to weaken tbe will.
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Why PERFUMES
Match
ONE of our senses is so little considered
ue that of smell, and It Is a sign of
advance in civilization that there Is a
ing tendency to develop this sense. Every
laired woman knows that certain com-
tions of color heighten or detract from
boauty, but not every one knows that her
bodily fragrance is quite different from
of a brunette or a blonde. To be
netic in her toilette the perfumes a
an uses must be in harmony with herself,
le brunette, particulars in early life, may
i sensuous flower essence freely, bat must
ire of certain light odors, such as "pew
n hay.” These latter should be used only
ne elderly, for among old persons the dry'
if the skin gives an odor of dried leaves,
h a fragrant but light perfume will
fy.
the case of men, the ordinary perfumes
omraerce should be let rigorously alone,
pod health and with frequent bathing the
acteristic effluvium of the young man is
distinctively antagonistic to vegetable
s that as the ancient Romans knew, rub*
w iH fatty ointments is preferable,
uts. no matter how young or how care-
tended, have an odor as of butyric acid,
•h is only agreeable when very faint,
•rent individuals possess odors that seem
ltarly their own. This is an important
ir in the early stages of love by forming
dditional stimulus to memory as well as
eying a sense of intimacy,
flerent races also are characterized by
rent odors, and often the odor of one'is
greeable to the other. Diet influences
e characteristics, so that a vegetarian and
rge meat eater could be distinguished by
rson with an acute sense of smell. Every
ss has its effect, the consumptive giving
i heavy, sweet, penetrating odor, whereas
yphotd fever th" breath la ■-
Should
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scarlet fever it reminds one of dried rose
leaves, and smallpox gives an odor like sweet
potatoes. Nothing is without smell, and the
appreciation of scents is as aesthetic a taste
as that of harmonies in music or color rela
tions in art.
What Makes Us LIKE COFFEE
I T has long been supposed that our fondness for cof
fee was due to the presence in the coffee bean of
large quantities of a white powdery substance
called caffeine. Now, however, another element has
been discovered which has as much as caffeine to do
with making coffee the fragrant, invigorating beverage
it is.
This newly-discovered element is called pyridine. It
is what chemists call a volatile alkaloid—a substance
which readily evaporates—and is as stimulating and
pungent as caffeine.
Dr. Bertrand, the French scientist who made this
discovery, found that he could obtain the typical aroma
of coffee by pouring sweetened boiling water over
either caffeine or pyridine. This leads him to believe
that the housewife will obtain better results by adding
sugar to the boiling water before pouring it over the
coffee.
Why HORSES Are Among MAN’S WORST ENEMIES
R ECENT scientific discoveries are gradually mak
ing us aware of the fact that the horse, long con
sidered one of man’s most useful friends, is hi
many ways one of his worst enemies. Lockjaw Is only
one of the deadly perils for which the horse Is directly
responsible.
Tt is now known that the germ of lockjaw, or “te
tanus," as science terms it, is a common inhabitant of
the intestinal canal of the equine beast. Whan, as of
ten happens, gardens are fertilized with horse manure,
their soil becomes rich in tetanus microbes. It Is very
dangerous for children to run about barefooted ha the'
streets, because, tf they happen to cut their feet, lock
jaw germs are liable to infect the wounds.
It is estimated that 95 per cent of all the housefl.*
in cities are bred in stables where horses are kept—
horse manure being preferred by the insects to alt
other substances as incubating material (or their eggs.
Hence it is obvious that the great btdk of the mischief
done by the housefly to mankind ts Indirectly attribut
able to the horse—Including the dissemination ef
typhoid fever, cholera and the intestinal troubles so
fatal to infants. .
The “stable fly" gets its name from the fact that It
breeds almost exclusively in stables. If there were no
horses, there would be very few r flies of this obnoxious
biting species, which, as recently discovered, is the
cc’o carrier of lcfrntl’r \
“The dinrass breeding housefly thrives wher
ever there are horses."
According to the figures of the accident-insur
ance companies. 12 per cent of all fatal or dis
abling accidents are attributable to horses. The
number of deaths caused by them annually in the
United States is not far from 9.000.
Of all fieaths incurred incidentally to transpor
tation, the horse is responsible for 40 per cent.
During the present year there will be nearly
sons in the State will be killed by horses.
Summing the matter up, it appears that not all the
tigers, lions and other destructive creatures in the
world, including venomous snakes, do more than a frac
tion of the amount of damage that is inflicted in the
way of maiming and killing BY horses.
To complete the indictment against the horse, we
And that this animal is mainly responsible for the per
petuation of that serious feathered nuisance, the Eng
lish sparrow. This highly objectionable bird is a para
site of the horse, subsisting, in cities, almost entirely
upon the partly digested grain which is found wherever
there are horses. Already the substitution of motor-
propelled for horse drawn vehicles has very markedly
diminished the numbers of sparrows.
Sparrows do a vast deal more mischief than most
people suppose. They attack the orchard, the grain field
and tbe garden. They eat the buds and blossoms of
maples, elms and other shade trees. They destroy
vines and befoul statues and fountains. With the rub
bish they gather for nests they choke the gutters and
drain pipes of roofs, causing overflows, and in the same
way they occupy gas lamps and even the globes of
electric lamps. The worst accusation against them is
that these ‘ rats of the air" take possession of the nests
and nesting places of other birds, and hold them
"a’r.ri "'l efforts by the rightful owners.
Cheaper to HEAL •
Than to KILL:
I N the Boe£ war tt cost Great Britain $40,000 for “ I
every Boer soldier killed; at Panama it cost the -
United States $3.43 for every life saved. It has
cost an average of 77 cents each to cure hundreds of
sufferers in the Southern States from the indolence- •■i \
begetting hookworm disease. Even the deadly sleeping- •*
sickness of Africa is being successfully combatted at
an average cost of only about $15. Y'et, though it is °
evident on every hand that saving life is a compara- ’
tively cheap and easy process, every year the civilized
nations are squeezing three billion dollars out of their
taxpayers- not to kill other men, but merely to be ready
to kill other men if the occasion should arise.
It is a characteristic of American methods that the
nonsense of wasting the nation’s most valuable asset
should have been recognized most conspicuously in a
commercial way. Congress has refused a comparatively (
small appropriation for helping to fight disease among
the Indians. The life insurance companies, on the /
other hand, allegedly for commercial reasons alone, .
have inaugurated a complete health-preserving gropa- .
ganda. It may be true that the Companies are doing .
this because the longer a mah lives the more premiums -
he will pay and consequently the larger will be the’r
profits, but it is at least remarkable that commercial ,| •
greed should outstrip the nation's paternal care in accs »
of beneficence. One insurance company, for example, *
is sending visiting sick nurses to policy holders at its “
own expense. ;
The money spent in meaningless salutes of cannon. ^
every year is not far short of a million dollars, and j
this amount is squandered while thousands of sick
poor and indigent feeble-minded are in crying need. ,
The greatest conservation possible is the conservation 1
of life, and, at the present time, life value* aggregating ;
a billion and a half doilars every year could be saved
in America alone by the putting into immediate effect 1
of all devices known for the safeguarding of human lila,