12 '' GREA T MINDS TO MADNESS ARE ALLIED" Prof. Gr asset Pr Pope's Famous m ry -4 ff p§S ~- , The erotomaniac who loves two young women, often sisters, with equal love at the same time. He can't bear to marry either, knowing that the other adored one may become the wife of soma oth er man. The monomaniac is insane on one subject only, gen erally the Inven tion of a perpet ual motion ma ! chine, or some other contrivance which d e fie s every known law of mechanics. On every other sub ject he is perfect ly rational. The dipsomaniac suffers from a dis ease which makes him drink when ever an attack comes on. He should not be confounded with the habitual drunkard. The megalomaniac is the founder of queer religions and sects. He in vents new doc trines and be liefs and strives I to win converts to his way of ! thinking, general | ly with a small degree of suc cess. The sitomaniac hac ungovernable im pulses to eat. Sitomania is a disease, a mild form of insanity, and the suffered feels impelled to eat at all times and hours, no matter whether he is hungry or not. The kleptomaniac, who is driven in spite of herself | to take what does not belong to her. K I e p t omaniacs show great skill and employ many clever ruses in their thefts. The pyromaniac has strong im pulses to set buildings on fire. Neither vicious ness nor a desire for revenge p-«mpts his ac tions, but just a longing to start big c on fl a g ra tions. ' I A CAREFUL study of Prof. Grasset's remarkable book ou the "demi-fous" leads to two very decided and consoling conclusions; first., that all great men are more or loss insane; and, second, that it is not such a very dreadful thing to be long to the "demi-fous," after all. There is not, as Prof. Grasset points out, any way in which to draw a dis tinguishing line between sanity and insanity. The shades, or brands, of one overlap and are interwoven with the other to such a degree that it is impossible to show where the one ends and the other begins. In other words, you. for instance, can be both sane and insane at the same time —perfect- ly sane on certain subjects, but insane, or partly so, on at least one other. There are so many brands of insanity that, fortunately, not all of na are in sane on the same subject. "Between calm, cold reason and a transport of passion," says Prof. Gras set, "between originality and eccen tricity, between nervousness and agita tion, between a person who is slightly touched and one who is demented, there are all degrees of transition, and it is impossible to say where insanity begins." Admitting for the moment, then, that everybody is more or less insane, it is not a question of just how insane a person is, but of the particular brand of insanity he has inherited or ac quired, says a writer in the New York Sunday World. The brands may be counted by the score. Some of them are of real value, especially to a man of genius. Others are useless, harmless or detrimental, as the case may be. The erotomaniac, for instance, falls in love. Hut that is not all. He may love two sisters with equal love at. the same time and, no matter how hard he may try, he cannot make up bis mind which to marry. It is impos sible for him lo bear the thought that either of the young women he loves should become the wife of another. He generally solves the problem bv giving them both up and marrying a third. The Dipsomaniac Class. The dipsomaniac, who must not be classed with the habitual drunkard, suffers from an affliction which impels him to drink whenever an attack comes on. Then there are the kleptomaniacs. Prof. Grasset describes them as "sick people who are driven in spite of themselves to take what does not be long to them, just as we have seen that the dipsomaniacs are driven by an irresistible power to drink." Among other brands of semi-insanity may be mentioned sitomania, pyro mania, monomania and megalomania, which are illustrated and briefly de scribed. Then there are other brands which are characterized by illusions, hallucinations, jealousy, conceit, boast fulness, rashness, inertness, impulsive ness, timidity and many forms of ec centricity. Prof. Grasset declares that from childhood persons of unbalanced mi fid are apt to "draw attention lo them selves by their precocity, their quick ness in taking hold of everything and understanding it, and at the same time by their whims, their headstrong ways, their cruel instincts, their violent and convulsive attacks of anger. When they become men they are queer, com plex, heterogeneous individuals, made up of contradictory qualities and faults. They are often as highly gifted in one line as they are lacking in an other. From the intellectual point of view they sometimes possess the fac ulties of imagination, invention and ex pression in a very high degree; that is to say, they are gifted in speech, in the arts and in poetry." Those Who Are "A Little Off." The originals and eccentrics show lack of equilibration to a still greater degree. "These people," says Prof. Grasset, "are what the public would describe as 'a little off' on some one subject; they either have some pe culiar habit or wear some odd style of clothes or have a queer manner of wearing their hair or of walking or writing or speaking. It may be either a strange gesture, a form of speech, a tie or a grievance. The eccentricity is often shown by an imperious or obsessional tendency, as, for example, to surround oneself with birds or flow ers or cats; to collect uninteresting objects, particularly articles of wear ing apparel, such as cravats, hats, foot wear or wrappers of every style and color, or to be absorbed in researches and calculations and ridiculous inven tions." Hut, after all. semi-insanity in some forms lias its advantages. Many world-famous men—poets, mathema ticians, philosophers, historians, writers, statesmen and scientists — would probably never have been beard of but for that one little streak of in sanity which lent luster and impetus to i heir minds and prompted them to accomplish something of tremendous value to mankind. For instance, "Tolstoi belongs to the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1908. category of the semi-insane who are termed 'originals.' At eight years of age he was seized with an irresistible desire to fly. This idea haunted him j to such a degree that he decided to put it into practice. He shut himself up in his study room, climbed up to the window and made the movements for flying in the air. He fell from a height of more than IB feet and was sick for some time following." Tolstoi's Peculiar Mania. Later Tolstoi's particular brand of insanity prompted him to fall in love, not once, but threefold; for, having met the three daughters of Dr. Berce, he "began by being very much taken by the oldest, then he thought he was in love with the second, and finally fell In love with the third." The triple romance ended abruptly, for Tolstoi suddenly decided that instead of get ting married he would mow hay with the moujiks in a peasant's blouse. Ossip Lourie, who made a psycho logical study of many of the great Rus sian novelists of the nineteenth cen tury, summed up Tolstoi's case in the following way: "Tolstoi is one of those rare men to whom the English aphorism, 'They are certainly cracked, but the crack lets In light,' might apply. In a word, Tolstoi was a semi-insane genius." Even Socrates must have had a streak of insanity in him. for he "went into ecstacies which were almost cata leptic fits. At table, or in the streets of Athens, or in the camps, ho would suddenly stop shoii, sometimes with out motive. At other tiine-s, on the oc casion of a sneeze either by himself or one of his neighbors, he would act, or would not act, according to whether the sneeze had taken place on his right band or on his left.'' Insanity of Some Great Men. Prof. Grasset cites the cases of many other great men of past and present times whose brands of in sanity were manifested in various ways. Pascal, for instance, "could not stand seeing water without falling into a perfect fit of passion." Then Au guste C'omte who has exerted n vast and lasting influence 011 the philo sophical position of the savants of the ninetenth century, "was undoubtedly semi-insane when he was not wholly insane, lie wrote incoherent letters. While he was taking .1 walk one day he wanted to drag his wife with him into the Lake d'Enghein. During his meals he would try to drive his knife into the table, like Walter Scott's Highlander, and he would order the succulent back of a pig and recite bits of Homer." Of Gorki, Prof. Grasset writes that he "made an attempt to commit sui cide at the age of IS and belongs to the category of the semi-insane who have been termed vagabonds or wan derers." Guy de Maupassant died insane. HP had often confessed to Paul Bourget that he frequently saw his double. In going into his own room he would see himself seated upon his own sofa. The roots of his disease "seemed to he confused with the very qualities of his talent. Villemain had ideas of perse cution. Jean Jacques Ilousseau was successively clockmaker, mountebank, music master, painter and servant, and then followed the paths of medi cine, music, theology and botany. He used to meditate bareheaded in the sun at midday. He fell in love at It. He would suddenly depart from an inn, leaving his trunk behind him. Gerard de Nerval, the political writer and poet, was subject to hallucina tions. He would be found on the street corner, his hat in his hand, lost in a sort of ecstacy. In the Tuileries he saw the goldfish in the big fountain putting their heads out of the water trying to entice him to follow them to the bottom. The queen or Sheba was waiting for him, they said. He was found at the Palais Royal dragging a live lobster along at the end of a blue ribbon, lie tried to flv like the birds, and one day at a moment, in one of the streets of Paris, when lie waited with his arms spread out for his soul to mount to a star, he wai gathered in by a gendarme "because lie had pre pared for this ascension by taking off his terrestrial garments." Freaks of Men of Genius. Baudelaire dyed his hair green. He was an epicure of odors, and used to say that his soul soared upon perfumes as the souls of other men soared upon music. One day after throwing a traveling glazier downstairs and break ing every pane of glass Baudelaire ex claimed: "The beauty of life! The beauty of life." He declared later that he experienced at that moment an ■ in finite joy." because he was not yet in sane, at least, not officially so. I he case of Alfred de Alusset, who was "restless visionary and slightly maniacal," is most interesting. In the Cafe de la Regence it was his habit to order a plate of cigars and a frightful mixture of beer and absinthe, which he would swallow in a gulp. Then De Musset would settle himself solidly against the back of the divan and light one cigar after another until the plate was empty. At half-past eleven the waiter would hail a cab. lead the poet by the arm, and put him safely into the vehicle. He would let himself be taken quietly to his house, where his old nurse put him to bed like a child. J*- 1 ven the great Napoleon had liis particular brand of insanity. He be lieved in presentiments and horo scopes, as is well known, and Prof. Grasset says further lie "suffered from a habitual twitching of the right shoulder and of the lips," Zola used to count the number of gas jets in the streets, the numbers on the doors and chiefly the numbers on cabs. Balzac had an ambulatory mania. One eve ning, when he had put on a handsome new dressing gown, he wanted togo into the street with it on and with a lamp in his hand to excite the admira tion of the public. Schopenhauer al- ways suspected that, he was possessed of a demon. Ho said he could feel It within him. He used to pass entire weeks without speaking to anybody. Swift announced in his youth that he would go mad. and, as a matter of fact, he did. Some Curious Hallucinations. Edgar Allan I'oe drank, as Baude laire has said, "like a savage." He was subject to the most horrible hal lucinations. Haller, the celebrated physiologist, believed he was being continually pursued by enemies. He took enormous doses of opium. New ton became insane in his old age. Beethoven, who always washed in ice water, "would lift it up with his hands, scolding all the while, and dash a quantity of water on his face and his hair without noticing that it made a pool on the floor, in which he splashed about like a duck." In connection with Prof. Grasset's work it is interesting to note that Dr. Henry S. Atkins of the St. Asy lum for the Insane has recently been putting a theory of his own to a prac tical test. He has been sending insane women out in small parties to visit the department stores and particularly the bargain counters to do some shop ping. The Insane women were in charge of keepers, but gave no trouble. The patients purchased with a keen regard of appearance and value, just as their normal sisters were buying all about them. Apparently the sales women noted nothing unusual in their demeanor. Dr. Atkiii'; said that such recreation an that afforded by a day in the stores is a valuable part of the treatment for the insane. Juct as normal persons are better merry than moody, so, he says hi:s charges are improved by any thing that pleasantly occupies their minds while not at the same time ex citing their nerves. AND THEN HE WENT AWAY. Money for His Sandwich Could Be Found in Slot Machine. A man with an eight-day beard, which grew listlessly over his features in unrestrained fashion, wandered into a modest little restaurant. It was one of those places where one can buy a light lunch, and if he is musically in clined can drop a coin in the music box and have classical or popular mel odies to soothe him while eating. The man with the eight-day beard looked first at the lunch counter and then at the big music box. Then he looked at the three or four small coins which he had drawn from his pocket He had a hankering for music, and he decided togo and tackle the throat oi the musical machine witli a five-cent piece. Hut the nickel got lodged in the esophagus of the machine and there wasn't a note to be heard. The man gave the machine a shake, but still it didn't swallow the nickel. Then the man went over tothecoun ter and bought a roast-beef sandwich. He ate if leisurely until the last bite was stuffed into his countenance. The man behind the counter came up with an expectant air With lbs mouth still partly filled with the sandwich, the man eating pointed his thumb over his shoulder in the di rection of the machine. "You'll find the money for this in there," he ex plained. And then he went away.—New York Press. WIPED ENGLAND OFF THE MAP Unexpected Result of a Dinner Given by a British Diplomat in Bolivia. "Bolivia is the only country that ever wiped Kngland otf the map," sai<l Frank Roberson. "It came about this way: The I British ambassador sev eral years ago gave a dinner for the official and social circle people ol' Bo livia. "When they arrived at the embassy they found that he was not married to the woman seated at the head ui the table and they left. In the name of iiis government lie demanded an apology, whereupon the government gave him 24 hours to get out of the country. "lnasmuch as little Bolivia is way off the ocean and practically lost in the eternal mountains Great Britain could not, by guns, get the retraction that she wanted. But her mapmakers got revenge by issuing maps wholly eliminating Bolivia. "Finally this information reached Bolivia, whereupon, with a stroke of the pen, new maps were ordered for the Bolivian government and the Bo livian schools. They showed more ocean than any other maps ever printed. The British isles had been sunk into the sea. And so far as the -people and school children of Bolivia are concerned there is no Great Brit ain." —Indianapolis News. Ice in Dentistry. The first use of ice in dental opera tions was in what the public term the "freezing system." This application is still in use in provincial towns, but it has for several years past been dis continued in London and other large cities. The first use of ice in this way was in America. The ice was cut up fine, placed in small bags so shaped as t.o fit each side of the jaw and the wretched patient held these in his mouth until the desired temperature was reached, when the operator ex tracted the offending molar or molars. To-day cold air is pumped into the mouth with more effect and without any of the pain and inconvenience that, must have attended the more primitive style. Iced water is always used by dentists in America, but is never used anywher* else. —Ice and I Cold Storage. I EISWONX SSlfe IM LATESRJjT FANCIES §|7jf MUST MATCH DRESS SHOES AND STOCKINGS FOR EACH COSTUME. Footwear To-Day an All-Important De tail in Modern Dress—Dainty Embroidered Slippers with the Tea Gown. Shoes and stockings are all impor tant details in modern dress, and a glimpse into the shoe closet of the fashionable woman is disheartening indeed to the woman of mod«rate means and a love of dress. These are the halcyon days for the woman with V jfcl an average sized foot, for bargain sales in footgear are bargain sales indeed. ! When it is possible to afford to have j shoes made to order it is far more sat isfactory to do so, but there is such I FRILL OF RIBBON ON GOWNS. Touch of Pompadour Used to Break the Monotony. To break the monotony of black lace evening gowns a frill of pompadour ribbon is being used, just under the lace at the front. This is a charming idea and one that will make black gowns appropriate as costumes for young women. One French gown of black chiffon is entirely lined with pompadour silk, with a black background and the roses showing with elusive color through the outer folds of the chiffon, makes the dress beautiful in the extreme. The same idea may be carried out for a young girl in white, using either thin crepe, China silk or chiffon cloth as in outer covering. A wide belt of ribbon to match the lining makes a most girlish dress. No more useful garment could bo in cluded in a trousseau for debutante or bride than a princess slip of pompa dour silk. It is charming when worn under lingerie gowns in summer or under crepe and chiffon in winter. Pompadour is also beautiful when lining an opera coat or cape. One of tbe newest evening capes is of pink panne velvet lined with flowered silk and bound all round by a band of vel vet embroidered in pink and gold. Smart Tub Dress. The girl who intends to have some thing stylish and out of the ordinary, will make the skirt of her tub frock from white linen and the coat from pink or blue, and braid each in self colors. Carrying out the same idea in woolen materials the coat will be of a darker shade than the skirt, even though the colors be the same. Before the material is stamped the coat should be finished with the ex ception of lining and facing, and the skirt completely finished. By so do ing the design can be arranged in ex actly the position desired and the ef fect will be much more satisfactory than if first braided and then made up. Tbe cuffs and collar of the coat are braided before attached. If the gar ment is of tub material, it should be laundered before worn. To iron it.have well-padded board and lay the skirt right side down. With iron 3 as hot as can bo used, without scorching, press material until perfectly dry. Grace; Through Dancing. No child should begin toe dancing until 12 years old. but much of the art can be learned before that «no through dancing a little girl acquires a grace, a poise and freedom of move ment which stands her in good stead during the awkward age as well as for tha rest of her life. I a wide range of sizes and styles to b«? found in all the large shoe shops that it. is not necessary, nor in fact desir able, to slavishly follow any dictate of fashion anent the pointed or square toe, the wide or narrow sole, the low cut low shoe or the fancy slipper to bft worn in the street with elaborately embroidered stockings. Again, good breeding is to be noticed. The well bred, well gowned woman will not be conspicuous. If she can afford it sho will wear silk stockings—plain ones, with perfect fitting, well cut boots or shoes of well polished or patent leath er with her tailor gowns—but .she will not go about in public streets with her feet shod as for a ball. The elabor ate style of gown worn for the after noon reception, the tea gown, the the ater gown and the ball gown, all de mand, in these luxurious days, elabor ate footgear, as t,hov»n in our illustra tion. Suede ;;hoes to match the color of the gown and silk stockings to match the shoes are <;oiisiderc J amarl for the spring and summer. For winter Ihe patent leather, worn with open work or embroidered silk stocking, is considered correct. For the tea gown are the daintiest of em broidered satin slippers, like mules, with stockings to match, while for the ball gown are satin or kid slippers, embroidered in crystal or rhinestones or pearls, with silk stockings to match, or instead of the embroidery will tie seen tiny bows of lace or lare edged ribbon. Gold or silver slippers arc also fashionable and are certainly ef fective, while a rather startling note is struck in the bright red satin slip pers with tiny rhinestone buckles and worn with silk stockings of exactly the, same shade of red. Marabou Feathers. Because marabou droops but does not absolutely wither when exposed lo dampness, its value as a hat trim ming is greatly appreciated, and in many instances it is being substituted for ostrich tips. Or it is used to eke out the more costly plumes so that an elaborate hat of the picture order may be sufficiently fluffy in appearance. Sometimes the marabou edging is combined with heavy lace bands as a i trimming for the lace-crowned hats. ! thus giving them a more substantial | appearance when supplemented by j marabou-edged lace boas of the same I color. WEAR THE SEPARATE JACKET. j Garment Will Be a Feature of the Coming Season. Quite a feature of the coming sea son's fashions will be the separate tailor-made cloth jacket, made fc wearing with odd skirts and simple frocks in light weight cloth, pongee, etc. For some seasons past it has not been fashionable to wear separate Jackets except of silk .»;• lace. Th« jackets have all been made to match the skirts, and when a coat of differ ent material has been usod it has been a top coat quite long, or at least three quarters, and loose in build, whether made of cloth or silk. Hut the new fashions show a ver.v definite place for the tight-fitting sep arate tailor-made coat of cloth, such as la shown, a tight-fitting cutaway with very little trimming, and that little of the most severely tailored order. White cloth is most attractive Jn these separate tailored ekirts. It may he used with stitching or braid of the same material for its only garniture, but. the smartest coats have coliat and cuffs of black velvet. The only style of coat which is most success ful in this severe development is a double-breasted cutaway, not very long, and having only a slightly cut away effect, not. sharply shaped at the bottom only, but curving beautifully from the top of the front to the bofc torn. A little braid is used In conjunction with the velvet on the collar of tho coat, but. on many of the most attrao tive models the braid is not otherwise employed. Will Coarsen the Hair. While lemon used In the egg sham poo is excellent for the scalp, the us« of the pure lemon juice on the hair i» apt to coarsen It and make it stiff an* unmanageable,
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