Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — Fanners and Insanity. [ARTICLE]

Fanners and Insanity.

The peaceful and presumably independent occupation of farming is represented in the insane asylum of OreI gon by over two hundred men and women whose reason has fled. This occupation, indeed, leads all others in the annals of the insane, in this State at least—a fact that does not agree with the generally accepted idea that the increase of insanity is due to the increasing spirit of speculation, the feverish haste to be rich, and the increase in the use of stimulants. On the other hand, it indicates that monotony, isolation, and the small cares are as great and destructive enemies to human reai son as are the more violent foes that assail and bear it down. They first undermine and sap it by slow degrees, and this is more especially true in the i case where woman are the victims; the last take it by storm. —Portland Ore- | yoman.