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( my favorite...novel reading)
Trajan
(19,089 posts)"Is THAT all? ...."
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Egotism?
Business nerves?
POLITICS!!!!!!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)intrepidity
(7,307 posts)"Greediness"??? If only
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Women's bodily functions were very hush hush and many euphemisms were used.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)as well as a certain way (no smoking while...), and you must be free of certain diseases (but not all)...but you must do it, otherwise you're suppressing, as long as you don't do it for 30 years.
Masturbation and Syphilis
Masturbation for 30 years
Tobacco and Masturbation
Deranged Masturbation
Suppressed Masturbation
I won't even get into some of the others.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Desertion by Husband
Female Disease
Rumor of Husband Murder
Ill Treatment by Husband
Imaginary Female Trouble
Boy! you LOOK at a guy cross-eyed and you've had it Sister!
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)Hope somebody grabs that one.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Lock me up!
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Novel Reading and Politics. Especially since I'm a woman.
This fascinating.
I find over action of the mind, mental excitement, overtaxing mental powers strange. It sounds like how I would feel when I would study for finals in college.
I see that all of the seven deadly sins are here. Of course, my know that might qualify for the religious enthusiasm reason.
trof
(54,256 posts)Bryce Hospital for the Insane?
It's in Tuscaloosa.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Someone wrote in and said it was a State Hospital in the East somewhere had some architectural fame for how it was built.
postulater
(5,075 posts)After leaving Ireland during the Great Starvation he spent four years fighting in the Mexican War. Got hepatitis and then went insane. I don't think it was masturbation since he had twelve kids.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)My Grandmother, born in 1898, had a brother, named John...and 6 sisters.
Big family, as was common turn of the century.
And, as was common, not rich, so the brother left home aged 17.
and no one heard from him again.
This was just before the Depression, and of course during it work as hard to find.
and it is an Irish family, and they drank.
The missing brother was part of family lore.
When my Grandmother died, in 1983, her oldest son had to probate the estate, and had to account for all the relatives, including the missing brother.
Damned if he did not find him, too.
The brother had been locked up in the state mental hospital, 60 miles away from the city where all the family lived, sometime in the early 1930's..
He had had severe case of Dt's, was a serious alcoholic.
And, back then, once you were locked up, and with no family or help, you stayed in the hospital.
apparently he did not know where the family had moved to, after he left home.
He died in the late 1930's there.