BEYOND A JOKE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 10 March 1911, Page 3

BEYOND A JOKE.

TO THE EDITOR

Sir, —There is in bur town just now an unfortunate individual whose sense o; reason—on one or two things, at 'any rate—is not "all there." At the present time he is able, by working at his trade, to earn sufficient to keep himself respectably. However, unfortunately, he is under the impression that he is possessed of a v,ory special gift*.■• This idea—aided' by the help of a few well-known eitizensi—is likely to take full possession of his senses, and ho must then be committed to the care of the State. This would be a pity, and should be a charge upon the consciences of those hoodlums—you can call them by no better name—who find amusement in the encouragement of his mania. Now much, we are told, may be accomplished for the benefit of those unfortunates who fill our mental hospitals by the power of suggestion. And if those mon (?) who are helping this one to what must be his end, were to seek to dispel, rather than to encourage, his hallucination, they might stay the evil they have commenced.

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