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A UJNATIC VILLAGE. 29
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All tlie occupations of Gheel are not however of so serious a
nature madman . Music nicknamed is pursued Grand by the Colbert communit who y , being at large a skilful , and it fiddler "was a ,
have poor h founde onore paid d d memor the him Choral the y by delicate all Society the inhabitants attention of Gheel of , . ornamenting , and His deserves sane brother their to be assembl musicians held y in
the room atriotic with his fe portrait tes and . at In the the reli concerts ious solemnities given by this of Gheel society , , the in g
former niusical p without parts are any distributed regard to according the state to of the his brains talents ; of all each they per ask
school is that , is he in should contemp not l p ation lay or for sing the out special of time benefit or tune of . the A patients singing .
The oser director and chief is to of be the a Choral German Society , Herr . Miiller We have , a alluded distinguished to relig com ious
p solemnities , : the insane have their own . church , where they join in all the serviceswalk in the processions , and conduct themselves
• the patients with notion propriet that y admitted ; , thoug they are h to some the gods Sacraments am or on _monarchs g tliem if who their refuse are mental to possessed kneel condition . with The
are allows and it is of found their comprehending that articipation their in the importance spiritual and life their of their meaning fellow , p
Christians Having thus has a described very health the y general and calming condition effect of on the their patients minds , a . few not be
for remar are they ks form on th from of e n themselves o that rmal Dutch population a remarkable race of which Gheel p was henomenon will formed during . uninteresting The Gheelois the first ;
centuries sprung of Barbarian invasion , by a mixture of Northmen and from Teutons among . The the y are women a handsome of ian the , health Camp y ine , and , or choose phlegmatic sandy district folk for . round their It is
children about Gheel . In , that the towns the Bel they g may aristocracy be recognised by nurses their fresh comlexionstheir white teeththeir upriglit carriage and national
cosp tume ; of , which the rich children lac , e cap of with the large pendant inealways ribbons lentiful is the
p are iece red d'homieur cheeked . and The sturdthe men have Camp vigorous , health p and a , certain solidity of muscle . y To ; each maybe applied an Arab saying ,
peop to "He its le extreme is partake master limit of of their the tempers p ri hysical ght as arm calm qualities . " as The the : natural pace moral at amiability qualities which they of carried walk this ,
madman quiet measuredness would not , upset in all they It will do , also which be the easil wildest y understood freaks of that a
. the over habit the insane of centuries , a princi havin ple g of accustomed self-government them to appear exercise s to control run in but industrious
of their and the in very particul surr blood ounding ar . they In land greatl condition , which y desire they is overrun to are reclaim poor by , inmat heath and possess very e . who The hel a peasant portion him , is thus lwell disposed to receive an ps
with gratuitous exceeding labor y , and is himself a source of pecuniary profit .
A Ujnatic Village. 29
A UJNATIC _VILLAGE . 29
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/29/
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