GOLF CURES FOR LUNATICS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

GOLF CURES FOR LUNATICS

THEY BECOME SAXE WHILE THEY PLAY.

Playing golf is a new idea for the ■cure of the insane. Even the most violent patients undergo the cure, and, although they could easily brain a man with a club, there has never been an accident.

The game takes them out into the fresh air, gives them a mild form ot exercise, and what is most important o f all, it stimulates (heir brains and gives thorn something quitb new to think about. It is the novelty that appeals to them, and fliey will forget their hallucinations, and "those who five minutes before avowed they were Kin_t Charles." Lloyd George or Helen of Troy, will walk on the green with their clubs, and in a few minutes will bo driving and putting, amd, conversing just as though thev were a party of friends out for an afternoon's sport. An hour on the golf course each day help* greatly towards turning the patients into normal men and women. It sets a new part of the mind working, and causes them to forget their manias-