The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
sUPPREssED EMOTION.

never kills. Inc ByBte N ls sometimes
30 shocked with anguish, the heart SO
crushed and bruiVed, that the victim
dies Of suppressed emotion. The New
York Herald reports case in point. A
week ago a lady Of New York lost her
only child, a bright and beautiful boy.
The mother was loving, tender, SYM
pathetic, and wept profusely when Wis
tied by sorrow or the ordinary disap-
pointments OF life. When the child
was sick her eyes were fountain Of
tears; but when 1t died she sat at Its
side as stolid and indifferent a, block
Of marble. She was in perfect health,
but there was no relief in tears; the
pulse continued over a hundred for
several days, when she died in great
agony OF suppressed emotion. When
q woman caunot weep at the death Of
her only child, the idol Of her life,
death or lunacy will be the result.
The world considers it unmanly for
men to weep, and 1t loses respect for
the man who gives free vent to his
emotions. But the nations where
men pract ce weeping are the hap
piest. In Itlly and France, where
men weep and rave and wildly gestic-
ulate, trouble is drowned in tears. A
long while ago a French physician
discovered the fact that suppressed
emotion was injurious to health. He
found by actual experiment that a
person laboring under suppressed ex-
element with a pulse at 100 can re-
duce 1t to IS by crying unrestrainedy,
which shows that weeping is natures
remedy for q feverish condition Of the
system arising from mental grief or
agitation. The child, when hurt phys
ically, or has its feelings wounded, in.
variably resorts to natures panacea--
tsars, and these never fail to bring
relief. The widow gives vent to her
sorrow In deluge Of tears, aud hence
she is soon enabled to represent grief
with a laughing eye--mourning in q
houze Of festivity--a silver moon in q
sable cloud. 1t is by intense grief that
this black swan, this mournful ph@nix
rises out of the funeral urn
that holds the ashes of a hus-
bands heart-snd thus demon
strates what relief Is the gift
Of tears. Every human being,
whether man, woman or child, can
bring the pulse down to q normal
condition by weeping, aud, instead Of
stigmatzing the habit as womanly,
the ant Of crying gracefully ought to
be encouraged by philanthropists, il
not taught in the public schools.
When steam is escaping from the
safety valve Of q boiler it makes an
alarming noise, but ct the same time
it is a guarantee that the boiler will
not explode. When demonstrative
people frantically howl superficial
observers fancy thai they are in a
state Of terrible excitement, presaging
death by a sorrow which nothing can
heal, when, in fact, they have only
lifted natures safety valve to let of
steam. In such cases the emotion'
are not suppressed, and the grief finds
relief in vent. But sorrow is moi
to be measured either by demon.
stratlve or silent grief. Sometimes
the most heartless grief is the loudest,
| just as the empty wagon makes the
most noise. Idle aud gossiping
women who attend all the funerals
when carriages are free, keep a steady
eye on the mourners, and when they
meet at night for comment and oriti
icium never fail to extol the howl
ers with the big bandannas anC
the little cambria handkerchief
dripping with tears, while ex
pressing their adherence for the
unieeling monster who refused t;
accommodate them with q single tear
Long experience ought to have con
WINGED these chronic lovers of funerals
that the deepest grief is the most I'M
demo ustrative. The mother in New
York died because she could no
weep. BaySrd Taylor tells US in hi
beautiful poem that after losing tn,
idol OF his life he was stoical in hi
sorrow until finally relieved by tear
which Al first refused to dow. Sup
pressed emotion-tearless sorrow-i
the most poignant of all. When An
thony Pasquin was rebuked for no
weeping at the death Of loved fsmal,
relative, he made the following inim
table reply, most touching expires
sion OF refined grief:
Cold drops the tsar which blaLons common
woe;
What callous rock retains its crystal rill
Meier will the sOitened mould its liqui
show
Deep sinks the waters that are smooth an
stll.
Chi when sublimely sEoniEed stood,
Aud memory gave her beautoous form
Sigh,
While feeling tfiumphed in my hearts Esrr
blood,
. Grief drHn& the Offering ere it reached tn
eye.
small Failure Rt Mede, Tenn.
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