Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-02
TIE PAINS OF FEAR.
rhE EXQUISITE TORTURE ENDURED
BY THE TlMIo WOMAN.

rbe Night Has Its Terrors and the Day
Its Dangers-Mothers Who Make Their
Motherhood = Long Drawn Agony.
Peril Everywhere.
Think what that poor. dear, timid
woman undergoes who nightly looks
under her led for the burglar she he
.ieves 10 be secreted there. who goes
round the house after the servants are
aOed TO see that all Ii safe. and that no
ticket Of leave man Is pro6ting by his lib
erty TO do her harm With what a sense
ot dread she locks the doors of those dark,
under ground places into which she dares
not peer Ghosts and robbers-she turns
the key on both with . quick throb and
trembling hand. then beats a retreat with
svei the same feeling Of nameless terror,
the same sensation Of being followed by
some vague horror. which she has not the
courage to turn round and confront.
Night after night this torment Ii re-
newed as unfsiingly as that which the
old iiag inflicted on the merchant Abudah-
II the night has Its terrors so has the
day Its dangers Such a person az this In
the country dies a Thousand deaths In
quick succession. and the one Is as IN.
necessary as the other A tramp lettering
on the highway means robbery frst and
assassination after 4 few harmless cows
go,ng home 70 be milked. and driven by o
chRd are as dangerous as 9 stampede Of
Oufialos heads down and tails aloft Cat
lie M field however well worn the pub
.ic way across. make that field taboo for
Is not each dull. slow grazing OK. each
mild eyed milky mother Of the herd.
ead b tangle polled yearling calf. as dan
gerouS ~ a Wild bull, man mad. and to
De approached only with caution and In
torcer That distant. barking collie. that
restless heighing horse prancing up to
thrus,s bis sociably inquisitive nose. that
wayside encampment OF travelling gypsies
ALI The circumstances Of the country are
80 many causes of fear TO the timid pc
destrian beating along the public road
for a constitutional. and taking no pleas
ure in what she sees
In carriage she fares no better Up
hill she is sure the horses will iib, down
bill they will slip and fall. or the pole will
break and then heaven have mercy on
her soul On the plain road. put to a
sharp trot they will run away; indeed.
they are running away If they whisk
their tails they are about to kick, II they
cock their ears they are sure to shy She
screams al the smallest difference between
them and their driver; and when they
have TO meet another carriage. or pass q
numbering cart. she pinches her compan
lon black and blue In the spssm of her
fear
The torment Of fear Is bard to bear
when II Is centered on ones self What
Is II when II spreads itself abroad and in
cludes others-the beloved-in its meshes?
For the beloved indeed. is no security
Every railway journey includes a smash;
every sea voyage is foregone shipwreck;
II an epidemic touches the outside fringes
Of the district il Is sure to make q leap
into the home where the dear ones live.
The smallest cold Is bronchitis; and when
the little people cough they have whoop-
ing cough. no less
Some mothers make their motherhood q
long drawn agony by the fears with which
they encompass their young Is the nurse
quarter OF an hour beyond her usual
timer Straightway the grave Is opened
and the cherished and adored lie therein
stark and cold Wild wanderings to and
fro. wild surmises as to what can have
happened angry rejection Of any common
place explanation rs 10 q longer walk than
usual a longer session under the trees
than was calculated on. passionate tears
Of frantic despair. passionate outbursts of
as frantic wrath, when lol the nurse
comes quietly up to the house door with
her charge as fresh as flower and as gay
as lark. and that voluntary descent into
Hades proyes itself es futile as It was un-
necessary
These fears accompany q mother Of this
uneasy kind all through life, When her
boys 60 TO school she Is sure they will be
mauled by the bigger ruffians of their
class, MANNED for life in the playground.
overworked. underfed. put into damp
sheets and morally corrupted She suffers
more than they from the dire necessities
of learning. and wishes that there was a
royal road 70 knowledge where her dar
lipgs could bowl along at railroad speed,
with never a hill to climb nor valley
wherein TO descend She thinks the mas
ters cruel and the curriculum inhuman,
and wonders how so much can be ex-
pected from such young brains and grow
Ing bodies
All through life # is the same cry Of
evil The fortunes Of war take her sons
here and there and the mother frets over
the possibilities of disaster, as II that pos
sible event were proven fact and chance
had no side alley for escape. And when
It comes 70 matrimony the whole thing Is
renewed under another name; for surely
was there never the girl born who was q
ct wife for the son of such q mother,
while the finest man extant makes but q
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