Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-15

itself by some charge from the nerves
IL may be not enough % yisiby STIR any
muscle oil tie face yet yisbly IL trans
forms the expression. the speech ot
the soul. Transferable b. child allen'
savage or animal
Speak 10 dog. a baby who cannot
speak 10 foreigner who knows not a
word Of your language. yet speak, smll-
INK bcuevOlendy. or with kindly gcs
tnre. and these beings reply with cN-
preston Of affection in return.
when emotion is strong, says
Montegazza. ''it may Kill us IL 10 does
not lind vent by the motor nerves aud
express itself In many ascs the
life. are endangered by an inability TO
weep or laugh We know Of the hus-
band who killed his wife by binding
her down tightly and tickling her feet
Lunntic asylums receive the victims
Of this repression. Paralysis, that
scourgo Of New England, is traccable
largely TO the lifelong severity which
forbds nature It's wholesome vent Of
laughtcr temper and tears, iill the
nerves wreak their vengeance IN pa
ralysis
Art literature. eloqucnce, suffer
from this conventional repression. the
pcrceptye faculties are less keen for
want Of the stimulus and relief of
what IS stigmuuzed as excitement"
and "emotionnliiy.'
ltnlinns say Of the English. they
ltaliAus, They are bull0Ons.' The
Italian nerye-ccll discharges nc once
The energy stored there The Eng
lisl cell slowly inpris0ns the accumu-
lated force, aud ends By feeling as lit
ue as he shows
The defensive nature Of expression
is little Understood but Darwin ex
plains that thc contraction oi the eye
lids iu crying protects the delicate or
San of sight from congestion
To Litc the lips tO tear ones hcah
or The hair appear 10 tine vulgar but
10 add pain TO pain. but really cause "a
diversion from thc more important
neryrccutros which preserves the
brain from grave dangers of tuo pain
iul emotions. la pain. TO hold the
breath un1 gasp spusmodicnlly pro-
duces q slight unncsthcsca which rem
dels suffering more henuhlp
Laughter, 80 far from being mark
u low development belongs chiefly to
hlgh aud wholesome natures THE
naughty, the vain, the awkward. uugh
litUc, ihDi they may not compromise
their personal dignity Laughter
easy. coplnu- and frank, indicates q
Eunu hnul, uNNull OF vanity,
"Ot the kiss our author suys. the
lips belong tu the skin uud also up the
yi-cpIh There the inner aud the
outer nature meet while very scnsi-
tive nerves exchange the impression de-.
rived from tile senses the heart. the
brain. The Kiss given rs % desire. an
aspirations The Kiss returned leaves
in lH some trace Of The hcuri and the
THOUGHT of another. The Kiss given
nud received is q marriage
What this scientific tnuu of the world
says of anger deserves the attention of
all persons of Intelligence aud con
science. Every animal. ovory man
born under the sun must hate in
shrinking from IN reaction against.
thut which threatens ur uffpnds no
ltugu ur passing anger. precisely be-
cnusc 10 Is violent eruption. relieves
the nerve centres from their tension,
Hnd lonvos neither rmcor nor hatred
brldnd IL
"t'uf1uunutcs have the mGrmity OF
not being capable OF rage. thoir hatred
condcusps itlWardly in physical VEN
ouls so Formidable that prussic acid
aud arsenic are nothing n comparison
10 b. force which terribly Increases
criminal statistics. Blessed hundred
fold Ia comparison are those who
stamp, who tear their hair. who break
Flnsses and chnirs
This does not run In the lines Of con
ycntionul teaching, but il there not
truth in it' which should modify great
ly our judgement of character, aud our
treatment of different natures. cs-
pecnlly i'm childrcnt
II VIII not he necessary to explain la
detail chat Il Is not intended that chll.
drcn or grown folk should he trained
to stamp aud smash furniture. bm h ID
not beat to control aud divert the ncr.
y0uH paroNysm Ia some other thnu the
usual way Of jumping on the offenders
and stamping them into suppregsiong
Perhaps, W we Comprcheudcd fully
the nature nud cupability Of these
nervous CRISES we should know how To
head them on better
bui the world has everything to
leou in the right management of
these questions of NERVES aud ethics
SHIRLEY DARE