The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14
eauilfbrium. and though She had suf-

equilibrium, and though she had suf-
fered two accidents from the Shying of
her horse, still from the pure force of
habit she daily entered the ring with
out suggestion of fear. Indeed, their
success depends wholly upon the total
humiliation of fear, and their prepara-
ton must, therefore, begin before self
consciousness was born Very few
Americans are now with the circus,
and the influence of the Gerry society
in keeping little children out, will rem
der American circus performers for the
future an entirely unknown quantity.
There is also magnetic or trans
mitted courage which one abSorbs from
a stronger, more courageous tempera-
ment. A talk with perhaps the fore
most surgeon IN America, one who has
probably operated upon more women
during the last twenty-five years than
any other one mar, sounded a mag
/ nificent note for the moral courage of
women. He said that you have but
to gain their confidence, and almost
without perception they will go to the
operating table with unflinching nerve.
Faith in their physician he considers
| the prime requisite all the rest comes
| of itself; and that there is but one way
/ of establishing this confidence, and
/ that is under all circumstances to tell
them the absolute truth as regards the
nature of their malady and their
/ chances of recovery. He casually OBJ
/ served, too, that he would infinitely
rather tell a woman than a man that
I the trouble is cancer. Women not only
/ meet the inevitable with greater nerve,
but endure pain with more fortitude.
The most significant thing that he had
/ to say, however, was that it is next
to impossible to inspire faith and cour-
age in a woman who is not herself
good and true; that the selfish, bad
woman, the woman of intrigueS and
| deceit, invariably quails before the
surgeons knife. Women of heroic
! mould will sometimes even approach
the operating table with joke on their
lips. One whose life hung in the bal
ance of a terrible operation once turned
to the doctor just before lying down.
and said with a gay little smile, MAKE
| a clean breast of it, DOCTOR
In these latter days, too, women
have added many daring feat to the
list of perilous mountaineering ex-
PLOTS. Miss Anna Peck leads the world
in this direction, having climbed the
most inaccessible Alpine peaks, in
GLIDING the Matterhorn. She possesses
extraordinary GOODNESS of nerve, and
in a recent conversation nonchalently
referred to having stepped out upon
a ledge of the Yosemite and looked
straight down 5000 feet without the
possibility of fright and dizziness hay
ing occurred to her.
People, however, who are susceptible
to this form of terror can overcome it
A well known woman of the literary
world who was peculiarly sensitive tC
dizziness whenever upon an altitude
determined to conquer this tendency
ard, accordingly made a point of. as
cending a height whenever the oppor
tunity presented itself, and can nov
enjoy a view from dome or mountain
top with the best.
Indeed, courage is a. quality capabl,
of unlimited cultivation. Emerson con
stantly emphasizes this point. IF
quake, what matters it what 1 quake
at" "Are you afraid to swim river
swim it. Are you afraid to leap tina
fence, leap it. Are you afraid to go t.
the top of anything, then go. If any
thing frightens you, face it,