The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-03-02
ANGER Is DANGEROUS.

Death frequently follows sudden
tit of anger. Persons who are other
wise sensible and even philosophical
indulge at times in this suicidal and
proftless pastime. The Emperor
Nerva died at the age of sixty-six
from fever resulting from fit of
anger. Paul H., who occupied the
papal throne from 1884 to I54o and
who was considered one of the most
intelligent and liberal as we'll as just
of popes, died from a sudden fit of
anger while upbraidiug Cardinal
Alessandro Farnese, who had proved
false to his friends and benefactor.
The emperor of Valentinian while
addressing a deputation of backslid-
ing Germans allowed his angry emo
tons to get the upper hand of his
common sense and fell dead ere he
lad finished speaking. The celebra-
ted English surgeon John Hunter in
dulged in angry dispute with one of
his colleagues at St. Georges hospi-
tai and dropped dead at the feet of
him who had been the cause of the
resentful and bitter remarks. The
Russian surgeon Baddawoski, being
angered at the awkwardness of an
assistant during surgical operation,
gave free vent to a fit of anger and
expired without a moments warn
ing.
The milk as we'll as the flesh of
animals that. have died while in a
rage has been found upon analysis to
contain elements of poison, and many
an innocent babe has been made dan
gerously i'll by nursing at the moth
er's breast Immediately after that
mother had indulged in fit of frenzy
or anger. Neither the chemist nor
bacteriologist has yet been able to de-
monstrate the particular poison or
germ that renders the m ilk toxic un
der the conditions, but that a poison
and very active and energetic one
exists is unquestiouable.
Death during fit of anger may be
produced by toxic product develop
ed by the undue excitement as much
as to the play of the emotions upon
the nerve centers ofthe heart. Little
children should be taught in earliest
infancy to control their angry pas
sions. A parent smiling approvingly
at what he is pleased to term the
"spunkiness' of his offspring with
out making any efforts to reprove or
to correct the outburst of i'll temper
is guilty of wanton neglect and is
storing up much unpleasantness for
both himself and the child in future.
Anger is stone cast into wasp's
nest," reads the Malabar proverb.
and how often the angry word stirs
up strife and discord and contentious
that keep up continual unpleasant
buzzing until, like wasps disturbed
in their nests, they alight upon the
disturber, bringing a sting that wounds
his own personality.
3 "Be slow to wrath" might be
cherished guide at any and every
period of life. But as years run their
course, particularly if accompanied
by feeble condition of body, con-
scious tendency to fits of anger should
induce habits of strenuous self-con-
troll. This control, however, is not
acquired in a day. The imprisoned
fire of anger but waits for the kind
ling breath of provocation, and each
time it is confronted by the latter
calm exterior, even though the spirit
be at white heat, will win victory
without either party to the strife be-
ing loser.
A bright three-year-old child who
was given 10 passionate outbursts of
resentful anger each time her wishes
we're thwarted was one morning sud-
denly lifted to the mirror with the
mothers admonition, Look at your
self r Immediately the child's re-
sentful face changed, and, nesting to
her mother, who wisely refrained
from saying another word regarding
the ebullition of temper, she, with an
apologetic hug, softly sobbed away
the resentment.
Some weeks afterward, during
which time there was marked change
for the better in the temperament of
the child, the mother had occasion to
reprove the little one for an act of
disobedience, using perhaps unneces-
sary warmth Of temper at the time.
Without hesitation the little one
seized her by the hand and took her
to the mirror.
"'Ook at 'orself!' she exclaimed,
her childish voice as severe as her
strength permitted, at the same time
struggling desperately to keep the
angry lines from her own tiny face
by puckering her lips into form
from which issued a succession of
soft, nonchalant oos.
The lesson had been taught, learn
ed and retaught, and who shall say
how far reaching its influence If
one can only be brought to under
stand the toxic effect of anger upon
the whole sensorial system of the in
dividual, resulting, as it frequently
does in sickness and even death, each
would be more at peace with his
neighbor, with the community and
with the world at large.-M0r10n
AinswoytA White in Chicaga Tn
6une.
"Is NIKE Clancy here ?" asked
the visitor at the quarry, just after