New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-30
ANGER IS DANGEROUS
Death Liable to Follow a Sudden
0utburst Of Temper.
FRENZY MAY SPELL SUICIDE

n Chemical Poison is Created In the
System When One INDUCES In a Fit
Of Rage amous Men Who Have
Died In 4 Moment of Passion.
Death frequently follows a sudden
fit of anger. Persons who are other
wise sensible, and even philosophical
indulge at times in this suicidal and
profitless pastime. The Emperor Nerea
died at lineage Of slxty-six from fever
resulting from a fit of anger. Paul
Ill, who occupied the papal throne
from 1854 to 1549 and who was consid-
cred one OF the most intelligent and
liberal as we'll as just. OF popes, died
from sudden fit Of anger while up
braiding Gard NAL Aleasand ro Farnese.
who had proved false 10 his friends
and benefactor
The emperor of Vaientinian while
| addressing a deputation of backsliding
Germans allowed his angry emotions
| to get the upper hand of his common
sense and fell dead ere he had finished
/ speaking. The celebrated English sur
geon John Hunter INDUCED in angry
dispute with one of his colleagues at
st. Georges hospital and dropped dead
at the. feet of him who had been the
cause OF the resentful and bitter re-
marks The Russian surgeon Badda
woski, being angered at the awkward
ness Of an assistant during a surgical
i operation, gave free vent to a tit OF
anger and expired without a moments
| warning.
The milk as we'll as the flesh Of ami
mails that have died While in a rage
has been found upon analysis to con-
| tain elements of poison, and many an
innocent babe has been made danger
1 Ously i'll by nursing at the mothers
breast Immediately after that mother
had INDUCED in q tit of frenzy or an
ger. Neither the chemist nor bacteri-
ologist has yet been able to demon
strate the particular poison or germ
that renders the milk toxic under the
conditions. but that a poison and a
very active and energetic one exists is
unquestionable.
Death during a fit of anger may be
produced by a toxic. product developed
by the undue excitement as much as
to the play of the emotions upon the
nerve centers of the heart Little chill
dren should be taught in earliest in
fancy to control their angry passions.
A parent smiling approvingly at what
he is pleased to term the "spunkiness''
of his offspring without making any
: effort to reproye or to correct the out
: burst Of i'll temper is guilty Of wanton
: neglect and is storing UP much I'M
+, pleasantness for both himself and the
child in future
'Anger is a stone cast into wasp's
nest" reads the Malabar prOyerb, anC
, how often the angry word stirs VI
strife and discord and contentious thai
keep up 4 continual unpleasant buzz
ing until, like wasps disturbed in theil
: nests, they alight upon the disturber
: bringing a sting that wounds his OWL
t personality.
, BE slow to wrath might be cher
? ished guide at any and every period Of
2 life. But as years run their course
| particularly if accompanied by a fee
3 BILE condition of body, q conscious tend
: ency to fits OF anger should induce
habits of strenuous self control. This
control however, is not acquired II
a day. The imprisoned fire of anger
but waits for the kindling breath OF
: provocation, and each time it is con
fronted by the latter calm exterior
even though the spirit be at white heat
: will win victory without either party
! to the strife being loser.
A bright three-year-old child Wht
!, was given to passionate outbursts O.
resentful anger each time her wishe:
: were thwarted was one morning sud
denly lifted to the mirror with tht
: mothers admonition, Look at your
. seIfr' Immediately the childs resent
full face changed, and, nesting to he
: mother, who wisely refrained from
:, saying another word regarding th'
: ebullition of temper, she, with an apol
! ogetic hug, softly sobbed away the re
sentiment.
Some weeks afterward, during which
: time there was marked change TO
z the better in the temperament of tn
child. the mother had occasion to re
prove the little one for an act OF dis
obedience. using perhaps. unnecessar,
warmth Of temper at the time. With
!. out hesitation the little one seized he
r BY the hand and took her to the mirror
look atis'orselfw she exclaimed, he
: 4 childish voice as severe as her strength
# permitted, at the! same time struggling
d Iesp Dtely to keep the angry line.
n from her own tiny face by puckerin,
tt her lips into a form from which issuet
81 d succession OF soft, nonchalant COS.
S The lesson had been taught, learnes
d and retaught, and who shall say hoy
far reaching its influence? IL one cal
e. only be brought to understand the toxi
ID effect of anger upon the whole sense
n. rial system of the individual, resulting
10 as it frequently does. in sickness an
y even death, each would be- more
peace with his neighbor, with the con
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