The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-04
ANGER IS DANGEROUS
Death Liable to Follow a Sudden
0utburst of Temper.
FRENZY MAY SPELL SUICIDE
A Chemical Poison Is Created In the
System When One INDUCES In a Fit
of Rase-Famous Men Who Have
Died In a Moment of Passion.

Died In a Moment of Passion.
Death frequently follows a sudden
tit Of anger. Persons who are other
wise sensible and even philosophical
indulge at times in this suicidal and
proitles. oastime. The Emperor Nerya
died ut tie age of siXty-six from fever
resulting from a fit of anger. Paul
Ill, who occupied the papal throne
from 1854 to 1919 and who was Gonsid
cred one Of the most intelligent and
liberal as we'll as just of popes, died
from sudden fit of anger while up
braldlng Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
who had proved false to his friends
and benefactor.
The emperor of Naientinian While
addressing 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 SUP
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 Il surgical
operation, gave free vent to a fit OF
anger and expired without Il moments
warming
The milk as well as the fle ii of ami
mails that have died while in rage
has been found upon analysis to con
tain elements of poison, and many an
innocent babe has been made danger
ously i'll by nursing at the mothers
breast Immediately after that mother
had INDUCED in fit of frenzy or an
ger Neither the chemist nor bacteri
olOeist has yet been able to demon
strate the particular poison or germ
that renders the milk toxic under the
conditions. but that Il poison and a
very active and energetic one exists Is
unQuestionable.
Death during a fit of anger may be
produced by 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 approvinsly at what
he Is pleased to term the "spunkiness'
Of his offspring without making any
effort to reprove or to correct the out
hurst Of III temper is guilty OF nanton
neglect and is storing up much un
nleasantness for both himself and the
child in future.
"Anger Is a stone cast into wasp'o
nest" reads the Malabar proverb, and
how often the angry word stirs up
strife and discord and contentious thai
keep I'D a continual unpleasant buzz
ing until. like wasps disturbed In thei1
nests, they alight upon the disturber,
bringing q sting that wounds his OVID
personality.
"Re slow to wrath II, .ght be a cher
ished guide at any and every period OF
life. But as years ran their course
particularly if accompanied by fee
hle condition Of body, conscious tend
eucv to fits of anger should Induce
habits of strenuous Seit cohlroi. Luis
control. however. is not acquired ID
q dav. The imprisoned fire of anger
INT waits for the kindllng breath OF
provocation, and each time 1T is con
rronted by the latter calm eXterlor'
even though the spirit be at white heat,
will win a victory without either party
IN the strife being loser.
A bright throe-year-old child who
was given to PASSIONATE outbursts OF
rceeutful anger each time her wishes
were thwarted was one morning SUD
.}cnly lifted to the mirror with the
moihers admonition. Look at your
zoIfr' Immediately the child's resent
sul face changed, and, nesting to her
mother. who wisely refrained from
saving another word regarding the
ehnlljtion of temper. she, with an apoi-
oeetic hug. softly sCbbed away the re-
sentiment.
some weeks afterward. during when
fine there was marked chalge loi
the better IN the temperament OF Tue
child, the mother had occasion 70 re