The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-19
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 Fit
Of Rase-Famous Men Who Have
Died In . Moment of Passion.

Died In q Moment of Passion.
Death frequently follows a sudden
ft of anger. Persons who are other
wise sensible and even philosophical
indulge at times in this suicidal and
prontless pastime. The Emperor Nerva
died at the age of sixty-six from fever
resulting from a fit of anger. Paul
Ill, who occupied the papal throne
from 1884 to 1919 and who was consid-
cred one Of the most intelligent and
liberal as well as just of popes, died
from a sudden fit of anger while up
braiding Cardinal Alessandro Farnese,
who had proved false to his friends
and benefactor
The emperor of Valentnian 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
operation, gave free vent to a fit of
anger and expired without moments
warning.
The milk as well 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
ously i'll by nursing at the mothers
breast Immediately after that mother
had INDUCED In a 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 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 reprove or to correct the out
burst of i'll temper is guilty Of wanton
neglect and is storing up much un-
pleasantness for both himself and the
child in future.
anger is a stone cast into a wasp's
nest" reads the Malabar proverb, and
how often the angry word stirs up
strife and discord and contentious that
keep up a continual unpleasant buzz
ing until, like wasps disturbed in their
nests, they alight upon the disturber,
bringing sting that wounds his own
personality.
BE slow to wrath might be a cher
ished guide at any and every period of
life. But as years run their course.
particularly If accompanied by n fee
BILE condition of body. conscious tend
ency to fits of anger should induce
habits of strenuous self control. This
control, however. is not acquired in
a day The imprisoned fire of anger
but waits for the kindling breath of |
provocation, and each time 1t 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-yearold child who
was given to passionate outbursts of
resentful anger each time her wishes
were thwarted was one morning sud
denly lifted to the mirror with the
mothers admonition, Look at your
selfr' Immediately the child's resent
full face changed, and, nesting to her
mother who wisely refrained from
saying another word regarding the
ebullition of temper. she, with an apol-
ogetic hug, softly sobbed away the re-
sentiment
Some weeks afterward during which
time there was a marked change for
the better in the temperament of the
child, the mother had occasion to re-
prove the little one for an act of dis
obedience, using perhaps unnecessary
warmth of temper at the time. With
out hesitation the little one seized her
by the hand and took her to the mirror.
"-Ook at 'orselfr' 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 a form from which issued
q succession OF soft. nonchalant COS.
The lesson had been taught, learned
and retaught. and who shall say how
far reaching its influence? If one can
only be brought to understand the toxic
effect of anger upon the whole sense
rial system Of the individual, resulting.
ms 1t frequently does. in sickness and
even Death. each would be more at
'pe.ce with his neighbor. with the com
munity and with the world at large
Marion Ainsworth White in Chicago
Tribune.
Not Her Sort.