Show I III TEMPERED BAD-TEMPERED MAN II CALLED TO ACCOUNT English Writer Makes Lu- Lu Lucid Lucid Lu Lucid cid Comments It la Is common knowledge that when I people lost their temper they feel teel i that other people are to bame I Those possessed of ot bad tempers tempera In InI Inconsequence Inconsequence Inconsequence I consequence tend to lead lonely lives I and may even be forced to accept I the Ignominious Idea Idell that their out out- outbursts outbursts bursts are due to their brains or But nut experience baa ha shown that the relief to he be obtained by blaming ones one's own bodily organs Is not comparable with that which pro pro- proceeds I coeds cec Is from blaming ones one's neighbor A man may not be re responsible for forthe I IUle I IA Ule behavior of ot his liver but If 1 he heI blames It the suspicion tends to lie I against him that In days past rast he heI failed In the duty of abstemiousness I It Is good news therefore t tout tl it lt a case has been made out for the theory that one Inherits bad had temper from ones one's ancestors The evidence e It 11 not perhaps conclusive Is good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough to satisfy an angry man It ItIs ItIs Itla Is set get forth In the Kings King's s 's College Hospital Gazette but derives from Francis Gallon Galton He found that In 25 2 families In which both parents were tempered bad-tempered the number of tempered tempered good children was wae only 4 per percent percent percent cent cent while really tempered bad chil chil- children chil- chil children children dren amounted to 52 2 per cent In Inthe Inthe Inthe the case of families where both par par- parents parents were tempered good on the con con- contrary contrary contrary only 30 per ver cent ent of the chil chil- children chil- chil children children dren were really tempered good-tempered All the others except 10 per cent who were tempered bad-tempered showed ved no DO special pe pedal e- e dal cial tendency either way Doctor Still who contributes the article points out that a child who lIves ilves with tempered bad-tempered parents Is handicapped from the beginning an and that no doubt Is true but such II a achild child has before It an awful example which might well tend to direct Its mind Into gentler ways That Its mind Is not sot often otten directed thus Is wit wit- witness witness ness of ot the strength of or heredity It Is IB comforting to find that the Lancet endorses the case against an an ce rs so Bo far ar as to t offer them as s substitute for wayward or backslid backslid- backsliding ing tag organs and that further even the faults of ot such Buch organs organs may be laid at nt the door of or heredity ThIs brings the tempered bad-tempered man back hIs at once Into association with his fel- fel fellows fel fellows lows When his face reddens toward explosion his children or his friends will feel no longer creeping over them that uneasy suspicion of their guilt whIch before caused them to flee from his presence Soon they wIll say eay comfortably to themselves b he will be giving his grandfathers grandfather's memo mem mem- mem memory memory ory a bit of ot his hiss mind Indeed the tempered bad-tempered man Is likely to become an object of or the sympathy which goes out to the de- de descendants descendants de descendants of stealers sheep and high high- highway highway way men doctor octor Still has hils much to say about coefficients of Irritability and an lays It t down that we have all allour allour our point flash-point of an anger er or Irritation but In some the point flash of ot irritation Irritation tion Is lower than the a average ThIs Is no doubt true but as the Lancet justly observes most of us have encountered men who were cheer cheer- cheerful cheerful cheerful ful while their affairs were In good 1 ln but ut who became irritable and whining In n the face of disaster the cantankerous wife of an nn unsuccessful unsuccessful husband may be transformed Into a delightful person by the re- re removal re- re removal re removal moval of ot financial anxiety Thus the blame Is spread evenly between ancestors and stockbrokers Upon backs so broad and sturdy It may II reasonably and profitably be left left- left London Times I |