Show ANGER AND EGGS A boston man says the combination may result in death never eat eggs while you yon arean are angry said A E stewart of boston I 1 my attention was first called to this strange fact by the tragic and sudden death of a lady acquaintance in boston several years ago I 1 accepted her husbands invitation to dine with them just as wo we were going in to dinner a servant did something that caused t the he lady to fly into a terrible rage she had bad been irritable from some minor complaint for several days day q and her husband calmed her ruffled feelings sufficiently for the dinner to be eaten in good temper I 1 noticed that she ate an unusually large amount of soft scrambled eggs fifteen minutes after we left the dining room she was a corpse sho she died in frightful convulsions before the nearest doctor reached tho the house the doctor was unable to ascribe the cause Afew A few months later iwas I 1 was visiting a brother in connecticut and one of his sons died under similar circumstances cum stances before breakfast one morning the boy who was about 15 years old had a fight with a neighbors boy before his anger had bad subsided my nephew was called to breakfast ho he ato ate four soft boiled eggs had I 1 known as much then as I 1 do now I 1 would have prevented it in less than a half hoar after breakfast tho the boy died with ex exactly act the same that were pre present sell when my iny fri friends enas wife died this thi a se beet t me to thinking about the matter I 1 it long after this before a beacon hill friend of mine expired suddenly after a meal the doctors as aa usual were divided in opinion on the cause of death some of them contended that it was heart failure whatever that is and others are still holding out that it was apoplexy inquiry by me developed the fact that my friend was very angry when he sat down at table and that ho be ate five eggs with these developments I 1 searched no further for the cause of his death he was angry he be ate eggs and he died if these are not links in the chain of cause and effect fact the human intellect is incapable of 0 logical thinking st louis louia republic |