Show WHAT ARE ABE YOU YU AF AFRAID OFF OP Foolish Fears Pears thai that Haunt the Bravest M Men h. h Between courage and bravery according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to competent authorities is fixed a great gulf Physical Physical courage natural and simple may carry a man safely in and out of great dangers bra bravery very is needed w when wien en physical courI courage cour- cour I age being the sl saint hit load th the tho flesh into situations from which natural natural natural natu natu- ral timidity would withhold it This is perhaps one of the reasons why men and women omen strong to do and dare perils advisedly shrink back afraid from absurd absurd absurd ab ab- ab- ab surd surd and ridiculous trifles trines Natural courage mysteriously fails to provide for these unexplainable instances The object feared is too small or call forth sufficient effort of the will to rob It of its its' unreal terrors tenors a Fear again in some sone degree Is said to be a necessary concomitant of rever rever- ence The man who fears most is not ciot necessarily the most r reverent verent of mortals mortals mortals mor- mor but the untaught savage in whose consciousness f fear dar ar is carried to its natural extreme of blind certainly knows more reverence than han the civilized man who 1 is periodically enslaved by the one irr irrational ional dread which proves stronger than his reason but the objects of whose veneration are few Many of the absurd and unreasonable unreasonable terrors which oppress humanity humanity human human- ity may have had their root in some seine ton t- t rt nr mr n cause cause or r- r reces necessity il Ernest Ernt r iS i.'S Seton Seton- t Thompson opines opines' that the shapeless greeney-ed greeney monster wJ which ich terrorizes the wakeful nights of childhood the world over originated in the grim reality which embittered the dreaming existence existence exist exist- ence of the monkey asleep on the forest bough The rhe great cats of the forest slow-moving slow green-eyed green but dimly perceived through the thick darkness crept upon the inert monkey unseeing after sunset and bore him shrieking but helpless away to destruction The unreal race race-mem ory of that past long-past terror troubles the sleepless watcher night watcher now Other unreal and insignificant terrors terrol's the mice spiders and black cats of shrinkIng shrink shrink- shrinking ing femininity and time-honored time jokes and and the no less hess ridiculous fears to which truthful men Will confess occasionally occa occa- may may be due to a similar cause or impulse For many of the more general general general gen gen- eral superstitious fears such as the dread of spilling salt the evil eye beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning a journey on Friday or of making one of a party of thirteen recognized recognized recognized rec rec- and historic causes may be traced out There still remain however however how how- however ever the peculiar and inexplicable fears for which no manner of reason can be discovered red and which go far toward proving all ahl ll humanity akin Men who have faced cannon for in instance instance instance in- in stance who have fought with wild beasts endured the solitude of the great forests and mountains known the peril of the great deep and of mighty tempests unflinching will shrink with terror from the thought of ot spending a night alone in a large house There are other brave men men and and w women wo wo- men who men who tremble at the thought of a locked door or of the dark The sight or smell of blood terrorizes' terrorizes many otherwise otherwise other other- wise vise courageous individuals some of them physicians surgeons hospital nurses missionaries and the like Adventurous Adventurous Ad Ad- venturous and nd daring hunters who quail before the ordinary house dog are by no means uncommon History is full of striking instances Instance in which persons persons per per- persons sons of acknowledged mental superiorIty superior superior- ity have bowed in abject terror before some unreasonable object not always intrinsically unpleasant unpleasant-as as the famous Queen who fainted upon touching velvet and the violets which so invariably disconcerted Talleyrand Of President Lincoln it is said that as a boy he actually feared to lift a tiny wriggling new hatched chicken in his hands There are brainy and courageous men and women omen ornen in plenty I who would faint or shiver shier if left alone with a Harmless fireside cat Grasshoppers to some ome people are big with an indefinable terror Water Yater is a natural element and natural infants swim without difficulty but swimming instructors tell countless ss true stories of human beings so terribly afraid of water that it is impossible to teach them to master it Heat cold dull days fire thunder strong winds and even rain have power to hold certain members of the hum human n family in the bondage of fear Th The The- dread of thunder and lightning is so common common and widespread wide wide- spread as to be almost Universal Fear of human uman crowds or even of small gatherings renders the mildest public occasion a time of r real al suffering sUffering- to t many people It is perhaps a natural thing to fear death But the man or woman who so abjectly perpetually ally and profoundly fears tears death as to die a hundred deaths daily would seem to be placed In a position position po po- po- po as unreasonable able as unpleasant Such people nev nevertheless rt eless are numbered num num- by the thousands The f fear ar of disease according to competent authorities author author- authorIties is is orl or should be be utter utterly foreign foreIgn foreign for for- eign to the nature of a healthy human being Yet there are are- times when the dread and fear of some particular ill illness illness ill ill- ness or malady sweeps wee s the country the world broadcast broadcast-as as the he tear tuberculosis tuberculosis tuberculosis tuber tuber- osis cul-osis is dismaying countless multitudes multi multi- tudes at the present moment The fear of poverty disaster d desolation loneliness loneliness ness physical prostration stalks I I I I spectre like before many individuAls until life holds but little of cheer cheet or sweetness There are human beings who are afraid of m music sc others who shrink from certai 1 colors combInations of them or a particular play or harmony of light and shade The fear of sweet sounds is now explained by certain psychologists psychologists- upon the ground that it is instinctive that it exists in answer to the newly established theory that certain mus musical tal tones will ill disintegrate disintegrate disintegrate grate human bodies if produced at certaIn certain tain tam times and under certain conditions but for the fear of colors and color tones times no such shadow of scientific reasoning reasoning reasoning rea rea- has yet et been announced or dis dis- dis- dis covered The extremes of all these Idiosyncrasies are found in the insane asylums The bE beginnings binnIngs Inn according to students of human nature and medical authorities have llave root within within- us all The sight of a gun or pistol even if known to be really unloaded will affright affright affright af af- af- af fright some people almost beyond the verge of sanity Any position of height exerts a similar effect over oth others rs A harmless Impotent creeping vorm worm or garter snake will do the same for other te temperaments To demonstrate the foolishness and lack of reason of and Cor for such fears is quite unavailing Even if the one one is by some means removed removed re removed re- re moved or lessened another is immedi- immedi tely lY substituted and dl dreaded in its |