Show HAD A FEAR OF LIGHTNING Lifelong ng Dread M Made de Woman Unconscious Unconscious s lous and She Died From Fright During a thunderstorm at Newton N N. N J. J a woman who through all nil her life of fifty years had felt a nervous dread of lightning b became came unconscious unconscious unconscious from fright and aOl died Cannot the multitudes of otherwise rational people who are obsessed b by bythe bythe the same dread take counsel of the fate of this unfortunate and allay their fears asks the New York World They suffer an access of terror in eyer every thunderstorm and in effect undergo undergo undergo un un- dergo the aJon agony of death many times Yet there are few other othel forms of death so painless or so remote In l 1012 1 in the whole country only persons persons persons per per- sons were 1 killed by lightning of whom but 42 were females Women who mainly feel this fear should be encouraged encouraged encouraged en en- b by their greater eater immunity But In fact twice as many ninny people are burned to death in conflagrations in a year rear as us ae are killed b by thunderbolts and the numb number r of those who die Ie from organic heart disease compared with those who die le from lI Is as 35 1 to 1 No Ko doubt the superstition that has attached from the earliest times to deaths by hr lightning has had something something something some some- thing to do with the time survival of the fear People who view their inescapable inescapable inescapable able exit from this world with philosophy philos philos- ophy should ophY-should should he be ready rendy to accept a light light- ning fling stroke a as an end as easy as ns an any other It is too Instantaneous to admit of physical sensation while the fear- fear ridden are assured that if the flash is seen the time sufferer Is safe |