| Show I 1 I 1 BAD TEMPERED MIAN MAN CALLED TO ACCOUNT english writer makes lucid comments s it to Is common knowledge that when people lost their temper they feel that other people tire aro to bl blamo ame those possessed of had bad tempers in consequence tend to lead lonely lives and even bo be forced to accept tho the ignominious idea that their outbursts tire title duo to their brains or livers but experience ling lina shown that tho the relief to bo be obtained by blaming onos ones own bodily organs Is not comparable with that which pro ceede from blaming onos ones neighbor A man annn may not bo be responsible fo for tho the behavior of his liver but it lie he blames it the suspicion tanda to lie ile against hlin him that in drays days past lie failed in the duty of abstemiousness it la Is good news that a caso case ling lias boon been endo out for the theory that ono one inherits bad temper from ones ancestors the evidence if not perhaps conclusive Is good enough to satisfy an angry man it Is set forth in the alio aings college hospital gazette but derives from F francis galton ile iio found that in 25 families in which both parents were bad tempered tho the number dumber of good tempered children was only 4 per cent while really bad tempered chil dren amounted to 52 per cent in the case of families where both parents were good tempered on tho the contrary only 80 per cent of tho the children were really good tempered all tho the others except 10 per cent who were bad tempered showed no special tendency either way doctor still who contributes the article points out that a child who lives with bad tempered parents Is handicapped from the beginning and vint that no doubt Is true but such a child has haa before it an awful example which might well tend to direct its mind into gentler ways that its mind Is not often directed thus Is witness of the strength of heredity it Is comforting to find that tho the lancet endorses the case against ancestors so BO far as to offer them as a substitute for wayward or backslid backslide ing organs and that further oven even tho the faults of such organs may bo be laid at the door of heredity this brings the bad tempered man back at once into association with his follows when his face reddens toward explosion his big children or his friends will feel no longer creeping over them that uneasy suspicion of their guilt which before caused them to fleo from his presence soon they will say comfit ably to themselves ho he will be giving his grandfathers memory a bit of his mind indeed the bad tempered nan man to Is likely to become an object of tho the sympathy which goes out to the descendants ants of sheep steamers stealers and highway men doctor still has much to say about of irritability and lays it down that we havo have all our flash point of anger or irritation but in some tho the flash point of irritation la Is lower than tho the average this Is no doubt true but as tho the lancet justly observes most of us ua have encountered men who were cheerful while their affairs were in good train but who became irritable and whining la in the face of disaster tho the cantankerous wife of an unsuccessful husband may bo be transformed into a delightful person by tho the removal of financial anxiety thus the blame Is spread evenly between ancestors and stockbrokers stock brokers upon backs so broad and sturdy it may reasonably and profitably bo be left london times |
