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Show HAD A FEAR OF LIGHTING, Lifelong Dread Made Woman Uncon , scious and She Died From Fright During n thunderstorm nt Newton. N. J., a woman who "through nil her life of fifty years hnd felt n nervou dread of lightning" became unconscious uncon-scious from fright nnd died. Cannot the multitudes of otherwise rational people who are obsessed by the same dread take counsel of the fate of this unfortunate and allay their fears? asks the New York World. They suffer nn access of terror In every thunderstorm, and in effect undergo un-dergo the npony of death many times, fet there are few other forms of death so painless or so remote. In 1012 in the whole country only 243 persons per-sons were killed by lightning, of whom but 42 were females. Women, who mainly feel this fear, should be encouraged en-couraged by their greater immunity. But, In facL twice as many people are burned to death In conflagrations In a year as are killed by thunderbolts, and the number of thoe who die from organic heart disease compared with those who die from lightning is as 35-1 to 1. Xo doubt the superstition that has attached from the earliest times to deaths by lightning has had something some-thing to do with the survival of the fear. People who view their Inescapable Inescap-able exit from this world with philosophy philos-ophy should be ready to accept n lightning light-ning stroke as nn end as eay as any other. It is too Instantaneous to admit of physical sensation, while the fear-ridden fear-ridden are assured that if the flash is seen the sufferer Ir safa. |