Show PAD HAD A FEAR OF LIGHTNING lifelong dread made woman unconscious and she died fro from in fright during a thunderstorm nt at newton neon N J a woman who tit through till nil tier hel life of fifty years ears hart had felt a nervous dread of lightning became unconscious from fright t and ami died cannot the multitudes of ot otherwise rational people who tire are obsess obsessed ec by tile the same dread take counsel of tile the fate of this unfortunate and allay their tears fears asks the new york world worl they suffer an ail access of terror in every thunderstorm and in effect till undergo the agony of death many jnnny times yet there are few other oilier forms of deatle lea ti I 1 so p painless or so remote in 1012 in the whole athole country only persons were killed by lightning of whom hom but 42 were females women who mainly feel tills this fear should be encouraged cou raged by their greater immunity but lit in fact twice as ninny many people are burned to death lit in conflagrations in a year its as are killed by thunderbolts and the number of those who life die from org organic anle heat t dis disease ellse compare compared 1 I wit with those who die frow from lightning Is as to io 1 no doubt the superstition that has attached from the earliest baille t times time to deaths by lightning lias has had something to do with the survival of tile the fear people who view their inescapable exit from tills this world with II philosophy illo should 1 lie ready to accept a lightning stroke as an end as easy as any other it is too instantaneous to admit of physical sensation while the four fear ridden are assured that if the flash is seen the sufferer la Is safe |