Show BAD TEMPERED MAN GALLED CALLED TO ACCOUNT english writer makes lucid comments it 1 Is common knowledge that when people peoli lost their temper they feel that other people are to blame those possessed of bad tempers in c consequence nse quence tend to lead lonely lives find and may even be forced to accept the ignominious idea that their outbursts are due to their brains or livers but experience has shown that the relief to be obtained by blaming 0 ries ones own bodily organs Is not comparable with that which watch proceeds from blaming ones neighbor A man may not be responsible for the behavior of his liver but if lie blames it the suspicion tends to lie he against him lm that in days past he tailed failed in the duty of abstemiousness it Is good news therefore that a case has been made out for the theory that one inherits bad temper from ones ancestors the evidence it if not perhaps conclusive Is good enough to satisfy an angry man it Is set forth in the kings college hospital gazette but derives from francis galton galion lie found that in 25 families in w which both parents parent were bad tempered the number of good tempered children was only 4 per cent while really bad tempered children amounted to 62 52 per cent in the case or of families where both parents were good tempered on the contrary only 80 per cent of the children were really good tempered all ali 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 no do doubt Is true but such a thild has before it an awful example which might well tend to direct its mind into g gentler entler ways that its to mind is not often directed thus to Is witness of the strength of heredity it Is comforting to find that the lancet endorses the case against ancestors so far as to offer them a as a substitute for wayward or backslid backslide ing organs and that further even the faults of such organs may be laid at the door of heredity this brings the bad tempered man back at once into association with his fellows when his face reddens toward explosion his children or his friends will feel no longer creeping over them that uneasy suspicion of their guilt which before caused them to flee from his presence soon they will may bay to themselves he will be giving his grandfathers memory a bit of his ats mind indeed the bad tempered man man Is likely to become an object of the sympathy which goes out to the descendants ants of sheep stealers steamers and highway men octor doctor still has much to say may about coefficients of irritability and lays it down that we have all our flash point of anger or irritation but in some the flash point of irritation Is lower than the average this to Is no doubt true but as the lancet justly observes most of us have encountered men who were cheerful while their affairs were in good t train ra 1 n but who became irritable and whining in the face of disaster er the cantankerous wife of an unsuccessful husband may be transformed into a delightful person by the removal of financial anxiety thus the blame Is spread evenly between ancestors ance ancestors and stockbrokers stock brokers upon backs so broad and sturdy it may reasonably and profitably be left london times |