Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1898 — Scared Three Months Later. [ARTICLE]

Scared Three Months Later.

“I wonder somebody doesn’t investigate the phenomena of fear," said a Washington woman to me not long ago, “and tell us why It Is that the sboqk of a sudden emergency often postpones one’s fear of the situation till all the danger Is over. For example, Mr. Cortland Cramp—" Cort” Cramp, they call him—the son of the famous shipbuilder, was at sen some years ago. During a frightful storm he was swept overboard. He kept Ida nerve. He was perfectly calm, and [recalled that people who were washed overboard by one wave were sometimes washed back by another. Presently his hand reached a rope. He grasped it firmly, and held on till the captain of the vessel, seeing the rope dragging in the water, pulled It In, and pulled Mr. Cramp, on board with It. Mr. Cramp was none the worse ft>r his experience, but one day, quite three months afterward, when he was on land, a realization of the danger he had been In came over him suddenly, and his knees fairly knocked together with fear. He was in a perfect panic from fright, and to this day, whenever he goes into the surf, the recollection- of hfs dreadful experience always returns to him, and he never ventures into deep water.”—Washington Post.