Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — Children’s Fears. [ARTICLE]

Children’s Fears.

Some interesting facts dealing with the fears of children have been collected by a well-known professor. He found that 1,701 children were afraid of 6.546 things. The leading fears were ightning and thunder, reptiles, strang■rs, the dark, death, domestic animals, rater, ghosts, insects, rats and mice md high words. Some of the fears s ere the results of personal experience; rhat is, in a district where a great -wind had wrought a havoc the children were afraid of It. In other cases the analysis showed by what means parents had orkod upon the Imagination of their ■hildren. Ta one district sixteen poor little ones c-re dreading the. op<i Qf the world, ’be most gratifying fact of all was that ot one child had been frightened into bedience or good conduct by the fear i’ the devil. A century or two ago that car would have led all the rest. The leasing inference Is that parents now (well upon affection and have to Insure .:.e goodness of their children, instead •f terrorizing them with Satan’s wrath.