Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — Diseases of Fear. [ARTICLE]

Diseases of Fear.

If you are afflicted with an unreasonable fear of anything, do not wast« time being ashamed of yourrftelf; hurry at once to a doctor, advises a writer in Success Magazihe. A writer in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette has compiled a list of fear diseases from which it appears that everything, from screaming at mice to being afraid to go home in the dark, is a well recognized mental ailment. The tramp* is in reality a sufferer from ergophobia, or fear of work, often complicated with aquaphobia and sapophobia, which makes him shun the bathtub. Slderophobia and astrophobia cause timid ladies to go intc the closet when it thunders and lightens. Any number of people have cat and dog phobias. Phantophobla Is what you would have if you wen afraid of your shadow; while an allaround, unqualified coward might bt called a phantophoblac. The list li long and includes almost every human weakness except the actress’ horror ol publicity.