_About Frights_ HERE are two true stories and a remarkable contrast.

A nerve specialist was called to see a young girl who had had nervous prostration for two years.

The physician was told before seeing the patient that the illness had started through fright occasioned by the patient's waking and discovering a burglar in her room.
Almost the moment the doctor entered the sick room, he was accosted with: "Doctor, do you know what made me ill?
It was frightful." Then followed a minute description of her sudden awakening and seeing the man at her bureau drawers.
This story had been lived over and over by the young girl and her friends for two years, until the strain in her brain caused by the repetition of the impression of fright was so intense that no skill nor tact seemed able to remove it.

She simply would not let it go, and she never got really well.
Now, see the contrast.

Another young woman had a similar burglar experience, and for several nights after she woke with a start at the same hour.