Temper surely is a cardinal virtue, the outward and visible sign of inward and invisible energy the very viny and ginger of existence, a counter of success, though its moods are as wayward as the sea, writes Vi countess Falkland. Temper might be named the energy of the mind, for it is often foe to sloth, and how many people famous in history possessed it from! Cleopatra onward?
A magistrate remarked the other day that the best mothers controlled' their children and their household by a sharp temper, very useful adjunct these days, and schoolboys ere certainly kept up to the mark by a touch of "pep," from their seniors, The woman with a sharp temper certainly rules her household by virtue of it.
Rather than incur re proof, it is jer to mend the
straight and narrow road Pattern of their ways, to Keep to the of rectitude, for there is no fury ea woman's' tongue.
It is a lash for} the slothful, it pires the energy for dull wits, and wins success for others.
How different is the woman who) has no temper; she is bore, whose stupidity is told tale, her even temperament is a fault. Who was ever in Pempetonlsunchlee? 12 i the sheskn of existence that quicken one's vitality' and temper' the fall force of the winds of adversity. The monotony of a sunny perso like a sickly sentimentality, cloying to the taste.
One prefers the tang that gives zest to life, the quickening of imagination, and intensity of feeling, the spur to action, and though philosophers benevolently regard Remper as a vice that destroys vir tue, they forget that people of humbler intelligence owe much of their personality to it.
Temper is an essence which, taken in small doses will accomplish much, but an overdose is fatal. It destroys incentive. It sometimes develops more quickly in the old and young, and lies dormant in middle life.
Tt can. be aroused to a pitch of enthusiasm by a word, and sink into oblivion by a gesture.
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