Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-09-22
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FRETFULNESS!

Here is another piece Of apparel, for us to
look at. Fretfullness. strictly speaking. ~
kind Of anger, which we have already nouceo'
Just as ones skirt is part Of his coat. An'
ger is the artillery, fretfulness the small arms
We will look a. cases. The door was shut |
with alarming violence. A gust OF WIND per-
hans. No: there was no wind to do It. II
was calm day in SUMNER Soon after' !
heard words, which seemed 10 have been ut
tered by halves and quarters. They had q
kind Of grumbling sound, very striking IN con.
tfast with the ordinary tones OF the human
voice. Soon had view Of the face OF Lao
ten wears old, or 90. And there was no
smoo,hness or good nature about il. II was
ruffled as the water struck BY gust OF vino.
You could have seen he was not happy. ne
had been sent by his father to catch the horse,
and he was unwilling to 60. He dared not
disobey his father; but he went growing
slamming the door--overturning chair-
thrashing with halter every thing he passed;
and the horse too, poor fellow, was none me
better used by the i'll nature of the boy. II
was a sad case. forget his clothes, but
think you will say with me, his heart was
not very we'll dressed.
There is Susan by the window with her
mothers scissors. She has already made ma.
ny holes in the sash, and picked off some OF
| the wood work with the point. You can see
the damage half across the room. "Wel l
don't care. wanted to 60 with the rest OF
the girls after berries, and mother would nj
| let me 90. It's just like her. She never lets
me 90 when want to. don't care 1t nurt
the sash and break the scissors. She might
| let me 90 then" do not know but che was
dressed in silk but she had or one very un.
becoming piece Of raiment, that know; and
one that looked bad enough for a., no,
it was too bad for beggar girl to wear!
Suppose you should see fifty boys and girls
like those have just described: do you think
| it would be pleasant sight! And suppose
they should all scold and fret together jus! as
they did when they were alone what kind 81
music would you call that! Do you think
they would like to hear each others voices, or
see each others faces! Could they take any
satisfaction in each others society? There
would be no cheerfulness, no cordially, no
pleasure whatever. They would have to PUT
OFF the garment of fretfnlness before there
could be any happiness among them.
But this kind of apparel does not look any
better on those who are not children. Some
times coat that would i'll become boy, will
become man. But this is not coat Of this
kind. 1t never looked we'll on any rational
being, high OF low, young or old. was very
much struck the other day with the appear
ance of man. laborer in his employment
had accidentally injured an article Of some
value. There was finder about him, and here
was spark. There was no boisterous pas
sion, but spirit of fretfuluess. "You care
less, you good .for-no.hiug fellow, just see
what YOU have done. You are as stupid as
Hottentot. You are not fit to be trusted with
any thing So the stream Kissed away at
this rate for sometime.
But we MUST fret at the carelessness Of
others; who can help it1' Musr! But this
man ceased the moment his eyes met pious
friend, who had not before been Observed
The lowering sky was cloudless in moment.
!, The scowl hurried off that countenance, like
light vapor in gale. The dashing waves
were quiet in an instant. Yes, and there
ought not to have been any such waves, but
"meek and quiet spirit"
| But farther. have heard an accomplished
lady's voice set TO the same tune. The table
was laid for dinner; footsteps of the servant
were heard but suddenly ;here was crash:
an unlucky accident laid two beautiful dishes
in scattered ruins OF the floor. 'You--you--
you'll No matter for the rest. have heard
Of a continual dropping i'm connexicn with
female voice; but now there was shower,
: and the drops were scalding hot. But she
did help it, But she did help it. For no
sooner had she discovered that door had
been partly open, and several distinguished
guests had heard tine whole, than all was quiz
ct as a summers eve. You would have tho't
from her appearance, there had not been rip
pie or that sea for a twelve month. She
l kc1n Cha al ~oA IN
put on such robe of fretfnlness, than she
was to meet her guests in coat of mail, or in
garment of sackcloth. She could help it,
else there never would have been in the Scrip.
TIRES any injunction of 'forbearing one another
in love- or any thing about quiet spirit
Have you never heard Of Naba! Well,
he was full grown fretter. should think
from what is said respecting him in l. Sam.
Is: l6, that he was one of the most accom-
plished men of his in this kind of business,
for he was 'such son as Belial that man
canno. speak to him.
And there are some Nabals in our DAYS;
persons whom you must manage as carefully
as sailor his ships sails, when the wind is
battling or the weather squally. They can
not bear disappointment of the slightest
kind. Every little gust of adversely fans
some hidden spark. You cannot see any
thing in the shape CT a vexation making that
way, but you may expect to hear from it
just as when you zee lighted match ap-
preaching loaded cannon, you presume on
an explosion.
4 But it cannot be helped, you think. Sup
pose every ffetful word from that genteman's
lips were to dash out pane Of glass in his
windows, and every such word from his lady
were 10 lay an article OF her crockery in pie
ces on the floor; you might hear terrible rat
ting for while, but it would hold I'D ere