The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-12-24
From IN hur's Home Gaeeiie
MIR. WINkLEMAN AT HOME.
BY T. S. ARTHUR

BY T. S. ARTHUR.
Mr.. Winkleman, after eating his
breakfast IN silence, arose without re-
mark to any one, and left the room in
which his tamily were assembled at the
morning meal. Taking up his hat, he
passed from the house. As he came in
to the open air and made two or three
deep inspirations, in the UNCONSCIOUS eff
fort to relieve his bosom from a sense
OF OPPRESSION, he became very distinct
ly aware that a heavy weight rested
upon his feelings.
"What's the matter with me? Why
should feel troubled"
Thus Mr.. Wnkleman inquired of
himself. And as he walked along, in
the direction of the store, with his eyes
cast down, he searched about in thought
for the cause of his unpleasant state of
feelings.
"There's nothing in my business to
trouble me-" So he talked with himself.
Every thing is going on prosperously.
No heavy payments Tor month to come
What does it meant"
Search in this direction not revealing
the cause of uneasiness, Mr.. Wrinkle
mans thoughts went back to the home
he had left so ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
such an apparent Indifference towards
his wife and children. This was evil
IDENTITY coming nearer the source of
trouble, for the weight on his feelings
grew more oppressive. And now he
was conscious of having been IN a very
uncomfortable, unsocIal state, during all
breakfast time. Why was this All
1t vas all clear nova sigh attested the
discovery.
Mr. Winkleman, though a well-mean-
ing man, and kind in the main, to his
family, was sensitive to little incongrui-
ties aud annoyances, and not over pa
rnt when they occurred. He was apt
to speak sharply on the spur of the mo-
ment-always to the disturbance of his
own peace after the excitement of the
occasion was over.
On this particular morning, his daugh-
ter Fanny, bright, playful, rather
thoughless girl IN her thirteenth year,
committed some act of rudeness, for
which he reproved her IN so harsh a
manner that the child burst into tears.
The instant Mr.. Winkleman spoke,
he felt that he had done wrong. Exper-
fence, as we'll as reason, had long ago
made clear to his mind the folly of harsh
or fretiul reprooi. The clear convic-
ton, in parents mind, that he has
wrong"d his child, is always attended
with pain. This conviction was felt by
Nj. WinkIeman; and pain followed.
Fanny glid,d weeping from the room,
and the erring father sllently-almost
moodily-went on to complete his toilet.
While thus engaged, some article of
dress was found not to be in a suitable
order. Already disturbed in mind, this
newly exciting cause prompted the ut
terance of an impatient e. Ejaculation, with
an added word OF censure towards his
wife for neglect
Mrs. Winkleman felt his unkind man
ner and eXpresslon-what true wife
does not feel rebuke or censure keenly!
and though prompt to repair the ne.
gIect, showed that she was hurt.
Here lay the whole secret. Mr.. Win
KEENAN, had permitted himself to feel
and to speak unkindly, first to his child,
and then to his wife. Such state OF
fee ling, IN man like Mr.. Winkleman,
could not exist without of itself produc-
ing an unhappy frame ofmind; but when
to tins, was added the remembrance OF
harsh and hasty speech towards his wife
and one of his children, with percep-
ton of their mental pam, cause enough
for all his uncomfortable sensations were
apparent.
81 wish had more control Of myself"
said MIR. Winkleman, with sigh.
He felt worse, now that all was clear
to his mind, for decentralization was
added
81 must control myself better" Good
purposes were forming, and these al
ways have a tranquilizlng effect. Harsh
words and an unkind manner do little,
if any good. Ii things go wrong, these