Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-08-13
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SUCH 4 TEMPER,

DY T. s. ARTHUR.
That child will be the death of me vet !!
Oh he has such temper. Just see how he
acts. You John! Hush this instant and do
as I tell you!"
These sentences were uttered in an excl
ted voice by mother who had como sud.
denly in upon her little boy, 4 busy active
little fellow thrco years old, who had dis
covered a new amusement and was enjoy
ing himself up to his full capacity. That
amusement was a rude attempt at castle
buil1ing. The materials used on the occa-
sion were books from the library shelycs.--
His mother in company with an aunt, who
had arrived that day on n visit, happened
10 come upon him in the midst Of his pleas
ant sport.
Dear little fellow y was on the aunt's
lips, rs her eyes fell on the child's animated
face; but ere the words were spoken, his
mother had started forward and seized him
BY the arm Will sudden jerk she drew
him several feet away from his mimic build
ing, exclaiming as she did so, in angry tones
"You bad boy How dare you do this p
Just see your fathers books scattered all
over the floorw
A moment or two she held him with q
firm grip then pushing him from hor, she
added:
"Put every book in its place on the
Shelves and don't you dare to touch them
againw
Released from his mothers had John in
stead Of obeying her, threw himself upon
the floor and commenced kicking in uncon-
trollcd passion.
"Just see how lie acts, Mary p repeated
the mother. That temper will be his ruin.
John, hush this instant, and get up as tell
you"
Bat the child's passion was in a whirl-
wind, and subsided not until its force was
spent. In her blind anger tho mother
stopped over the boy, and was raising hel
hand to punish him, when her sister drew
her back and whspered':
"Don't Anna A blow now will do harm
And she drew the excited mother from the
room.
MARY! This is not right, said the latter
with some severity Of manner, as soon a:
they were out Of the library. "You mus
not come between me and my children.
you take their part when reprove or pun
ish, all my control over them will be gone
"Dcar sister~ replied Mary with mucl
feeling and tenderness of manner, 'forgivt
me if [ have erred; and let the puro low,
feel for You and your child be my apology.
There was n silence for nearly a minute
A calm was falling on the mothers spirit.
''He has such dreadful temper, Mary
If not subdued it will curse his whole life
You don't know how it troubles me-"
"Your duty, it seems to me, is very plain
sister," was the answer.
81 must break that temper while he is
child"
"You cannot. 1t will only get strength
by tho conflict" replied tho sister.
as the case so hopclessl l will not be
liove it, Mary"
"Oh, no-not hopeless by any means.-
How does tho oak gain strength and yigor
Gus life Look at its rugged trunk; it
guarded and twisted branches, and read III,
history of its strife with tempest and lorna
do through half century. So it is, by ac
ton, resistance, and conflict that our pas
sions are matued. Do you suppose tha
the excitement through which your chill,
has passed will weaken the bad temper @
which You complain! Has it not on th
contrary given it increased strengthr
The sister paused.
| where was NOT cion of nv;I -, he 10
Try little face when we entered the library.
But he was doing wrong" said the moth
er.
"Had you told him he must not bull
houses with booksp
"Yes, forty times. There isn't an hou
in tho day that / don't have to check, orr
prove or punish him for some kind of mi.
chief or another. He knew it was wrong.
"Maybe you check, and reproye, aud par
ish him too, Anna" suggested the sister,
There is danger in this direction, when th
childs mind Is unusually active. The strear
that glides smoothly enough through th
level meadow, will fret, and chafe, and das
madly forward it rocky distractions come
its way" /.
| "But children must not DO permitted I
do as they please They would soon be RI
incd,' said the mother.
"lf you put q dam across stream,
, throw huge rocks into the midst of its gen
ly gliding current YOU do not stop its pro.
} ress; but only'swell its volume until it owe
flows its banks or distorts its surface wit