Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-05

stoops low to Earth, and u Cd visits the
world. Then there is worship in the
very air. The stones repeat their silent
sermons-the leafy- boughs sway in un-
written melodies, aud the unvexed wa
tiers murmer unsteady to the shores.
- To keen observer of life--one
who looks not on its surface, but upon
its reality--it cannot fail to be apparent
that unframed passion, unsubdued and
ungoverned temper is productive of
more disturbance and unhappiness than
all other causes combined. The great
giefs aud sorrows of life are few, but its
irlitations and annoyances are many,
and are mostly caused by unpremedita-
ted bursts of anger. Many years ago the
wisest Of men wrote. "He that ruleth his
spirit is greater than he that taketh a
city"
The sentiment is at once truth and a
!esson-a lesson far too frequently un'
needed and unlearned.
We saw horse few days ago--a
superb animal, perfectly formed, spirited,
strong, beautiful. Ordinarily he would
be very valuable, but his unsubdued
temper made him unsafe. and he was
worthless. We thought how many men
and women were like that horse, with
the same one fatal defect. Years ago we
knew woman, young, educated, pleas
ing in person and generally agreeable in
manner. She would have been lady
had she "ruled her spirit" but she did
not, and her outbnrsts of temper, her
dashes of passion, her accompanying
unreasonable and violent speech, forfeited
her claim to laiyship, and grieved and
wounded her friends. She was but a
type of class, class who frequently
mistake ungoyerned passion for proper
spirit, and regard the exhibition of anger
as laudable show of independence.
"He that ruleth his spirit is greater
than he that taketh city," This truth
should be indelbly impressed upon every
child. Every young man should know
that mastery of himself is the great ell
ement of strength--the key to mastery
of others, and every young woman
should know that there is nothing which
will so adorn Ler character and enrich
her life as unfailing good nature--a
temper serene and sweet, which no gust
OF passion can ruffie--no outburst of an
ger subdue.
= June has come, dreamy, delicious
June-leafy, ffowery, fragrant, sensuous,
glorious June. BEEcHER in "Nor-
wood" says
'rhere are but two perfect months in
our year--June and October. June is
the month of gorgeous greens; October,
the month of all colors. June IS the full
beauty of youth; October has the splen.
dor of ripeness. Both of them are
out of.door months. If the year has
anything to tell you, listen now! II
these months teach the heart nothing,
one may as well shut up the book of the
year"
= The following paragraph we clip
from Miss MULocH's story, "a Wom-
ans Kingdom" now being published in
Harper's Magazine:
i "What is it makes house bright !
pleasant to 90 TOTO stay Uneven to
think about, so that even if fate totally
annihilates it we recall tenderly for years
its atmosphere of peace, cheerfulness,
loving kindness--nay, its outside fea
tures-down to the very pictures on the
walls, the pattern of the papering, the
position Of the furniture9 While other
houses--we SILVER at the remembrance
of them, and the drcary days we spent
in them--days of dizziness, misery, or
strife--those houses we would not revisit
for the world
Why! fla house of fair possibilities
of home comfort is thoroughly comfort
less--if there is within it "a reckless i'm
possibility of getting things done in the
right way or at the right time-or if, on
the contrary, it is conducted with ter
rible regularity, so that an unlimited
guest or an extempore meal sends a
shock through the whole abode--if the
servants keep their place long--and the
gentlemen of the family are prone to be
'out of evenings'-who is to blame7
Almost inavaribly, the women of the
/ family. The men make or mar its out
side fortunes; bus its internal comfort
lies in the woman's hands alone. And
until women feel tlis--recognize ut
once their power and their duties--it is
idle for them to chatter about their
rights. Men nv be bad enough out of
/ doors; but their influence is limited and
external, 1t is women who are in reality
either the salvation or the destruction of
household.
- Some ono haautifnllv writes DC foI-