Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-13
How a Wife Cmrbrd her Husbands I'M
gOyeruable TEMPER,

The following, from the Utica Herald,
NAV be OF interest to some of the mar.
ried down-trodden
| found the cherished face of Maria
Ann wreathed III smiles the other even
ing when | returned from my arduous
daily toll. | am engaged as standing
man at a saloon. So many candidate
are treating, that the saloon keeper
hires six Of us to be treated We all
drink with every candidate who comes
in, and it makes business pretty brisk
Said my chosen one, "Joshua, | am
afraid you do not always find me an
angel in disposition"
Said !, "That's so-bic-my dear, !
don't seldom find you 'nangel in-in
anything"
And" she added, "you are not al
ways the most pleasant man in tn
world
did not feel called on to reply
"Now," said she read that
She had cut an item from the col
umns Of some paper wherein demented
writer told about some impossible
woman, who being troubled with bad
temper, counted twenty-five every time
she got proved, and thus Lecame a
sweet, amiable, and dearly loved orna-
ment of the house of her delighted
husband read the article as well as
the condition of my head would allow,
and remarked. "Bosh.'
Maria Ann paid no attention to me,
but unfolded her plan. She said that
every time | got mad should count
twenty five, and every time she got mad
she would count twenty-five. | asked
her who she thought would pay our
rent while we sat and counted twenty
five, over and over all day long. Then
she said was always raising objections
to her plans for our mutual improve.
ment, and | said was not, and she said
| was enough to Try the patience of a
saint, and | said she was too, and she
came for me, and | told her to count
Twenty-Five; but she forgot all about
that, and just tailed one in my left
eye.
Then | was going to demonstrate with
| the poker, and she told me to count
twenty five, and | said | would not but
did before she had pulled more than
half my hair out. Then she made me
count twenty-five over and over, until
was out of breath and felt real pleasant
and good natured. So we went to sup
per. Now, the ca. was curled up in my
chair, but | did not see it until | sat
down and | did not see it then, but
| wa; pretty sure it was there, in fact |
knew it was there as well as | wanted
to, and more too. felt inclined to rise
up suddenly, but as gathered to spring
she brandished the teapot, and muir
INJURED; "Joshua, your temper is rIs-
ing, count twenty five or III break your
head" and that cat was drawing a map
of the Tenth Ward with her claws
around behind me with the streets and
boundaries marked in my blood. | rose
to explain, and said, MY dear-I-'
but she caromed on my head with a
well-shot tea cup, 4nd sprinkled my
face with a quart of hot tea, and | sat
down and counted twenty-five; but it
killed the cat. The old fellow died hard ,
though. could feel him settle as his
nine lives went out one by one.
A few days practice of this rule, un-
der the loving instruction of Maria
Ann, has enabled me to conquer my
temper completely. Nobody can get me
mad now-l am in state Of perpetual
calm; and want to see the man that
wrote that story. | want to fit him for
the hands OF the undertaken, and make
a demand for mourning goods among
his friends. Then | can die happy
counting twenty-five.