Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-04-25
Counting Twenty-Five How the
Wife Of a Utica Editor cured hts U n
goVePnable Temper.

found the cherished face of Maria
Ann wreatbed in smiles. the other even
ing when | returned from my arduous
daily toll. { am engaged as standing
man a saloon. So many candidates
are treating. that the saloon keeper hires
six of as to be treated. We all drink
with every candidate that comes 10 and
it makes business pretty brisk.)
Said my chosen one. Joshua. am
afraid you do not always fnd me an
angel in disposition.
Said /. that's so-hic-my dear,
don't seldom find Jou 'nangel in any.
thing"
"And," she added, ''you are not al
wavs the most pleasant man in this wide.
wide world"
did not feel called Oh to reply to her
Just now.
Said she, Tread that"
She had cut an item from the columns
Of some paper wherein detnenfed writer
t, ii about some impossb lie aenhan who,
being troubled with bad temper, count
ed twenty Eve every time she was pro-
vuked amt thus became a sweet. am liable
aua dea' ly Lived ornament Il the house of
her delight d husband. | read tue as sicle
about as well as the condition of my head
wou Id "a How and remarked, ''Bosh."
Maria Ann paid no attention to me,
bur unfolaed her plan.
She said that every tine I got mad I
should count twenty five. asked her
who she thought would pay our rent
while we sat and counted TWEEN sy-6ve
over and and over all day She ssid I
was always raising objections to her plans
for our mutual Improvement. aud l said
| was not, and she said | was enough to
try the patience Of saint. and I said she
was too, and she came for me, and l
told her to count twenty-five but she
forgot all about shat and just tailed one
in my left eve.
Then ! was going to demonstrate With
the poker, and she told me to count
twent y-fv, aud said | would not ; but
T did before she had pulled more than
bali nv hair out. Then she made me
count TWEEN Eve over and over until l
was out # Breath and felt real pleasant
aud good natured So We went to sup
per
Now the cat was curled Up in my chair
but did not see it until sat down
and did not see it then. but l. was
pretty sure it was there. in-i fact knew
1t was there as well as | wanted to and
more too. | felt Inclined to rise up
>ulie' l.. but as gathered to spring
re brsndished the Old coffee pot and
murmured.
Joshua. your temper is rising count
twenty FIVE, or FL break your head"
Aud the cat was drawing a map of The
Tenth Ward with her claws behind me,
with streets and boundaries marked in
my Hood.
rose to explain and said INV dear
i" but she caroue' on my head with
we'll shot tea cup. and sprlnA led my
face with quart of hot tea. aud | sat
down aud counted twenty FIVE; but it
killed the cat. The old fellow died
hard / couli feel him settle as nine
lives went out of him one by one.
A few days practice of this rule.
un' Ter the loving instruction of Maria
Ann has enabled me to conquer my
temper completely. Nobody eau get me
mud now, am in state, of perpetual
lin, aud I want to bSs the man that
wrote that story. l want to 6t him for
the hands o some undertaken. and mako
a demand fer some mourning goods
auong his friends Then can die
hapy counting twenty-five ~ Herald.