The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-02
Comfort and value Of Good Temper

Comfort and Value OF Good Temper.
The comfort and value of good tenn
per are things not SO often taken into
account as they should be. The Sci
entific American calls good temper
the great moral lubricator which
makes everything in human life run
without friction. As soon as this is
exhausted, the journals of the human
machine begin to heat, and wear, and
screech, and the entire mechanism be.
comes noisy and ruinously wasteful of
power. So admirably expressed is an
article on this subject in the paper we
have named, that we transfer it to our
columns:
1.-THE horse that frets is the horse
that sweats.' is an old saying of horse
men, and it is just as true of men as
of horses. The man who allows him
self to get irritated at every little thing
that goes amiss in his business, or in
the ordinary affairs of life, is a man
that, as a rule, will accomplish little
and wear out early. He is a man for
whom bile and dyspepsia have par
ticular fondness, and for whom chill
dreD have peculiar aversion. He is
man with a perpetual thorn in his
flesh, which pricks and wounds at the
slightest movement; man for whom
life has little pleasure, and the future
small hope.
ITO keep jolly under all provoca-
tions is perhaps task which only
Dickens Mark Tapley could perform.
We never have met Mark Tapley in
our experience of human nature. but
we have seen him closely approxima-
ted; and it would be we'll if people in
general could approach more nearly
that inimitable character.
I'm all the phases, emergencies and
occupations of human life, good tenn
per is commodity for which there is
great demand; but in those which
bring an individual into daily contact
with many others, it is perhaps in
greatest demand and most limited sup.
ITO foremen in shops, and superin.
rendents oil large manufacturing estab-
lishments, good temper~is a most val
liable qualification. Indeed, this arti-
| Gle was suggested by notable want OF
good temper, in the treatment of sub
ordinates, by foreman in an estab.
lishmept recently visited by us. II
was evident that this establishment
was pervaded by spirit of revolt
begotten by the brow-beatin.s inso.
lent language and manner of the fore.
man. The men we're sulky and obtsi.
nate, being undoubtedly rendered
unmanageable and restless by the
total disregard of amenity in the mar
placed over them. Surely, though,
we, whatever skill in his profession
this man might possess, it was dearly
purchased at the expense of willing
service on the part of the workmen.
When, from any cause, a man i.
forced to add 10 his physical toll th,
burden of q discontented mind, h,
will neither do as much nor as goot
work as when his heart is light ant
. his mind easy.
1T requires more than technica
knowledge and skill to make a goot
foreman. The power to manage an,
control men is an essential, which cal
never be found apart from good ma
ture. OF course, we do not mean tha
sort Of good nature which result
!. from want of firmness. but that broad
wholesome, breezy heartiness tina
feels good itself. and loves to hav
!. others feel good, and which show
, itself as much in rebuke as.in praise.