The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-01
" Keep Your Temper p,

10 KEEP horse; to keep a carriage
to keep house; 10 keep the books: to
keep store; even to keep boarding
house is not so difficult as to keep
COOL" Temper has its place in the econ
| omy 81 human life. 1t was meant 10 fit
US to rebuke insolence, to repress AFRO
gance, to make the feeble and gentle
strong and courageous in resistance to
wrong. An honest flash of it on an ade-
quate occasion is not to be cried down.
There are so many calculating, unrea-
sonable and selfish persons who would
impose on their fellows, if they were not
afraid of "rousing" them, that temper
has its place. But it requires an i'm
| mense amount of wisdom to keen it in
its place. Q
lie who would control others must be
the master of himself. Parents who de-
sire to rule their children, employers
who wish to have proper control over
their employees, teachers who would gov
ern their classes, must rule their own
spirit. y rough word spoken unjusily,
a reproof given in heat, shake, or a
blow perhaps, dealt in a hasty moment,
not only does no good, but it seems to the
suHerer TO justify the present or some
future wrong. And where one is Judge
In his own cause, the balance is sure to
be struck in his own favor. i" Even if
dld make mistake, he was too angry,
he was more wrong than | was he ought
TO know better. l am the injured per-
son." Such will be the conclusion of one
who hasbeen bio wn up in passion
To lose the respect of others is often
serious, sometimes irreparable, loss
Those who have let themselves down
I nrIx har 4 40
When Harry, a smart, reflective boy of
fifteen, has found the weak side of par-
ent or tutor; has seen HIM off parade.
in undress, it is very difficult for the par
ent or tutor-conscious of the fact-to
regain and assert authority. As the girls
who have seen their mother flirt disre-
gard her lectures on prudence; as the
boys who have seen their father tipsy
laugh in their sleeves when he warns
them against drink; as the statesmen feel
little reverence for the homilies on hon
esty of an employer whose tricks of
trade they see daily, so, only in a milder
way, the just and riehtful authority of
tutor or governor is lost with habitual
loss of temper.
Temper can be controlled. When the
cook has sent up the dinner to YOUR
friends and you, with The oysters spoiled,
the meat overdone, and those prairie
chickens so horribly bungled that YOU
wish they were on their native heath
again, you can smile, and talk, and
jest and keep your temper Regard for
your friends assures control of it. When
poor, awkward Thomas-coachman by
right, butler by brevet-lets fall little
of the gravy on your dress, madam, how
delightfully."- you behaved II is of no ac
count In fact, YOU are SO amiable that
one might suppose you rather liked
grease spots. You control yourself in
company. Then it is possible to do it
elsewhere. What can be done once can
be done again, and the second time is
commonly easier Than the first, and the
third easiest, and So in delightful pro-
erosion Please try it.
Have You noticed that when YOU pro-
coed to talk to the cook about the shame
full way in which that dinner was sent
up the very talking seems TO have slim
uiating effect, ard the temper rises as
you proceed: That is human nature.
Our eloquence affects ourselves as the
advocate did his client, who burst into
tears as he heard his indignant appeal to
the jury, and exclaimed: Il never knew
before how badly ! was used.r This
seems to suggest that silence is desirable
when there Is any danger of temper