The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-10-23
KEEP YOUR TEMPER.

Those Who Control Themselves Likely to
Live Longer and Become Infiaiteiy Hap.
pier.
According to the observation d
many men. the results being preserved
BY statistics, those individuals live the
longest and reach the greatest success,
besides being infinitely happier. who
keep control of themselves and do not
fly off into tempers. 1t is impossible
to 60 through life. or even single day
of it. without meeting perplexities and
annoyance. as everybody knows. but
they are far more easily dealt with. il
looked coolly in the face without ex-
citement. than when irritation is al
lowed to pass into anger and its &C.
compartments.
1t is easy enough to see why the pos
SCISSOR of o quiet, calm, e1uable tenn
permanent lives longer than the hasty.
passionate one. There is no such ten
sion on the vital organs rs fit oil
anger induces. The blood is sent rush.
ing madly through the veins. beating
upon the heart in tumultous invasion
and straining its powers to the utmost
to resist the strain, and this often when
the system is least fitted for endur-
ance. The processes of life proceed
quietly day after day, through the
years. and the body is kept in good
order save from the natural wear. 1t
is just like machinery which
runs smoothly. and will last many
years. if unexpected demands are not
made on it but which is liable to give
out suddenly when called without
preparation to bear unusual burdens.
People who fly into passion often
defeat their most cherished purposes.
An angry man is always at a disad-
vantage with an opponent Heforgets
what he should remember, fails to see
an advantage. says what he should
have left unsaid. and omirs what is Of
valid Importance. He will be made to
appear in the wrong when he is really
in the right 1t is not impossible for
one who easily loses self-control to win
success in life. but he will not reach
the highest measure. and what he does
gain will be from combination of for
tunate circumstances. or because he
has far more than ordinary ability.
Perhaps no better example can be
given of q man who always possesses
himself than General Grant. His cool
steadiness has passed into an axiom
with the Nation. He never showed
excitement. even when it would seem
natural and excusable. and he never
failed to come ont the victor. 1t Is so
in every position in life. There
is something in that quiet
steadiness which holds the lash
OF self-possession. that influences
others. and compels them to yield. no
matter how holly they have contested
q disputed point. Everybody knows
how hard lawyers work. how deftly
they ply an opposing witness with ir-
ritating questions. in order to arouse
his anger and make him stultify him.
self.
That the individual who can hold his
temper is the happier for doing ESQ. goes
without saying. There is nothing
which humiliates self-respecting man
or woman so much as the conscious
ness of having lost self-control. and be-
ing therefore placed in q position to
attract ridicule or disgust The very
consciousness of self-mastery gives
pleasure, and there is not the continual
state of bitter penitence for having
been unkind or Tin :ust to be endured
The physical. mental and moral being
il in an infinitely better condition.
OF course there is such a thing IS
righteous indignation. but even that
should not be ungovernable.-To Toledo
Blade.