The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-09-10
CROSS AND IMPATIENT.
Two Bad Traits Possessed by Too
Many Young Persons.
Let Us Have More OF "fhs Music That
Can Deepest Reach and Cure All Ills
by Cordial Speech" In Our Homes,
and Lead n Happy Life.


II believe, exclaimed bright little
woman one day, "that / would rather
have really wicked person In the
house, IL he would only be good-nstured
than to live with the best one who was
cross.n .i.t.- t,.
This was extreme, says Harpef's Ba-
Ear, but any one who has ever en-
dared the society Of an irritable COM
panion for many days will feel sympa-
thy with even this strong statement.
Such a companion Is aspecies of torture.
ltsometimes seems as though almost
every duty were more forcibly impressed
upon the young than the duty Of amia-
bility. In many quarters this vir-
tue is absolutely at disadvantage.
The cross ones are likely to get repu-
tation for greater ability than the pleas
ant ones. Fools" we are told, "are
always amiable.r aaa1 .goaf 0n1
We plead for q reform, and so pleads
everybody who happened to be in q
certain house in an inland town, where
handsome and fashionable young
woman was stopping with an aunt who
had every claim upon her tenderest con-
sideration. r0g!.
Z "Are you going out to the cliff" the
young woman would demand Of her
aunt. a.F.EE.
II don't know yet" the aunt would
respond, wearily. .gTJRJprn
''0h, dear, l wish you could ever
make up your mindl' the niece would
fret tr.-srf a....-..f.
"But must walt and see how / feel
after my dinner, the invalid auntwould
protest.
"If II wasn't that II would be some
thing else" the niece would exclaim,
petulantly. You're always waiting,
always undecided. get so sick Of it!"
The aunt bore her young charges Tor
superintendent's) vagaries almost too
sweetly; but the hateful little bicker
and impudence Of tho latter were unen-
durable TO the outside listeners, before
whom she took no pains TO control her
self Yet this young girl was member
Of church. She would not have lifted
her hand against her aunt, yet she gave
her daily worse insults than a physical
blow. u.l r..
" The blow glove gives Is but weak
Does the mark yet discolor my cheoki
But when the heart suffers o blow
WIN the pain pass as soon, do you known
II is to women that the poets are al
ways giving praise for their amiability.
It was woman to whom belonged those
Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign
The summer calm Of golden charity"
But IL is doubtful whether women are
really so equable as men. Xantippe
and poor Rips wife are types OF very
large class. A,. .t..
1t Is reasonable to expect that women
should be less amiable than men. Emer-
son says: "All healthy things are sweet
tempered" It is only within . few
years that women have begun, as q class,
to take proper care OF their health. Even
now they are not expert In the art, and
more than half our women are semi-in-
valids. A woman's mode Of dress, her
diet, her indoor and monotonous life,
have all been against her Women are
more conscientious than men. They
ought to have more principle about
keeping pleasant face on; but when
the whole nervous system is ajar from
insufficient nourishment and close air,
an angel could not always keep her tenn
per. 1t was only she who "felt so pretty
- - .,lna.ol III do,,W ,,ha ttcouid nok