The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-12-13
CROSS PEOPLE.

believe, exclaimed bright woman
one day, that would rather have
really wicked person in the house, If he
would on'y be good-natsred, than to
live with the best one who was cross.
This was extreme, but anyone who
ha, ever endured the society of an IT.
ritable companion for many days will
feel sympathy with even this strong
statement. Such a companion is a
| species of torture.
1t sometimes seems as though al
most every duty we're more forcibly I'M
pressed upon the young than the duty
OF amjability. In many quarters this
vriure is absolutely at disadvantage.
The cross ones are more likely to get
reputation for great ability than the
pleasant ones. Fools,we are told, ale al
ways amIable,
We plead for reform and so pleads
everybody who happened to be in a
certain house in an inland town, where
a handsome and fashionable young wo-
man was stopping with an aunt who
had every claim upon her tenderest
COL sideration.
Are you going out to the cliff? the
young woman would demand of her
aunt.
don't know yet, the aunt would re
spond, YEARLY.
o., dear, l wish you could ever make
up your mind the niece would fret
But | must wait and see how | feel
after my dinner, the invalid aunt would
protest.
If it wasn't that it would be some
thing else, the niece would exclaim
tu'antly.
You're always waiting ALWAYS undeci
ded. | get so sick OF it !
The aunt bore her young charges
(or super-intendent's) vargaries almost
too sweetIy; but the hateful little
bicker and imprudence of the latter
were uncomfortable to the outside list
eners, before whom she took no pans
to control herself. Yet tits young girl
was a member of church. she would
not have lifted her hand against her
aunt, yet gave her daily worse insults
than physical blow.
The blow glove gives is bat weak, --
Does the mark yet dn color my cheek?
But when the heart suffers blow,
Will the pain pass as soon, do you
know ?"
II is to woman that the poets are al
ways giving praise for their amia5ility. l.
was woman to whom belonged those.
"Sweet lips whereupon perpt tua!ly did
reign
The summer calm of golden charity"
The summer calm OF golden charity.
But it is doubtful whether woman sfe
really SO equable as men. Xantippe
and poor Rips wife are types of a very s
large class.
Ii is reasonable to expect that wo-
men should be less amiable than men.
Emerson says, All healthy things are
sweet-tempered. 1t is only within few
years that women have begun, as
class, a proper care OF their health.
Even now they are net careful
and more than half our women are Semi
invalids.
A woman's mode of dress, her diet, y
her indoor and monotonous life, have
all been against her. Women are more
conscientious than men. They ought
to have more principle about keepinga
pleasant face On but when The whole
nervous stem Is ajar irUm Ii sufficient
nourishment and close air, all angel
could not always keep her temper.
1t was only she who lei. SO pretty
and pleased al day who could not take
the trouble tO be cross. Wheua. one Is
baffled and thwarted all day, crossscsss--i
becomes luxury that most women are
too prone to indulge in.
But oh how it spolls and degrades 4
family life.