The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-04
YOUR TEMPER AND GOOD LOOKS.


There are many ways of getting
angry. Each kind of woman has her
way of losing her temper, and each
has her own way of announcing the
fact.
One woman does it with her face,
another with her tongue, another
with her actions. But in every case
there is sure to be an imprint left on
the brow-a scar as it were-which
will remain there forever unless the
woman takes a course of treatment to
drive it away.
The treatment, while partly physi-
cal, is more mental than external,
and it must be found in the frame of
mind, in the spirit, in the poise and
in the general attitude toward the
world and things in general.
There is the woman with what is
known as the hasty temper. She is
usually woman of many nerves and
her organization is very sensitive and
highly strung. There is little doubt
of that.
This sort of woman usually has a
great many fine wrinkles on the face,
caused by the quick contortions which
her countenance undergoes in a day.
She gets angry and has her say, dur
ing which her face is mass of heavy
lines. Then comes the reaction, when
only nest Of fine ones as reminder
that the heavy ones have been there.
Then there comes the woman who
is in chronic state of anger. She is
generally worrying woman, and she
worries about fate, about the wealth
er; her neighbors are source of wor-
ry, and at least once day she has a
bitter grievance against some one.
This woman has deep lines along
her forehead and furrows between the
eyes. They are worry wrinkles, but
wrinkles of the temper as we'll.
This sort of woman has great
deal to learn before she can become
calm, for she has agitated herself up
to frame of mind when she is not
happy unless she is worrying, and
her face and figure bear marks of de-
lection. The lines, the bent shoul-
ders, the slow walk, all tell that there
is something seriously amiss with the
woman and with the world.
Then, in the list of women who
have no control over their tempers,
comes the woman who sighs continu-
ously. She has the signing habit,
and she sighs audibly all the time.
This woman, though apparently
sorrowful, is a woman with a bad
temper. She rallied at fate and Sc
cretly cursed her stars. But time
softened her spirit little, SO that she
learned to sigh instead of to rail.
Now, when she loses her temper,
she sulks, and there is nothing that
anybody can do for her. She will
sigh and sigh until the end of the
chapter, and her beauty is spoiled by
the habit.
Besides these classes there is the
woman who gets angry slowly, and,
when she does it is a serious matter
with her. She takes plenty of time
to think about it, but when she does
lose her temper it is lost forever.
You cannot very we'll make it up
with her.
She is usually woman of tranquil
temperament, and she will go through
life without a mark upon her face.
Only there will be an ugly curve
around the mouth, to show that she
has been angry two or three times in
her life, and has not got completely
over it yet. For her the nerve cure
is Of little use, for her anger is of the
righteous sort.
1t is said that women lose their
temper more quickly and more often
than men. 1t is fact that women
show the permanent marks of their
i'll temper more than do men.
One reason for this is to be found
in the conventionalities of life. Con-
ventionality hens in woman on ev-
cry side, and no less in her emotions
than in her other forms of being.
Conventionality says that if a wo-
man is pleased she must not laugh
too loudly, for it is bad form to do SO.
If she is offended she must not say so
too vehenently.
Now, with a man it is a case of
quick words, perhaps of profanity it
is a sudden exhibition of outward
quick temper which relieves the feel
ings and makes him comfortable
again. And in this very ebullition
of temper there is salvation, not only
for the feelings, but for the counte-
nance.
Conventionality will not let a wo-
man swear, even were she SO inclin-
ed. And so, with her, it is case of
talk, of scowl, of grimace, of sigh, of
getting over it as best she can.
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