The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-19

didn't acquire 1t, or have it thrust upon
 her. But Cousin Arabella-the attack of temperament that came oyer her was l really nothing more than bad temper politely called by her blood relatives 1 temperament She wouldn't let Jack play lootpall because she said she was so tenn | peramental she couldn't undergo the strain of having him play. He might get hurt and that would worry her, and she couldn't stand worry Plain. unadulterated cussedness I call ! that the thoughtful man asseverated With Annabelle. her daughter" said Betty. 'it was the same way. Everything the girl wanted to do at school in New York, Cousin Arabella ojected to because she said she was temperamentally op- posed to it. Again I would suggest puo- tation marks
 T would call that plain. old con tray-r- ! ness, as the darlSeys say,'' the thoughtful I man observed.
 Tt wass powerful trying on her family" Betty declared.
 And now" the thoughtful man quss- toned. since it's no longer fashionable 1 to be temperamental, Is your Cousin Afa- bella still affected in that way?' No" said Betty, shes getting
 bravely over it. and it's high time Shat all ether foolish women who affected it arc 6oing the same thing.
 
 'the thoughtful man insisted. The te1l- peramental woman is going out. and Let's go back 10 Cousin Arabella for
 q moment, please, Betty begged l won't say that Cousin Arabela came to- because of the fashions. l think if was ! more nearly due to the way her lus- band managed her Cousin John is us fine a fellow as ever lived. and ne had the patience of Job himself with Cousin Arabella and her temperament. Time came, however, when he was aroused to the fullest extent The cook had to be discharged. Cousin Arabella had to do IL. After the performance was over, she swooned and got in bed, and had her
 smelling salts brought to her and sine i wept and laughed by turns-had regular old-fashoned hysterics-when finally Cousin John made himself heard. He told her frankly that she vas making goose
 of herself: behaving like child; that she might call it temperament If she liked, but it was plain old tantrum. He told her if she were a child he'd switch her
 good and send her to bed without any supper He advised her to pull herself 1 together and get up and put on her tfocN
 and go downtown with him and have
 nice little supper at the gayest place they could find
 And the treatment worked? asked the
 thoughtful man.
 i "Whether it was the shock of the treat ment," Betty said. Cor whether Cousin
 Arabelas good old hard common sense asserted itself. don't know, but from that
 day forth she was different woman. She isn't temperamental any more- and
 her household is far happier and so is l she.
 T insist that my theory is the correct | one" the thoughtful man averred. its
 not the fashion any more to be tempera-
 mental and they've all quit It's like |
 you met was so n-e-r-v-o-u-s' she
 couldn't scarcely live. They were as proud of their nerves as Mr. Roosevelt
 was on the verdict in his case of drunk
 T think you are pretty hard on us poor
 women folk" Betty said reprovingly.
 Not at all' said the thoughtful man. l Women have just become saner-that's
 all. They don't see anything to be proud
 of these days in ailments. Women don't faint. and cavort about at the sight of a mouse or the sound of a burglar like they
 used to, but they promptly get some inn plement and kill the mouse, and shoot the burglar with gun that's near at hand ] The woman with temperament and
 nerves, and the swoonng woman are as i obsolete as the Janice Meredith curl. and l l, for one, am heart and soul for her
 successor-the sane. natural normal well rounded. healthy, common sense woman. Here's to her..
  lands. MT. W. R. Sawyer has gone to | Beatrice.
 l Miss Sarah Hodges will return to- day from a stay of several days with
 friends in Ashville.
 Miss Lula Mehaffey and Miss Rosa
 Mehaffee have returned from a week. end visit to MT. and Mrs ]. w. Bald win at Calera.
 l Mrs. W. J. Wurtelle and little daugh-
 ter and Miss Kate Huey of Ensley are
 the guests of relatives in Louisville. Ky.
 Mir J. w. Woodward has returned to ! Shelbyville. Tenn. from stay with
 MT. and Mrs. H. E. Dalby in Fairfield.
 After spending the week end with his l family in E,nslcy, Mir. w. r. Henderson
 has returned to Dora. Miss Dora Bailey, who has been tha
 guest of her sister. Miss Hattie Rniley, i In t.nsley. has returned to her home in
 Jemison
 ] Mir and Mrs D. C. Ball have re- i turned to Avondale from Atlanta. i Miss Claudia Crsmpton of Montesal'o 1 Is visiting her sister, Mrs J. NJ Shel- tContinucd on Pare Thirtecn.)