The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-24
GIRLS WITH
 HASTY TEMPERS

''The charms of youth at once are seen and past,
 And nature says, They are too sweet
 to last
 So blooms the rose and so the blushing maid. Be gay, not cross Too soon the flow
 CTS of spring will fade. ".
 It is always the most seemingly per feet peach that is found to have a maiden who possesses just one little fault that keeps her out of the earth angel class and puts her in the ranks of human girlhood.
 Those who live under the roof with a girl are the first to discover her fail ings. In all the catalogue of faults none Is so hard for those about her to contend with as a hasty temper. Each and every member of the family is, obliged to be constantly on his or her guard lest by some thoughtlessly broken word ors act her temper may be aroused and a family quarrel en- sue.
 To imagine a child is born with a hasty temper is a mistake. The spirit l is fostered in the dhild in infancy. I am sorry to say philosophers and doc tors at large firmly assert the mother has much to do with cultivating a baby's bad temper or succeeding by patience in roofing 1t out
 It is said that the child soon discov-' CTS that it can have anything t wants ] by screaming hard enough, for it, re- l fusing to be queTled until it conquers. Exaggerated mothers, with nerves all latingle, do anything, give them what l they want, to hush the distressing l cries. Through childhood, girIhood
 and into wonanhood they carry the wand which has proved so successful for them.
 | hearts are not so amenable as their family and refuse to give the girl with 1 a nasty temper her own way. There fore she gets many a Jolt and heart ache as she goes through life. 1 If she must earn her own living a hasty temper is the most serious draw back she could be cursed with. Elm ployer or fellow workers will not sub- init to her will. She soon discovers that ther lack of Judgment is not hold ing her peace and her tongue has cost her good position.
 After a. few such experiences, she practices that which she should have been made to do in childhood-curbs her angry emotions by strong will power.
 The most pitifuI thing that can hap pen a young woman is to carry a has of the happiness of her after life de- bends upon the disposition of the man she has annexed. If he is of a peace full nature, ab1lorring contention, he will most likely continue to give her. her own way just as her home folks have done and live in continual tur- nroil ever after These are the hus- bands who are apt to vote marriage a failure.
 Nobody likes the hasty tempered young woman. Indeed, she is secretly destested and avoided, if possible. Those who know they possess this fault should set about correcting it at once. When g. girl feels she is about to give way to a fit Of temper, she should torce herself to take time to think the matter out calmly, look at 1t from every viewpoint. to determine if she is really in the right or in the wrong. Even the most dearly-loved sweetheart can become irksome to a lover if he is in constant fear of arousing her ill-temper. Her beauty cannot blind him to her fault and the realization that he would be taking the brayest kind of risk against hap piness by marrying her.
 Sweethearts' quarrels usually mean, that one or the other possesses nasty temper. It should be overcome in the trying school of courtship. A nasty temper is the cause of more misery in this world than most people are aware Of This is just a word or warning to those who need it.