Year: 1861

explosion OF lIlnature. Sleep seems to have
been bath Of vinegar to them. and ono
would think the fluid had invaded their
mouth and nose and eyes and ears. and had
been absorbed by every pore of their sensi.
1--WE SKINS ln condition like this, have
seen them bent over the parental knee nnd
their person subjected to blows from tbe
parental palm; aud they have EMERGED from
the iniction with the vinerer ali exnplloJ
ulu 'ne'r Iaces shining like the morning
'ne transition complete and satisfactory to
all the parties. Three quarters of the
moods That men aud women find themselves
In are just Ias much under the control
OF the will as this. The man who rises in
the morning, with his feelings all bristing
IKE inc quIlls Of the hedgehog, simply needs
to be Knocked down. Like solution Of
certain salts he requires a rap to make him
crystalline. a great many mean things
are done in the family for which moods are
put forward as the excuse, when the moods
ure the most inexcusable thirgs of all.
man or woman in tolerable health has
no moral right to indulge in an unpleasant
mood, or to depend upon moods for the
performance of the duties of life. Ifa bad
mood come to such persons as these, it is
to be shaken off by direct effort of the will.
Inder all circumstances


There are moods, however, for which men
are not responsible, and the parent of these
is sickness-thc feeble or inharmonious
movements of the body. When my little
boy wakes In the morning, his smile is as
bright as the pencil of sunlight that lies
across his coverlet but when evening comes
be is pevSh and frelfu. The little limbs
are weary, aud the mood is produced bv
WEAKNESS. So my friend with harrassinr
cough is in a melancholy mood, and my bill
llous friend is in savage mood, or 10 a
dark and gloomy mood, or in petulant
mood, or IN fearful or forebodng mood
In truth, bile is the prolific mother ofmoods
The stream of life flows through the hillary
duct. When that is obstrueted. life is on.
struc ed. When the golden tide sets back
upon the liver, 1t is like baCk-water under
mill it stops the driving wheel. Bile
spois the peace of families, breaks off friend
ships, cuts off man from communication
with his Maker, colors whole systems of
theology, transforms brains into pnttv. and
destroys the comfort of a jaundiced world
The famous DR.. Abernethy had his hob
by, as most famous men have and this hob.
by, was blue ,ill and ipecac, which he pre-
scribed for everything, with the suppostion.
presume, that all disease basi Is origin in
the liver Most moods, am sure, have
their birth in the arrangements of this i'm.
portant organ and while the majority of
them can be controlled, there are others
for which their victims are responsible.
| There are men who cannot insult me- be.
cause l will not take an insult from them
any more than would from man intoxi.
Gated. When their bile starts, am sure
they will come 20 me and apologize.


We all have acauaintances who are men
of moods. Whenever we meet them, we
try to determine which of their moods is
dominant that we may know how to treat
them. If the severe mood be on, we would
just as soon think of whistlng at funeral
as induIgiug in jest; but if the cloud be
off, we have a sprightIy friend and q pleas.
ent time with him. Goldsmith'S pedagogue
was man of moods, and his pupils under
stood them.


"A man severe he was and stern to view,
| ] knew him well and every truant knew:
| Well had the boding rembers learned to trace
| The day disasters in his morning face
| Full we'll they laughed with counterfeited glee
| At all his jokes for many joke had he;
| Full we'll the busy whisper, circling round,


Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned'
Willie / maintain that q man can be
generally the master of his moods, l am
very well aware that but few men are !;
and it is wise to know how to deal with
them. The secret of many mans success
in the world resides in his insight into the
moods Of men, and his tact in dealing with
them. Modern christian phlanthropiSts
tell us that if we would do good to the soul
of starving child, we must first put food
into his mouth, aud comfortable clothing
upon his body. This, by way of manifest
ing practical interest in his welfare, and
paving our way to his heart by form of
kindness which he can thoroughly appreci-
ate. But there is more in such and act
than thiS,-we change his mood. From
mood of despair or Encouragement, we
translate him into mood Of cheerfulness
and hopelulness and then we have soul
to deal with that is surrounded 10y condi'
tions of improvement. There is much more
than divine duty and christian forgiveness
in the injunction ii thine enemy hunger,
feed him if he thirst, give him drink
The highest wisdom would dictate such
policy for changing his mood, and bringing
him into a condition in which he could ell
tertan a sense of his meanness.


1t is curious to see how much fullness and
emptiness of stomach have to do with
moods. A business man who has been at
work hard all day will enter his house for
dinner as grabbed as hungry bear-crab'
bed because he is as hungry as bear. The
wife understands the mood, and, while she
saws little to him, is careful not to have the
dinner delayed. In the meantime the chill
dren watch him cautiously, and do not tease
him with questions. When the soup is
gulped, and he leans back and wipes his
month. there then is an evident relaxation,
and his wife ventures TO ask for the news.
When tho roast beef is disposed of, she pre-
sumes upon gossip aud possibly upon a jest
and when at last the deserC is spread upon
the table, all hands are merry, aud the fuce
of the husband and father which entered
the house SO pinched and savage aud sharp,
becomes soft and full and beamiDg as the
face of the round summer moon. Children