Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — Scolding. [ARTICLE]

Scolding.

While visiting at a friend’s house once, said a lady in the New York Post , she asked me to go to her desk for something, and I saw there, on opening the lid, a motto written by herself and evidently intonded for no one else. It said: “Do not scold; do not fret!” ‘'Yes,” she said, in answer to an in* qniring look, “1 was obliged to pnt it there. I wasn’t very well, little things troubled me, and it is so natural to speak of them; but I noticed that, after a little while, that when iu the morning, early before school or breakfast, I began to speak of the wrong-doings of any member of the family, the wrongdoings and the tendency to speak of them increased alarmingly all through the day, and I discovered that if were silent the opposite were true; and I began to earnestly believe, as I never did before, that my own soft words turned away my own wrath; and isn’t that what it really means? for it frequently happens that other people’s wrath is increased by that very course.” It is expected that the Revised Old Testament will be ready for publication, before the close of the year.