Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Don’t Write When Angry. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Write When Angry.

Never write a letter to a man, woman or child when you are angry with the person in question, or perhaps, I had better qualify my advice by begging you, one and all, never to send anangry letter for 48 hours after you have written it, and then I would suggest reading it carefully, and,.as the Irish* man said, “burning itbefore sending it.” We have many of us exhausted all our •'* ago'in. the fire of the letter-writing,'" and have felt all the delights of abattle won by the prowees of our pens without the hackneyed formality of posting the epistle. Who is there who has not written his anger out in this wholesome way! Do not, I pray, send a cruel letter to anyone you have ever loved. You will but live to regret the act, and possibly with the pallid silence of death between you and the wounded one. If mortals were, in these prosaic days, gifted with invisible powers, I would wish to be that spirit endowed with a force which would arrest every angry word at the tip of eaqh sharp-pointed* heart-breaking pen.—St. Louis Republic.