Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1869 — Home Life. [ARTICLE]

Home Life.

.** ,Tnx other day I chanced to outer's friend's housA fie did not know I was iff .the parlor, and I overheard his convenfo.lion. He was very haisb in his dealing .with bin child. He was “out of aorta" that morning. “ The wind wag east," and tte cast wln<i Wow foto lungs, and into and soured his mind, and soured life heart, and so, Uke a base miscreant, as Ke was, he vented his bad temper on his wife apd children. It is a,bad habit soma men have, « .. .r -,’ I This man was talklog ink hard, unchrisnounce.l my presence. Mmd you, tie ftown Hii few;, when I was annonnqed.beMmore or lorn of a stranger, demanding of him certain courtesfea, nd at once smoothed his face as though nothinghad happened—M though thesunwMiidSfngbrightiyintheheaw . ■* . ■ —.... ;< _.. ■n. L.■ 'vS

and the wind was south/ited Mt east, H a came into the room wherq I was. and. in themqstcordial and cearteouswaypoeSfble.gave ma his hand, and staibngly •bade mo vwr. ♦* w; He could- not control himself simply because he did not think enough of W boy—because he did not euffleientiy aphe could roar with impunity, and Mt the great temple* of Gai, where he should Andyct “almost awanger,wasfitrong tamy presence, to cause him at onoa to cool down into courtesy, intoaffahUhy.-in-to politeness. I tell you, that many and many a ijssn, and many and many a woman In this Strange world al ours, in which many things seem to go wrong, will be gentle, and kind, and' charitable, and fall of smiles outside of their booses, with strangers, for whose opinion they do not care one jot, or one ntudf add in the house where all the happiness of years depends upon their sweetness of soul, and where they are constantly shedding influences that will ripen into the good or bad life of a boy or girl, will yield to a pettiahnem and peevishness, unworthy of them aa men and women, and'wholly unworthy of thSknaa Christiana.-kflipwrtt.