Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1909 — KEEP YOUR TEMPER. [ARTICLE]

KEEP YOUR TEMPER.

Which of all the domestic virtues is most essential to a happy married life? The ability to keep one’s temper, beyond all question. There is nothing which lends more to misery, not only for its possessor, but also for those about him, than an ungovernable and unreasonable temper. No one is worse to live with than an ill tempered, man, except, perhaps, an ill tempered woman. Bad tempered people completely spoil the lives of those who associate with them. The feeling of strain is ever present. One never knows just when the storm will break, although apparently the weather, metaphorically, is “set fair.” Life in these circumstances becomes a burden almost beyond bearing.