Morning Star

TEMPER.—A bad temper, in a woman, poisons all her happiness and turns her milk to gall, blights her youth, brings on premature fretful old age—palls all her enjoyments, banishes her friends, and renders home comfortless and barren. Far different is the ripe, rich harvest home, made bright and happy by the sweet temper and mild deportment of an amiable wife, who if afflictions cross her husband abroad, finds comfort and consolation in his home, is happy in a companion whose temper is like the silver surface of a lake, calm, serene, and unruffled. If he is rich, his admiring friends rejoice in his prosperity, and delight in his hospitality, because all around him is light, airy and sunshine; if he is poor, he breaks his crust in peace and thankfulness, for it is not steeped in the water of bitterness. An amiable temper is a jewel of inestimable value in the sum of earthly happiness, because with that alone, the whims of a cross husband may be subdued—many vices may be overcome—the boisterous may be tamed—the unruly conquered—the fretful tranquillized—and the hurricane softened and hushed, as the mild zephyr that sweeps over the honeysuckle under the casement.