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Literary
November 14, 1857
Muscatine Weekly Journal
Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa
What is this article about?
A moral essay urging women to cultivate a sweet, amiable temper to soothe husbands and children, enhancing home life, while advising men to improve their own tempers in admiration of women's patience with difficult partners.
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Woman's Temper.—Above all things cultivate a sweet and amiable temper. It is this that makes home happy. The sweet temper makes the flowers that gem man's pathway.
Man, perplexed and annoyed with the cares and toils of a busy day, goes home and is soothed to rest by music of kindly-coined words. It is like sunshine lighting the dark and stormy places in the heart. Let it be cultivated: for husband and children are a thousand fold the happier for it.
Women should strive to possess a calm, sweet temper; and if it should so happen that any man's eyes fall upon this, we would say that he should pray with all fervency for a better temper than he has. How some women can live with cross, crabbed, ugly men, all their lives, and still be so much like angels, is one of the "hidden mysteries."
Man, perplexed and annoyed with the cares and toils of a busy day, goes home and is soothed to rest by music of kindly-coined words. It is like sunshine lighting the dark and stormy places in the heart. Let it be cultivated: for husband and children are a thousand fold the happier for it.
Women should strive to possess a calm, sweet temper; and if it should so happen that any man's eyes fall upon this, we would say that he should pray with all fervency for a better temper than he has. How some women can live with cross, crabbed, ugly men, all their lives, and still be so much like angels, is one of the "hidden mysteries."
What sub-type of article is it?
Essay
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Temperance
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Sweet Temper
Home Happiness
Moral Advice
Family Harmony
Gender Roles
Literary Details
Title
Woman's Temper.
Key Lines
Above All Things Cultivate A Sweet And Amiable Temper. It Is This That Makes Home Happy.
The Sweet Temper Makes The Flowers That Gem Man's Pathway.
Women Should Strive To Possess A Calm, Sweet Temper;
How Some Women Can Live With Cross, Crabbed, Ugly Men, All Their Lives, And Still Be So Much Like Angels, Is One Of The "Hidden Mysteries."