"The law of kindness is on her tongue." The valiant woman is gentle. She cultivates self-control and good temper. If married people soon forget each other's faces, they are ever cognizant of each other's bad temper. Marriage, like government, is a series of compromises that needs diplomacy or better charity and self-control. A writer goes so far as to say" "Of all qualities 'tis good temper that wears and works best in married life." The poet Burns was evidently of this opinion, endorsed by the millions, that of all things likely to lose an otherwise good woman her social dominion and her husband's esteem and love, the surest is a bed temper. He distributes the qualities desirable in a wife under ten points. Two points he gives to good sense; fortune, family blood, higher education, social connections, etc., he bunches together, saying, "These must be expressed by fractions, as not one of them is entitled to the dignity of an integer." No less then four out of ten points he gives to good temper. Charles Alfred Martin
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