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Show THE TOWER 1 BY EDNA EG AN. : 1 ICfgi HERE aro few tilings that can " Italia cause ono more heartache- -',5 i l&fgJ than to be reproved in an angry tone. Mothers especial- i ly should try to overcome this habit. ,T I Children aro tantalizing at times we '1c i all admit this, but each one of us has , k been a child, nnd perhaps we, too, PS often broke the rules laid down for us. It Ib when young people are going i to work their first positions proba- ioj bly that the employer Bhould rc- member his or her first days in the m i business world, and give tho young jj ; man or woman a fair chance to show what ho or she can do. To lose pa- 9v ' tiencc with them to speak in an angry je 1 tone because of some unconscious mis- take tho result of inexperience, is Dot i the act of a right thinking man or ig woman. Many young porsons who now hold responsible positions look p back with terror on their first "boss," Q-f whose Inconsideration and sarcasm t$ made life a nightmare in the first few IJ days of their business career. 12 i a Giving way to anger is taking a most ,unfair advantage of tho person who is S compelled to listen. Heaven knows 'SS,' we all have failings, but why be tnken uuklndy and sarcastically to task for jg them? A good old man once gave thl3 'Jje advice to a young person who had a S' lofty idea of himself "Remember a i gentleman should never lot his temper 4!' get the better of him. When the angry ' word rises to your lips, stop to count j W seven; if still inclined to give way to ife your anger, count twenty, and by that , time you will have como to your senses , will have won a victory over your- . rJ, self and most likely over the person who provokes you." , '.i Ono story of tho great war now rag- 'c ing in Europe relates that during a : j petty quarrel a little French bride ; drove her young hnsband away frcm I -j her with angry words. That very day L, he joined tho army, and was killed in ' 'V his first engagement Can any one I rw- nipfnrr ihr nnmilcT. rt i. ii1a lirMa ti ;,C8J when news was brought to her of her t f husband's death? Tho memory of : those last angry words she addressed ; tv to him will always remain with her, f I'.g and timo or distance will never effffaco j f. them. I I . ' M? Anger serves absolutely no purpose. A trivial matter that amounts to noth- ' Ing will cause lifelong friends to be- i k j come bitter enemies. Spite fences : law suits oven the taking of human 5 . life have resulted from giving way to ;. tjD an angry mood. The man or woman j -0j( who makes no effort to overcome tbl '-fof habit shoud certainly follow tho ad- ? , aj.( vice of the gentle old man quoted li:tc, above. Smoothing over any llttlo dU jWrnt Acuity Is accomplishing a sort of feat. 0 because "little difficulties" can in 'IkVi flash become gigantic troubles, and fil' IF am gantic troubles tako a long time ver llt'lj often a lifetimo to rectify. Vf-' |