CONTROL YOURSELF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 35

CONTROL YOURSELF.

Never give way to fits of ill-temper. Every sensible woman ought to be aware that bad temper and worry will trace more wrinkles in a week than hot and cold bathing and massage and complexion brushes and creams and lotions can remove in a year's faithful application. Physicians assert that an immense amount

of nerve-force is expended in every fit of time, but it actually shortens life. Morebad temper ; that when one little part of over, every time she loses control of her the nervous system is injuriously affected, temper she unhinges a moral brain-cell and the face first records it. The eyes begin to '• weakens by several degrees her capacity lose the lustre of youth, muscles become : fur self-control. flabby, the skin refuses to contract accord- [ The oftener she perin jts herself to iningly, and the inevitable result is wrinkles ; (]ul in what she Sieves to be r i g hteous — women s fiercest and most insidious foe. , indignation, the more frequently she finds Indulging in a fit of ill-temper not only , such occasions jjresenfcing themselves, for makes a woman old and ugly before her : life is full of such irritating opportunities.

It is these frequent bursts of passion that prevent women from growing old so beautifully that they seem to retain their youth- ■ ful attractions, and, like a tree, become more amiable with age. A mouth that from habit has set itse'.f in an aggrieved or hard line soon settles in a grim curve that writes years of age upon \ a woman's face, and imparts a discontented and disagreeable expression which repels ;

all desire for intimacy on the part of her acquaintances. No matter how beautiful and brainy and fascinating the bad-tempered woman may be, or how lengthy her bank account, her power is infinitesimal compared with that of her amiable sister. And amiability is not only power ; it is mental progression, health, happiness, and long life to one's self and to one's friends and family.