ADVANTAGES OF SELF-POSSESSION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 17, Issue 59, 27 July 1906, Page 2

ADVANTAGES OF SELF-POSSESSION.

The cool head conduces to a successful meeting of emergencies with a feeling that everything js going to come out all right. The feeling of quiet, self-control in itself makes one the better able to work towards the good result. To a mother this self-possession is invaluable. In a large family small events calculated to upset the domestic machinery constantly occur. To the mother it seems to be a law of nature that children should continually have hairbreadth escapes and come out within an inch of their lives.

But it is equally a law of nature that they should escape. And whenever the critical moment arrives in her own life or in the life of another, it is important for a woman to remember that the worst tiling she can do at that moment is to lose her head ; the best thing she can do is to k/eep her mind in control. To keep her head cool means that she is a help instead of an hindrance, an assistance instead of a drag.

In an emergency it is better to seem heartless than to be inefficient. Better be the one person who stands cooly by the sufferer and sees the way to help him than the ten persons who are ready to cry out and faint and shed tears over his calamities and pains. Affection and sympathy are sometimes best proved by ignoring them, particularly w'hen the moment arrives for action, not t