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HOT TEMPER
By ROBERT LYND
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Iwonder, However, whether great men are, on an average, con- spicuously hotter-tempered than their neighbours.
Heat In Politles.
The Very Idea!
THIS WOMAN EVIL
By Edward Kelly, Married
We have decided to let the Headache run our column to-day. As a matter of fact, we had no
We greeted Pete affectionately. "Well, Pete, old man. How's
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atlon, along the lines of the former war emeregency finance body. This bulwark undoubted- ly did much to strengthen co- fidence, if, indeed, it did not save America from a first-class disas- ter, Taking Mr. Hoover's term as a whole, it may be said that
It was recently asserted that Marlowe and Greene were more he served his day and generation the reason why so many great notoriously quarrelsome. with high integrity, paid due
Not that good temper itself is men appear to be hot-tempered is regard, without being tempted because no man ever got very far mark of supreme gentus. If into sensational experimenta, to without having strong emotions. Socrates was a confirmed smilar, say in the matter. We never the major problems contreating And men in prominent positions Milton and Dr. Johnson were in have any say.
of their liveliest moments Our headache was vaccinated his country, and endeavoured to are better able to give rein to their some
One thinks of Chaucer for small-pox the other day, and make some contribution to world emotions because there is no one scowlers.
as a man of equable temper, but the doctor must have used a issues, even though disinclined to gainsay them."
Swift had at times the fury of a to make any radical departure
gramophone needle. Since then" demon. from America's war debt policy.
she's never stopped talking. 4weaker man could have landed
To give you an instance. We In politics, perhaps, temper is his country into a far greater crisis than that at present being
commoner than in most other pro- were inveigled into a bun-fight I saw an old gentleman whack-fessions. It is not because poli-with Pete and Mrs. Watkins yes- experienced. A stronger-willeding his wife's shins with an uaticians are naturally more hot-terday, - President may have achieved brella the other day because she tempered than other people, but even less than Mr. Hoover has. had endangered her life in the because they sit more than other
traffic, but I do not think he was people on committees, and there i either a great statesmen or are few things more exasperating Horace for All
great pact. I also saw a young than sitting on committees. A "Oh, Myra, darling, it's so good man jump out of his car and knock committee is a body en which to see you again. Do you know, Few authors have had the out two of a taxi-driver's teeth everybody sees his pet schemes dear, we actually haven't seen you honour of giving their names for emerging too suddenly from blocked by the pet schemes of
"By Jove, yes. That was the DE LUXE EQUIPMENT to a dining club. Dr. Johnson is sidestrect, but, apart from this, everybody else. Every member since that night at the pictures." one of them, Omar Khayyam an- he bore little resemblance to a man of it feels that, if he were only a
of genius.
dictator, ke could accomplish night I All new Rockne Six de Luxe other. Now that the Horatian
I doubt, indeed, whether bad more in 24 hours than the com- "How long ago was that. Why, models are equipped with two Society has held its first dinner
temper of which hot temper is mittee will accomplish in a year, it must be nearly a month now. chromium-plated horns, mounted in London, Quintus Horatius merely one form-is the gift of a To a man of public spirit there No! It's just over three weeks. beneath the headlamps at the Flaccus is another. That Hor- good fairy to human beings hay can be nothing more exasperating Is it? Not Yes, it is. Just three front of the car.
ace has preserved his popularity more than it is to dogs or other than not to be a dictator. I am weeks last Friday. I remember for close on 2,000 years is not animals. If a dog is bad-tempered sure that Mussolini has been a because that was the night-,"
"I thought you'd remember. See and drive the New Rockne difficult to understand. He is pro- been incompetently brought up op he has had everything his
we take it for granted that it has much milder-tempered man since
own That was the night " Six to-day!
bably the most quotable post ha- that somebody has ill-treated it. way.
"Do be quiet, Edward. That manity has ever known. It poli- Human beings. however. have tians who understand Latin are more reasons for flaring up into a ticians seldom give exhibitions of taffeta frock, the one I just bought It is true that the leading poli- was the night I wore my pale blue fewer than they used to be, far femper than dogs. They eat more temper in Parliament. We have from Lane, Crawfords for 55. more working men and women, things. that disagree with them.
They suffer more from such only to read their biographies, You should go to Lane, Crawford's thanks to continuation classes and the Workers Education things as tight collars: I knew however, to discover that in the and see some of their marvellous,
are as quarrelsome as "a large "I got my?" Association and other aim one man who was ferociously hot privacy of Cabinet meetings they new frocks, dear."
tempered till he discovered that family of children in a' nursery lar organizations, have great for years he had been wearing can be. If you read an account
"What did you think of the picture that night. Terrible, er acquaintance with it than collars two sizes too small for him. of the meetings of Gladstone's wasn't it. lan't It a pity they аду case, They jostle each other in the Cabinet in the 'eighties, you will can't show more pictures of Clark ever before. In
imperial streets as dogs seldom do. There find as much snapping and snar- Gable and Robert Montgomery. Horace, though an
said favourite, has
things is never a
day passes, Indeed.ling going on as at a dog-fight was only saying to Edward on we that a human being has not 50 Yet most of its members belonged me out of the theatre that- to which the people of a good reasons for losing his tem-to what is probably the least hot- democracy might do well to give per if he is willing to lose his tempered nation in Europe. Hot
"Yes, you were pretty mad at attention. Though an intimate temper.
temper is the attribute of the me for losing"
"Edward! I da wish [friend of one of the most power-
You You will -800 a.red-faced man politician as good temper is, the
wouldn't laterrupt so much. ful monarchs the world has ever fuming in a restaurant because attribute of the diplomatist. known. Horace had no craving the waiter does not give him im- I am not sure, however, that was telling him that Clark Gable my favourite actor. "I adore for wealth and luxury. He was mediate and exclusive attention. even politics would not be impro-im. Don't you, dear? I think perfectly happy on his Sabine You will see him fuming still ved if the politicians became more the way he brushes back bis
Ever since the farm, with a modest competence. more hotly when the waiter spills good-natured. Nineteen hundred years before the economists, he was discern HIS WORK
ing the social implications of the "law of diminishing returns.”. With the assumption of office He had no admiration for mere by President Roosevelt, the man material size. He saw nothing who has occupied the White in record-breaking for its own. House for a period of four years sake. He would have known now becomes, plain Mr. Herbert that a nation may have the Hoover once again. In assess-wealthiest millionaires, the big- ing the value of his contribution gest building, the largest favour to his country and to the world able balance of trade, the hughest in general, the dominant fact to theatres, the fastest motorcars be kept mind is that he held the swiftest acroplanes, and exampled streas. It is there and undistinguished people of fore hardly to be wondered at contented mind. A little of the that, failing to accomplish the temper of Horace's poems might impossible, he should come in not come amiss in this world of for more than a fair"share of the twentieth cetury. criticism. Indeed, when only.
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a few drops of soup over him. If war we have suffered from a hair is too exquisite for words. I the waiter tells him that the dish pestilence of hot temper in inter-only wish Eddie wasn't so bald." for which his mouth has been national politics, and patriotism "Well, you wouldn't notice it so watering is off, the red-faced man Itself has become a form of touch much if I hadn't lost my" becomes inarticulate in his paa-liness. Or, perhaps, it is that hot "I was only telling Eddie yea- sion; I once saw a man in a coun- temper is merely a form of terday that he should try some try hotel looking as if he could egotism; and national egotism is of that new hair restorer they're commit murder because he was a disease that Has been overrun advertising. They say that it will expected to eat mutton without ning the world for some time past. restore hair in fourteen dava. It's.. red-currant jelly.
Let us, however, give hot tem-terrible the way Eddie has lost I often envy people who have per its due. It often goes with his hair since we've been married. the gift for making scenes in pu-generous and lively nature. It is Ever since he started running blic places because they usually better to see a man in a generans that stupid column in the. Tele- get their way. It is
the hot rage that in a mood of jellyfish in-uph people have been blaming tempered who get the windows difference. I should not like to lost his new hat, I can't get him me for his baldness. Since he opened or shut as they please in see going about
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"But, Arabella, you've got three hats, and I haven't even—***
"But I'll get it at the end of the month. I was just adding up my accounts yesterday, and I think I can save just enough on the com- pradore's account to visit the mil- liners. Eddie lost his only · hat. Jast month. Was it last month? No. of course not. I remember now. It was the night-
get the quickest attendance in the but Cromwell would have been a such a fool walking about the
streets without one." hotel dining-rooms. There is a less interesting man if he had been
"That's what I wanted to tell general conspiracy to humour hot-milder. Probably, every tempered peonic-to do anything man has the capacity for flying you. It was the night of the" to put an end to a scene. Even into a rage on occasion, even if he "Speaking of hats, darling, have If the hot-tempered man gets only seldom exercises it.” All the you noticed the new spring cres- 50 per cent. of his way he fre-heroes of the great plays possess tions. I think they are just too half his term had expired, Lancashire "Full Speed quently gets more of his way than it. If they did not, they could not gorgeous for words. I
asked: thanks largely to the prevailing
he would get if he had a better make such magnificent speeches.. Eddie yesterday to loan me $25 temper. depression, he was already be
It may be, then, that the ideal until he given me the housekeep- ing talked about, in America
The Gentle Shakespeare
thing is to have a reserve of rageing cheque at the end of the The British cotton industry is
In one's bosom, seldom expressed, mouth, but he simply won't. I as a disappointment. Even his
still hoping to overcome its dif
Useful a possession though a hot but ready to discharge on a worthy think men are the most selfish supporters said he was " un-
this creatures on earth. We girls give certain of himself, unskilled in culties in competing effectually temper is, however, it would be occasion. But rage like
a mistake for the hot-tempered should be left great men. It is up our lives for them, and we get politics, and timid about public in the markets of the world. In man to regard it as a form of too dangerous for motorists, for nothing in return.” feeling. He was also freely recent months the business of genius. Shakespeare, I fancy, example, and too disturbing for criticised by many Americans supplying the clothing worn by had the best temper, not the worst, common life. Let us net encour because of his long residence 800.000.000 people in India. of the Elizabethan ports. Ben age the violent-tempered, by at- abroad, which, they said, had China, and Japan, which Man-Jonson was a giant of explosi tributing their frenzy over the inflicted him with "international-chester once monopolished, has veness compared with him; and lukewarm soup to genius. ism," while some even asserted passed increasingly to the mills that he was pro-British. These, of Bombay, the-Yangtsze Valley however, must be written down and Osaka. Asia for more than very largely as the viewpoints of a generation. has been growing the ignorant and narrow-minded. in self-sufficiency in regard to on a par with the opinions of the coarser kinds of cotton gonds many neone in England who re- it uses. The Indian cotton-clad garded Mr. Hoover as anti-rice cultivator wading knee-deep British. The world depression. beside his plough in the mud carrying with it a tremendous of the Ganges swamps, unemployed problem for Amer-Chinese blue-coated millet grow- ica, as for many other countries, er industriously hoeing the rich was always a great stumbling soil of the Yellow River plain, block for the Administration no longer need to look overseas during the last two years of Mr. for the rough cloth they wear. Hoover's regime. One of the Even the well-to-do trader af ex-President's plans for dealing (Calcutta and the mandarin can with the unemployed question buy no amall portion of the finer was the accumulation" of a fabrics they affect from factories reverve of some £600,000,000 to near their homes, Lancashire relieve the workless in lean nevertheless feels itself still un- years, but these came too beaten where the best goods and soon, în
Wall Street the most up-to-date methods of slump and the farming manufacture are involved. It troubles, If he failed to has also of late considerably make any marked impression on strengthened its position by the unemployment, it was only for adoption of methods of the same reasons as other na production and unity of control tinns have undergone a similar which have reduced manufac experience-Britain included turing costs. Its 300,000 spin- namely, that the issue is one ners and weavers, in agreeing as which cannot respond to any they have recently done to re- thing short of world treatment. ductions in an already low scale In his general domestic policy, of living, have shown those char- as well as in foreign affairs, Mr. ncteristics of grit and self-denial Hoover had constant friction which have often in other flelds with Congress, which often of enterprise turned failure into baulked beneficial plans on which success. It is by no accident, he had set his heart. One piece therefore, that quotations for of real constructive work which British textlle investiments have he did was the creation of the already risen substantially on Finance Reconstruction Corpor- the London Stock Exchange.
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"That's just what I've been try-". ing to tell Pete. It was—"
"How tiresome you are, Edward. What are you stuttering and stam- mering about? He's been trying to tell you. Peter, that he lost his hat in the theatre the last time. we saw you, Myra, darling, what do you think of the ecandal about Mra. Peakingswabbersch7. Isn't it - too terrible for words. I always thought that "woman was Algood- for-nothing, but I'm not one to talk about people, so—"!
THERE, THERE!
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