A Valuable Temper Fumigator by Mrs. H. E. Warner

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1910

A Valuable Temper Fumigator

By Mrs. H. E. Warner

MRS. H. E. WARNER

It seems to me that most people do not appreciate the value of fresh air as a temper fumigator. More bad temper can be blown away by a good ten-minute walk than can be gotten rid of indoors in two or three hours. The other afternoon I was very much discouraged. I had been needlessly disappointed by some one. I had tried very hard not to think the disagreeable things that came to my mind, but had ended in thinking them over and over. I was lying on the couch, reflecting on my own and other people’s sins, when a walk was suggested.

At first I demurred. I was too blue not to demur at any suggestion whatsoever. But the sight of the snowflakes won me over, for there is nothing I like better than a walk in the snow.

So I went. And an hour later I came back. But not the I of the “blue mood.” No, indeed! an entirely made-over “I”—a magnanimous “I” who freely forgave my disappointer,—a hilariously cheerful “I,” who walked the mile, saying,—

“The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

This is not an argument for letting one’s passions rise; far from it! merely a suggestion that, when you feel blue, instead of staying in the house and repressing your feelings, you go out for a walk, or take a run in the garden, and get rid of your depressed spirits.

How about it? Isn’t it a plan you might with benefit apply to your family, or even to yourself?

Clintonville, Conn.