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up appearances and you did keep up appearances. A child growing up in that kind of a life begins to keep up appearances before he's three.

I had a sister who had an extraordinarily bad temper as a child - terrible, frightful temper. She behaved like the very devil and would fly into a fit. The chief argument used on her by her parents to make her behave was, “What will people think? Now you can't act like that. After all, Cousin Lucinda is visiting. You can't behave like that. Cousin Lucinda will be shocked at you. What will Cousin Lucinda think of the family? What will Cousin Lucinda think of you? There's company in the house. You can't do that.”

That was the most persuasive argument to keep her natural fly-off temper under controls. That's what happens to people who have got to be under a pretense. There was a famous case in our family, which I'll go into, because I once told it to FDR and he said, “The same thing used to happen to me.” This tempery sister of mine had this same argument used on her all the time. At one time it was Cousin Charles who was visiting. He used to come and stay for a long period. He'd been company, so she couldn't have a fit of temper. She must behave. She musn't be selfish and take things from other people. She must keep her temper down because we had company in the house - Cousin Charles.