Social Moods.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 428, 28 July 1904, Page 8

Social Moods.

NERVES AND NAGGrING. ijO|rOME women 'nag' out of sheet I j§sSto bad-btartednesa j but the majority SJjjgJg ot: ' wearing, worrying women are j ust overwrought and tired out—- : and don't know it. Some women nag because they are un- | happy, and want to make others jctßt as I miserable as they feel themselves More louUn it is the conscientious, unselfish woman, full as Maitha of household cares, who wears her family '. to a threadpsper' in her efforts to make them comfortable, asd train her children to be good and tidy. Husband John has several 'annoying habit?. He is hopelessly untidy. Whereevsr he goes he leaves a litter behind him. Tae worried little wife doesn't realise tbat this is part and parcel of the man's temperament. Juafc as a monkey climbs trees, and nightingales sing at 12 p.m., so jsome men never can be taught to be I methodical. j That endless desire to alter a husband's 'habits, and to interfere wfth their chilidrcn's temperaments, so as to produce cut land dried little machines, instead of ikuman bairns, causes more illness than {strong tea, tight-lacing, and all the other jhealfch bankruptcies women are so fond of 'committing. '. ■■•'■ j Nowadays we hear much of germi being (the cause of disease. But no men—and (few. doctors—know what terrible ravages jare made in women's health by the microbes jof monotony. Oh, that deadly, eternal monotony! One day just like another. Monday, sort the linen for the laundry j Tuesday, drawing-rcom turned out, china dusted. Then the end of the week, with piles of stockings to be seen to. It isn't the work of it. Every gocd woman likes io fimploy her fingers, heart, and head in adding to the comfort and happiness of her home. Batthe treacteiH sameness of Sajs and weeks t'.rea her out. Selfiab, shallow-hearted wonun, loving pleasure and shirking all responsibilities, rarely nag. Th6ir nerves are steady, they enjoy life, have ' a good time,' and don't worry aVout anything; It must be confessed that they are easier to live with. Andthia is the secret of the singular devotion some men shower , on selfish, heartless, and utterly worthless women. A husband doesn't stop to consider that his wife's tendency to worry and nag over trifles is owing to the little a-oiui-uj i>eing tired, out and peevish with welldoing, and her heroic efforts to -make tho home happy. Men are very unjust in th.ae oases. They look at results. The wife is cross, or short in her answers sometimes. He dubß her bad-tempered. All the time she is aching for a little sympathy and love. If he would only say sometimes,' Look here, little one, yon are doing too much. I don't want my little wife to bea household drudge. Come out and dine at a restaurant, and we'll pretend we're courting all over again,' there wouldn't be any nagging and blues for a x long time after that. But he doesn't, .