CURSE OF NAGGING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5442, 1 July 1929, Page 3

CURSE OF NAGGING.

■ ( I ' THE HOPE’S GREATEST DEFECT. ART- 6f KEEPING SILENT. The majority of people suffer from the curse of nagging (says a home missionary in the Melbourne Age). People should cultivate the art of keeping silent—to bear and forebear. The greatest defect in a home is continual nagging. Those who are exposed to a constant hailstorm of faultgrow hardened to it by repetiTFtion, and it makes no "healthful impression on the mind. Resentment is aroused by reproof, especially when given in public. A sensitive nature hates ridicule, and loathes comment that is unsparingly bestowed. Such natures wish that the ground would open and swallow them up. People who do • not understand what effect nagging has have much to learn and answer for, since the one lack that can never be made up while life lasts afts the lack of that which adds to ■ - happy memories. Fortunate are the men and women who, looking back, Jk recall with gratitude one whose smile was thei rsunshine and whose hands were ever ready to do a kind act. If people fid that the habit of criticising frongfully and unjustly is creeping rer them, that they are readier to ame than to praise, to reprove than to reward,, then they should call a halt. Bear in mind that fruit and flowers ripen in the sunshine and that love and affection have before now been winter killed. It is not the contents of a home, but the people in it, that make it a place of charm or a curse.