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Show terial difference between hearing a scolding intended for another fellow and getting it yourself. You enjoy his misery much as you did that of the other boy when lie got a licking at school. An occasional raking or tongue-lashing tongue-lashing can be borne without much annoyance, an-noyance, but when it comes to a regular regu-lar thing it is worse than rheumatism. Possibly you do a little of it yourself, eh? Of course you will not 'fess up that you are a scold, yet you may recall re-call the fact that you do something in that line occasionally. Women seem to be more given to this species of dev-ilishness dev-ilishness than men. At least, such is the common belief. Yes, it is devilish-ness, devilish-ness, if you ue the word according to its strict meaning that which is tormenting tor-menting or annoying. It differs from complaint and faultfinding in this: it is foolish, unnecessary, and it is indulged in as a means of satisfying an angry spirit. The voice is rasping and cross, the manner offensive, and the expres- sion of eyes and face are sour and hateful. hate-ful. ' " ' THK MOLDlNtr HABIT. What a blessing it would be for some one to invent or discover a cure for the scolding habit. It would be even better bet-ter patronized than Keeley's cure for the liquor habit. Does your wife scold If she does, you know something about it. If she does not, and your knowledge knowl-edge is limited to what you have heard of others scolding, you think you know, but you don't. There is a wide and ma- |