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Show HOW TO BECOME A NAGGING WIFE In tho July American Magazine a man who has been married for twenty-five years contributes, "A Has- f band's Story," in which ho describes as follows, a period in which his wife nagged him: "In her nervous condition she commenced, com-menced, to take extreme dislike to my frlenda and to demand that I give them up. I had made friends In the 'city; many of whom I enjoyed; who broadened my views and gave Ideas that were useful. During that 'period, It I mentioned tho fact jfft someone was' my friend, my wll fn-stantly fn-stantly was prejudiced against that person. As a result I ctasedto Invito In-vito friends to o'w apartment; tut many of them asked us to attend tittle tit-tle affairs. Several times I had half acccptod such Invitations, and when myi wlfo refused to go 1 was compell-, ed to wlthdrnw the acceptance. Soon wo found ourselves cut off from any social intercourse and closer nnd closer drawn within our own circle which consSsted of four persons, In-eluding In-eluding tho cook. All tho whllo my wlfo maintained that I was out having hav-ing n good tlmo at my work, while, sho had to remain at home with the baby. "To nvold wrangling I assumed an apologetic manner, protending to au mlt a degreo of guilt Instead of c6n-trndlctlng c6n-trndlctlng her. I strovo to calm nnd sootho her by admitting that sho waa In tho right, oven when sho was not In tho wrong. This proved pertiapH my most serious blunder. Ono frlond a doctor specializing In nervous troubles, trou-bles, seriously ndvlsed mo to robuko her sharply and to mako her understand. under-stand. I dreaded giving her tho pafn I know such n courso would cause. It would havo been bettor to do it then, for sho began to consider mo weak becauso I yielded to her, tmd to tako odvantago of this supposed, or perhaps real, weakness. So 1.119 habit of complaining nnl of adopting an accusing manner toward mo grow upon her unconsciously "I always could divert the argument argu-ment by reverting to two subjects: tho baby and the home we were to have. Wo always agreed upon these things. I. did not realize then. Ut' they were the only two things in which she really was interested, ana that the proper way to have avertert most ot the trouble was to get her. Interested In more thing -. She was rj boHlng, unconsciously, against tifi, jnarrownessther life, and resented "my broader liti In business." |