Show f r F if i 9 t DIX TADS Rr Ry DOROTHY Dl the UK s j V ITS IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE BUT LOVE IS THE BASIS OF MOST NAG NAG- NAGGING HOWEVER GING-HOWEVER GING HOWEVER THERES THERE'S LITTLE HOPE FOR CURING CURINGA A WOMAN OF THIS BAD DAD HABIT FOR A NAGGER I NIVER ADMITS SHE NAGS I A MUCH HARASSED man a wants to Know now hy women nag mIg Oh fo for forA A A various and sundry reasons the Hie principal one o of which la 13 10 lose e eI I This Is a haul bald sayIng and difficult o of belief behe by those who Rho ho al ate aie e the vic vie victims victims tims of the nagger but It Is true nevertheless ne h The more the th average woman loves her Ls Lsd J d husband and children the more re she torments them All of her thoughts and interests and 4 anxieties are centered on them so eo exclusive exclusive- exclusively exclusively ly Iy that she the cannot let them alone for a min minute ute She Sh IS if Just bound to be a special provi providence l dence dense watching over them guarding them k l dIrecting their every movement t 4 L fi 1 lr IT Is love not hate nor the tho desire to make herself s 4 A 5 disagreeable and A spoil spot t 1 that makes makE's a wife Ife W Y fv f i nag nas her husband for forty veirs errs rs about smoking trucking that riI l mikes makes her rum every cry meal b bv telling telline him how bad bac T j e ev CB cv thing thine lie he likes to cit ett Is for tor or hIs bis stomach that k 1 i jy makes her 1 also alse the same salUe amo objection to his gOing coins out out out- ever eser time he puts on hi his hie hat that makes makE's her warn aln Ul DIJ him esery c e try Ery morning mornine of or his life Ilfe not to get sot run oser ov 0 er by an automobile and to be sure iuro to change chance his shoes shoos if ho be gels bels bis his feet wet It is love lose that makes a mother nag naR her children ren about every they do and leave lease undone about sitting up late ite and going come out to 1011 lies about short skirts and bobbed hall and red flannel about the places they thy go so to 10 and the plans plan's they stay slay away from about the bass bOls and gIrls Ih they y run with about their uprisings Rn and 1 their down sittings about everything e eer er thing she l kno knows s and doesn't kno know and suspects If P C It is Ie the overanxious wives and mothers mother who are the champion naggers nagger and who drive their families wild wIth their incessant warnings objections and ad advice A woman who grants her husband and children any liberty of thought or ac ac- action ac action tion is either Indifferent to them or else a Solomon In petti- petti petticoats petti petticoats coats and feminine are few and far between Another reason why women nag Is because they pin their faith to the moral taught by the parable of the th persistent lady and the unjust Judge In the Bible They have ascertained from personal experience exp that it works out In real life and that you can worry people Into doing almost anything If you harp long enough on a single string It will get on anyone's any ones one's nerves and he or she will give in to you to have peace millions of women dally pI ole the efficacy of ot Iho the nag nagging ging method in getting gEllIng what hat they I want ant For It avails a n man roan noth nothing fog ing it J his wife Ife is a nagger naseer to say with 1111 firmness and decision or even with lIh an oath that ho lie cannot afford a new nE car and that he will not leal e ethe the comfortable bIg bis old house bouse on an unfashionable sheet sll to go so to 11 hw e In a cubicle In a smart apartment building The nagger monologues about the defects of or the old car and I the theold he old od house until her words ate ale like a swarm ot of mosquitoes continually buzzIng about nib his ealS eais eai and ami o of which he cannot rid himself She throws s the old cat cal and the oil bouse house Into his teeth so to speak at every eiery meal It Is the last thing thine ho be heirs rs at night and the first firt thing thine In the morn mornIng mornIng mornIne Ing She keeps everlastingly at him until finally 11 in Jn desperation he gl es esIn In for the rake Bake ot or peace and because he kno knows s that it IC lie he doesn't he wm will willbe r be nagged Into a pad padded ed cell In la a madhouse Another reason why women nag Is because most of them have a very narrow range of Interests Hence Henc they have to tomake tomake mak make the most of little things They cannot let bygones be by- by bygones by bygones gones and nd drop a subject and let it rest They Tick lick the phI phIlosophy philosophy philosophy that enables them to let a grievance become a closed Incident and forget it 1115 Is 1 hy a woman oman will nag nac her lier husband about a bad estmEnt he made and on which he lost moue mone twenty Enty vears ears ago even it if he helIas has lIas made a b bv good trade since ince It Is why hy a woman 1 will II nag nacher I her husky hU k middle aged man about eating highly seasoned food bEcause lIe he had n a delicate stomach when he was as a teething infant It Is ll why mistresses es nag cooks out oE of the kitchen b by tellIng them over oler e everyday ery day of or the 1 just what hat particular spoon to use In stirling the oat oatmeal meal IDeal and not tp to forget to wipe pipe out the e sin sink Finally women nag because they are human and only the fewest number of people have the strength of mind to say a athing athing athing thing once and let it go at that A A WOMAN orAN rarely does this She feels that she strengthens an LL lion by repeating It a million times ie and she accounts It unto her her- herself Fe self J for foi righteousness for never Weser pel permitting her bEr family amIly to forget their mistakes and for keeping their 1 weaknesses ever before them So she becomes that pest peat of society and bane of or the home a nagger 1 There is no more pernicious vice than nagging A woman can have no possible fault that will so surely surety kill love an and d alienate her husband and children from her There is no weapon like a for breaking up the peace and comfort of a home I BUT DUT there Is little hope o of ever eier curing any woman ot of o this bad habit For the naggEr nel never Weser er admits that she the nags nas I DOROTHY DIX Copyright 1925 b b Public Ledger Company I |