The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-22
DON'T scoLD.

"" @~oss. VI D VSSy uuG tnat yUu have more to contend with than any per son you ever saw, bat
 Don't scold.
 Your children, of course are worse than any children you ever saw, and want to eat oftener than any children in the world; they are harder to get to sleep and are easier to wake up than any other children, but s1sge
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 Your hired girl is the worst in town and you can do ten pieces of work while she is doing one, and nothing she does is done right, but
 Don't scold.
 Your husband is the most careless man in the world he never knows where to put anything; he is nervous when he should be in good humor torgess things that he should remember seems to think of everything but home: can't rock a child to sleep as well as you can forgot te leave the grocery book as he gent down town; forgot to bring up a pair of shoes; didn't think to order a load of wood, but hang it,
 Don't scold.
 Why! Simply becasse it will do no good. lfyour husband is nervous it will make him more so. If he is forgetful it will not in the least tend to cultivate retentive memory. What mnsf you do. eh! Stop and think. That's all right now, don't say that all of the lectures are for the women and not for the men. Men have to hustle like to deuce for bread. They possibly deserve no credit for it because they do it through affec- ton, yet they do it. Men have received more lectures than women have. The sentimentalist has ever taken the part oi women. A man has fifteen thousand and one vexations down town that he probably does not speak of at home. He has been out all day working for a living and he goes home to rest. Of course you are not expected to go around on tip-toe as though some one is i'll, but Ii makes him think more of his home ii you meet him with smile No, you are not expected to laugh every time your husband comes home. No one said you had to laugh, but you would make Mir. So- and-So feel much better by meeting him with smile. You have been neglectine this. Yes you have, and you needn't deny it. You have been looking sour al him when he came home. He has been absorbed in something that you don', care to understand. Don't say he has been down town enjoying himself Prob ably he hasn't.
 Don, scold.
 Give the poor fellew half of show, will you You have tn ought that you were very smart when you asked him ques- ton that he could not answer immediately He may have forgotten where he was at a certain time. He may be honest bu, forgetful. "Oh. yes" some fellow who wants to be sentimental will hop up and say, "L Look at the husbands who abuse their wives.' Hold on there, silvery- tipped artist of sentiment. you are no doub, the respected champion of a glorious cause, but hold on. The man who mstreats his wife is too mean for the severest kind of punishment He is not in any respect a gentleman. He is not considered in this discussion. He couldn't be discussed with us. He is be. yond the line. This conversation is within the border of refined considers- ton.
 Don't sccld.
 The main poin, in ,hls thing is to re- spectiully request that no one will scold There is nothing that makes a com munity 50 unsatisfactory as scold. In this regard. the smallest kind of a cloud can create the worst kind of hurricane. but there is remedy for this
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 An, yes. Mrs. Piggleworth, you think that mean advantage has been taken of you, eh: Yes. you always think that every one IS wrong and that you are right. But there IS a way that you can do great work for your fellow citizens. and that Is,
 Don't scold.