Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-05-21
The Woman who Nags.
DIR. CYRUS EDISON CALLS NAGGING
THE BEGINNING OF INSANITY
HOW 1T KILLS LOVE.

DIR. CYRUS EDISON CALLS NAGGING
THE BEGINNING OF INSANITY
HOW 1T KILLS LOVE.
When Douglas Jerrold wrote that
most interesting series, " Mrs. eau.
dies Curtain Lectures" he made all
men and women who read them
laugh most heartily. He drew
fairly enough the portrait of the
nagging woman; the woman who
ceaseiessly complains and scolds, and
generally makes nuisance of her
self to every one who is cursed by
being brought into contact with her,
says DIR. Cyrus Edison in the current
number of the North american Re-
Uie,C.
There is scientific aspect of this
habit of nagging and scolding.-
First, the effect of it on the person
who nags; second, that on those who
are nagged. Regarding the former,
it must be promised that perfect
health has, as one of its factors, con-
content of mind.
A nervous man or woman who is
gloomy, dissatisfied, worried from
any cause, cannot enjoy good health.
This mental turmoil produces as
one Of its primary effects an inability
to digest food properly. The blood
that should supply the force neces-
sary for digestion is continually
drawn away from the stomach by
the excitement in the brain, and the
woman who nags must suffer.
While there be those whose ten
dency to lay on fat is so great that
nothing will stop it, a nagging man
or woman Is generally thin. Their
habit Of mind has partially starved
their bodies.
1t is a physical law that when ma
ture attacks the health of an individ-
ual, she calls to her aid ipnumerable
factors or agencies, all of which tend
to assist her in her destructive work /;
and this inability to properly digest,
originally brought on by nagging,
has its reflex action on the brain, and
greatly increases the desire to nag.
L have seen two cases of what
3 h kspeare calls "these cursed
shrews," who died really as the re-
suit of the violence of their own
tempers. 1t is more common, how
ever, to find that this habit of dis
satisfaction with all the acts of 9TH
ers produces, in time, some form of
insanity.
The excessive excitement wears
the brain out at last. The Chinese
punishment Of lack of sleep pro-
duces mania about the thirteenth
day, and, although the influence to
which naggers subject their own
brains are not as acute, they in time
are apt to bring about the same re-
suit. These people never give their
brains the rest of cententment.-
They are never satisfied with any
thing done by others. AS over two
thirds of their grievances are only
imaginary-that is, over two-thirds
OF the grievances for which they
could have no existence except as
inventions of their own dIsordered
brains-the inability OF insanity to
distinguish between the real and un-
real has begun to show itself.
In view of the misery and unhap-
piness which naggers infiict on those
around them, we need not waste
much pity on them. The sooner
they kill themselves, the sooner the
insanity so far develops as to make
IL possible to place them i'm an asy-
luhi, the better it is for every one !;
for naggers are curse not only to
themselves (they are most unhappy
people, but every one. More than
this, they do fearful amount of
harm.
Take, for example, busy man
whose unkind fate has given him q
nagger for wife. In this day and
generation, to say a man is busy i'm
plies that he has need of every parti-
Gle Of force his food will supply to
carry on his work. When this man
comes home from his Office he must
have rest. This is not thing he
may dispense with; he must have
| it.
When he takes his food he must
be let alone, so that his blood will
find its way to the stomach, and
there enable him to properly digest
that food, so that he may acquire 6
fresh store of force for use on the
morrow.
If he does not get this force, then
to do his work, he must by the aiC
of stimulants, attract the necessary
force from the reserves. These re-
serves we call stamina. Now, this
means nervous exhaustion sooner OIL
later, or else "this way madness
lies.n
The man. comes home. and the
nagging wife begins. If the man be
physically strong, fair-minded anC
just, his mind will revolt in time
from the injustice of his wife's &C
cusations. 1t is the popularity o.
the nagger to enormously exaggerat,