Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25
THE ExAspERATING WOMAN.
We All knew Her and Feel Sorry for
Her-what Makes Her So, and Who
is to Blame.

We All knew Her and Feel Sorry for
Her-What Makes Her So, and Who
| is to Blame.
| A woman of prominence gives advice
| in a recent article to a man who COM
| plains of an exasperating. wife, 1T
| seems the wife, according to the hus-
| band, is principaI-y remarkable Tor
| what she is not, but has also some
marked development OF energy; she
makes speciality of misplacing the
| soap, and is careless about tooth
| brushes; she also takes upon herself
! to do the work for which servants are
: provided. This woman was also ad-
| dicted to the torn wrapper and I'M
kempt hair habits, and in general left
| eonspicuously undone the things that
| needed doing. When demonstrated
| with she reminds her husband that
| they possess mischievous children, and
calls him unreasonable and a fault
| finder.
The first suggestion in the article
was plain inference that the most
effective way to bring peace and order
| into the family would be with an axe
! The prejudice against violence having
an unfortunate method of reacting
| with unpleasant results, the puzzled
| husband is advised "to have serious
talk with his wife, or better still. since
| such women will never listen to sense"
to write her clear and kindly state
ment of things, and falling improve
ment to practically desert her for his
| club.
OF course such advice is absurd,
and would surely make matters worse.
| This woman is eXasperating because
she is not in a proper state of bodily
and mental health, and must be ex-
| peeted by her husband, and by every
] body, to be exasperating and erratlc.
The first thing to do for that woman
is to build up her health, and in no
other way can any good thing be ac-
| compished The man himself is I'M
| reasonable as most men are. He loses
! sight of the fact that his wife is in ill
health, and instead of making strenu-
Gus efforts to improve her physical and
| mental condition, he is critical and
| cold.
We all know this type OF woman and
sympathize with her deeply. She is
making mistakes all the time that are
ruin!.g her life, but is not conscious of
them because her mental condition is
warped. | want to say to this woman
| that she must not expect ilI-health and
| troublesome children to excuse her
| from efficiency as q wife and mother
! However unjust it may be, and it is
brutally so, the woman who leads a
happy life must be one for whom
allowances" do not have to be made.
When woman begins to think she
is ill-used her whole manner shows
that she carries a grievance around
with her, and unless she comes to her
senses the end of that woman is dis
tinct failure. l wish with all the
strength of my being that could make
women understand how vitality impor-
tant to them, to their children and to
their husbands, is attention to their
own health.
By health | don't mean acute things
| like colds and fevers-I mean the
female complaints that so many women
are troubled with, and which in every
case have their effect upon the view a
woman takes of her duty, upon her
! mental attitude toward the household,
and upon her own physical appearance
lhave a great sympathy for women
/ who become fretful and incapable, and
exasperating through some feminine
trouble, because they don't half realize
their condition or its cause, and it
isn't until the real poetry has gone out
of their lives, and nothing but hum
| drum hopelessness is left that they can
see where their misery originated.
The very safest way to do for women
who have mysterious aches and pains
is to take Lydla E. Pinkham's Vege-
| table Compound, for this medicine has
never hurt anybody, and it has really
| done lots of good to a great number of
women. You take. for instance, a
! young woman whose entry upon the
| incidents peculiar to womanhood is
| accompanied by unusual features, ten
! chances to one this young woman
| won't do "a thing to help herself, or no
| one she knows may know how to help
| her, or she can't get efficient help
from the family doctor to whom she
| dislilkes to talk about herself-what
| happens? Why this girl goes along,
| has great variety Of pains which she
struggles with the best she can-by
and by she gets married has children
thin, and querulous, and discouraged,
and becomes presently the exaspera-
| ting woman who can't live peaeeably
with any one no matter how amiable
| the other person or persons.
Give us more Lydia E Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and fewer exas-
perating, discouraged, sickly women.
This medicine l solemnly think would
make a stronger generation of women
! if every woman who needed it would
| take it. / never look upon a woman 9
/ face prematureiy drawn, without want
| ing to urge the use of Mrs. Pinkham' S
! medicine.
! OF curse women who have some
! female trouble won't listen to reason
until they are compelled to. but if
| they only would use ordinary COM
con sense about taking care of them
selves at the beginning, complaints
about the exasperating woman would
materially lesson.
HELEN MARVIN.