The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-07
AACCINC WOMEN
MAKE MUCH TROUBLE
The Wife Has Her Husbands
Life i'm Her Hands to
Make or Mar

Nagging women are among the Ills
that masculine flesh is heir to at times.
and the man who has to contend with
them is much to be pitied. For say
what you will, when a woman marries
she has a mans life in her hands to
make or mar. This is not to say, how
ever, that all domestic clashes are the
fault of women; far from 1T, as some
men are impossible to get along with
and treat their wives abominably.
But given a normal man and a normal
woman, and it is the latter who can
make their lives what she pleaseS.
She must use tact and diplomacy, she
must often give in, often appear to
give in when she does not, and must
not expect man to be an angel
But there are women who just natu
rally nag. They are not happy unless
they are pointing a moral with some
thing done by their husbands during
done by them. When a man comes
home tired at night after a strenuous
business day the following converSa-
ton often takes place:
Mrs. Nag-Did you get that book 1
asked you for, John?
Mr. My Jove, I forgot that
Mrs. Nag-Oh, of course. 1 might
have known that. Why in the world I
should expect you to remember any
thing after my long acquaintance with
you, don't know. 1 don't suppose you
forgot to get your lunch, or to smoke
a cigar after it, or that you forgot any
thing which was for your own comfort.
That's the way with men-etc.
Now does anyone wonder that that
man goes out after dinner when he had
int nded to spend the evening at
home? OF course this is but a mild
sample of your nagging woman. Often
she weepS, many times she loses her
fnYD haT.
she gives one an excellent imitation Of
shrew. If the husband does not take
TO drink, he is a very decent sort of a
man.
Women do not realize how complete
ly business abSorbs a man when once
downtown, and how completely every
thing else goes out of his mind. Com
petition is so keen that one has to be
up and doing all the time, and proba-
Oily IL he was not the nagging woman
would have more fault to find with
him. Women who have been in bust
ness themselves are more likely to
realize these things, and they are
great deal more charitable toward
men. 1t is a mistake for a woman to
hgive her husband a long list of errands
when he starts out in the morning, for
ten to one he never thinks of them
until he sees her again in the
evening. 1t is very much better for
a woman to do all the shopping as well
astqe housekeeping, as it is conducive
to less friction.
The scolding, nagging woman has
much to answer for in the ruination Of
men. 1t is bad enough when a woman
constantly scolds in private, but when
she takes to lecturing her husband in
public she is forgetting her own dig
nifty and his. A visitor to the fair at
81 LOUIS last summer told the writer
OF a painful scene she witnessed in a
Weir known restaurant. AT one of the
tables sat a man, woman and little
boy, and the woman was Scolding her
husband in such loud and shrill tone
that all the persons at neighboring ia
Dies were too interested to eat their
luncheon. The man, who looked like
a gentleman, sat utterly cowed, with
MS head bent, modification eating into
ms soul, the boy was pale with fright
and the handsome, we'll dressed woman
was saying things to the man which
should never have been said outside
OF the privacy of their own apart
ments. She informed him that she
knew where he had been; that he
could not fool her, and that she would
pay MIN up for everything he had
zone. Her excitement caused her TO
shake with rage
When she finished those at nearby
tables fairly gasped, and the husband
iOONou DIS IL ne wanted the earth to
open and let him down. Now grant
Ing that the husband deserved ali that
she sald and that he had given her
cause for wrath, the woman simplv
put herself beyond the pale of decency
by her actions, and instead of talking
her husband into a repentant frame Of
mind, she made the breach between
them widen. 1t was a disgraceful
scene. Of course there is only now
and then a woman so dead to tbe e.
ness of things as to nag her husband
IN public, but there are untold numbers
OF wives whose husbands cannot look
forward to the peaceful evening thew
nave right to expect after working
hard All day. Men are not angels. but
are HkeLy to be angelic if it is ex-
of course q Aiallei