Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-11-10
County, West Virginia, Thursday, November TO- 1910
ScoIding Is Unhealthy.

ScOiuln2 is Unnealtny.
A scolding man or woman cannot be
healthy. 1t is impossible. Scolding,
scolding, scolding. Every time they Ut
ter an unpleasant word or give voice to
sharp saying it reacts upon them ply
ically. 1t deranges digestion. II Sours
the digestive juices. II curdles the blood
and makes the corpuscles shiver and
shrink
1t is a dreadful habit - Scolding is.
Scolding in the morning spolls the break
fast. Scolding at noontime will destroy
the dinner. Scolding at eventide makes
the supper useless chore and clog TO
the alimentary canal.
Don't scold. Whatever else you do,
don't scold.
This does not mean that you are to be
a sniveling goody-goody II does not
mean that you are TO pretend to acquieSce
in things that you dislike, or consent to
propositions that you disagree with.
Nothing of the sort. Speak your mind.
Speak it right out in plain words. Don't
put it off until some more convenient
season. Speak right on the spot. But
there is no use of scolding.
Speaking the truth is not scolding. A
man or woman may frankly declare them
selves in opposition to other peoples no.
tionS. On all proper occasions this is
every mans duty. The honest express
sion of ofopinion reacts healthfully upon the
human system. Dodging, or pretending,
or cringing, is unwholesome. Quite as
unwholeSome as Scolding.
Scolding is always done in high key
or loud voice or disagreeable manner Of
delivery. Scolding is not exactly SIN
cere 1t is an expression Of ill-nature.
1t is not an honest attempt at correction
nor an attempt to impart information. 1t
is simply desire to make some one feel
bad, to hurt some ones feelings.
A scolder always feels bad. 1t makes
the body angular, the face haggard, the
eyes deep-set, the complexion sallow or
coarse. Scolding draws deep lines in
the face; they are not beautiful lines;
they turn downward instead Of upward.
1t is very unhealthy business. ltderangeS
the body as surely as malaria and makes
the glands sluggish, the saliva sticky, and
converts the secretionS of the liver into
gall-stones. 1t produces constipation
and loads the system with urateS.
Scolding finally becomes habit, so in
veterate, so persistent, so formidable as
to sap the physical forces and benumb
the intellectual powers. Like great,
huge cancer il absorbS the nutrition OF
the whole body and unfitS the victim for
any real healthful avocation.
Scolding is at first mistake or miShap,
then it becomes a practice. After
wards a habit and very shortly disease.
Scolding will convert red-lipped, beau
tiful girl into haggard old wretch with
sour breath and wlzened features. 1t
does more than this. 1t destroys her
health. She does not enjoy moment OF
her existence II makes ter mad to see
other people enjoy themselves. She
cackles and Kisses, SnortS and ScreeCheS
from morning until night. She had a
thousand times better have consumption
or cancer.
A sweet-tempered woman with one
eye or one leg is worth carload OF scold
ing women.
There is nothing in the world worse
than a Scolding woman, except a Scold-
ing man. His temper grows upon him.
Those who do not fear him, hate him.
Dogs flee from his presence. Domes-
tic animals shudder when he approaches.
He makes everything and everybody feel
wretched, and yet neither man nor beast
feels as wretched IS he does. OF all
creatures, he himself is the most miser-
able.
To him the fields are not green, the
skies are not blue. He hears neither
song of bird nor babble OF brook. He
hears only his harsh, stridulouS voice.
Scold, scold, scold. 1t is habit far
worse than the tobacco habitor the liquor
habit. II undermines the constitution and
converts life into bowling farce.
Don't scold. II for no other reason,
don't Scold for the sake OF your health.
No man or woman can be healthy who
scoldS.