The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-24
MLIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES.'

Women develop Nneurasthenia, ner-
Vousness and nervous prostration, ana
have nervous breakdowns when they get
well started out on their long stretch OF
everyday life largely because their early
training does not fit them for life as
housewives, according to Dr. A. Myer-
son.
Girls are trained to vanity, to emo
tionality and to romantic ideals. Their
training, including their reading, their
visits to the theater, and their CONVEX
sations with comrades train them az
mirably for courtship, but not for life
beyond that point.
Our social machinery makes for dis
content OF women, and this, with the
bad fundamental training, makes COM
bination which many women cannot
withstand 1t de-energizes them and
out of this process long continued, nag
cling, day after day, there arises state
OF nervousness or worse.
To the development Of nervousness
several factors contribute. One is the
type of woman. Myerson tells us GER
tain types Of women are fairly certa1R
to develop some degree of Ill balance
under the prolonged strain Of life. These
are: The hyperesthetic, the overcon-
scientious the overemotional, the nom
domestic, the neurotic, the physically i'll.
1t must be remembered, however, that
many women belonging to one Of those
types or having well developed Gualitiese
found In more than one type develop
Into fine wives and mothers. Much de-
ponds on the husbands they marry and
the environments they find themselves
in. Therefore, DIR. Myerson next dis
cusses the environmental factors which
contribute to the making of the nervous
housewife.
He first discusses the housework and
nP bo f1nn
makes for nervousness 1t is isolated,
monotonons, sedentary, and, In the
main, disagreeable. While there are
neura sthenic women among the idle rich,
poverty and hard work are more force
full factors in nervousness.
The next environment factor dis
cussed by Myerson is the housewives
failure properly to react to the disagree
able. The phase OF this subject dis
cussea is the worry of mother about
her children, their Illnesses, their be-
havior, conduct, school troubles, and
failures in social adjustments.
Poverty is a powerful factor in pro-
ducing nervousness We are in an era
OF discomfort. Those of US less we'll off
try to initiate those who have larger
incomes. Envy. jealousy, covetousness
the sins condemned in the tenth COM
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to the nervous
ness Of housewives.
MyerSOn says the most SucceSSlt III
commercial minds in America are in q
conspiracy against the poor housewife
TO make her DISCONTINUED with her !ot
by increasing her desires.
The husband she nlarries may be a
very large factor in making the house
wife q nervous invalid Household con-
fiicts are q contributing factor. FIX
travagance, difficulty over money mat
ters, high cost of living, envy, jealousy,
training and care of children, sexual dis
loyalty, alcoholism, the use Of ether
drugs petty annoyances are others. My
erson says: THE fercest domestic con-
1licts arise out of the inherent childish
ness of men and women" He exclains
Glow much harm the romantic tales
have done to marriage"
An interesting chapter is that which
deals with symptoms as weapons used
By the nervous housewife to get what
she wants from husband children
Some nervous women who cannot gain
what they want by force ordinary STRAIT
egy, or ordinary persuasion. succeed
through weakness and by playing or
sympathy. This reacts on the woman
greatly increasing her nervousness.
An influx of American labor to Mex.
leo. especially to the OIL regions, is
causing much concern to government
officials. who are receiving complaints
daily from Mexican WorkInen's organic