Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-10-20

There is one text in the Bible that
every woman should have framed, and
hung above her dressing table where she
will see IL every time che powders her
nose. It's that one which tells us on
Divine Authority that we are not henrd
for our much speaking.
Which means that saying the same
thing over millions Of times doesn't get
us anywhere. or add one iota to the
strength of our proposition, or make any
one q particle more willing TO listen
attentively to us.
OF course women will never believe
this because they have got an rnshak-
able faith in the multiplicity OF words,
and they firmly believe that the con
tinual drip, drip, drip Of the same advice,
or the same reprosch, will wear away
the stoniest resistance.
This is far from being true. On the
contrary we will all listen once with an
open mind to anybody's statement of a
case, but when they thrust it upon us IN
season, and out Of season, we get our
backs up, and get just as stubborn as
any balky mule.
II is because mothers correct their
children too much, and too often that
they never succeed in correcting their
faults at all. You will often hear n
woman say peevishly, IL don't know
what | am going to do about Johnny 5
l'table manners. There isn't n meal that |
don't tell him n dozen times not 10 eat
with his knife" Or she will say, Heaven
knows how will break Mary Of shifting
| am at her all day long about il"
| That's the trouble She has nngged
her children about their bad habits until
she has made them stubborn, or else they
have heard the same criticism so often
that it has ceased TO make the least
impression on them Yet one real, quiet,
hesrt-to heart talk with Johnny, IN
which he was made TO understand that
gentlemen do not perform the sword
swallowing act at dinner, would have
cured him forever. Nor would Mary
have snihled another sniffle If mother
had taken her aside, and made her under
stand, once for all, that she was making
herself On object of ridicule.
Some children once explained TO M
that the reason they never paid an
attention TO what their mother said u
them was because she always sai'
"don't" to everything they wanted u
do, and was always after them abou
what they did, anyway, so they ha'
! figured it out that they might just a
well do as they pleased. After all main
tanning ones authority over children
| very much like maintaining disciphn
4 in m army. II is the crisp, short CON
' mand that is obeyed. Not the etern'
, arguing and bickering' But mother
o haven't found this out.
1t is woman's inability to soy thin
o once, and be done with it that docs mol
= than anything else 10 ALLEVIATE the affe'
q ton of husbands from their wives, an
Q destroy all confidence between then
The natural impulse Of young husban
a is 10 tell his bride everything to rela'
= TO her the story of his life, TO tell h
of the mistakes he makes, because
}. Graves her sympathy.
= Most men start out this way, but te
4 men ever repeat the mistake for tht
r find that their wives harp upon any err
they have committed and that the
g never hear the last OF it. Wives arc o
o ways holding postmortems upon u
4 weakness TO which their husbands ha'
: confessed Let there be a shortage
q money, and wife will remind her hu
!. band Of money he loaned frieI
70 twenty years ago, and that was nev
repaid. Let him once in his youth ha
>. been drunk, and she will throw it in !