The Washington times., 1936-12-23


Before venturing an opinion, I
should like to hear what this wife
has to say about her alleged nag
ging of a husband who is such q
conspicuous go-getter and good
provider. Here's the gentleman'S
letter:
Dear Miss Fairfax:
II came to this city nine years
ago with less than a dollar in my
pocket. Within three days l had
secured a job which paid me $36
a week, and in March of the same
year / went to a dance at a social
club and met an old maid and
we were married soon afterward.
81 held my job for year and
then bought out the business, and
have been very successful ever
since. have earned enough to
buy us a nice home, and we are
getting along well financially.
SEES DARK SIDE
'My wife has never looked on
the bright side of things. Cold
water is thrown on everything.
She doesn't want to go to dances,
or to have company in our lovely
home, which is well furnished and
swell.
"We are free from debt. Yet
she is always grabbing about the
way other people live. She never
meets any new people without tell
ing them, the first thing, about
our diSagreementS.
"She claims to be very religious,
and when 1 take her to church on
Sundays, before we go many
blocks, she will commence to nag
about something or somebody.
"She is always grabbing about
other people but she cannot see
that the trouble is with herself
and that she is making life mis-
erable for me. JACK"
The foregoing is only one side
of the story. The wife's would
be equally interesting, but she
has not written.
SOMETHING WRONG
If a woman has all of these
blessings including a husband
who walked into town with less
than a dollar in his pocket and
in a short time owned his own
business, and later bought his
home which he tells me is beau
tiful-there must be something
radically wrong with her II she
nagS.
Her nagging must be the re-
suit of physical illness or over
wrought nerves, and the most
sensible course for the husband
would be to insist upon his Wlte
consulting a doctor, or to have
her psycho-analyzed.
There are a lot of people-and
they're not confined to the fem
mine sex, either-who get a tre-
mendous kick out of nagglng. It's
meat and drink to them. Grum-
bling, fault-finding, talking to
themselves, seems to give them
some sort of release.
And if the other members OF
the family could only ring off"
their ears, or turn a knob, as we
do when a bore is on the radio, 1t
would be a splendid solution OF
life with the fault-finders.
MADDENING HABIT
Nothing is more maddening than
mumbling, grumbling and nagglng,
and whether it's a release to over
wrought nerves or not, neither
husbands nor wives should be
called upon to put up with it.
We make no promises to that
effect in the marriage ceremony,
though, Heaven knows, the nagger
is taken for worse instead of bet
ter.
Perhaps this little honily may
meet the eye of the lady who has
been branded as an inexcusable
fault-finder, and she will write
and give us her side of the story,
which we shall be very glad to
print.
This column aims to be fair
and free from prejudice. And,
remembering that the umpire is
apt to get the worst of it, there is
a measure of self-preservation in
the offer to hear and print both
sides of the case.