Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 203, 3 July 1913 — Page 8

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PAGE EIGHT THE RICHSIOND PAIiLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY S, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME

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Cause of Nagging

Brain Itch; a Suggestion Curing. for BY DOROTHY DIX. T HE why of the nagger has Just been scientifically ascertained. Most of us who suffer from this affliction have been of the opinion that it it. Just pure and unadulterated cuse e d n e b s that makes a nagger nag. A learned psychologist says that this is a mistake, and that nagging is brain itch, and that a person suffering from this complaint tries to re lieve it by scratching with the tongue, and, as it is impossible to scratch the brain itself, he or she tries to allay the irritation by scratching the nearest individual. "The brain," says this scientist, "can be irritated just the same as the skin by body poisons due to fatigue, worry and illness. Nagging is the effort to relieve the subconscious itching of brain nerves and cells. It more often occurs in women than in men. Not on account of an inferior nature or lesser control over temper, but because woman Is more sensitive to brain irritation, has fewer opportunities to relieve her feelings and impulses. r "To return to the analogy of a nag- ) ting skin. If you continue to give way to it, to scratch it and tear it, a sore soon appears and finally ulcers. The skin nagging is fastened upon you and you are unfit for work or companionship. If instead of scratching and slapping back at the skin you discover the cause of the irritation and get rid 'of It, the nagging ceases and the skin returns to a healthy state. "So with the brain. You can nag until you make sore spots, psychologically speaking, in the brain stuff. To Cease Saying Hateful Things a , Sure Cure For Nagging. ' "Then you become the chronic nagger. The remedy for this is to quit scratching the brain by means of saying hateful things to those about you and to find out what causes the brain irritation and relieve that. This can often be done by simple medical treatment, or by change of scene or some slight diversion, even a walk in the open air." This scientific theory of nagging each of us can confirm from our own experience. Probably there is no one who does not know what it is to have flashed out, in some moment of physical exhaustion, a bitter speech that he or she would have given worlds to have recalled the next Instant, or who doesn't experience the temptation it is to harp on old grievances when one is half sick and nervous, and unstrung. Nagging is at the bottom of almost all domestic misery. It breaks up far more homes than drink or infidelity. A woman can, and does, forgive the husband who looks too often upon the flowing bowl if he is pleasant and agreeable at home in the times between hts sprees. A wife is also conveniently blind to her husband's sidestepping from the straight and narrow path if in his own domestic circle he is courteous, gallant and appreciative. Likewise a man will put up with a deal of bad housekeeping and pay extravagant bills without a murmur so long as his wife is amiable, and good humored, and doesn't try to Lenpeck him. But the woman who comes to hate her husband is she who is married to the man who is Chief Knocker in the Amalgamated Hammer Wielders' Union, and who finds fault with everything that she does, or doesn't do. The -woman who kills her husband's love, and brings him to the place where he feels that he is entering a prison when he puts his key in his own front door, la the perpetual grouch, who frets and whines, and complains because she can't have this, and she can't do that, and her husband does do this, and he doesn't do that. Love will stand every thing but nagging. When it encounters that it just turns up its toes and dies. Heretofore there has seemed to be no cure for this most common and deadly enemy of domestic happiness, bat the discovery of this scientist that nagging is really a symptom of a brain disorder that can be relieved brings a message of hope to those afflicted with a nagging husband or wife. Therefore, madam, if you have a husband who begins finding fault before he has hung up his hat when he comes home of an evening, don't weep " and look upon yourself as a martyr. ' Suggest Recreation for the Husband Who is Grouchy. Just reflect that he is suffering from brain itch, and that the best remedy

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TOMATO SURPRISE. Select large, not over-ripe tomatoes; and slice off the top at great enough depth to allow inside of the tomato to be scooped out thoroughly. Drop one whole egg raw in each tomato; then add a small slice of American cheese, butter the size of a walnut and as seasoning, pepper, salt and paprika. Now replace the tops of the tomatoes, fastening firmly In place with toothpicks, and bake in a moderate oven until the outside skin crinkles. Serve on lettuce leaves. MASHED POTATOES A LA BARNES. Even after milk and butter have been added to mashed potatoes they have not arrived at the top-notch of their deliciousness. To make them as good as possible try this: Beat an egg until creamy, then pour it into the potatoes and whip until flaky.

After the Honeymoon

NO. 1MARRIED LIFE

By Mabel Herbert Urner.

THE honeymoon was over. And Helen knew in her heart that she was glad. Like most emotional women she was full of sentiment and romance, and every for that is fresh air and exercise and amusement. Don't try to keep him at home. Urge him to go out to the baseball game of an afternoon, to play golf, or to go to the club as soon as dinner is over. In that way his brain cells will get the stimulation they need, and he will take out in yelling bitter advice to the umpire, or swatting a ball, or fighting with a fellow club member over the tariff, -the irritation that he would otherwise have vented upon you and the children, and the chances are that he will come home in a mild and pacific humor. Brieve me, golf has been the salvation of many a home, and the club is a conservator, instead of a destroyer of family life. And, sir, if you are one of the unlucky ones who drew a nagging wife in the marriage lottery, try making her over instead of hunting up an affinity to console you. When Reminded of Faults by Wife Don't Rush Out of House. When your Maria starts in to remind you for the billionth time of all your faults, don't go out alone and slam the door behind you. Take her along with you. Consider that her poor brain is itching until it is half mad with the monotony of the treadmill of housework, where she has gone the same deadly monotonous round of cooking, and sewing, and mending, and baby tending, until she is so bored that she is ready to fight just to get a little ginger injected into life. Give her something gay and pleasant to think about. Take her to see a jolly play, buy her a meal at a restaurant. If you can't do anything else go to see the moving pictures, or treat her to soda water, or walk her by the finest store in town and tell her how you'd like to buy her a tiara, and an imported French dress, if you had the money. In a word, scratch the nagger's brain cells with something pleasant to think about if you want to escape being clawed yourself. The suggestion is i worth trying.

THE FIRST YEAR harsh, impatient word he had spoken had hurt her most keenly because it was their honeymoon. She had had all the young girl's dreams of the idealistic beauty and tenderness of the honeymoon. And that dream had been daily shattered. She had known that with most married people there came in time slight disagreements and discords (although she had felt they could never come to

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Independence

By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. July 4, 1776. THE hundred and thirty-seventh anniversary of American Independence! Many happy returns of the occasion! It was a great day a great day j for America, a! great day for the human; family when the men of Philadelphia rang the old Liberty Bell, read their Declaration and pledged to its that King George was not as bad a tyrant as he might have been, and also true that the British Parliament was not near so oppressive as it is generally supposed to have been, but it should be borne j in mind that that was not the point j with the Americans. It was the con- j tention of the colonists that they had the right to make their government ; and that even the mildly oppressive ! legislation of the Parliament of Eng- j land, three thousand miles away, was incompatible with their conviction j that fundamentally all government, i

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By REV. B. COPELAND FULL half a hundred circling years have dawned and waned away Since on this fatetul field we met in battle's stern array; Praise to His grace whose hand we trace, we're comrades, all, today. Our God is marching on. By the graves of Lee and Lincoln our allegiance we renew; 'Neath the pine and the palmetto throbs one purpose, strong and true; And o'er North and South, united, floats the Red and White and Blue. Our God is marching on. Here garland we the noble dead the gallant hearts of flame Whose valor is their country's pride their need, the world's acclaim; Or Blue or Gray, our brothers they one, now, in deathless fame. Our God is marching on. For Liberty and Righteousness our banner be unfurl'd. Till Earth's last desolating scourge to deepest doom is hurl'd. And joy of Peace and Brotherhood shall fill and flood the world. Our God is marching on O Land to Hope and Freedom dear, lift up, lift up thine eyes! And give heroic answer to the herald of the skies. The nations wait thy clarion's call. America, arise! Our God is marching on.

Warren and her). But that there should be dissensions and quarrels all through the honeymoon was a pitiabie revelation. But now, like the spider that patiently reweaves every break that is made in his web, so Helen began to pick up the torn threads of her romance and weave them anew. Their real honeymoon, she told herself, hopefully, would begin when they were finally settled in their new home. After all, that was where their life together really began. And they would find there the peace and harmony and happiness that had eluded them on the bridal trip and during the week with

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and all laws, depend for their validity upon the consent of the government. It was not on account of the degree of the tyranny or the extent of the taxation that the Americans resolved to sever the political ties that bound them to the mother land; that dissolution was born of the determination to resist any and every form of government that did not spring from the wishes and rest upon the consent of the American people themselves. The author of th Declaration of Independence, the great Jefferson, perhaps the truest and most optimistic

political thinker that the country or the race has ever produced, believed that the people were quite able to take care of themselves, and that in the long run they could be trusted to do th? right and the wise thing. That was the thought that glowed like a living flame in Jeflerron's soul ai he sat down to write the immortal document that will ever be associated with his 1 name. There has been much silly vaporing ! over the great Declaration; and it cannot le denied that it smacks no little of the lawyer pleading his cause; but despite all this the basic idea was all right, and is all risiht today. And that Jefferson and his countrymen were not merely building for the day, but ior all time, is found in the fact that right now, nearly a century and a half afttr the famous bell-ringing in the Q-jakt r iCty, there is a world-wide trend o' things political along the way that Jefferson marked out in his evermomorable declaration. his people. Their home life! All her hopes and dreams were now centered upon that. And for a time at least she was not to be disappointed. There is nothing that brings people together so much as a common active interest. And in the work of fitting up and arranging their new home they both found much wholesome activity and a great deal of pleasure. The household machinery did not run smooth, but of course that was not to be expected in the beginning. And the charm of the novelty was still upon them. So they laughed over their mishaps, confident that everything

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would run like clock work when- they were "really settled." That was a phrase they both used very often. Every mistake and discomfort would be avoided when they were "really settled." They did not know that the happiest periods of our lives are those In which we are preparing for some happiness in which we are' "getting ready to live." They had been in their apartment about ten days now, and were still far from being "really settled." At first they had taken their meals out, but now a maid was installed in the little kitchen. Anna was a capable, good-natured German girl who at once took a real "liking" for Helen and a hearty interest in the welfare of the "young pair." Just how fortunate they bad been in securing the services of Anne Helen did not realize until they lost her some time later. And that many things, even in their unsettled state, ran smoother under Anna's management than they would later cn was something else she coulS not know. Most of the days Helen spent in the shops buying curtains, bed and table linen and the many small house furnishings. Only the furniture and rugs

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veiled witn an overskirt ot embroidered in gold and pearls. and a few essentials had been bought before they moved in, for Helen had thought the other things could be selected to a greater advantage after wards. And now some of the happiest day of her marriage, though that too she did not know, were spent in buying these things. Shopping is an unfailing source of pleasure to all women at all times. But to a bride the buying of the -furnishings for her new home is a Joy supreme. Several times, when the selection of something important like the dining room curtains was involved, she would ask Warren to leave the office a little early and meet her at a certain shop on his way home. Although he had a strong and deep rooted aversion to all large shops and to department stores in particular, these appeals to his judgment were flattering, and he usually complied. And so, looking forward and CTVan2--ing for their future comfort and happiness the first few weeks in their new home passed very pleasantly. And Helen, naturally an optimist, tried to forget the disappointments and disillusionments of their honeymoon and told herself hopefully that from now on they would be. very happy. By C. M. Payne