The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1921, Page 19

i ( ATOR NALIN A we 5 “Nagging Woman More Harmful Than Vamp And Can’t Be Cured!” “The Bigger the Man the More He’s at Her Mercy,’’ Author Says C. Kay Scott, Who Wrote a Book Around a “Nagger,’’ Has Specially Studied the Type in Many Countries and Places the Blame on ‘“ Weakness.’”’ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1821, by the Press Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World.) as Nae nagging woman does more harm than yamps, lady murderesses and all other unpleasant females put together. I have encountered her in every country I ever visited in fifteen years of almost com- plete travel, including six journeys around the world. Many years of fas- ctnated observation have convinced me that any one is a fool who submits to the devastating influence of the nagging woman, It is spiritual suicide, I personally wouldn't live with her fifteen minutes, I have seen, in the course of my life and travels, sickness, sorrow, murder, suicide, insanity, death sad a few other beautiful results of nagging!" ‘ 2he broadside is launched by C. Kay Scott, novelist, essayist, editor, critic and globe trotter, whom I asked to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the nag- ging woman, The reason I went tu Mr. Scott, a New Yorker, now cozily domiciled in ‘a charming cottage among the pines of Buzzards Bay, ~ Mass., is because in his recently pub- lished clever first novel, “Blind Mice,” he has drawn perhaps the most per- fect type of nagging woman to be found in fiction. His nnie Mer- went js an exact illustration of Henry James's dofinition of realism: “The individual caught in the fact.” Therefore, I thought that this tall, athletic man of lette with the pierc- ing blue eyes that are such a contrast to his deeply tanned, rugged faca, might be able not only to define our prize domestic pest migh possibly—suggest methods controlling or circumventing he but some —just ot na succes or usually gets nugged “I want to put myse on rece at ies Lent 3 th defunct vic a's: 4 nce. Some savage husbands execu the very beginning Scott as- icy with the ful DpDOVAL Ge the vie sured me, in his slow, softly modu- 1, Or thbe, ‘but ah old chiet once lated voice, “as NOT saying that all confided to me that since he cow women nag. All weak persons are Not get along without another s the eternal resource of inferiority. ticularly, so that he took snuff in Some men nag, and I hate a male siead for his nerves, nugger worse than a female nagg reason that there is no way “This is the nagging woman: She that any rtlbuine Syene ace oF asually hates the people she most word of hers that may be made an admires. She welcomes trouble be- sof is s0 Insigaiticant ino m to the reac n of the vietim cause it brings HER into notice. ee to receive in exactiy the si by ortion that she fails to give. She thut he is unable to justify his anger or other remedial attempt and fiads himself technically cause he n the wrong, be- decries herself because the obj cannot convincingly link up self-depreciation is twotold arently very small thing to disarm others by throwing your and fic h programme self on their mere id, tu bols hit ds gle step. He eon- up your self-respect by compelling hat he has been hacsh, unjust then to deny your shortcomings, ‘The is Kone too far, So Ke apolo- awie princi derlies the fact that tacitly or by word, and fects t always gives the weak person the must endure an € greatest delight to disccver in others ng to soothe | the faults of which she is most con- kume goes merrily on. scious in herscii. Consequently, she finished Mr. Scott, continially brings out the worst in ni 1 Adam into eating others, rather than the best. And su don't know what the list the jancling goes self may be respecting party wishes to commit ently, h he has dark murder,” ns! And eT! the nagger born or made?" I - ee asked Mr, Scott Both!” “he answered Born that , and ¢ the experiences of ct taste of power. She ult does it ‘As she grows older ha By Roy L. rei So she prom: 2 ouraged hood, | N ging is the device of (ie weak, anc when it succeeds it gives the child a produced a in © she hopeles! attempts to retain by the use of Convtletit, 141, by che Prva Publishing threats and pe ~ut the atten- ¢¢ SLL,” auld Mr, Jarr, "thats tien that no longer ¢ vy virtue meh cork of her attractiveness, And the long she is married, the more she counts vn ten to use tho; 10K- on the inconvenience and ¢ ATYASS: ment it would m' nto her hu 4 joe wa the ldren were to leave her, Likewise, the less at- using them was cutting them up tention she can acctre from him the with se more she demands from her children, “yy, fem io, we? eata the and so the vicious circle grows w i . : “But is there nothing that « liftie Ja She sald we could done to or with her?” I aske have ‘em." author of “Blind Mice," published, by “Anh, 1 don't want the old things!" the way, by George H, Doran Com- iq jer prother. “Ll don't play with pany, have known men of real ann ae cares ter ene. ths physical and intellectual vigor to give f/caqy oft people in pletures, like Twas up perfectly harmless pleasures and Indiant friendships because of domcsuc nag Wou've a real Indian, all right,” ging. I asked them why they said Mr. Jarr. did ft, an y saidt they simply And Master Willie, much encourag- couldn't live in a perpetual row. I ed at this, violated the terms of truce ull your travels, have you found NO under wh e had been cutting into hu 1 who could cope with the of the folders, by reaching r head: ff sev- litle girl had cut out colt shook a gloomy, negative eral figures the from her, pamphi The soun vf the riot call brought é > ae aeady, WH A Pp Do You? anything in. the . nerifice for the Know + gtr “ and “an tions, Glepiants ot Gorse git. 1241. 1 tr, Pre Mian Co, more he la at her merc QUESTIONS, Of his element because litle matires 1, In what European. country with pot Ny blems better 10 Toledo, where sword blades famous for their fine temper were originally made? is, tf the br be invineil 2. Which are the liquid conso- taste nants? anything ese mare easil And # 3. From what country did the elaehos arise \ Dy ti and United States purchase the tract of land called the Gadsden Purchase? spoke ¢ nofd ent me 4. Wh was the most famous Eng- fos and in respective lish actor of the eighteenth century? | sugested 5, What is the State flower of nat 11 nan, with North Dakota? 41 this w 6. Of what city is Germantown a provided vie kb suburb, where an important battle of t name ought in the Revolu- 1 ur the tionary War ‘ ; 7. What Roman emperer is said to eR Abts have na giant nearly nine feet ' : i tall? \ A 8. What was Gladstone the famous , English statesman’s first name? ’ 9. To wha lian family does the “glass sna} t iy beats yand t w fo. Which Siate had ranked firat in ero th yee ae population when New York forged ahead of it? VERS. 1 equally well i bribery, 1 ar weet t 4, David ¢ wild bral s¢ {nd supinencss— in fact, on eve it Maximinus; 8 but the death of the nagyee, Wiis; 10, Virginia, The Jarr Family gtonaee “THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1921 _ By Maurice Ketten 021 piahing Co. ening Worl) Nou Look SO SMART SMOKING | BELIEVE (LUTRY IT Too —— WHY DON'T YOU ITS Quite THE SMART THING THAT 'S THE WRONG END ! THE CORK TIP GOES IN THE DON'T BLow ! NO CAN'T LIGHT IT THAT WAY GIVE IT UP DON'T. TRY To BE SMART i S iet Not Xe + By Neal R. O’Hara * McCardell y : Copyright, 1921, by The Pross Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). (0. (the Now York Evening World ) EFORE Congress votes $2 and nine zeroes to the boys who won the war, some sapient Te Ee Pee te sent, wits et sappo from Yazoo Valley insists on a pure news law. If the papers print stuf! with \ Bi being Bly 4 thee eu MS) a high bunk percentage, Old Sappo wants it stated right on Page One, like benzoate had “no right” to cut the heads of his little sister's paper dolls, tls 1ittl of soda on a ketchup label. sister had also “no right” to grab the A neat but not gaudy idea, Then ; ee = eo sullty hand and bite its fingers. | der the simon-pure society notes When the armistice was signed, first families of Virginia on the te Guk ait s that way, we'd have drool that drips like this; Miss Hamm had sixteen yards of right-hand side of the railroad tracks BeGa Of oneal meas Mra, 18a Poor Hamm of Snooker Pfé## notices, eleven Hun helmets, as you enter trom North Carolina reached, “It isa sign of vulisarity Pool, Va. takes hysterical pleasure Seven cornerstones of the Rheims She was educated by hand and took pid iil breeding te mutiare or NUP ia announcing the engagement of Cathedral and 617 posteards from up a post-graduate volume on Will « books." cs Ds - Pa . ait awa eda le “ayer The ’ } “If you had to put up with those her daughter and one best bet, Ella Paris, with eight of her wards still Power. ‘The romance with Mr, Gilt children all day, a8 f have,” Mrs. Valotie Poorer Hat to Walter to be heard from, Her war record » had its inception three months Jarr replied. “you'd be glad to give Gilt-Rdge of Tuxedo Park and White also included shaking hands with ago at a bridge party. His high- C Would onty keep titsn quiet. tows Plain, Vestehester County, N.Y, ‘The Hiram Johnson and subseribing to powered wash-boiler crashed through ever, I don't see why you are Making eneazement has been insured by Harvey's Weekly. a bridge. A traffle cop rescued him all that fuss about the children from the ting ho pletures ont of a lot of sum- Lloyds, During the war Mr. Gilt-Kdge water, but Miss Hamm mer re dvertisement If 1 Miss Hamm was prominent in knit- served in the Intelligence Depart- brought him to with the brandy. AeA OU ae * tine circles and doflies during the ment as a horrible example. He Mr. Gilt-Edge lamped the label. It “] didn't want the advertisements,” late World War, She served on six traced alien enemies to New York Was love at first sizht. He was able said Mr. Jarr, “You asked me to °° commit and was always willing every week-end and fought veral to walk with Miss Hamnm to the fam- tae Ho a RATARRA fo lovk WT to serve on more. ‘The woollen sox battles with audilors getting his ex- lly wine cellar, but suffered a re trouble to wet them. Lhd to io oat she knitted for dourhhoys, if pense accounts 0. K'd. He was re- lapse after that, Friendship ripened of my way to call at the summer re- cirotched from New York to Dubuque, sponsible for two of the Liberty into love as the stranger progressed Mee ae von ao the vast Tt, would shrink from Buffalo to Loan from hangover {oReagover, | The'es for me I hear Dayton in case of rain Miss Hamm belongs to one of the £afement was only a matter of time ‘ld M “Da your 80 far as Mrs, Hamm was concerned ever think of the thousand and of things T have to 4 nd never com > . . . pinin? 1 have fo took aftve this hows ee 4 Mr. and Mrs T. Dodge Swift have Duyn sea that the meaty aire on (in The Housewife’s Scrapbook loned (Hal fanH haute {ore Gut you, take « 7 kat rest. Mr. Swift, or NG. as he and yee fists ply the Hauid with a clean cloth and Sea laiiebdll aleclen, Heaun ihe som prir PUD UARE Ory rest. Most of the past season nt did by hom It is said that if you thoroughly wet Dodge-Swifts have been in said you had made up your mind the shells with cold water before retirement. Mrs. Dodgr-Swift ha ‘Poaceae ae buillng eggs they will not crack. not been at home to bill collectors ‘{ did noth’ ald Mis dare “What tne retriige and she has been obliged to decline PRAT If tt Before putting milk or cream Into several packages that arrived C. 0. D. that, after read forty yo ee eee ee tq, During their stay in the country their ee ME te ald water and will De easier t@ town house will be extensively re said, ‘Oh, bother! ek cae decorated with a new set of pad ocks Ne Gity, At tea n purchaned,as-animperfectiy {n= 1 add # tablespoonful of cold for the doors, selected by the land City are likes? Lae : ae) of ine te ni oe WHO Can ORME lord. They will take things as it the TOBE eka Ten HourGhanla si Oe ied 1 will secure double tho easily as possible during the sum- 1 Th inge an imperfect article — mer months : 1 oMra. Jur = fore driving a nan Inte the wall eee ‘And ty ona we {gitar ra put awa Naan A wnt you Will tr. T Alfred Rootloger of Man on the t ) r ee hattan’s sinartest set will spend the heremexcury nelecore os fi vine Fen e mmer season visiting various \ i fi t ar 1 on Long Island, A series of Ons Ad (pever cate rh HIAG® ire én moconiplia: iie-oleansine and ming parties have been ar- were not inleresting”’ the furs retain a pieusunt odor, Ap- ranged for him. f Watch Your Diet To,Avoid Summer’s > Dangers to Health Rich Foods Increase Weight 3 And Menace Good Complexion Doris Doscher, the noted Health and Figure Improvement Ei has veen specially engaged by The Evening World to write for ‘ yn readers. She will answer questions relating to her artictes, Mixs Doscher, adjudged by experts to have a perfect figure, posed for the figure on the new quarter and for many noted picces of sculp ture. She is also a lecturer for the Board of Education on subjects re lating ¢o exercise and health, By Doris Doscher. Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World) TOP! Look! Listen! This familiar signpost of danger meets us @t the crossing to the warm days of summer. STOP eating the heavy foods like rich pastry, foods fried in deep fat, red meat and excessive starches and sugar LOOK to the vegetables from which we obtain the rich mineral salts, aw these are a natural spring tonic. LISTEN to the “still small voice” of nature when she bids you comié te r into the great outdoor ‘neath a shady tree or by a cooling atream, When we moet a neighbor or friend @ A www the popular topic of conversation is, NORMAL MENU "Are you on a diet?" ‘Hraabjast h ave 80 ar- So many of us have been so Siowid cute dent in our search for beauty that Silas whole wheat boone we hi gladly fasted from all the $e ‘One pat butter. goodies FOR AWHILE strat jour eves Two eggs. have feasted on and then have re- 4 turned to the table with a more for- Luncheon, midable appetite, Now let us be more Two glasses of milk. rational in this matter, It does not ree slices of whole wheat depend so much upon the quantity bread. One pat butter, A green salad with nut butter dressing. f 1s What you eat Soft, high y to the food and of the food you eat and how you masticate it. ly flavored foods lead di twin sins of bolting our overeating. Itemember distinctly that Beauty and Health go Imnd in band, The dear complexion and the sparkling: Two slices of whole wheat on ours as long as of youth can bi We a0) not burden eur system with one Crate? more work than nature intended el ile ‘On the other hand, many people ice pudding. think they are going on a diet’ when they fast, But going on a diet means to sol the right kind of foods for At another time I will suggest to your particular case, and the timgpof you what means to employ either te the ye ad the kind of occupation reduce or bring your weight up to in which you are engaged must all be normal, but to-day I will give you taken into consideration, [have known one enu suitable to this season of many cases Where the persons have of t par for the person of normal heeome iil because they not used weight. It is printed in the box ae intelligence in the selection of a dict, companying this article. very woman has set up for he If you © any personal problem jewuty Ideal,” but real- regarding your weight, [will vppointment that she is help you solve it if you write me im 1 or else far below the of The Evening World, Cor ing of this ts a (To-morrow M Doscher explains ‘Ashe if conscientious more benefits to be derived y to her diet swimming and its various strokes). self her own izes to her di either over normal certainty provi and keeps: stric Spare the Rod By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 192 by tho Preas Publishing Co, hopNeT come before guardian, when he attempts to eor bevel o child beat» Feet children by physical punish eae eae o ine eten, It Wis a great day when thelred ng. One man has beep #eN was abolished in the public eehools teneed to death for killing bia Jit’ and Tam confident that in 98 cases hay. 100 In families it is unnec one in this way, and a stepmother of eagary ; path to use the whip as a means of reed with the mosteruct (ie the whip =e (The New York Rvening Word.) ‘| cases have has been treatment of a five-year-old gir! Who "The trouble with many parents ‘we was taken into court, her frail body that it is the easiest way for them, Nisel aire eer and therefore they choose it. If they would take the time to reason with I do not think the lay Is severe the child, gi him to understand enough for such people who practise risht and wrong and use patience in cruelty to children. There is no NT him accord'ngly, corporal td punishment wo evel piles ar ts my exe tan the punishment would never need bq dm sie te advantage of the wei strong taking advan And Tam sorry to say that many in this fashion. @ parent only sat.sfies bis own tem= 1 would make the punshmeat 89 per when be goes afier a child with severe that those whe would mal- ane ‘ ern t ioe (oe know two families—there | are treat a child would think twice Bo inreg ehitdren in-each,, Th oap ee fore doing 80. them a rod has never been used The inhumanity of some people the children have never exper 4 a beating, toward the defenseloxs wee ones, as u a recorded in the varioua courts, is al- {0 the other family it is the qome mon thing, A study of these two cases is most Startling. There is much more kjnd- ness and gracious spirit among the AED n ny the family where the rents do not approve of whippim: nin the ether family, in 3 children in their fear of being w - doing; for they frankly tell of it thet: One shrinks in horror at the thought of a merciicss attack upon a child who cannot fut back and must take the terrible blows heaped upon hin. he perpetual ¢ ly faces punishr hooves every 1 who knows of eruel most inconceivable, r eventu- nd it be. report it to the proper aut selves, having been trained to do go. t justice aball be done. In the other case, however, the ehft> is is a c.vie function that dren forever fear and keep hi uid take upon himself and things from their mother and father, ily it ia the human bus ness of having constantly in mind the pos- every 40n who comes in contact sibility of being whipped for some wilh the eriuninal who abuses cai. little misdeed which they withheld, dren to that the ehild is rescusd Needless to say that children’ are and the offender does not get away, very smpressionistic and hate is reade Soo much for the ex {at- ily engendered In their hearts, which rormal individual who delights i is another bad feature of contigued the sufferin, little ones ladily punishment, i However, there thing to be T heard a man say the other day, sald about the ave family ere "Y was’ glad the day my father died, many a ehild is whipped often in ore tecause | never forgot how he gsed. Jer to discipane hin tu whip me when I was a boy, The yure the rod and = = In many, many instances the old Spotl ule ens to the ex. epigram may well be changed to use offered by many a parent ora are the rod and save the child.” ‘ Courtship and Marriage By Betty Vincent . Copyrigny, 1921, uy tne Prem Pubilsting Ga, (Tae New York Erwaing World.) you letting common and sisters marrying tho same r su na guide you In year. Ie it bad luck? ‘ek latte BANE : No, XN. ¥. Z, it ts NOT. Dp not belirte your Jove affair by starting u out this way ae Pee ace “UNDECIDED” writ " sls Saal . vy Dear Miss Vincent:—! have eng, a im FORE been going with a young man for o call on Friday or for pe * about eight months, e will be to wel who have tie same initial eighteen and 1 will be seventeen Pe aetna very soon and our birthdays come Peo tHies RACIACIES toe lok. mia) on the same day. Ple Hime what to give him for a present, .. He does not smoke, so do nat mention a cigarette case or any+ thing of that sort, About the most appropriate thing nod book. Neckties, stickping nd things of that sort are not the thing to give a young man_you have known so short a time, Get “Main Street” or some popular novel, & g00d biography or some book on travel, If he is interested in any special subject such as engineering or wireless, them wet him @ book upon that subjec® “x. ¥. 2. ‘ Dear Miss Vincent—Will you kindly let me know through your column your opinion in regard to the superstition of twe brothers rites? eee een t : , ‘ ‘ i mh j | a |