WOMEN AND NERVES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 318, 3 October 1908, Page 11

WOMEN AND NERVES.

Women havo always been represented as being the more nervous sex, says a writer in an English women's paper. We aro always being- warned that tho modern woman is a bundle of nerves; wo aro supposed to be terrified, of burglars and mice, and to be prepared, on the slightest provocation, to lapse into tears. ■ Yet doctors, dentists, chnuffours, boatmen, and all men, in fact, who are accustomed to see women'-iri moments of .danger and suffering, emphatically declare that at such times women always display greater riervo than tho .opposite sex. Without doubt the gentle sex not only possess, but oxercise, greater control ovor themselves

than men. They have a rooted objection to making an exhibition or a nuisance of themselves, and .the more unselfish they are the more do they keep themselves under control. We see this even when they are children. The little girls of a family, however shy and nervous they may be, invariably mako foiver "scenes" when they are disappointed or under irksome commands than their small brothers, while as pa.tients they are much easier to manage. But in after life, it is the small things that jar and fret feminine minds. ■ Petty domestic worries, little family'thorns and stings, small matters that stir up that green-ey'd monster who is so fearfully difficult to keep quiescent, trifling pecuniary embarrassments, and suchliko things, that are to man as water to the duck's back or quicksilver to tho touch, are the cause of women's "nerves." A succession of bad servants, a series of family squabbles, a fidgetting husband, a sick child, a muddle ovor the seaside lodgings, will give a woman neuralgia and sot her "all on edge," though she will utter never a, sound while a refractory tooth is being extracted, "sit tight" in a motor smash, or go cheerfully to the surgeon's oporating table.