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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 22 April 1898, Page 3

Thero is wisdom in the recent remark of a certain ohuroh dignitary to the effect ] that a "nagging wife" often turns her ■ husband into a' drunkard. Looking at , the matter superficially the wife gets all ; the blame in these cases, while the poor drunkard figures as a martyr. The ques- ' tion really is — What makes woman nag ? An eminent medical authority has just * been investigating the matter, and it is j consoling to the female ses to feel that, in the opinion of one good man at least, all the blame does not lie at the woman's door. Dr Battey says:— "Nine times out of ten the woman who nags is tired. One time out of ten she is hateful. Times out of mind her husband is to blame. The poses that come under the physician's eye are those of women who are tired, and who have beeu tired so long that they are suffering from some form of nervous disease. They may. think they are enly tired, but in faot th«y are ill. and it is that sort of illness in which the will is weakened aud the patients give way to annoyances that they would ignore if in a healthy condition. In such cases the woman often sutlers more from her nagging than tho husband or the children with whom sho finds fault. She knows she does it. She suffers in her own self-respect when she does it, and in the depths of her soul longs for something to stop it." A sed oase of destitution was brought under the notice of the Redferu Police Court, Sydney, wben & married woman named Amelia Cox, who said her husband was away scrub-cutting, though she did not know where, appeared in the dock seeking -ibe protection of tbe court for , herself and her six children, the oldest of whom was only 11 years of age. She had been first found at night lying on a footpath in Cox-street, with her babies clustered round her, asleep. When awakened by the police the woman explained that she and ber family bad come from Narrandera on a Government pass, beoausa they, were practically starving there. A railway pass had been obtained, with the assistance of some friends, in the belief that she would be able to obtain work in Sydney. Ou arrival in the metropolis, however, she bad no plaoe to " go, and, as fihe nas penniless, she and her ohildren lav on the pavement to sleep. After hearing her a ory, a few shillings, were subscribed by the police, and the' woman was allowed to go. On the following, night, howevei-, . five of the children ■' '• were disoovered slumbering in one of tbe streets, having been left by the mother, while she had gone with her baby to look for work. They were taken to the police - station, where the agonised woman subsequently sought them out. An order was made for the admission of the family into . *, ' the already over-crowded • Benevolent ..-'* ■ Asylum. , ■f< Von . Moltke waß 70 when the Franco- '-' .- . .' Prussian War broke out, and Ms faculties '.'were unimpaired. The average age of '- the' men actively responsible for the con- ', trol, mobilisation, and command of the bX;, Britisii:fleetiß.6B.. At the time of the ;'-' 7;% Armada Howard- was 62 and Frobisher '.':'"-' i'63i'Rlake waa 68 at the'battle of Santa Dunoan .66 v\> the battle of '^f^S^^!^' r r' : ..X 'X' : - '