THE NAGGING WIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE NAGGING WIFE.

BEST AID TO FAILURE. A nagging wife is one of the greatest causes of man’s failure, according to Dr. Bernard Hcrllander, the eminent Austrian-born and trained physician for mental and nervous diseases, who has been a naturalised British subject since 1899 (states a London correspondent). He was addressing the Ethical Society on “Why Men Fail,” and said that wives who are clingers, wives who are dominators, and wives who are dull-witted, follow the naggers in that order as handicaps on husbands. “Failure,” said Dr. Hollander, “follows ideas which are larger than the purse, the trusting of untrustworthy people, and the setting of pleasure before duty. “A man is bound to fail if he lacks a sense of humour, if he dawdles or worries, if he does not know how to approach others, and if he cannot carry conviction and cannot take a rebuff. “But the most important factor in the failure of men is marriage,” said this scientist, who has made a special study of mind and character and their deviations from the normal, and who has collected a vast number of physiological facts concerning brain functions.