SCOEDING.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 28 December 1872, Page 2

SCOEDING.

Scolding is mostly a habit. There is not much meaning tO' it. Ilia-often the result of nervousness, and an irritiiblo condition of both mind and body. A- person is tired or annoyed at some trivial cause, and forthwith commences to find fault with everything and everybody in reach. Scolding is a habit very easily formed. It is astonishing how soon one who indulges in it at all become addicted to it, and conformed in it. It is an unreasoning and unreasonable habit. Persons who once get in the way of scolding, always find som.-thing to scold about. If there was nothing else, they would fall a scolding at the mere absence of anything to scold at. It is an extremely unpleasant habit. The constant rumbling of distant thunder, caterwaul ings, or a hand'organ under one's windbw would be less unpleasant. The habit is contagious. Onca introduced into a family, it is pretty certain, in a short time to affect all the members. If one of them begins always finding fault about something, or nothing, the others are apt very soon to take it up, and very unnecessary bedlam is created. People in the country more'readily fall into the habit of scolding. than tho people in town. We suppose it is because they have less to occupy and divert their attention. Women contract the habit more frequently than men. This mav be because they live more in the house in a confined and heated atmosphere, very trying to the nervous system, and the health in general; and it may be, partly, that their natures are more susceptible, and'their sensitiveness more easily wounded. Women- are sometimes called divine ; but a scolding woman never seems divine. But; we will say no more on the- subjcct, or some pretty creature may feci inclined to' scold us for what we say about scolding.