The Nervous Housewife

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), to be successful in any department of human effort. In every group, from a few tots playing in the grass to gray-headed statesmen deciding a world's destinies, there is a struggle of these wills to power. In the children's group this takes the trivial (to us) form as to who shall be "policeman" or "teacher", in the statesmen it takes the "weighty" form as to which rive

the social sense, the need of other's good will, the desire to help, sympathy, love, friendly feeling, self-sacrifice, sense of fair play, all the impulses that are essentially maternal

ssert that if egoism is given a wider range, so that the ego includes others, you have altruism, which therefore is only an egois

government, the subordination of the will to power; the teaching of success and achievement is largely the discovery of means by which it is to be gained. Ho

comes evident in the life of men, which in itself is simple enough to understand. When men who have been ruthless, concentrated on success, specialists in the will to power, reach their goal, they often turn to the thwarted will to fellowship for real satisfaction in life, become philanthropists, world benefactors, etc. On the ot

fe? Simply this, that there are various wa

osition aside. "Might is right" is his motto; he beats down opposition by fist, by sword, by thundering voice,

r place and then to walk off with the prize. "Possession is nine points of the law" say these folk. And a straight line is not the shortest way for st

ks matters over, he aligns his interest with yours. Compromise is the keynote, co?per

sobs are her sword and gun. Unable to cope with man on an equal plane, through his superior physical strength, his intrenched social and legal position, she took advantage of her beauty and desirability, of his love; if that failed, she fell back on her grief and sorrow by which t

s usually helpless in the presence of woman's tears, if it is apparent that something he has done has brought about the deluge. And in the case of some housewives, certain si

scious process, nor that it causes the symp

asks. But every one knows that the woman who gets sick, has a nervous headache, weakness, a loss of appetite, or becomes blue as soon as she loses in some domestic argu

relation between the onset of the attacks and some domestic difficulty, and though the recovery does not

s it to occur. And the humorists and the satirists of the daily press use the theme every day. The favorite point is that the brutal husband is forced to his kn

f another day, trained otherwise than our present-day women and having a different relationship to men, will abandon, at least in larger part, the weapons of weakness. Wherever women work with men on a plane of equality they ask no favo