The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-08-07
A JEALOUS HUSBAND.
The Way Q Sedalia Man Wss
Taught by His Wife to Banish
Jealonsy-A Severe but Radical
Cure.

A man with . jealous disposition rarely
makes good husband. II is q peculiarly
Of mind 50 diseased to imagine that every
friend is lurking enemy in disguise, and
every mans hand Is lifted against his :.eacs
and happiness. There are more men Of this
sort in the world than people are aware of
and the way in which they con'riv- To turn
the pleSsAn,est ePiso.les in life into gall
aud ~ormw"od, would be amusing but foI
TINE REAL MISERY
the unhappy disposition occasions. There
is such = man As tins in Se.izlia. lie Is ia
possession OF everything which should make
life pleasant and agreeable; has a eomfor'
table home, and pretty wife ami children
Perhaps this circumstance adds fuel to hi,
jealousy for he imagines ilat every mai
who looks at his wife, is in love with her
So strong has this idea grown upon him
that he is constantly susleciing the m~l
horrible things AMI keeps his household in
a ferment Of excitement BY his illsrounde,l
and
STARTLING SCSPICIoCNS.
But such thing sooner or later have theiI
rewsri. The man Who builds castles ol
suspicious JEALOUSY for others ruin, Is sur
to find them come ,umbling ab"ut his head
to his own dismay, and such termination
vas wrought out for this mans jealousy IN
. way lac will never cease 10 dispose. Mex
door To MIN lives gentleman among whr's
treasures is \ pretty daughter. The ground,
If the places are divided by . low fence
and thick shrubbry lends To the miniatur,
lawns an aspect Of sylvan enchantmeni
II is just such place as lovers delight Il
prominade or sit quietly down an the sof
green grass and
WHISPER Vows
which after years will riPen or dispel
These facts have not esraIe,l the quick
eyes Of the jealous mans wife, and she has
keen equally quick to note tn: upon lovely
moonlight evenings her neighbo'rs fail
daughter, had lesl her true love into those
quite shades. Ia view 81 the open street
and vet secured from observation such Z
spot is lovers paradise. What the young
people said-what Vows they whispered
mattered little but when the evenings Were
bright and clear, the summer
TWILIGHT SHADOWS
were settling wieri and misty upon the bloom
al roses, the lovers we're sure Ia he found
there. The gloom rendered features iniis
tinct but tire figures cast long shadows on
thegrass, and the whispered conference spoke
OF love in every attitude Of graceful youth
and beauty. Seeing all this the wife pre-
pared her plot. She wrote little note {,
the gentleman whose regular visits gave
such apparent happiness TO the girl ove'
the way, and appointed an interview fol
herself and him in the foliage Of the adioin
lag yard. She explained that her purPoss
in this vas to avoid any oo.f.st.1nps will
her husband who was
INsANELY JEALOUS.
The note was charmingly written AMI wa
Just the least bit compromising. This dons
she dropped it, just where her husband
would le sure to find it, and waited the
d.aomem,nt. Perhaps the yonrg lady had
been let into the secret, for her dress and
manners were strikinsiy like her friend.
and the interview was managed 50 As to
keep her features as much in the shade a,
possible. As the twilight gloom fell around
the thickly growing shrubs two figures nestl-
cd clo~e together on thegrass and whispe r
ed love; when suddenly dark form bound
ed over the intervening fence and rushed
upon the scene with . whoop like Mo-
hawk Warrior. The lady screamed and
hid her face. The gentleman sprang to his
feet in fury.
"What do you mean sir ?" he demanded,
the intruder.
"Oh YOU viliian-you sconndrel. have
caught yon have I-caught you sir!"
And he literally foamed at the mouth
with rage.
Caught me sir-how have you caugh,
me?"
"How dare ycu ask me such question.
Is not that lady my wife,"
"Not that I am aware OF. 4"
What sir look at her. See her hiding her
lace" and the Infatuated man danced
round as il he were treadins on fire.
The scene Of delusion had been sufficient
y prolonged and the young lady cho~e to
ii>pel it. Raising her face, she disclosed =
which \ glance suficed TO
how wac not that Of mis- wife's.
81 think Mr.. NJ, you are mistaken. I
vas not aware that stood in that relation
o you"
To say that he way struck dumb with
would but family Indicate his
ceilings. He tried to apologise-tr,ed to
augh Of his mistake, but the attempt was
! failure. Turning abruptly to leave, he
his wife at the fence, . calm
pectator Of the scene.
"a nice mess you've made Of it," she said
do you feel any better?"
But words failed 10 express his sense Of
he situation, and he darted of towards the
'ouse his ean were assailed by . shout Of
aughter in which three people appeared to
o be joining
When his wife returned . few minutes
she learned that her husband
ad sudden and imperative business in st.
.ouis and had FASTENED away 10 catch the
o'clock train. lie proposed to be gone
'eek.
II U fair to conclude however. that his
avs Of jealousy are over. The lesson Was
asher severe, but IL il accomplished the
urpose in view, none Of the participant.
ill regret It.