Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-11
KlTTY'S LESSON.

starr, looking up from the muslin
apron which she was hemming, with a
flushed face and very bright eyes. 81
repeat that o jealous woman is q blot
upon the face Of creationp
"And ought to be rubbed outP eh,
Mrs. Kitty2" said her most intimate
friend Margaret Parke, who was on a
visit at "Grove Cottage" the bridal
home of Kitty and her handsome
spouse.
swell. no; won't say that exactly.
because it would be wicked. But, my
dear, don't you agree with meP"
"NoL at ALL"
''NOnsense, Margaret; you must see
the absuIdity of the thing just as 1 do (!
Take Mrs. General Strong, now. There
is case in point. Did you ever see
any human being make such fool of
herself as that woman does?"
Never" said Miss Parke impress.
lively.
'"Therel 1 knew you would own it
at last. knew you would blame her,
just as all the rest of us do"
"But don't, my dear"
Mrs. Kitty laid down her sewing and
looked earnestly at her friend.
"You are laughing at me, Margaret.
i can see it in your eyes. Now be
good, and tell me, without any more
nonsense, what you do meanp
well, my dear Kitty, while agreeing
with you when you say that Mrs. Cen
eral Strong makes an idiot of herself
by following the general around from
pillar to post, and going into Mysteries
if he happens to look toward a woman
under seventy years of age, am by no
means prepared to join you when you
state that Mrs. Strong is a blot upon
the face Of creation. The poor woman
can no more help feeling as she does,
than you can help being young and
pretty, and perfectly happy with hus-
band who worships the very ground
you walk upon. 1t is early times with
you yet, Mrs. Kitty. and the sky of
your married life is very bright, and so
you cannot sympathiZe with Mrs.
Strong as l do. Wait till your hand
some Harry begins to think to himself
that he has lived in the same house
with you great number of months,
and that there are other pretty women
in the world beside you, then you will
know better how to pity Mrs. General
Strong. The woman makes half heI
own misery, it is true; u then how
real it is to her, and how keenly she
feels it! L declare l would rather be
boiled alive, or roasted to death before
a slow Gre, than to know the anguish
of loving man who had grown indif
ferent to me; and of knowing that
while tied TO me for my life, he Sc
cretly thought every third woman
whom he met younger, prettier, anC
more desirable than IL"
~You speak strongly, Margaret" saiC
Kitty. "were you ever jealous your
,self?'
A red lush dyed the bright darl
face of Margaret Parke.
-Once," she answered.
"And we're you miserableT
81 never knew the meaning of tn
wcrd misery till then, and have takel
very good care never to know it in tn
same way again, 1 can assure you
The experience did not last long. Blu
short as il was, it taught me to Tegar
with pity, rather than with scorn, sue
unhappy women as Mrs. Genera
Strong"
"You loved the man, thenY sal
Kitty in low voice. Il never knew
till now, that your heart had ever bee
touched. l thought you went you
way in maiden meditation, fancy free
and left all such idle follies to sill
little damsels like your friend Kitty.
so 1 do now, my dearl Ny futuI
will be saner and wiser, for that bite
past; and IL not happier. at least NOR
full of content. No man shall eve
hold my heart again in his hand, {
crush and agoniZs as that man di
then"
"What did he do~ asked the youn
wife in a symPathizing tone.
Don't sit there and pity me, Kittl
because I made fool of myself ono
and for all. He loved another woma
better than he loved me; that was tn
head and front OF his offending N
dear"
HDid he tell you SOP
Margaret Pdrke laughed.
us that likely, childp had plent
OF money, and the woman he love
had none, but she was beautiful, wit
that Oriental kind of beauty one so Sc
dom sees in this northern land. So
suppose he would have married mt
and gone on loving her to the end G
the chapter, IL had not happened
and my gentleman's proceedings on
by the merest accident in the world.
AWhat was thatP" asked the deepl
interested Kitty.
ASuch a tribe, my dear, that it
Iaughable to think OF the results