Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-10-12


ton with others. Jealousy, which
Somebody has called .'the fond Injustice
OF m unsatisfed heart Is very real
thing; and scarcely any gain could be a
sufficient reward for making acquaint-
ance with its tortures. Love ought to
be exalted above these pains-yes. inst
as the human constitution ought TO be
strong enough to secure it from. a sud-
den cold, II chance indigestion. Unfort-
unately, as a matrr of fact. reither
mind nor body Is proof against disease,
and II man or a woman ioyes truly
and nobly. he or she will avoid the re.
hottest possibility Of inilicting the keen
and cruel tortures OF iealonsy on the
one who has given tire whole devotion
OF heart and HE
There are persons to whom jealousy
is so impossible that they have no pa
thence with it in others; Int this free
dom from emotion NAV have its root in
two widely different qualities. 1t NAV
arise from such absolute faith in the OBJ
feet beloved that the very thought
which distrusted that persons entire
and absolute affection would seem al
most insulting-or it may come from
that overweening faith in ones own
power 10 attract which can imagine no
rival possible. Jealousy. on the other
hand. NAV arise from a selfish, ungener-
Gus, grudging spirit; or it may spring
from profound sense of the value of
love. and haunting doubt of ones
own power to hold forever so great a
treasure.
To state the case phrenologieally-
jealousy, where there is no especial, I'M
m;stakable cause and justification, is
usually the result of small self-esteem
and large approbativeness. This COM
bination implies a strong desire for
love, united to haunting doubt of
ones own power to win and hold it.
and is the fruitful and frequent parent
OF unfounded jealousy. Let the person
who is the victim OF this chronological
misfortune strive earnestly against the
tendency it begets; but also let the hus-
band or wife who has not been born to
this evil inheritance of self-distrust be
pitiful toward it. and understand that
the misery it occasions is very real and
bitter. -- ~rrsr---
What if man does feel perfectly
sure that he can make avery intimate
friend of some charming woman with
out the slightest danger 10 his good
faith toward the wife he loves; yet. ii
she cannot see the friendship in the
same light, and finds init occasion for
the bitter fortunes of jealousy. shorhd
it not seem tn him small sacrifice to
abstain from it that she who loves him
best may be spared such suffering?
We cannot afford to treat those who
are dear to us as if they were culprits,
whose weaknesses we had some special
commission to punish. What if they
do deserve this or that retribution, shall
we be happier for having inflicted it?
When the day comes on which the eyes.
we love are blind TO all sights. the ears
deaf to all sounds, and the lips from
which We would crave a late pardon
are dumb. shall we be happier to think
that we have been the sword of justice
to this dead who was so dear?
| think one mistake into which woni-
en- perhaps fall more frequently than
men is that of expecting too much by
way of what for want Of better word,
l will call love-making. Too much
love, truth, tenderness, devotion we
cannot expect. Those qualities are
what noble love nied,as-its spirit and
its essence-but the continued lover
like expression of love belongs to the |
days of wooing or the half
acquaintanceship of early marriage.
There comes time to men when the !
dearest and hottest things are rather
Tired than spoken. and the woman
makes a mistake who feels herself I'M
loved because the feryors OF early utter /
ance are absent from the speech OF her
husband.
One of the ablest novels of last year |
was Mrs. Lynn Linton $ Under which (