The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-25
THE PROWLER.
He Speaks of a WOman's Jeal-
Ousy and Sundry Other
Matters.

Jealousy is the bane of the average
woman's life. She is not content to
see any one else in a more prosperous
condition than it has fallen to her lot
to enjoy; neither can she bear to be
controlled in business matters. Take
the various charitable institutions con-
tro!led by women and note the
troubles they have. At first they
are enthusiastic and the business goes
booming. After a while they begin
talking about each other, and in due
course of time they are fighting. Each
of the ringleaders want boss, and
neither will concede the right to the
other. Then they collect their clans
and delare war. From that time for
ward the institute in which they are
interested is secondary consideration.
Who is boss? That's the question; but
is never answered, for woman will die
rather than give up. If beaten by
superior number she will continue
to talk back. This is her nature.
She is jealous, selfish and persistent.
These are some of the qualities in a
good wife. She is jealous of other
women in the matter of Reatness of
attire, comfort of her home, and So
cial standing. She is selfish, in that
she wants the undivided love of her
husband and the best of everything for
her home comfort. La the pursuit of
these she is most persistent. If a
woman can't be the highest toad in
the puddle she will not be in the pud-
die at all. This is an honest state.
ment of the law governing an average
woman. You seldom find married
women visiting or intimately associat-
ing with those whom they know or
feel to be their superiors. They p c.
fer to 60 among those whom they feel
to De in some respect and some degree
their interiors.
In nv note book | find the follow
ing which is credited to Howe but
which Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Joyce
both claim:
Laugh and the world laughs with you:
Weep, and you weep alone.
This grand old earth must borrow Its mir b,
Ii has trouble enough OF its Own.
Sing, and the hills will answer:
Sigh, it is lost on the air
The echoes bound to joyful sound,
But shrink from a voicing care.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There were none to decline your nectared
wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For long aud loraly train;
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give-it will help you to live,
But no one can help you TO die.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and 60.
They want full measure for all your
pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Here is what Sam Small says of
Missourians generally:
"They are a peculiar people. In
the main they are the most self salts.
fed people on the globe. They have
splendid farms, valuable horses,
thrifty business men, booming towns
and seem to think there is little bet
ter to be found in any future, either
here or hereafter. Hence they are
hard people to arouse upon the lines
of religious necessity in humble life,
but when fired with interest upon the
subject they move up gradually, solid.
ly and honestly, and take firm posi-.
ton on the most advanced ground"
care they prospecting largely" Il
should say so, judging from all | saw
and heard. Taxable values are an
nuslly increasing. the volume of trade
charging constantly, their population
augmenting and general prosperity is
everywhere evinced."
There never was a more magnifi-
cent spectacle than the sunset of last
Thursday evening. The storm clouds
swept in platoons across the west and
grandly the gold of the departing sun
changed them into green and amethyst