The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-10-18
A CHICAGO vIGNETTE.

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they got through they grew confiden-
tial 1t was the married woman who
directed the conversation into the tor
tuous channel through which II after
ward twisted.
az hear you are going to be married
this fall" she said leaning back con-
tentedly in her chair and looking at
her companion critically. The shadow
of blush crept over the engaged girls
face.
Eyes" she admitted. such is my in
tention at present"
The married woman pulled out to
It's greatest length one of her pearl
gray gloves, and then she said, with
an air of superior wisdom:
"Of course you are receiving loads of
advice from all who have been let into
the secret as to the best methods of
managing your soon-to-be husband"
The engaged girl nodded
YES" she sighed, mother, grand
mother, aunts and cousins and neigh
bors are prolific in cut-and-dried trea-
tises on how to make him walk the
chalk line Have you anything to Of
fer?"
'Well, yes" returned the other. ~
believe 1 have. If you have no objec"
ton / should like to contribute my
quota of wise counsel to the symposium
Of recipes for brewing domestic happi-
ness which you already have on hand"
The engaged girl answered with a
smile, which the married woman con-
strued as permission to go ahead, and
she sailed in full tilt
Are you jealous?' she asked, by way
of introduction
The engaged girl blushed again,
rather more wildly than before. "a
little" she said, as if half doubling the
propriety of such question and the
advisability of a truthful reply. Her
friend nodded emphatically.
81 knew it," she cried, triumphantly,
"and let me tell you right here that il
you don't put double-barred lock on
that particular element in your make
up 1t Will prove to be the most disas-
trous stumbling block that will rise in
your way. Jealousy is inherent in
every human heart to a greater or less
extent, but 1 believe we women have
a bigger dose of it than men have 1t
is a wonderfully strong passion. There
is nothing on earth that causes a per-
son half the misery it does, and yet
it can be subdued. I've done It,"
She laid down her dessert spoon and
twisted one corner of her napkin
thoughtfully. The engaged girl leaned
forward and showed signs of pretty
high degree of interest.
"How?' she queried, earnestly.
"Oh, you can't expect one to go into
the psychological details of how one
roots out an evil that has been promi-
nent in ones nature from birth just
exercised my will power and kept on
exercising it, and, 10! the thing was
done. Perhaps you may think my
bump of jealousy was never so well de-
veloped as is that of the majority of
women, but L know better Why, just
let me tell you something. You know
perhaps, that l married the son of my
guardian. After papa died and his
friend took control of both me and my
property, 1 went to his house to live,
and that afforded me an opportunity
to keep tab on the mornings and out
gongs of my lover much more thor
oughly than most girls are ever al
lowed to do.
1--WE We're engaged for more than a
year before / was considered old
enough to marry, and what l suffered
during that twelvemonth from the
pangs of jealousy no mortal can I'M
derstand. l studied Edwards every
expression and action, and it wasn't
long till l could tell, nine times out of
ten, by Just looking at him when we
met at dinner whether he was going
out or not. When he went it almost
killed me. Such nights seemed like an
eternity. There wasn't a. trace of an
ger, mind you; 1 felt as though death
would be the only happiness 1 could
find, and fairly longed for it to come.
My room was converted into a regular
race track round which 1 paced in
throes of the most exquisite agony, and
the tears | shed, could | have treas
ured them all, would consecrate half
million souls and make them fit for
, heaven. L have just nine gray hairs
! at the present time, and, believe me,
my dear every one of them lost their
natural hue in that pre-matrimoniaI
period. l cultivated a good crop of
wrinkles then, too, but careful massag-
ing has since removed the most of
them.
For a long time I kept Edward from
suspecting the true state of my mind
and heart, but at last the torture be-
came so intense that l couldn't con-
ceal my feelings, and 1 begged him to
drop all other women for my sake.
NOW, while l believe that Edward is
one of the best men that ever lived,
am also positive that he Is the most
pig-headed. Instead of swearing that
he would never look crossways at an
other female, as L had expected him
TO do, he fatty told me that he could
not comply with my request, which
was, he declared, the very consumma-
ton of injustice and lack of faith in
him. He had lady friends, he said,
friends of lifetime, and he didn't in
tend to give them up altogether, not
even for me. l saw he was adamant in
that direction, and then 1 implored
him to tell me where he went and
whom he saw. That ne also refused
W NO. On the pea tlltI IL WOulu De de-
rogatory to his dignity to give an ac-
count .! his actions to anybody Well,
the loI and short of it was 1 gave in
"Oh, 10, you wouldn't" she added,
reassm ngly, as the engaged girl made
a move lent expressive of the independ-
ence size would have displayed under
similar circumstances "Some engage
ments may be broken without a heart
pang but l loved Edward too dearly to
risk my happiness altogether by such a
/, headlong course. So, as I said, gave in
Not because l thorTht he was right,
for ii Is my honest l., ''iction to this
day that he was cruel, St.. n and un-
lust with me, but because it was APP
: parent that it was only by yielding
that constant squabbling could be
avoided. He thought l had come over
to his way of thinking, and never has
had the faintest conception of what l
suffered in overcoming my senseless
suspicion and jealousy, as he always
tern 1t.
20, my dear, don't say jealousy is
, sin. Far from 1t. But every woman,
reckoning from the standpoint of her