The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-28

the more unreason-
.ble though nobody has ever detected |
liens of reason in love. 1t has frequent |
NJ been declared that there can be no |
love without jealousy; that where jeal-
| ousy exists not love exists not either.
MANY. again. have held, with equal
nositiveness. that jealousy disproves
real love, which is then but passion.
lacking the high faith the sublime self
confidence. all the nobler qualities
which go toward making it up
But what may not be affirmed or de-
MED of the extraordinary phenomenon
called love, of which jealousy would
seem TO be in most cases an accom-
naniment? If we are to believe men,
women nearly monopolize jealousy,
though women proclaim that men are
fully as prone to it as they themselves
are. Neither sex will pretend, however,
that women have not far more cause
than men for jealousy and are often
justified in their suspicious The gen.
eral truth remains-it has been familiar
since the dawn of history-that man is
as inconstant by nature as woman is
constant He claims with characteristic
efrontery that it is as difficult for him
to be loyal as it is easy for her, and
that he deserves extraordinary credit
when he is so, since nature makes him
tickle in his affections. He makes HIM
self tickle, no doubt, by indulgence OF
his propensity and puts off the RESPONSE
bility on external agencies, as is not
seldom his won't.
Considering jealousy from the femi-
nine side. it has been observed by both
sexes that women most likely to be
Jealous have the least reason to be so;
that those having the most reason to be
are the least likely to be jealous. This
is a striking paradox, and would scarce
" be credited if it had not been so fire.
uuently confirmed by students of human
nature. Who does not know or has not
known some confirmation or confirma-
tons of this widespread belief? How
much current gossip in certain circles
bears directly Oh the question, though
nobody would own it?
Many persons go to the extent OF
maintaining that when woman Is
frantically jealous of her husband it is
strong presumptive evidence of his com
plete loyalty to her and should have due
weight in the courts, which Is palpaoly
absurd so far as he is concerned.
They insist that her suspicion is COM
monty form of monomania, arising
from temperamental self distrust: that,
believing herself not loved by the man
she loves, she feels sure he loves some
other woman generally-indeed, any
number of women He cannot look at
woman pleasantly; he cannot chat with
her OH ordinary topics, he cannot have
the most conventional relations wife
her without exciting her morbid pas
sion. She sees in the most tritilng, the
most innocent circumstance confirma
ton of her worst fears. of her most
baleful imaginings.
This is true enough. but 1T IS equally
true of jealous men. In fact, is there
any recognizable difference in the man
Hesitation of jealousy in the two sexes
Very little, if any. Jealousy may seem
more feminine than masculine lnhrm
ity, because we have been long accus
toned to regard women as weaker thar
ourselves, simply because it tickles oul
vanity to think so. 1t is unquestionablJ
weakness, and women may be more
inclined to give way to 1t than we are
But when we do give way we MAKE
ourselves as ridiculous and excite a
much contempt as they do, and we de
serve still more The worst OF jealous.
is that while the suffering it entails
intense and absorbing it evokes no sym
pathy, scarcely any consideration
always appears selfish, more or lee
narrow. often positively stupid 1t
apt, therefore, to prove deadly to itsei
or somebody else
Jealousy Is prone to infiict on Tn
person of whom it is jealous the toi
ments itself endures When 1t can con
sciously infiict them. 1t gains yer
bitter sort of compensation man
often secretly pleased in the beginnin
at woman's exhibition OF jealousy
him. But the pleasure is brief, Tor IL
increases in intensity and exactingne'
as soon to become insupportabie by COZ
verting self love into fear OF sell col
tempt
No man, whatever his self ctnicei
feels that he can afford to be ridlcuiou
and he knows that a woman's jealous
is bound ere long to make him SO III
greatest puppy and egotist, whom q
most everybody dsclaims, has been r
duced by woman's jealousy OF him
80 abject terms with himself at last
to stir in the hardest heart degree
pity for him. and such pity, compar,
with the most painful death. would
q sovereign boon.
A woman of whom man is 1eaiqu
however immoderately or conspicuousl