Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-26
JEAL Gus WI YES
How Some of Them Show
Their Agony.
SIREN 9Th OF ONE
SHE CONQUERED AT LAST IN HER
OWN WAY.
Made Herself So Fascinating That the
straying Fancy Came
Back.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star
Some one who has slipped his burden OF
sorrow from his heart long enough TO sub
ject it to analysis has found out that griefs
are really all members of one tribe or clanf
and may be expected to show family char
acteristics. For instance, the woes of be-
reavement differ only in degree from the
pangs of trivial disappointment, and the
same emotions are called into play in wit
Messing mock sorrows as when one bows in
the shadow OF real ones. However that
may be, there is one deep, black and terri
BILE despair which bears no kinship TO any
other, and that is jealousy. If one were to
ask me to name the bitterest pain the hui
man heart can suffer L should say that cgly
word and believe that l had spoken truth
And | do not mean at this time the wild
passion which men feel when their veins
run fire and their hands are nerved to xii,
but the kind which turns at a look. young
and loving faces into masks of misery, even
as have seen women'S faces change, while
their poor smiles hung to their brave lips
and the nails of death tore at their bosoms.
Men are credited with a directness and
frankness not generally accorded to women;
and it is true that they are not given to
iconcealing what they believe to be personal
injuries. If man is jealous Of his wife he
knows only one remedy, and that is to Kill
or otherwise dispose of his suspected rival
The old savagery dominates him and the
primitive man returns to first principles and
fights for his rights or his supremacy. He
will attack his enemy on the floor of the
laughter filled bali room as quickly as his
cliff-dweling forefather would have hurled
the object of his hatred from a rock. And
the thought that he may be holding the
name of a wholly innocent woman up to
Scorn does not for a moment restrain MS
much-vaunted frankness. His one thought
a nd rlGu all N iS mo ted ont
to the wrong one when all is said and done
although the world does not stop TO find
out about that end of it.
How They Take 1t.
s. But women. as a rule. take this agony in
quite a different way. Even Shakespeare,
who knew the feminine heart much better
than any of those who followed after him.
believed that the first impulse of a woman
was to seek revenge. And perhaps because
he said it it has been long accepted as the
truth. But in my limited experience | have
never seen it. and i am wondering if any
of my readers has really known personally
of any woman who has been so maddened
by her pain that she has tried TO hurt an
other. We read of these things continually.
But motives are not always as they seem;
and personal knowledge is different thing
to rest ones faith upon than mere super
Stition.
1t is quite true that the presence OF teal-
ousy in a family is likely to set the poor
woman who feels its wretchedness into nag
gng ways.
Let me tell you of the methods of one
loving woman who had seen her husbands
eyes kindle in another womans glance.
She Heard It Herself
1t came about those things do; with the
suddenness of thunder peal in clear sky
Millicent Gray not a clever woman,
particularly. She just loved her husband in
the dear, old-fashiOned way; and she never