Milford chronicle., 1903-01-16

Ioun .atio.-s q g5o4 mans life. IL
javelin of j alous hate has a poisone
hanlIa which is mere deadly than it
venonous tip. 1t viii mere surely de
stroy the lie Of a man who attemDa
TO hurl # than the life Of the rival
nga ...st whom it is thrown.
1laddoniug jealousy will make tz
rim al victim turn upon his best friends.
Many pathetic scenes are daily wit
mes ed in the insane asylums OF the
land: but. TO me, the patients who are
10 be pitied the most are not the drirel
ing epueptcs or the men and women
whose minas have ciumbled into such
ruin that they can sit hour after hour
making doll dresses OF with CLASSY
eyes yacantly staring for days at
time at some crack i'm the wall. ne
liave the insane patients who should be
piticd the most are those whose dis
cased minds make them think 'hat
their wives OF Husbands or parents or
children or brothers and sisters have
been untrue to them. / pity the young
girl who has gone mad because she
was Tilted the night before her we'd
Dig aad who sits by tie window CON
tinually dcuouncing the recrcant lover
and the woman for whom he broke his
vows. l pity that old gray haired
mother who for twenty years las been
deaouncing her only son because she
thinks he wants TO poison her for her
money. | pity that insane wife who
viii never allow her husband TO enter
her room because she thinks he has
been false to her. All, these are the in
sane patients who are to be pitied!
Never did John Fox in his famous
Book of Martyrs" depict more excru-
ciating agonics than some Of these poor
insane wretches daily suffer, who brood
over the idea that their friends have
been turned into enemies.
Naddening jealousy. often baseless,
is the cause Of innumerabIe domestic
and social infelicities, causing misery
alike to its victim and its object. Il
makes the wife suspect the husband
OF wrongdoing. Ii makes the husband
impugn the motives and actions Of his
wife. 1t is the cause Of most of the
Quarrcls of lovers, which have wrecked
the happiness of many lives for time
and eternity. 1t lashes OthellO into
frenzy until the murdGous fingers are
clutching at the throat Of his innocent
wife and the suicidal knife has made
an end of the swartLy Moor. 1t was
the cause Of the horrors in the last
earthly days of Ivan the Terrible, who
in a fit of jealousy with an iron staff
in the skull Of his eldest born
ard favorite child. 1t is the heaving,
destructive earthquake which has rock
ed to ruins thousands Of family affairs.
1t has shattered many a domestic wall
under the ceaseless bombardment of .
denuncatiOu and the ire
sistible flood of remorsefSl tears.
A CauseIess Frenzy.
The saddest part Of these insane af- t
aictiols, where men and women will
sometimes turn upon their best friends
and brood over the idea that they are
untrue, is that often their frenzied sur
misses are without any legitimate cause.
They may only lie the strange hailuci-
nations of a diseased intellect. Their
owed ones may be doing everything in
heir power for their sick minds; they
nay take them to the most expensive
# asylums and have for them the best
If physicians and nurses; they may
continually visit them and have their
'Ooms filed with flowers and have car
iagos always at their disposal. These
friends may stint themselves and Law
sh their money in every possible way
or the comfort Of their weak minded
elations, yet these insane patients can
.ever be persuaded that their friends
re faithful to them. Though husbands
nd wives and children may be doing
verything that can be done for their
yet they will keep on in
heir upbraidings and fault findings
nd denunciations until at last they
rill drive those who are nearest and
earest to them from their sides. No
will cause a husband to de-
pise a wife quicker than the belief
hat she distrusts him and will not
redit what he says; no knowledge on I
arth will send a young woman to de I
tructiOn sooner than the thought that
he man she married has dropped the
Die of a bver for that OF Il sneaking de-
,ctive. Continual fault finding and
Use accusations and frenzied disuust
nd venomous sneers and multitude (
Ous reproaches and sulky broodings '
ways lefeat their own ends with our +
wed ones as jealousy also defeats its q
En aim in our treacherOus dealings t
it'll on hated rivals. The rattlesnake's &
ing is a poor receptacle in which to t
ore he honey of an orange blossom. G
The most virulent forms of madden
g Jealousy can often be found among
e od as we'll as among the young. +
he uperintendents of the great in {
ne lsylums viii tell you that some of a
cir patients have been living in d
large of their keepers for ten, twenty.
irty and sometimes even forty or d
ty years. l remember. some years T.
20, that l saw an old woman in the
abush Insane asylum, who, be {
We, had been there for nearly fifty s
Gs. She thought she was the queen y
England. and she wore a paper L