The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-15

| tounI. tions Of Il goa mans life. The
| iavelin of jealous hate has a poisoned
handle which is more deadly than its
venomous tils o. will more surely de
stlOy She fife u Il man who attempts
60 hurl it than the life Of Che Div:A
against whom it is shsUWN.
Maddening jealousy will snake rs
snfui victim turn nl"s his best friends
Many pathesic scenes are aaiiy wit
messed in til" tnsan. aSylums .f she
land: Out. 10 me. size patiensS who are
to be pitis'd she Most are Nut shc Arivst-
9ng epileptics Or che men anA wehneN
whose minds haec srumhlob int. such
eui1s shas they can sit hour after hour
making saOlY dresses sr with CLASSY
eyes sacansly staring scr days az y
time 1T some crack in the wall. be-
sicve the INSANE Gatients who should be
gitica the most are chose whose alis
saseA minds make chem ahink ehat
their wives or husbands or parents or
children OF brothers and sisters have
been untrue Z" them. ! pity the young
girl who has gone mad because she
was Tilted the night before her we'd
ding and who sits by the window CON
tinuaIiy drnouncing the rrcrcant lover
and the woman for whom lie broke his
VOWS. 7 pity that old gray haired
mother who for twenty years has been
dcnGunring her only son because she
thinks he wants to poison her for her
money. l pity that insane wife who
will never allow her husband to enter
her room because she thinks he has
been ia iSe TO her Ah, these are the in
sane patients who are to I've pitipu.
Never did Holm Fox in his famous
Book of Martyrs" depict more cxcru-
chatting a@OuicS than some Of these poor
insane wretches daily suffer who brood
over the idea that their friends have
been turned into enemies.
Maddening jealousy, often baseless,
is the cause Of innumerable domestic
and social infelicities. causing misery
alike to its victim and its object. It
makes the wife suspect the husband
Of wr0ngdOing. 1t makes the husband
imWlgn the motives and actions Of his
wife. 1t is the cause of most of the
quarrels Of lovers. which have wrecked
the happiness Of many lives for time
and eternity. 1t lashes Othello into
frenzy until the murdefous fingers are
cutching at the throat of his innocent
wife and the suicidal knife has made
an end of the swarthy 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
crushed in the skull of his eldest born
and favorite child. 1t is the heaving.
destructive earthquake which has rock
ed to ruins thousands of family affairs.
1t has shattered many domestic wall
under the ceaseless bombardment Of
tempestuous denunciation and the ire
sistibIe food of remorseful tears.
s..-rs..- A CauseIess Frenzy.
The saddest part Of these insane af-
fictions, 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 be the strange hailuei-
nations of Il diseased intellect. Their
loved ones may be doing everything in
their power for their sick minds; they
may take them to the most expensive
of asylums and have for them the best
Of physicians and nurses: they may
continually visit them and have their
rooms filled with flowers and have car
riagPs always ut their disposal. These |
friends may stint themselves and law !
ish their money in every possible way |
for the comfort of their weak minded |
relations, yet these insane patients can
never. be persuaded that their friends
are faithful to them. Though husbands |
and wives and children may be doing |
everything that can be done for their |
happiness. yet they will keep on in |
their upbraidings and fault findings |
aud denunciations until at last they
will drive those who are nearest and |
arrest TO them from their sides. No |
impression will cause a husband to de-
spise wife quicker than the belief |
that she distrusts him and will not |
credit what he says; no knowledge on |
IaI III "iii sSiid ffolAdLI ~ NC
struction sooner than the thought that |
the man she married has dropped the |
role of lover for that of sneaking de- |
teetive. Continual fault finding and
false accusations and frenzied distrust |
and venomous sneers and multitude
nous reproa ches and sulky broodings |
always defeat their own ends with our
loved ones as jealousy also defeats its
own aim in our treacherous dealings |
with our hated rivals, The rattlesnake's |
fang is poor receptacle in which 10 |
store the honey of an orange blossom.
The most virulent forms of madden /
Ing jealousy can often be found among
the old as well as among the young. /
fhe superintendent of the great i'll
sane asylums viii tell you that some of
their patients have been living in
charge of their keepers for ten, twenty,
thirty and sometimes even forty or
fifty years | remember. some years
ago that I saw an old Woman in the