Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-01-15

stroy them. No man ever successfully
built a temple Of fame upon the ruined
foundations Of a good mans life. The
iavelin Of jealous hate has poisoned
handle which Is more deadly than its
venomous tip. 1t will more surely de-
stroy the life Of man who attempts
to hurl it than the life Of the rival
against whom 1t is thrown.
Maddening jealousy will make its
sinful victim turn upon his best friends.
| Many pathetic scenes are daily wit
messed in the insane asylums of the
land; but, TO me, the patients who are
to be pitied the most are not the drivel-
ing cpileptics or the men and women
whose minds have crumbled into such
ruin that they can sit hour after hour
making doll dresses or with CLASSY
eyes vacantly staring for days at a
time at some crack in the wall. ! be-
lieve the insane patients who should be
pitled the most are those whose dis
eascd minds make them think that
their wives or husbands or parents or
children or brothers and sisters have
been untrue to them. l 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-
tinually denouncing the recreant lover
and the woman for whom he broke his
vows ! pity that old gray haired
mother who for twenty years has been
denouncng her only son because she
thinks he wants TO poison her for her
money. I pity that insane wife who
will 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 10 be pitied.
Never did John Fox in his famous
Book Of Martyrs depict more excru-
ciating agonies 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.
liz the cause of jnnumcrable domestic
and social infelicties, causing misery
alike to its victim and its object 1t
makes the wife suspect the husband
OF wrongdoing. IT makes the husband
mpugn the motives and actions of his
wife. II is the cause Of most Of the
the happiness of many lives for time
and eternity. 1t lashes OthellO into
frenzy until the murderous fingers are
clutching 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 n tit 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 ceascless bombardment Of
tempestuous dcnuncatOn and the ire
: sistible food of remOrseful tears.
Causeless Frenzy.
The sa Oldest part Of these insane af-
flictions. where men and women will
sometimes turn upon their best friends
and brood over the idea that they are
untrue il that often their frenZied sur
misses are without any legitimate cause.
They may only be the st1Olge halluci-
nations of diseased intellect Their
loved ones may be doing everything i'll
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
ria ges always at their disposal These
friends may stint themselves and law
y ish their money in every possible way
. for the comfort of their weak minded
d, relations, yet these insane patients can
never be persuad cd that their friends
are faithful to them. Though husbands
and wives and children may be doing
everything that can be done for their
u happiness, yet they will keep on in
L their upbraidings and fault findings
; and denunclatious until at last they
will drive those who are nearest and
u dearest to them from their sides. Nc
impression will cause Il husband to de-
: spise wife quicker than the belief
that she distrusts him and will not
credit what he says: no knowledge on
earth will send Il young woman to de-
= struction sooner than the thought that
= the man she married has dropped the
= role Of 4 lover for that of n sneaking de
tective. Continual fault finding ant
; false accusations and frenZied distrus'
and venomous sneers and multitude
nous reproaches and sulky brooding:
always defeat their own ends with oul
u loved ones as jealousy also defeats Its
own aim in our treacherous dealings
, with our hated rivals. The rattlesnake'
fang is a poor receptacle in which t.
> store the honey OF an orange blossom.
: The most virulent forms Of madden
u ing jealousy can often be found among
y the old az well as among the young
The superintendent of the great in
sane asylums will tell you that some o
) their patients have been living il
!, charge of their keepers for ten, twenty
thirty and sometimes even forty O