The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-11
ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO
 IS LOOKING FOR TROUBL E

By Max O'Rell, in the New York Ameri-
 can.
 The woman perhaps most unfit for ma trimony is the fidgety one who is unhappy without ever being able to tell you why. She has no troubles, but she Is always looking ahead for some. She Is unable to enjoy the present because she spends her life fearing for the future. There is no hope for her. She Is unhappy without reason, jealous without motives; she is miserable, makes all those around her miserable; she asks for sympathy which she does not deserve, and for consola- ton which cannot be offered to her; she is a ''malade imaginaire." This kind of woman Is, as a rule very affectionate, and must. on that account, be dealt with with gentleness and consideration. But woe to the man who marries heri
 Quite recently lady wrote to me: My husband and adore each other. Yet I am not happy. know it is my own fault, but cannot help it. I feel sure that one day he will fall in love with another woman. and the thought of 1t Is more than I can endure.'
 And what has the poor man done to excite all these fears in the breast of my fair correspondent? T do everything to please him, and he does everything to please me. He is kindness itself to me, and cannot tell him how l suffer" And why does she suffer? It appears that her husband is six years younger than she is (of course, this is against her, although perhaps not in the near future), but, she adds, "he looks ten years older than I do," which I feel gallant enough to translate into, q look ten years young CT than he does. Then where is the trou- ble? People are the age they look. women especially; but, unfortunately, people are also the age they feel and if my lady correspondent goes on much longer well coming all the gloomy thoughts that come to her mind she will soon feel very old.
 She makes me understand. without overdone coquetry, that she is a pretty brunette, of good figure. intelligent and highly educated. Ahl If she could only add that she is aniable and of cheer full dispositionl Her husband is. imagine, handsome and attractive be- cause women look at him. The cats! Why shouldn't they? She should be proud of 1t. How dare they look at him and cause him to cast down his eyes?p she says. Poor. dear little womanl Does your husband really cast down his eyes when pretty women look at him? But you have a husband in a thousand a phenomenon, a perfect "rara avis and If I were you I would spend my whole life returning thanks. Only, I see, you are afraid it is too good to last. Even in the street cars women look at him and firt with him. I have been married to him more than five years, but I can not get used to it" And here the paper shows signs that my correspondent got | overwhelmed with grief and burst into tears "Oh," she exclaimed, it Is horri- | ble-most horribler So 1t is horrible, 1 shocking! The only note of happiness that is struck in her letter Is when she says, quite proudly: Thank heaven. my husband is jealous, which proves that he loves me" There are peopleswho believe | that jealousy is a proof of love when. alas. 1t is only a proof of vanity or the result of pettiness in the mind.
 | But what about advice? For the lady asks for advice.
 {; l am afraid to say that what she suf-