The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-08

someone who is envious of her. If she
hears that anyone has said anything
unkind of her or has criticised her
even justly, she puts it all down to
jealousy of her superior beauty Or at
tainments. This is deadening to the
growth OF the soul. Doubtless there
are many jealous folk, but do not look
for them and do not imagine that you
ere so superior that the world looks
upon you with envy. That state of
mind may make for peace, but it is
the falsest peace in the world and
some day will have a sad awakening.
When you hear that someone has
criticised you and disapproved of
something you have done, ponder we'll
upon what your critic says of you
and see if it is not the grain of truth
contained therein which hurts the
most. If we find that grain of truth,
and resolve to eliminate it so that the
criticism will never apply again, we
have gained much from our critic; if
the criticism is absolutely untrue and
unjust, it cannot hurt us at all. For
it is only what we do ourselves that
really hurts us; the speech of people
may blacken our regulations, but If
we have done nothing to merit that
injustice, ultimately truth will prevail
and we will be righted.
There is jealousy and jealousy.
There is kind that is the precursor
of mental arrangement; that is, I'M
comfortable to live with, for it creates
an atmosphere of distrust and suspi-
cion and has led to murder and all
sorts of horrid crimes. Then there is
the sort of jealousy felt by men and
women in love. 1t is said there is no
true love without jealousy, but that
is certainly a libel. For the love that
is not built upon faith and confidence
is surely not true love. Only the man
who has a jealous wife, or the wife
with jealous husband, knows the
full misery of this .wretched feeling.
Wasn't it Iago who said that 'trif1es
light as air to the jealous are con-
firmation strong as proofs of holy
writ Shakespeare understood every
thing. Study that terrible tragedy
caused by jealousy and take warning.
The writer once was told by jeal-
Gus woman of the agonieS she suffered
from this unhappy feeling. 1t had
taken possession of her very soul and
she could not remember time in her
life when to see others loved, and to
hear them we'll spoken of, had not
caused her untold anguish. When she
was mere child she overhead her
uncle praising her sister; this filled
her with such rage that she went up
to the nursery, took all the dolls. toys
and Other belongings of her little sis
ter, heaped them on the floor and
jumped and stamped on them until
there was nothing left. Ordinary PEG
pie know nothing of this, fortunately.
1t is in some cases a sort of obsesslon
which takes complete possession of one
and then it is case for alienistS ami
leads straight to the asylum. This
same woman declared that to see her
sister caress her little dog made her
perfectly wretched. This is not I'M
derstandable by the majority OF
course this sort of thing is widely diff
ferent from the petty jealousy of girls
or young men of the same social set.
That is harmless enough. But the pas
sion of jealousy which makes a Wom-
an or man suspect everyone, see an
Interior motive in every action, is a
detestable thing. 1t has broken uE
homes, and broken, too, many hearts.
The best way to do is to try to for
get it. Don't attribute things to jeal-
ousy. If you once get into that habit.
before long you will be dwelling in the
most impossible world of your own
making, where yeG are the one perfect
being and all the others are striving
to belittle you with criticism and envy.
This is a ridiculous attitude of mind
for man or woman. If you are certain
someone is jealous of you, ignore it
and nonh- nooh 1T There real1v isn't