Evening star., 1906-09-08
MENACE TO SCHOOL ROOM
Imaginary Evils Every One is Doing
Cause Her Worry.
ABSORBING TO IT'S PossEssoR
Wife to Be Suppressed Who Constant
" Fancies Her Husband About
to Be Stolen.
Written for The Star.

Inc curse OF q jealous QlSpoSAtiOu udS
been bestowed upon many a luckless In
fant by the malevolent fairy who stood
beside it's cradle. And unless some good
fairy has neutralized the malignant infiu-
ence Of the gift by the bestowal OF the
saving race Of common sense. what havoc
it has invariably wrought in this troubled
world of mortals!
The girl who is jealous. has thorny
road to travel from the very beginning OF
her life journey. Envy. hatred. malice
and all uncharitableness" are her boon
companions, and they certainly fill her ca
reer with exciting incidents. If not exactly
with joy. Most of the time these 'hldeous
little gnomes are the only associates she
has, for they have a fendish knack OF
keeping would-be friends at a distance.
But the girl who is jealous doesn't know
that. She thinks the other girls are mean'
hateful, horrd creatures, and she THANKS ner
lucky stars that she Is in nowise Ike unto
them. At school they take the prizes tnat
she is rightfully entitled toIf people ever
obtained their rights in this world; ana, OF
course, they are favorites with the teach
ers, because they pretend to be so nice ana
sweet with everybody. But-oh. wen, tney
don't amount to so very much, When al Is
said and done! Just wait until school DAYS
are over, and the world lies at ones feet!
Then we shall see what we shall see!
But the jealous girl is not much happier
even then, for the world bears remarkable
There are still other girls-and more OF
them too-ever ready to steal the laurels
that one naturally wants to wear oneseil'
and there is always great, unsympathet-
ic mob of cynical men and women on hand
to watch and laugh at the struggle -to-the-
death going on in the arena. For that IS
what it really amounts to, to the girl VINO Is
jealous. She never feels quite sure enough
s1ok hcrc in q.
giles to make her beauty more impressive
she struggles to secure recognition OF her
charm, she struggles to out-d1stance the
rest in dress and accomplishments. 1t is
rather a pitifu1 sight, from the viewpo oint
of the mere looker-on; but the girl who Is
jealous is not conscious of that! She only
wonders. unhappily, why those other girls
attain the social popularity that seems to
elude her in spite of her efforts. and how
they manage to carry OFF the matrimonial
prizes. But, on the whole, she isn't sure
that she would care to resort to their un-
derhand methods in order to get what she
wanted. She does not know that she falls
because she has not learned natures secret
of being charming by simple sincerity and
sweetness.
Loses Sight Of Others.
But when love comes into her life she
loses sight-for a time-of those other girls
In the first rosy glow Of the little gods
sweet presefice she really assumes love-
liness that was lacking before. Every girl
Is beautiful who loves and Is loved and
this girl is no exception to the rule. People
who have hitherto dfsliked her begin to
perceive that she has graees whose exist
ence they never suspected. Let scoffers say
what they will, it enhances ones apparent
value wonderfully to have Ager
And now is the time for the girl with the
bad fairy's unhappy gift to make herself
mistress of her fate, if she will thrust aside
the ungenerous thought and leave unsaid
the uncharitable word-end do 1t often
the time may come when she will have act
nobly planned that every woman was
meant to be. Love Is the great alchemist
who, with his magic crucibles. can trans
mute base metal into pure gold-and some
times he does 1t.
But-alas-the girl who is jealous does not
often realize that this is the turning of the
tide, and that II she will but take 1t at the
flood it will carry her on the shores Of the
blessed isles. Usually she Is unable to see
that she has ever been in fault, and so,
when the first sweetness of her love has
worn away, she drifts back into her Old
habit of hunting mares nests. She watches
her lover as a cat watches a mouse, and II
he so much as glances at another girl she
becomes suspicious. The "green-eyed mon
ster, certainly makes up then for all the
time he has lost.
Ignores the Unpleasant.
If the man is sufficiently in love he may
ignore the frequent unpleasantnesses that
ensue. If he Is an egotist and a fool he
may even be glad Of the sop to his vanity
conveyed in the implied suggestion that all
women are suppliants for his favor. In
either case marriage will probably result,
and the jealous girl who Is hateful be-
comes the jealous wife who Is infinitely
worse The bottomless Gehenna can have
no torture to exceed that Of the man OF
fine sensibiities and high ideals who is
bound to jealous woman.
For a woman is nearly always petty In
her jealousy. She will stoop to meannesses
that are a shame and a disgrace to her
womanhood She makes happiness impossi-
BILE to herself as well as to her husband.
She banishes peace from her household
and finds at last that love and trust ano
honor have gone with it. A woman's fono
belief may transform a bad man into a
good one, but 1t is a hundred times ortener
that distrustful surveillance transforms
good husband into bad one.
No man living can love and respect
woman who covertly watches him down
he speaks to the woman boarders he may
chance to meet; who goes through ms
pockets and explores his desk for possible
documentary proof or his unialtn1ulness'
who asks minute questions as to his move
ments when away from home and openly
disbelieves him when he answers them, and
who sees in every needless word or uncon-
seious gesture pnsn,cion peg cp1n AM archangei
couldn't live with a woman like that and
retain his self-respect.
AS for the jealous woman in business and
professional life-from her may We all be
spared Unfortunately, the women who are
breadwinners have all had to suffer from
her yagaries more or less She is not
commanding figure, usually being-to put
II coarsely-nothing more than dog-in-the-
manger in petticoats; but, without creating
much of a furore herself, she is capable OF
making things distinctly unpleasant for
those who have the misfortune to work
with her. If she ever comedies that another
woman has talent or ability she does 1t so
grudgingly that one involuntarily wonders
what particular Crouch" she happens to
have against her. AS to advancing another
woman's interests she would not lift a
finger to do it, because she fears that.
should the other succeed in attaining po-
sitiou of influence. she would infallibly
make use Of 1t to injure her benefactress.
Has No Perspective.
The trouble is that the woman who is
Jealous has no sense OF perspective. or of
proportion or even of simple justice. Re-
mote possibilities Of the future loom over
her like mountains. close at hand. A grass
hopper issas fearsome beast as the tabled
leviathan breathing fire and smoke. Tho
woman who Is Jealous searches for hidden