The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-03

my life being ruined by my husbands
silly and croundless jealousy.
rs there 10 cure for the victims OF
the green eyed monster"
Alas; sister, | can give you no hope.
Jealousy is form of insanity that Is
tncurablc. and those who are afflicted
with il should he taken quietly away
ana locked up in padded cells where
they can indulge their mania for I'm
aelning things. and torture themselves
to their hearts content, without at
fiicting other people.
God pity the woman who Is mar
ried 10 a tedious husband God help
tic man who is married 10 . jealous
woman What they go through makes
the rack and the thumb-sCrew look
like pleasant evenings diversion,
and the only remedy for their suffer
inGs in death,
Of all the faults that any human
being can possess jealousy is the
worst and the most hopeless, because
n is so self-rlGhteous that there Is no
chance 10 reform it, II a man is a
drunltard or a gambler he comes out
and does battle with what he recoC
nizes as a weakness in his own char
acter. If woman is a shrew or
slattern. she admits that she must
overcome these defects, but the teal-
Gus husband or wife Is the ono perfect
and tawicss being in the universe and
never admits that he or she is in the
wrong. ON The contrary, he or she is
a noble, lofty minded. godliRc crea-
ture whose trust is always being
abused by some poor. unworthy. lying,
deccitful. unfaithful wcakling to whom
Inc or she has The misfortune To he
married or TO love.
Therefore there rs no hope ot cur
ing jealousy. because no Jealous man
or woman ever admits that Inc or she
is Jealous. The green eyed man sees
his wife looking cheerful and pleased
as she talks TO a man at u party and
he Is furious. not with himself FOR
being such a cad and cur as to sus~
picion the woman whose absolute
goodness and purity and whose dcvo-
ton 10 himself he has had proven "A
hundred times y day for twenty years.
oh. no, He doesn't blame himself
lie bIamcs her for improper conduct
Of which she H. absolutely Eultl"ss.
and nc proceeds 10 make bcr life
miserable.
Nor docs the jealous woman cVcr
think that she is iu the wrong when
she leaps 10 the conclusion that her
husband IS leading the double life
because lac is dccently ciVil 10 ms
stanoSrJpEcr. or he takes hts old
SchooImHtC out 20 lunch some time
when he happens 10 run across her
when she comes 90 town. Oh. no.
tho wife doesn't think that shc has
got nasty, moan disposition ann an
imagination That needs l." bc scut 10
harm in lIcT husbands association
with any cthcr woman. She blamcs
him. and thinks herself a poor. pc'-
secuted martyr,
it's on" example In the world Of Il
self manufacturing. double tiou.
pcrprtuGl -mot,ou substance. VI can
make itself out ~ nothing, and 1t
grows by what " feeds on. ard there
j. no Way 20 vufuhut II because q is
like the tabled monster whose head
grew on again ds soon ~ II was cut
cfC
The most serious tnIn= abou, jcai-
ousy is the strange humility aud
S-!!-G"piccatiru IL shows. The man
who la Jealous OF cvrry other man
mits th5,l hc thinks that Hose other
ircu arc his s'Ipcrirrs IN o'crN way.
Thc woman who u Jealous oi every
woman - whom hcr husband spcaks
shows that rhc thinks ihnl she -
the Nauulicst tho stuP!dcSt. the
most unattruCtiNc ot women. auI
that rhc expects him - uud any
other woman more charming than
she Is.
\ man certainly prcclaims himself
= poor. weak creature Wlicn nc pro-
claims his belief That eithc: nc
nickel out tho ivalest of her son fpr
= wife. or else that nc thiulSS $" IT,
tic OF hlunsel that he doesn't bciicyc
thd, hc can hold what hc has Won.
And woman - lacking I'm all Nauitv
VINO iS obscsS5d by tho belief that
there " nothing IN her To keep the
love she hes Won.
There arc those who sock 10 Justify
ieaiousy by claiming that IL rs q part
% love. Nonsense. Love T. trust. and
there can d" no love where turrc is
no faith. jealousy - the deadly insult
that suspicion offers love. and which
in time Kills an affection