Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-07-30

flames of her suspicious by their fir tations with him?
 The jealous wife Is not going to be the only one who is going to be pun ished in this case. Before it is over the husband will have paid to the last farthing for his folly, and the silly women who thought it fun to coquette with married man will find that their gay romance has suddenly turned to grim tragedy.
 Gossip already has begun to whisper certain names. Already number of dainty petticoats, before this consider ed spotless, have been splashed with mud, and more than one woman's face paled with fear when the manager of the distograph company told that Mrs. Carman had informed him that she kept a record of all the conversations that she overheard in her husbands office.
 So the moral of this story is not wholly for jealous wives. It is also for gay husbands and giddy women.
 In one of Gables Creole stories is a little priest who always said: God forgive you and men, my brother, for this mans sin,", when he hears of crime that has been committed. That might well be the prayer of every husband with jealous wife, for back of the wife's jealousy there is pretty sure to be a justifying cause. You never hear of the wife of man who passes his evenings at home, who takes his wife along with him when he goes out to enjoy himself, and who spends his evenings on his own fami- ly falling a victim to the green-eyed monster.
 How can you blame a wife for being jealous when her husband regards his home only as a place to discard his soiled clothes and work off his real temper; when husband sends orchids to actresses and begrudges the price of the baby's milk; when he is all compliments to other women and pure knocks to his wife; when he quotes poetry to other women and merely grunts in answer to his wife's ques- tions?
 There are tens of thousands of such men, men who regard mar age as a tie that binds only on wo1.en, and who feel that they have perfect lib erty in romantic affairs with any pret- ty and attractive woman that crosses their path. Indeed, they hold them selves, even freer than bachelors, since by announcing that they are married and that there is a woman in the background who has legal possessionl of their names and pocketbooks, they are protected from any danger from breach of promise suits, and cannot be expected to end a filtration with matri- mony.
 The married man flirt is one of tn most common and contemptible figures in society, for he wrongs two women the woman he is betraying, and the woman he is playing with. It is the husband who is responsi- ble for the jealous wife. We have been in the habit, taught by French farces, to look upon the fat, middle aged wife who is trying to keep up with her gay rounder of a husband 1 as figure of fun. Surely in reality there is no more pathetic creature o\ earth than the wife who knows that her charms have faded, her beautygone and that her husband has left her for younger and fairer and gayer women. 1 And certainly there is no more refined form of cruelty than that practiced | by the man who rewards a wife's | faithful devotion by indulging in af- 1 fairs that incite jealousy in her bosom.