Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-08
HERE'S A CURE
FOR JEALOUSY
Dorothy Dix Gives Tip on How
to Get Test of Green
Eyed Monster

A woman who is deeply in love with
her husband and who frankly ac-
knowledges that she is intolerably
jealous of him, without any tangible
cause, wants to know If there is any
cure for jealousy.
The only cure for jealousy is COM
mon sense. The only remedy for the
green eye is to look a situation so
straight in the face that the jaundiced
halo with which you see It surrounded
fades away, and you behold it clear
and normal, instead of distorted by q
bilious haze.
OF Course 1t Hurts
OF course 1t hurts wife's pride and
vanity to find out that she is not all
in all to her husband as he is to her.
But If every woman who has made
that, discovery went about beating
upon her breast and tearing her hair,
we would not be able to get through
the streets for the curls and transfor-
nations that would cucumber them,
and this world would be nothing but
wailing place.
Mems hearts and womens hearts
are run on different schedules. Wom-
en- are monopolists in love, while men
are free traders, and it's perfectly pos
sible for a man to be devoted to his
wife, to prefer and admire her above
all other women, and still have eyes
for every other pretty skirt that
crosses his pathway
Therefore, however aggrayating it
may be to wife to find out that her
husband enjoys q passing filtration
with another woman, and that he still
likes to be teased about being a gay
Lothario, she needn't suspect his faith
fulness on this account. Nor is it any
indication that he is weary of her.
shes still his wife, and just being a
mans wife gives her prestige in his
eyes that no other woman possesses.
For this reason if a man is good,
and kind, and tender to his wife she
is wise If she shuts her eyes to the
fact that he is prone to be a little
too soft where a pretty face is con-
cerned, and that any little two by
four debutante with fluffy hair and
big eyes can make a fool of him.
Every wife, who makes a success of
matrimony, has to forgive her hus-
band something, and put up with
something, and flirtatiousness is not in
, the same class with temper, or
grouchiness, or stinginess.
Never Nag
Certainly the jealous wife does not
help her cause by nagging; for there
is no way so swift and sure by which
to drive man away from you to an
other as by nagging. Let wife make
herself a perpetual faultfinder at
home and she sends her husband
straight as die to the other woman
to be comforted. Thus has many a
wife developed her husbands slight
fancy into an affinity.
Nor is anything to be gained by
watching a man. The most perfect
system of spying breaks down at
some point, and if husband or a
lwife wishes to deceive the other, there
H. "a
In the end it is bound to be q ques-
tion of honor between the two. and
SO the wife who goes through her
husbands pockets looking for letters
in feminine handwriting, and who
pops into his office to see whether he
has a good-looking stenographer or
not, and who makes him establish an
alibi for every minute that he is out
of her sight does nothing to safeguard
her own interests.
She only puts premium on his de-
ceiving her, for her suspicious make
him feel that he'd better get the bene-
| fit of her doubts. One had as we'll be
hung for sheep as lamb. you know.
You Can Help Tt
| OF course the jealous woman will
say she can't help her jealousy. That's
nonsense. Love is more or less a mat
ter of self-hypnotism anyway, and any
woman can keep the good thought on
| her husbands affection for her just
as effectually as she can dwell on his
faithlessness and doubts of him that
torture her.
So l say to this jealous wife, for
get your husbands one little step
aside. Be good to him. Be cheerful,
and affectionate, and charming to him
| If you want to keep him and make
him think you are the pluckiest little
and the finpet cnp1rada ,,,a -
ever got. There's not much, you know.
in a green-eyed nagging wife to keep
man nailed to his own fireside.
That's the reason that jealousy is q
boomerang that always flies back and
'annihilates the jealous one.