Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-23


with electricity. may all have come
in u moment with not the slightest real
Justification. 1t Is the self-tOrture Of
love.
To morbid jealousy civility. Just of
the ordinary type, becomes fiiriution:
Indifference. disguised feelings; good
spirits. conscience masking q wrong
silence. thinking Of some one else-,.ll
Is translated by the cipher code o'
jealousy. Jealousy always plays with
loaded dice-the cast is always fore
ordained. Jealousy does not require q
cause. Ii is satisfied with an OppOr.
tunity. II may he inspired by what one
does or does not do. what one thought
or did not think. what one said or did
not say; IL may be what one might
have. could have or should have done
or said or left undOne. Jealousy con-
| juSateS In all moods and lenses.
To this morbid jealousy explanations
mean nothing but aggravation or a
change of base of attack. The most
tactfuIly delivered explanation is often
deXterOusly caught, and with whisk
OF the vocabulary Is quickly trans
formed into fOaning whipped-cream
conviction on some other phase, while
the innocent sufferer. in daZed way
wonders how Ii was done. Vesuvius
in its eruptions, is slow. snail-like In
activity compared with the explosions
of this jealousy. Unlike cigar smoking,
! jealousy is not One-sex speciality.
This morbid Jealousy is always unrea.
SOning and unreasonable. Its misin-
depreciation of a word. motion or a
glance may throw into eclipse the loyal
unsetiSh devotion of life, and the one
who suffers innocently in this tempest
must bow the head in helplessness,
realizing that words of protest would
count no more than attempting to lead
tornado to change its itinerary.
Jealousy STILES faith, which Is the
soul of love. 1t Is emotional suicide.
1t is peculiar form Of fear which
seeks constantly to discover what IL |
does not want to find. Jealousy Is
the chlOrOform Of confidence. II re-
quires faith to keep faith. trust to re-
tain trust, love to cherish love.
Jealousy blights spontaneity and the |
free expression of ones thought; one |
soon cOnSigns one subject after an.
other TO the quarantine OF the I'M
spoken. One invountarily sterilizes |
ones conversation. emitting simple lit |
tie incidents and references nothing In /
themselves but which experience has /
Lii.
involuntarily picks ones way carefully
in talking. like person getting up at |
night in Il dark, chair-sprinkled room. |
How Cupid must moan when he finds |
married people grown tactful and
polite with each other. The delight
full free interchange OF thought can
exist only rs love and trust make Blue
beard chambers of interdicted subjects
unnecessary and impossible In CONVEX /
satiOn. We should guard carefully
against closing up any room of con-
fidence in the mind and heart Of one /
we love.
There is pathOs I'm this morbid jeal- |
Ousy, for innocence of the object of !
the feeling can prevent it. 1t is like |
one of those concave or convex mirrors |
that distOrt whatever passes before |
them. This unreasonable jealousy Is
hard on two people-the subject and |
the object. Its presence in the home
means a problem for two. For one II |
means the overcoming of a morbid sus-
picion and the other somehow to keep |
the sacred flame of love burning |
despite the suspicion. There Is always 1
Il henumbing. par:lyZing sense of help |
lesSneSS and Of hupeleSSneSS in resting |
under cruel. unjust charge more
awful when il is made by one who .
should he most ready of all the world /
to be convinced of the innocence of the |
accused.
Jealousy is disease that can be |
cured only by the subject, not by any |
one else in all the world. No mat ,
ter how gentle, kind, forbearinS for.
giving and forgetting the object OF 1t
may be. this in itself will not cure the /
attacks. The subject whose heart Is
thus swayed by fierce gales OF jealousy
must first awaken TO the folly of IL,
the injustice of il, must be conscious
of the trail of bitterness and unhap-
p!ncsS ii brings To both. must realize
the cruel continued assault on the toll
crance. love, loyalty and patience OF
the other. and when the next attack
comes. seek by strength OF will, by
force of character, by consecrated self.
control and by every help OF highest
wisdom To kill the feeling.
Jealousy must he fought rs one
would battle against a pestilence that .
threatens the safety of n town or o /
county. 1t is not sufficient conquest 4
merely to hold back the expressions
of the jealousy; the continuous re- .
preston simply defers the explosion 4
and makes the next outbreak more dis !
astrous. Jealousy must he killed In /
the thought. In the mind. the battle 4
ground of the soul, must the fight of I
determination be waged. In the
thought must the jealousy be neutral
lied by faith, conquered by justice,
and transformed by trustful love into
a restful abiding confidence that only
absolute proof and certainty OF just
cause can ever reawaken.