The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-09-28

WOIudu, VINO II suing ntf nus
band for divorce, gives his occupation
as her reason for asking for q sep
aration from him.
my husband is a fine and noble
man." she testified on. the witness
stand. HE has. been kind to me
and. SO far as I know. has been faith
fui' put ne Is concert singer ana l
cannot stand TO see the way In which
women make TOOLS Oh themselves over
him' II drives me mao 10 look at
mem hanging around hih' ana aoorlns
MIN after he mas sung some patneue
ana heart-touching song. VI course 1
Know mat women are tne ehlet pa
irons at concerts ana that his succe's
uepends upon mis- pleasing them' put
can no longer endure Witnessing tnem
making eyes al MN ana trying 10 inft
win MN.
This woman's action illustrates one
OF the most peculiar and inexplicable
OF all feminine vagaries of tempera-
ment. and that is the almost universal
jealousy that wives feel of their hus-
bands business. Naturally this is
most pronounced in the cases where n
mans occupation throws him in con-
tact with other women. hut II extends
ment, even to the work that men do
solely among other men. A wife can
be Just as Jealous of her husbands
job IL he is a lone fisherman as she
can be of his being a professional con-
noisseur of feminine pulchritude for a
Broadway girl show.
The thousands Of matrimonial
wrecks that strew the theatrical
shores, for instance, are the direct
result Of foolhardy actors having
taken unto themselves wives without
giving heed to this idiosyncrasy of the
fair sex. The result was disaster, for
no amount Of argument or logic or
proof could convince the mans wife
that stage business was purely stage
business and nothing more, and that
the passion that he threw into the
wooling of the beauteous heroine had
no more real significance than would
have had the eloquence he would have
extended in persuading a lady to buy
silk dress had he been in the dry
goods line.
Nor can the singers wife be per-
suaded that when her husband is
singing to the hearts OF an audience
of women his efforts are really direct
ed at their pocketbooks. She's no be-
lever in art for arts sake. She's
bound to make it personal and indI-
vidual. and connected with women
who are no better than they should
be, and thereby enabled to torture her
self, whether she has any reason TO
or not.
Tn ,r,, e,oor-a,.ad co,,tos, actors and
singers wives womb take the first
nriza Tho second nrize would go 10
doctors. wives who are so filled with
! iaalousv ana suenicio, Of their hus-
hands occupation that they scare
poany yourp nbysicians of from en-
tering tho holy estate at all
..wben think of nv husband spend-
ing his DAYS going from one woman
dressed nv, In niple and Iare neeligeas
10 apotbsr ana holding tbeir hands
ard heyipI 10 LOOK sInnatbetic and
till them aIopg ana listen 10 them
| tai tbipps tbe,. yVo,,ldn,, ton their o,rn
husbands or motbArs II drives me
wild" said the nrettv young wife of a
doctor 10 me not long ago. And then
| Che addad bjttarIv at know it's busi-
Innss and thai ~ he didn't do II we
would starve. but sometimes I think I
,ro,,l1 rotbc, s,,r,.a thar have him
do n
And that was why women as a
whole symnatbizad with Mrs Carmau
vben che mn a dictagranh in her hus-
hands office so that she could listen
! ,o What ba said 10 his natients and
what his patients said to him. They
co,,Ia up5arstand the gnawing ieal-
oI,sy that drove woman to do any
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