Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-11-08

In a moment with not the slightest real
Justification. II Is the seif-tOrture Of
love.
To morbid Jealousy civility. Just OF
the ordinary type. becomes Irritation:
indifference. disguised feelings; good
spirits. conscience masking a wrOng
silence, thinking Of some one else-ali
Is translated by the cipher code of
Jealousy. Jealousy always plays with
oadeti dice-the cast is always fore.
ordained. Jealousy does not require o
cause, II Is satisfied with an oppor.
tunity. 1t may be inspired by what one
does or does not do. what one thought
or did not think. what one said or did
not say: 1t may be what one might
have. could have or should have done
or said or left undone. Jealousy con.
1ugates In all moods and lenses,
To this morbid jealousy explanations
nothing but aggravation or q
change Of a base Of attack. The most
tactfully delivered explanation is often
dexterously caught. and with u whisk
OF the vocabulary is quickly trans
formed into u foaming whipped-cream
conviction on some other phase, while
the Innocent sufferer, in Il dazed way,
wonders how 1t was done. Vesuvius,
IN It's eruptions, is slow, snail-iike In
activity compared with the explosions
of this Jealousy. Unlike cigar smoking,
Jealousy Is not Il One-sex speciality.
This morbid Jealousy is always unreal
sohing and unreasonable. Its misin.
depreciation of II word, Il motion or u
glance may throw into eclipse the loyal
unseltish devotion of a 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
a tornado to change Its itinerary.
Jealousy STILES faith, which Is the
soul Of love. 1t is emotional suicide.
1t is a peculiar form Of fear which
seeks constantly to discover what it
does not want to find. jealousy il
the chloroform of confidence. 1t 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 II subject after an.
other to the quarantine Of the un-
spoken. one Involuntary sterllizes
ones conversation, emitting simple lit
tie incidents and references nothing in
themselves but which experience has
shown carry m-signals, 50 that one
lnvoluntarily picks ones way carefully
In talking, like a person getting up at
night In a 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 as love and trust make Blue.
beard chambers of interlicted subjects
unnecessary and impossible In conver.
sation. We should guard carefully
against closing up any room of con.
fdence in the mind and heart Of one
we love.
There is pathos in this morbid jeal.
ousy, for innocence of the object of
the feeling a prevent it. 1t is like
II 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 It
means the overcoming of a morbid sus.
picion and the other somehow to keep
the sacred fame of love burning
despite the suspicion. There is always
q benumbing, p%aralyzing sense of help.
lessness and Of hopelessness in resting
under n cruel, unjust charge more
awful when It IS made by one who
should be most ready Of all the world
to be convinced of the innocence of the
accused.
Jealousy Is a disease that can be
cured only by the subject. not by any.
m else in all the world. No mat.
ter how gentle, kind. %forbearing, 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 1t,
the injustice Of it, must be conscious
Of the trail Of bitterness and unhap.
piness 1t brings to both, must realize
the cruel continped assault on the tol.
erance. love, loyalty and patience Of
the other, and when the next attack
comes, seek by strength Of will, by
force Of character, by conseerated self.
control and by every help Of highest
wisdom to kill the feeling.
Jealousy must be fought as one
would battle against a pestilence that
threatens the safety Of q town or a
county. It Ia not sufficient conquest
merely to hold back the expressions
Of the jealousy; the continuous re.
preston simply defers the explosion
and makes the next outbreak more dis.
astrous. Jealousy must be killed In
the thought. In the mind, the battle.
ground Of the soul. must the fight Of
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