The Washington herald., 1918-08-14

A poor. foolish wife. who tortures
herself with suspicious Of her hus-
band. believes that she has found a
way to keep him from noticing 9TH
er women. 1t is by ogling every
man she meets.
She has heard q story OF some
drunkard who was turned by the
error OF his ways and made a rabid
prohibitionist by seeing his wife in
toxicated. and OF a profane man.
who became an exponent of the pure
and beautiful speech, through hear
ing his wife rip out some blood
curdling oaths. So this woman has
decided that the way to cure her
husband OF fiirtatiousness is by beat
ing him to it, and being more fiirta-
tious than he would ever dare to be.
So far as the result Of her bright
idea has only been that she has been
insulted by men who. not being
mind readers, could not possibly
know that she was a perfectly re-
languishing glances in their direc-
ton were merely part OF the moral
cure she was trying to work on her
husband. Also the husband is high
ly displeased with the nauseous dose
she is forcing him to swallow. and
her friends and acQuaintances are
beginning to sit up and take notice
and gossip about her conduct, and
to say they never would have be-
| lieved 1t Of her.
All of which the misguided wife
might have foreseen II she had put
on her thinking cap even for a min
nte. Women cannot pay men back
| in their own coin simply because
| society has laid down one set of
rules by which men may play the
game of life, and another by which
\ women may play IL, and that is all
there is to it. Whether it is just or
not, whether you like 1t or not. has
got nothing to do with the case.
Anyway, there is no more fallacious
theory than that the hair of the dog
Is good for the bite. and that like
cures like: and especially is 1t untrue
| that jealousy cures jealousy. The
woman who thinks that she can con-
| centrate her husbands attentions
upon herself by making him suspi-
cious OF her, and who believes that
she endears herself to him by max
\ ing him think that some other man
| is about to steal her from him, makes
the mistake of her life. All that she
does is to shake his faith in her 10y
| atty, and to besmirch his ideal Of her
| purity and goodness.
| Any wife who flirts, whether to
teach her husband a lesson or for her
own diversion, is rocking the boat of
| connubial felicity, and you can safely
bet on her overturning it. THE
heart Of her husband doth safely rest
in her" was written long ago as a de-
scription of the perfect wife. And
1t still stands good. And any woman
| who disturbs that feeling in a man
does so at her peril.
| As a matter of fact, there is only
one sure, guaranteed, blown-in-the-
bottle cure for jealousy, and that is
common sense. Just look at the
thing Of which you are jealous fairly
and squarely and see II II is there,
lln the first place, and in the second
place, see II 1t is worth being Jealous
! about, and you will generally find
that the greeneyed monster has van
ished into thin air.
Jealousy Is mostly a matter OF IL
| lusion, especially with women. Three
fourths of the time when they sim
ply eat their hearts out with Jealousy
they have conjured up out OF their
own fancy an lima aginary rival who
does not exist. They have no real
! cause for jealousy whatever
II a woman starts out on a stilf
hunt for trouble she invariably finds
It. II she gets the idea into her head
that there is some Other Woman
she can see her in every skirt that
crosses her husband pathway.
| II her huband SO much as glances
at another woman wife imagines that
she reads q dark understanding be-
tween them II husband tries to make
himself entertaining TO his dinner
party. wife fancies him making I'M
passioned speeches to her while the
| poor man Is only discussing the
weather. II huband meets up with
an ola eirl friend of his hovhood and