The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-14
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
worids Highest Paid Woman Writer.
A FAKE Cure for jealousy

A Fake Cure Tor Jealousy.
A poor, foolish wife, who tortures
herself with suspicious of her hus-
band, I,eiievcs, that she has found q
way to keep him from noticing other
women 1t is by ogling every man she
meets.
She has heard. story of some
drunkard who vas turned from the
error of his ways and made rabid
prohibitionist by seeing his wife in
toxicated, and of profane man, who
became an exponent of the pure and
beautiful speech. thru hearing his
wife rip out some blood curdling
oaths So this wcrnan has decided
that the way to cure her husband of
flirtatiousness is by beating him to it.
and being more flirtatious than he
Would ever dare to be. --
So far the result of her bright idea
has only been that she has been in
suited by men who, not being mind
readers, could not possibly know that
she was a perfectly respectable wo-
man, and that her languishing glances
in their direction were merely part Of
the moral cure she was trying to work
on her husband. Also the husband is
highly displeased with the nauseous
dose she is forcing him to swallow.
and her friends and acquaintance are
beginning to sit up and take notice
say they never would have believed it
of her.
All of which the misguided wife
might have rforeseen If she had put
on her thinking cap. even for a mfn-
ute. Women cannot pay men back
in their own coin simply because So
ciety has laid down one set Of rules
bp which men may play the game of
life, and another by which women
may play it, and that is all there is to
ii. Whether it is just or not. whether
you like it 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 it untrue that
Jealousy cures Jealousy. The woman
who thinks that she can concentrate
her husbands attentions upon herself
by making him suspicious of her, and
who believes that she endears herself
to him by making 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 loyalty, and to besnirch 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
her. was written long ago as a des4
,scription of the perfect wife. And it
still stands good. And any wonail
who disturbs that feeling in man
does SO at her peril. -~- 5 ~.
AS matter of fact, thereis only one
sure. guaranteed Observation-Disclosures
cure for jealousy. and that is COMM on
sense. Just look at the thing ofiwhfch
you. are jealous fairly and squarely
and see if it is there, in the first place.
and in the second place. see If it is
worth being jealous about. and you
will generally find that the green-eyed
monster has vanished into thin air.
Jealousy is mostly a matter of dlla-
sion. especially with women. Three
fourths of the time when they simply
eat their hearts out with jealousy they
have conjured up. out of their own
fancy an imaginary, rival who does not
exist. They have no real cause for
jealousy whatever.