The daily Alaskan., 1918-04-02

becomes inevitable, but never before. We would not let health, money, posi- ton, reputation or property thus drift away without using every effort to re- tain 1t; why does false pride sometimes make us so reckless with what meaus most to us?
 Morbid jealousy Is real, sad prob lem of the married life of many homes. IL may break out at any moment and many q guest, as he passes his cup for more tea, Is struck with surprise at the strange expression on the face of the hostess, sees the lightning flash In her eyes and watches it strike the innocent husband at the end of the table, and the guest almost hears the thunder as he hopes he will be home before the cloudburSt comes. And the sudden sul- try atmosphere, and that strange hush, with the air of the room surcharged with electricity, may all have come In a moment with not the slightest real justification. It Is the self-tOrture of love.
 To morbid jealousy civility, just of the ordinary type, becomes filtration; indifference, disguised feelings; good spirits, conscience masking a wrong; silence, thinking of some one else-all Is translated by the cipher code of jealousy. Jealousy always plays with loaded dice-the cast Is always fore ordained. Jealousy does not require cause, 1t Is satisfied with an oppor- tunity. It 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- jugates In all moods and lenses.
 To this morbid jealousy explanations mean nothing but aggravation or change of base of attack. The most tactfully delivered explanation Is often dexterouSly caught, and with Q whisk of the vocabulary is quickly trans formed into a foaming whipped-cream conviction on some other phase, while the innocent sufferer, In daZed way, wonders how 1t was done. YesuviuS ln It's erupdOns, Is slow, snail-like in- activity compared with the explosions of thls jealousy. Unlike cigar smoking, jealousy Is not One-Sex speciality. This morbid Jealousy Is always unrea- soning and unreasonable. Its misin- terpretatiOn of a word, a motion or a glance may throw intO eclipse the loyal unSelfSh devotion uf 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. It is emotional suicide. It Is a peculiar form of fear which seeks constantly to discover what it does not want to find. Jealousy Is the chloroform of confidence. It 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 conslgns one subject after an other to the quarantine of the un- spoken. One inyOluntarlly sterilizes ones conversation, emitting simple lit tie incidents and references nothing in themselves but which experience has shown carry stOTm-signals, so that one lnvOluntarily picks ones way carefully In talking, like 8 person getting up aT night in q dark, chair-spripkled room, How Cupid must moan when he finds married people grown tactful and polite with each other The delight ful free interchange of thought can exist only as love and trust make Blue beard chambers of interdicted subjects unnecessary and impossible in conyer- 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 ID this morbid jeal' Ousy, for innocence of the object of the feeling can prevent It. It Is like one of those concave or convex mirrors that dlstort whatever passes before them. This unreasonable Jealousy is hard on two peOple-the subject and the object. Its presence in the home means q problem for two. For one it means the overcoming of morbid sus. pICion and the other somehow to keep the sacred flame of love burning despite the suspicion. There Is always q benumblug, paralyzing sense of help lessness and of hOpelessness in resting under a 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 one 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