Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-13


discretion, or indiscretion, for that
matter, it is highly probable that ut
some time or other you have secll
enacted on the stage q play COM
pounded after the following we'll
known receipt:
Take Il young, middle-aged or
even near-elderly couple that have
been stepped in domestic happiness.
If of broiling age, they have prob
ably just completed an ideally hap
py honeymoon. If of roasting age.
they have perhaps been stepped for
ten or fifteen years. If older, the
stepping has been going on longer.
Now introduce one perfectly good
vampire" who may be either tough
or tender, according to the taste ot
the playwright. In this receipt the
'Vamp" stands for the "brisk fire"
that the cook book insists will burn
things if not carefully watched.
The brisk fire" starts things going,
and while everything seems to be i'll
the greatest danger, the chef-in
the person of the playwright-in-
troduces a fourth ingredient that
puts a check on the too rapid cook
ing of the domestic goose.
The fourth ingredient is none
OlnGE IMAM lIe lIue-Dlue IdItillN
friend who agrees to make property
love to the wife for the purpose of
making the husband jealous. You
you have seen a thousand times, il
is as safe as mothers bread, as
sane as roast mutton.
Now, having seen this grown-up
fairy tale so often on the stage, II
good many women have begun 10
confuse repetition with gospel and
to apply it's false maXims to theif
own troubles. And the fat is in the
fire, to return tot the kitchen for ouT
figure of speech.
For in real life, alas, things do
not work out like the old reliable
stage formula which, might be ell
titled: "A Cure for Husbands" If
the husband is really in the tolls OF
a 'vamp," he will not see things
at their face value. His wife II,
some mysterious way becomes an
obstacle to his happiness and her
fond and foolish strategy may fur
nish him with the excuse for which
he has been looking.
And the old reliable family friend
of the play is rather scarce in real
life, so that the poor. dstractc /
| little wife must look about among
| strangers for this highly impol tant
actor to play the role of jeaIo dsy-
inspiring rival to her husband.
And, sometimes the susceptible
gentlemen of real life who responds
to the wife's languishing glances
does not realize he is part of a plot
and that the neglected wife has No
use for him at all. but is merely
flirting as part of the game.
And of course she has not taken
her entire circle of friends into her
confidence, nor her neighbors for
that matter, and everyone is at first
surprised, distressed, and then dis
gusted by the "goings on" of the
poor little woman who, alas, may
be going on with a broken hcrat.
Also the husband, who has never
had any patience with the sauce,
for the goose sauce for the gander
theory, as far as women are con-
cerned, now regards himself as u
domestic martyr whose own peca-
dillos are amply justified by the cou-
duct of his wife. The sympathy that
even the most flagrantly SHINING
husband is apt to feel at times for
a wronged wife and which has been
the cause of innumerable reconcile
ations, is lost by such mistaken tao
tics.
The hair of the dog that bit
you" is n poison rather than an
antidote, when applied as cure 70
an impressionablc husband. It
works out beautifully on the stage,
and if you want to see n husband
get his just deserts after this TT
for-tat fashion, please pay any
where from so cents to so, plus the
war tax on theater tickets, to see
it done up brown. Then come home
with n firm determination to re-
verse the action of this fairy story
in real life.
For any woman who fiirts, either
to teach her husband a lesson or
for her own amusement, is delib-
erately pulling the foundation stones
from under her home. All that She
succeeds in doing is to shake his
belief in her, and to detile his ideal
of her goodness and purity.
There are several things to be
considered in this great question of
jealousy-frst, have you really got
anything tangible to be jealous
about? Is there an actual, IN
dubitable ''vamp" menacing your
hearthstone, or are you Offering
your soul to the green-eyed monster
to feed upon because of vague ap-
prehensions that there might, could,
would or should be some one?
If your troubles come under the
head of possibilities, lose not mo-
ment's time in casting out the seven
devils of jealousy that possess you.
And there is no more certain way
of making the evil dream come truo
than by constantly conJuring up the
vision.
Do not look at every woman OF
your acquaintance in the light of a
possible rival. Suggestion is a po-
tent agency; your very suspicious
may be the match that starts the
fuse.
Don't for a moment let your hus-
band think that you are watching
him, censoring his mail, or unduly
concerning yourself about his COM
ings and goings. The honor sys-
tenn works well in other than penal