Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-04
DOROTHY DIX
WRITES OF
JEALOUSY
BY DOROTHY DIX

a WOMAN who says she knows
~ that she is jealous Of her hus.
band without cause, asks for
some spell by which to exercise the
demon that possesses her.
The best remedy for jealousy is
to cultivate little self-conceit, and
apply liberal doses of common sense
to the situation.
jealousy is the ultimate expression
of humility and establishment. The
woman who cannot listen to her hus-
band express admiration for anoth-
err woman without getting peeved;
who endores grinding torments
when her husband dances with an
other woman; who gets jaundiced
every time her husband enjoys the
society of another woman. admits
that she considers herself such
poor, homely, dull clod that she can
not stand comparison with other
women.
If she thought that she was as
good looking as other women, if she
considered that she had their
charms, and that she was as enter.
tanning and amusing as they are,
she would not be afraid of every
woman who crosses her husbands
pathway. She would feel that she
could hold her own, and that there
was no danger of her husband for
saking her for some more attractive
lady.
Therefore, the first-aid treatment
worm of the dust. who is squirln-
ing around in a sense of her own
unworthiness, to buck up and have
some pride about her. Just hold the
thought, as our Christian Science
friends say, that you are beautiful,
and fascinating, and just as much of
a vamp as any sister woman is.
| Quit thinking that your husband adj
mires every woman more than he
does you. Just remember that he
admired you we'll enough to marry
you, and that is an Endorsement that
you could draw money on at the
! bank.
Bear in mind that every man takes
| his wife at her own valuation, and
! if she is so firmly convinced that
she can't hold a candle to his stenCg-
rapher, or his dinner partner, or
some old friend Of his boyhood, he
is pretty sure to adopt her opinion
of herself. The first time many a
man ever discovers that he got
second-class article in a wife is
when she calls his attention to the
fact of being jealous of every first
class woman.
Fight jealousy with common sense.
After all, the green-eyed monster is
nothing but a bogy like the ones
children conjure up with which to
scare themselves. 1t is a creature
of the imagination, and you have
only to turn the light of reason on IT,
to have it dissolve into thin air.
Jealous wives may we'll take this
thought to heart-their husbands
are true to them, in which case
there is nothing to worry over. Or
their husbands are not true to them,
in which case they are not worth
worrying over. What's the use of
bothering about man who thinks
there is just one woman in the
world. and all the balance are Just
the female of the species, and: who
goes on calling his wife little girl
after she is sixty years old, ans
weighs 175 pounds.
And what's the use of bother!ng
with q man who is philanderer by
nature, and who chases every petit
coat between the cradle and the
grave?
The jealous wife tortures herself
by believing that her husband wants
to eIope with every woman with
whom he is having an animated
conversation. and that if he asks a
woman friend to have a bite Of
lunch with him, he is making a rem
devious with her. All of which is
simple ton7foolery. Ninety-nine times
out of a hundred, the man is as