The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-02-14
] By KATHLEEN NORRIS

GALOOOY Is one Oh TIE Gx.
pensive Injuries. For no
other human failing do
women pay as high price as
they do for jealousy. It is a COM
pound of all that is insufferable
in our daily lives; hate, fear, hui
initiation, dissatisfaction. Moth
ing is right to the woman who is
jealous. She may be young,
pretty, beloved, prosperous, but
jealousy will wither all those
good things into ashes in her
heart, and nothing will matter
except that someone else has
what she wants.
AS destroyer of married happi-
ness, jealousy has few equals. It
makes of wife a peering anxious
suspicious spy in her own home. She
wastes so much time fretting over
the charms of the other woman that
she loses all charm and sparkle her
self. Nothing makes woman SO
pretty as to feel herself important to
the man she loves, to know that
someone is deeply devoted to her.
Nothing dulls her looks and her
manner like the dropping, wretched
sensation that some other woman is
infringing upon her married rights.
Divorce Different Today.
Now we live in the world of 1941,
and for women it is different world
from that Of a century ago. Divorce
and remarriage then were things
held in horror; the divorced woman
completely lost caste; and in many
countries and in some of our states
by the mere fact of wanting to leave
her husband she lost all authority
and claim over her children. All
women were supported then by their
men; fathers, brothers, husbands
carried the entire financial response
bility for all the females of the
family, from Baby up to Grandma.
All this is changed now. Women
are breadwinners, expected to do
their share of the worlds work out
side their homes, and divorces are
common. The picture of a frail
young heiress was in the paper the
other day in connection with her
fourth marriage; I believe she is "a.
No one will ostracize her for this
irresponsible conduct. That is why
my answer to the following letter
amounts really to no more than
warning 'sWake Up!"
Other Woman Enters Picture.
This is part Of Joan's letter.
81 am "a, and we have two chill.
dren: Tom, nine, and Betty-Lou, six.
My husband has always been good
man, a devoted husband, son and
father. But about six months ago I
noticed that he was growing absent
minded, rather Indifferent to home
affairs, and that he was away a
good deal.
"An older woman in his Office,
who has been our friend for years,
finally gave me a hint as to the
cause. A pretty young grass widow
has been employed there for some
thing less than a year, and everyone
in the Office is quite aware that she
and my husband are interested in
each other.
'This news broke my heart, and
it took only a little watching and
interpreting to realize that I was
supplanted. Despite her history,
which is anything but savory, he is
infatuated with her, lunches with her
almost daily and often stops in at
her apartment for a cocktail and a
few minutes talk before coming
home.
II have fretted myself sick over
this thing and don't know what to
do. tell myself that he cannot
possibly be considering divorce
it is like a bad dream. And yet in
many ways he seems to be trying to
show me that If I make the parting
easy for him he will be generous to
me; can put no other interpreta-