Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — JEALOUSY AND LOVE [ARTICLE]

JEALOUSY AND LOVE

THEY Are quite distinct and BEPARATE ATTRIBUTES. A Idea That There Can Be No Love Without Large Admixture of Jealousy Is Not by Any Means Well Founded. The prevailing Idea appears to be that there can be no love without a pretty lurge admixture of jealousy, and that, conversely, almost every case of jealousy springs from some misguided love affair. Whether this Idea is the right one or not is decidedly open to question. Ideal love affairs preclude jealousy alconfidence exist therSTs no room at all for the green-eyed monster. It is only when the course of true love ceases to run smoothly, or where the passion is an unlawful one, that jealousy creeps in like a canker at the root. One curious attribute of the jealous woman who plans to sweep her rivals out of the way is that she generally shows a marked lack of brains in her methods. Jealousy is nonularly supposed to arouse a diabolically clever ingenuity in the breast of the jealous fair one—but, as a matter of fact, it seldom does anything of the sort. In my opinion,'jealousy makes women do the most stupid things in the world! Not only does it blunt all their finer feelings, but at the same time it causes n curious confusion of mind, which fails to take the proper grasp of consequences and which Is utterly illogical aud childishly reckless in its workings. One has only to glance at the daily papers to see this fact practically illustrated. The schemes of the Jealous woman are the most childishly Imrnacase fall'to pieces and bring speedy retribution on her own head. For not alone does the victim suffer. The worst generally comes upon the plotter herself. Love very often does bring a certain amount of jealousy in its train. But at the same time it is entirely up to ourselves to curb those feelings and to keep them from outward and visible sign of expression. Moreover, it is perfectly true that, although love generally does admit of jealousy, the latter can exist and flourish pretty successfully without love. A woman may be desperately jealous of the attentions which a man pays to another woman—without In the least loving that particular man. Jealousy may spring from hurt pride, or from balked hopes, or from the fear of what people may say, quite as frequently as It springs from love. Therefore, in the last analysis, we 'may- most assuredly cluim that jealousy and love are two distinct ,ancL quite separable affairs. —Philadelphia Inquirer.