Show A CHICAGO VIGNETTE The married woman and the engaged girl met accidentally In a Stato street store and as each was alone they decided de-cided to take lunch together Before they got through they grow confidential confiden-tial It was the married woman who directed the conversation Into the tortuous tor-tuous channel through which It afterward after-ward twisted I hear you are going to be married this fall she said leaning back contentedly con-tentedly In her chair and looking at her companion critically The shadow of a blush crept over the engaged girls face Yes she ddmltted such Is my Intention In-tention at present Tho married woman pulled out to Its greatest length one of her pearl gray gloves and then she said with an air of superior wisdom Of course you are receiving loads of I advice from all who have been let Into the secret as to the best methods of managing your soontobe husband The engaged girl nodded Yes she sighed mother grandmother grand-mother aunts and cousins and neighbors neigh-bors are prolific In cutanddrIed treatises trea-tises on how to make him walk tho chalk line Have you anything to offer of-fer Well yes returned the other I believe I have If you have no objection objec-tion I should like to contribute my quota of wise counsel to the symposium of recipes for brewing domestic happiness happi-ness which you already have on hand The engaged girl answered with a smile which the married woman construed I con-strued as permission to go ahead and I she sailed In full tilt I Are you Jealous she asked by way of Introduction The engaged girl blushed again rather more vividly than before A little she said as if half doubting the propriety of such a question and the advisability of a truthful reply Her friend nodded emphatically I knew It she cried triumphantly and let me tell you right here that If you dont put a doublebarred lock on that particular clement In your makeup make-up It will prove to be the most disastrous disas-trous stumbling block that will rise In your way Jealousy Is Inherent In every human heart to a greater or less I extent but I believe we women have a bigger dose of It than men have It Is a wonderfully strong passion There Is nothing on earth that causes a person I per-son half the misery It does and yet It can bo subdued Ive done IL She laid down her dessert spoon and twisted one corner of her napkin thoughtfully The engaged girl leaned forward and showed signs of a pretty high degree of Interest How she queried earnestly Oh you cant expect one to go Into tho psychological details of how one roots out an evil that has been prominent promi-nent In ones nature from birth I Just excrclsed my will power and kept on exercising It and lo the thing was done Perhaps you may think my bump of Jealousy was never so well developed de-veloped as Is that of the majority of women but I know better Why just let me tell you something You know perhaps that I married the son of my guardian After papa died and his friend took control of both me and my property I went to his house to live and that afforded me an opportunity to keep tab on the Incomings and outgoings out-goings of my lover much more thoroughly thor-oughly than most girls are ever allowed al-lowed to do We were engaged for more than a year before I was considered old enough to marry and what I suffered during that twelvemonth from the pangs of Jealousy no mortal can understand un-derstand I studied Edwards every expression and action and It wasnt long till I could tell nine times out often of-ten by Just looking at him when we met at dinner whether he was going out or not When he went It almost killed me Such nights seemed like an eternity There wasnt a trace of anger an-ger mind you I felt as though death would be the only happiness I could find and I fairly longed for It to come My room was converted Into a regular race track round which I paced In throes of the most exquisite agony and the tears I shed could I have treasured treas-ured them all would consecrate half a million souls and make them fit for heaven I have Just nine gray hairs at the present time and believe me my dear every one of them lost their natural hue In that prematrlmonlal period I cultivated a good crop of wrinkles then too but careful massag ing has since removed the most of themFor For a long time I kept Edward from suspecting the true slate of my mind and heart but at last the torture became be-came so Intense that I couldnt conceal con-ceal my feelings and I begged him to drop all other women for my sake Now while I believe that Edward Is one of the best men that ever lived I am also positive that he Is the most pigheaded Instead of swearing that he would never look crossways at another an-other female as I had expected him to do he flatly told me that he could not comply with my request which was he declared the very consummation consumma-tion of Injustice and lack of faith In him He had lady friends he said friends of a lifetime and he didnt In tend to give them up altogether not even for me I saw he was adamant In that direction and then I implored him to tell me where he went and w iioiii he saw That he also refused to do on the plea that It would be derogatory de-rogatory to his dignity to give an account ac-count his actions to anybody Well the for and short of It was I gave In Oh > o you wouldnt she added reassui ugly ns the engaged girl made a move lent expressive of the Independence Independ-ence sle would have displayed under similar circumstances Some engagements engage-ments may be broken without a heart pang but I loved Edward too dearly to risk my happiness altogether by such a headlong course So as I said I gave In Not because I thoht he was right for It Is my honest m ntlon to this day that he was cruel so11 and unjust un-just with me but because it was apparent ap-parent that It was only by yielding that constant squabbling could be avoided He thought I had come over to his way of thinking and never has had the faintest conception of what I suffered In overcoming my senseless suspicion and Jealousy as he always tenr a Ito It-o my dear I dont say jealousy Is sin Far from It But every woman reckoning from tho standpoint of her own peace of mind and the family comfort com-fort ought to deaden it Why Im so completely cured now that Ed ward could spend five nights out of every week with friends of his and would never experience a twinge of pain I never even question him about where ho has been a Tho engaged girl regarded her monitor moni-tor with wonder and admiration Its all very nice to tell about exercising exer-cising your will power she said dubiously dubi-ously but for all that I should like to have some more definite easy u prescription pre-scription And do you mean to tell me that you are completely free from that heartbreaking moral disease jealousy Jeal-ousy Completely And you dont suffer In the least when you know that your husband had some other woman at the theater last Thursday evening She was a beauti fun blonde Brother Jim saw them and as soon as ho camo home ho made some remark about how youd take It remarkmarled on nn pushedbier Tho marled woman pushed her dishes 1 Into one bunch with a blattering noise and made a grab for her gloves which had fallen to the floor Some woman at the theater A blonde did you say Oh the wretch how could he when lie knows Why whats tho matter asked the engaged girl Innocently I thought you wouldnt care The married woman was collecting her belongings with desperate haste Oh keep still she moaned Hurry up Im going right straight to his office and Ill find out who that woman was or Ill know the reason why lOt guess there is a little poison from the fatal arrow still rankling In your heart commented the engaged girl But the married woman had headed on a beeline for the elevator and did not hear her Chicago News |