Show A CHICAGO VIGNETTE the married woman and the engaged girl met accidentally in a state BE street reet store and as each was alone they decided to take lunch together before they rot got through they grew confidential it was the married woman who directed the conversation into the tortuous channel through which it afterward twisted 1 I hear you are arc going to be married this fall she said leaning bade back contentedly tent edly in her chair and looking at tier her companion critically the shadow ot of a blush crept over the engaged girls face yes she admitted such Is my intention te at present the married woman pulled out to its greatest length one of her pearl gray cray gloves and then she said with an air of superior wisdom of course you are receiving loads of advice from all who have been let into the secret as aa to the best methods of managing your soon to be husband the engaged girl nodded yes she sighed mother grandmother m aunts and cousins and net neighbors h are prolific in cut and dried treatises t es on how to make him walk the stalk chalk line have you anything to otter offer well yes returned the other 1 I believe I 1 have it if you have no objection I 1 should like to contribute my quota of wise counsel to the symposium of recipes for brewing domestic happiness which you already have on hand the engaged girl answered with a smile which the married woman construed as permission to go ahead and she sailed in full tilt bare 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 halt half doubting the propriety of such a question and the advisability of a truthful reply her friend nodded emphatically 1 I knew it IE she cried triumphantly arid and let me tell you right here that if you dont put a double barred lock on that particular element in your makeup it will prove to be the most disastrous stumbling block that will ilse iise in your way jealousy Is inherent in every human heart to a greater or less extent but I 1 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 halt half the misery it does and yet it can bo be subdued ive done it she laid down her dessert spoon and twisted one corner of her napkin thoughtfully tile the cri girl leaned forward and showed signs of a pretty high degree of interest how she queried earnestly oil oh you cant expect one to go into the psychological details of how one roots out an evil that has been prominent in ones nature from birth I 1 just exercised my will power and kept on exercising it and to lo the tiling thing was done perhaps you may think my bump of jealousy was never so well developed as is that of the majority of women but I 1 know better why just let me tell you something you know peili aps that I 1 married tile the son of my guardian after papa died and ills his friend took control of both me and my property I 1 went to ills his house to live and that afforded arford ed me an opportunity to keep tab on the In comings and outgoings of my lover much more thoroughly than most girls are ever at allowed to do we were engaged for more than a year before I 1 was con considered old enough to marry and what I 1 suffered during that twelvemonth from the pangs of jealousy no mortal can understand der stand I 1 studied edwards every expression and action and it long 10 n 9 till I 1 could tell nine times out of ten by just looking at him when we met at dinner whether he was going out or not when lie he went it almost killed me such nights seemed like an eternity there a trace of anger mind you I 1 felt as though death would be the only happiness happl nes I 1 could find and and I 1 fairly longed for it to come my itly room was converted into a regular race track round which I 1 paced in throes of the most exquisite agony and the tears I 1 shed could I 1 have treas bied them all would consecrate halt half a million souls and make them fit for heaven I 1 have just nine gray hairs at the present time arid and believe me my dear every one of them lost their natural hue in that pre matrimonial period I 1 cultivated a good crop of wrinkles then too but careful massaging has since removed the most of them af or a long 10 time I 1 kept t edward from fro in suspecting 8 jav c e the th true state of my mind and cv heart but at last the torture bem came s so intense that I 1 cons ceal my feelings and d I 1 begged him to drop all i other women for my sake now while ia I 1 believe eve that edward Is one of the best men that ever lived I 1 am also positive that he Is the most pigheaded pig rag headed instead of swearing that he would never look crossways crosa ways at another female as I 1 had expected him to do he flatly told me that he could not comply with my request which was lie declared the very consummation of injustice and lack of faith in him ile he had lady friends he said friends of a lifetime and he in tend to give them up altogether not even for me I 1 saw he was adamant in that direction and then I 1 implored him to tell me where lie he went and whom he saw that lie he also refused to do on the plea that it would be derogatory to ills his dignity to give an account his actions to anybody well ivell the lor and short of it was I 1 gave in oil oh io 10 you she added i egiy as the engaged girl made a move tent lent elpi expressive dessive ot of the ln independence sla would have displayed under similar circumstances some monts ments may be broken without a heart pang but I 1 loved edward too dearly to risk my happiness altogether by such a headlong course so as I 1 said I 1 gave in not because I 1 thol thor ht lit he was right tor for it Is my honest i leti to this day that he was cruel sir se ji h arid and unjust with me but because it was apparent that it was only by yielding that constant squabbling could be avoided ile he thought I 1 had come over to his way of thinking and never has had the faintest conception of what I 1 suffered in overcoming my senseless suspicion and jealousy as he always tern temir il I 1 it 40 0 o my dear I 1 dont say jealousy la Is sin far from it but every woman reckoning bioni the life standpoint of her own peace of mind and the family comfort ought to deaden it why im so completely cured now that edward could spend five nights out of every week with friends of ills his and I 1 would never experience a twinge of pain I 1 never even question him about where lie has been 0 0 4 the engaged alil regarded tier her monitor with wonder and admiration it its s all very nice to tell about exer bising your will power she said 1 duba bously but for all that I 1 should ild like to lo have some borne more definite ea easy pre script lon and do you mean to tell me that you are arc completely free fro from that heartbreaking heart heartbreaking breaking moral disease elan jeal osy o sy completely wiand and you dont suffer in the least when len you know that your husband Ta had some other woman at the theater last thursday da evening ing she was a beautiful blonde brother jim saw therland th them ernand and a lie earn mo ionic home he made some remark about P 1 how take a it the e marled woman pushed her dishes into one bunch with a clattering noise and made a grab for tier her gloves which had fallen to the floor some woman at the theater A blonde did you say oh the wretch how could lie he when he knows why the matter asked the engaged girl innocently 1 I thought you 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 ind find out who that woman was or ill know the reason why 11 1 I guess there Is a little poison from the fatal arrow still rankling in your heart commented the engaged cri girl but the married woman had headed headd d on a beeline bee bce line for the ele elevator and lid did not hear her ber Cli chicago leago 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