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Show Ship of Matrimony on the Rbc!:s When Jealously Creeps in, Aiccrts Green-Eyed Monster Connoicur "But," Aslu Captain Maxwell, Author of "Tha Devil'. Car Jen," ."Would One Dmir JeaJoinjr to Ba Lacking in Person Ong LoTe7" Tell How It May B Avoided Is eaten up and burnt up by the l agonising fire that her husbaad is ayeteraatlcally betraying r. "No words that I can aar can ; adequately esprese the deep i.sln of , jealousy to a'wlf. who still lovra her husband and If 1 wanted to i prearh a aermon I nilant enhort husbstvds to remember the emount i f pain that they ran Inflict In thle reaar.1 There comes Into It that dreadful, dulling chanre, that total loee of enlhuemem that h,t,anie permit themeelvce In retard to Wives after a certain number of yeara of marriagewhen they beam i? i'Z1 ennlvereary of their wedding day; th. blnbday of ,. Wire whea they cease to notice whether the wife la wearing the aame old frock or a new one; when he replies to her lament that ehe is not looking her beet; 'I do not aea any difference. 1 "Faults such ae these ara not only wrong, but dangsroua." Captain Maawell continued, lighting a cta-aret. cta-aret. "They sow the small Bern's if pain. Aa to preventing Jeelouay. I suppoee It may be summed up In that wonderful and marvelous nisr-nege nisr-nege service The ma. makes his vowa thee and v out of a thousand n.cn truly mean to keep them. Hut .Tr.. '"'f1 Jo go oa proving their flrtellty. And the wife looks at the fading picture la her looking Ki.es end perhaps asks her. -If "How .' h"" V"a mn h"" 1ll 1 hold him new?- . ( "Then, lo sum up." concluded oap- ".''''..V''''''"' "lh wy to keep the good ahlp matrimony from going en the rocka la lo keep attentlre not tt flame Into being the little epark of Jealouay that la founded oa the strength of real love." . By Rt'TH lftYDEft. "Jealouay Is tha worst rock aa which tha ahlp of marrlaga spllta, It 1 a rock aot charted." "Jn any opinion, the woman la apt to ba far mora jnrfbua than th man. The man la Immersed In other occupations and moreover, he Ii sustained by a sort of aelT-confl denco that la peculiar to bla Idiotic sea." "A man will consider his wife's lovs as a sort of solid gilt edaed Investment, which he doesn't ex-sect ex-sect to fluctuate. By the tiros ha begins to auapect that lis value or quotation Is cot a a down, ha haa probably made a total lose." Thees are some of ths oplnlona Captain W. ,14. Maawell, author of ("The l-ovll'a Oar-dea.' "Bplnater of This Pariah,' and other stories, has riven out In hia first Interview In ! the l'ntte-1 8 1 alas. The beat Introduction Intro-duction that ran ba artvea to Captain Cap-tain Maxwell lies In the words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who hae aald: "I have long thoufht that Maxwell was tha greatest of Brit tab novelists.' Captain Maawell is well past middle mid-dle are. but very youthful In thought a and in actions. iJeaplte the fact that he was well over mill i a try a go at the out brea k of tli e war, he volunteered lu Itli and served until the end of ll. Up at the Waldorf-Aatorla, where ha la staying, ha areata one vary courteoualy. He apoioclaea for a slow, dull wtt snd one smiles. Me la ah- vary Kaallah, from his white spats to his delightfully iirltiah maanrrlama. "Jealousy Is the wore rock on which tha ahlp of marriage splits.' hs began In responae to my request that ho talks of the jealousy which forms a major part of his new book. "Tha Day's journey" Double-da Double-da y. Page A V "It la a rock not charted. P-nddenlr one geta oa to It and ona feels one's self absolutely going to pieces without any means of escape. Thla la. of couree, when tha emotion or paaalon of Jealouay, In once serlouwly a rouaed. Yet, on the other hand, would ona -deal re jealouay to be lacking In the person one lovea? No. Kor, In fact, it springs directly from the strength of th love snd It cannot ba bus-talned bus-talned without M "tto far aa b uabaf.de ara concerned." con-cerned." Captain Maxwell con-ttnuM. con-ttnuM. hie light blue eyes keen and Intense, "la my experience, they are extrmly Imprudent and. so 1o spesk. trifling, with the first of jealousy In their wives. Fo Inatsnce, an affectionate and admiring; admir-ing; wlfo will In the beginning faee-tlauely faee-tlauely remark that her husband ts ttracttve to other women At that moment ha huaband eho'ild put his foot down on this worm in their love. Ho should stamp It oat of pxletelife. But, fortunately, he. too nfjen from vainalf-ov or fatuous elf-concelt. will enrotiraga this fiction. fic-tion. It la In the later stage of tha game, when the wife begins to reel ner owa chsrms waning, that : he real jealnuer shows, Phe thinks f feeble denurrla t Ion his edmla- lona peruana that ha atmlrea Mrs. nrown or Mrs. Smith and suddenly ,h flame blazes. "It la thla phase of the rlta'reas hat I bava end-avord to ahow tn The T'ty i Jnrjmey." Th Vetous vomaa proceeds from point to point tntll ;.er jealousy becomca almoat i monomania. In fact, nothing the lusband doea or ear can exonerate r exculpate -him. Thla Is an e rrn(bi)t nevertheless a tvpa ot ba genuinely aifecttobate wife who k |