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Jkalousy.
shallowness of mind and egotism ulso.
Reader, if you eat pork and gralium
bread, drink coffee, and rise' at seven A
M., if you do all this because it agrees
with you, and you enjoy good hculth
thereby, thcr, in the name of common
sense, don't be goose enough to live upon
pic-ciustand onions, to eat one-half as
much as formerly, to banish fruit from
your diot, and to rise two hours earlier,
simply because Dio Lewis or Dr. Hall
tells you to. M.
JEALOUSY.
A jealous feeling is one of the worst of
enemies to a man's peace of mind. It
perturbs his thoughts, belittles him in his
own estimation, shakes his confidence in
his own abilities, and leads him to distrust
others. If tills flame of jealousy bo fos.
tcred and kept burning within the mind,
it will gradually increase until it gives
way to envy; witli envy comes hatred of
the object which occasions the envious
feeling ; and jealousy, envy and hatred ta
ken together is a triple headed monster of
passion which will drive from the mind
which it occupies every semblance of
peace and happiness. Not only docs this
passion eliminate happiness from the mind,
but it is also one of the strongest motors to
criminal actions. How man' an example
does history afford us of crimes which
have been committed by jealous rivals, at
the instigation of envious leaders, or for
no other purpose than to satisfy the jeal
ousies of unprincipled men.
Jealousy uearly always springs from an
apprehension of superiority. A man does
not become jealous of an inferior, unless
that inferior becomes for a time his supe
'rior in some certain thing. The master
only becomes jealous of the servant when
ho feels that the servant has become his
equal or superior in something. Tiberius
recalled his accomplished general Gcr
manicus from Germany only when ho be
came jealous of the laurels which he was
winning there. He felt that his subject
was his superior as a military genius, and
for this reason became jealous of him.
But the servant is more likely to becomo
jealous of his lord than the lord of his
servant. A dependant becomes jealous of
the one upon whom he depends. Persons
holding inferior olllces or positions arc
envious of those above them, but wo are far
more apt to become jealous of a person
who is nearly our equal, and whom we sec
out-witting us in the mad race for wealth,
or fame, or some other object, than we are
of one who is either above or below us
in station.
Love and affection are, more than any
thing else, the direct causes of jealousy.
A child is jealous when it sees a smile
or caress bestowed upon a sister, brother
or playmate, that is not also bestowed up
on itself. Great Jtlars is jealous when a
Venus laughs his love to scorn, and be
stows her sweetest smiles, and uses her
most bewitching arts, upon an impcrturha.
bl e Adonis. Unpropitious Juno will bo
jealous when Jupiter prefers to "sip the
nectar" from the lips of Venus rather
than from her own. Let lovers love like
n Romeo and Juliet, and they will enjoy,
for a while, a heaven on earth. Rut such
love is very apt to grow jealous, and
change the Elysian fields of life to infer,
ual wastes.
But jealousy, in its milder form at least,
may furnish a strong incentive to labor
and pains-taking, and thus becomes pro
ductivc of good. "Witness the labors of a
jealous literary mun to quash a cotempo-
rary rival. Ho brings all his vim, and all
his genius to the task, and strives, through
the excellence of his works, to outwit his
rival in tho scramble for fame. Jealousy,
in this case, not only incites tho man to
greater exertion, but also sharpens and
polishes his wit and genius as tho gritty
stone does the rusty blade. Jealousy,
then, like every other passion, only be
comes an evil when wrongly indulged or
indulged to excess. Uniuii.
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