Female Jealousy.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1607, 13 January 1886, Page 2

Female Jealousy.

A most " lamentable comedy,*' pinch, cast a curious light. on certain charaottr- s> ietics of French life, has been ; recen*tiy >J ejiacted 'm one of the suburban oeme* teries' of Paris. On the occasion of th» recent annual visits to tbe tombf -6£itb« dead, a 'young t widoTwTarriyedi afe thfj monument erected to thY naemory'ef her • husband, and, not wiihsta'nding the ribtbm r*j< bus unf aithf ulnes3~of htr departedspona*^- -. which had 'often been a bone^of contra tion, between them m his'yife'taae the prepared to place jioTrn^^fresh ;^^»teil~~" and coronals on^tne^grJive. While'engaged m this niefitbriouß action,.she wag ,^ suddenly surprised to sge a^young wouiaa *~ of about her, own ag| and of rather prepossing; appearance, whom she r after- v< -\ wards disco veredifcr'be^qn.e'of h)ir. fA pViQr- * mates of infancy, jipproacli the gray© and also prepare tp'oostrew it^with w^in-s^-*---ter flowers. Th^wido.VK,vrislng suddenly . > to the height of^the^4.B^ioDf^^9ilt^ v " Oh!,you were the woman, wereyoul' r^ > and she immediately fell .upon, her rival like a lioness. A desperate Vo^lh-Jand-nail encounter raged for some momenta before the JtpinS fluiShg Qwhicttj I^t« I flowers and -immorteHeW wereJgdwt^i t J to the four winds. The piercing cries of the combatants as they.^warmed- to their ; -j work brought the keepers^of - / tbe' eelmrf. i .tery to the spot, and the two rivals, who Had m the inieantime considerably damaged each other, wer.e separated with soine difficulty. f ;They then left thf < ;^' cemetery by .dSEerent 'exits; .the widoW ' protesting 'loudly .against .bare- rfaced impudence of her detested enemy,' : ■who actually brayed her at her, husbaadji' : I 'grave.