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Show Woman's Page ji i . ' Her Side and His Many Ways to Prepare and Serve Bacon Add Chopped Broiled Bacon to an Omelet Bacon Sand-I Sand-I wiches Always Good Recipes for Grape Dainty I Piccalilli and Sliced Cucumber Pickle. I1 LOVE ABOVE LUXURY. "You've forced me to put my pride I in the luxury class," said Walter I Stedman with a carressing smile at j his financee. "You haven't convinced ' me that it won't hurt my pride to let ,'j my wife work for her living. But you have made me feel that my pride In this respect is a mere luxury. You ask me to forego my pride for the time for the sake of love the immediate imme-diate fulfillment of love. Well," he shrugged his big shoulders, "If pride's a luxury, and since love is a necessity, neces-sity, pride must take second place." '"That kind of pride which will suffer suf-fer in you because your wife will work for a living has about as much root as a passing fashion In hats," Janet said impatiently. "More and more, Intelligent men and women are beginning to see that a woman's place Is wherever she gets the greatest amount of the best kind of life. When more men feel that way your 'pride' at confining me at home will pass out of style." "A man hopes to make his home the place where his wife gets 'the greatest amount of the best kind of life'," Walt said, but with the growing grow-ing conviction that ho had the weaker side of the question. "Homo may he that after the man has returned from work," Janet pursued. pur-sued. "But all day long, while her i man's away at work, there's chiefly lonesomeness and housework for the woman. Not much life in that when you compare it with what she gets by going out In the same busy, thronging, throng-ing, ever-changing world where the man finds his growth. No, Walt, dear, you've got to discard your dusty 'pride" of 'sole provider' for the family fam-ily and let me in as partner. I want my home, and I want it now. "Don't be afraid of a thing just because be-cause it's new. You men stick so to forms, even after those forms havo begun to pinch you at the waist. You stick to them even after they have passed out of fashion, Just as some women cling to corsets." lie felt his last hit of opposition melt in tho burst of laughter that followed fol-lowed at the picture of Walt clinging to mental corsets. "Well, Janet, it's very embarrassing embarrass-ing to have you clamoring for immediate imme-diate barriago and me coyly asking for postponement," he laughed. "Very well, you designing fmale, voracious for a husband, have your own way. We shall marry on your fifty-fifty basis just as soon as I can scrape together to-gether half the price for the marriage mar-riage license or must I pay all of It?" "You stand treat for the license and I'll treat to the minister," 'Janet said merrily. "Cora and David won't charge witness fees, will you?" she asked. "Not only that, but w'll pay the carfares fack to your flat after the ceremony as our wedding present!" Cora cried. As though they were all a crew of larking Bohemians, the Temples bundled Janet, Walt and themselves Into a taxi and sped to the marriage hureau, where the pair took out the license. In the same spirit of rush and fun David hustled them and Cora over to the office of the mayor, where that dignitary, as a friend of David's, married Janet and Walt In a manner that smacked more o lark than solemnity. solem-nity. Back to the Temples' flat sped the bridal party, where a delicatessen marriage feast was washed down with chianti, which came up In a straw-netted straw-netted bottle from the Italian wine dealer's around the corner. Even as the newly-weds were eating and drinking drink-ing they pretended to have their first married life quarrel, doing it so realistically real-istically that the Temples roared. "Now, Janet, as your boss," David said an hour later, "I order you to go on a two weeks' honeymoon." And tho Stedmans departed in a seagoing hack with their suit cases barking their shins and the Temples shying slippers and rice after them to speed them on their adventurous and fateful journey. |