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Show H irBmtaatai'MIIJI. IIIUX-1IJIjihiji1.ili i i. i iiiimu.i h..i . nimi I JI .mjn -Ji-Jf MarryiuA & Butterfly Ut l - 2-lggrVA LZ.ONAO.O s g H ' Young Gordon Thinks Himself the Most Fortunate of Men H Longer Street Skirts to be Worn White Marquisettes H Among Most Popular Dress Material Six Ex- H cellent Household Hints. H ' M Ethel was combing her hair when' H Halph entered the bedroom. Her head was bent and her hair fell in a H golden cloud over her face and shoul- Hh1 ders. He gloried In her hair. The W room was in a divine confusion. It H I seemed to foe full of her and her Hj ' multitudinous things. It was not their M bedroom, it was hers, and lie would H take all his talent for orderliness to mM make himself comfortable in the limit- mWi ed space she had allowed him to have Hl for his owii Though he felt like an H invader, it was a delicious experience. Hj He thought: "This is a fitting house H ' lor her grace and beauty. I must (buy H ' it." He desired to be senselessly ex- H: travagant, to surround, her with all H j luxury, to be splendidly generous with H lier. "I've got to succeed financially. H, She must have everything. One has H! hut to look at her to see that luxury H belongs to her," he thought. Aloud H he said. H' "Where am I to sit to change my H' shoes? Every last chair is full of Hlj your paiaphernalia." H "What an old fusser 'you are, H Ralph," exclaimed the girl, tossing H' back her hair and clearing a chair by H dumping the garments it held onto Hl the foot of the bed. As she passed H him he caught her white arms in mM both hands and drew her toward him. H She lifted her face to him and gave him a hurried kiss. "Don't hinder me now. I must get my hair done. I may have to comb it two or three times to get it right, and I certainly want it right the first place I go In this little burg." "What are you going to wear?" he asked, releasing the face which he had taken between his hands to kiss, "Do not overdress, for this is not a dressy town, you know." "1 suppose I must let my loveliest clothes lie here and go out of style for want of a place to wear them," she pouted. "You surely do not want the ladies to think you are trying to show off your finery by being conspicuously dressed," answered her husband. "No, I suppose I must content myself my-self witli a pretty afternoon dress. This simple little white silk." She held it up for Inspection. "That will be all right," he assented as-sented to the question asked by her eyes, for she had laid down the dress and returned to the hair dressing. Long before the hair was arranged to suit the little lady Ralph was all dressed, but he sat watching the calm deliberation of her preparations. prepara-tions. Finally she put on the dress and he sprang to hook it for her, while she rewarded him for the service ser-vice by laughing at his clumsiness. Then she stood smiling and posing for his vol diet, knowing well what It would be. It was marvelous how everything she did was so intensely feminine. She enchanted him and he caught her in his arms to the utter disregard of her draperies and her hair and kissed her rapturously. "Now if you have spoiled my hair, after all the time I spent on It : " began the bride, all rosy from her kiss. "No hair or dress can ever keep me from Icissing you when you look so lovely," answered her husband, looking down into the clear blue eyes. And she smiled back well pleased. "Oh, yes, I love him," she thought 'He is very good looking." (To be continued.) |