Show I t f 0 D p 0 a n Society Saves Me From A Fit of Blues and Restores My Mind to Normal So Bob nob and I had had a vulgar verbal squabble over that wretched letter letter letter let let- ter and it was all my fault and andI 1 could have cried my eyes ees put only it wasn't worth while to do so because Bob would have missed the effect lie He went down town and stayed away from me for hours for the first time since we had been reunited I was awfully morbid of ot co course the longer I dwelt upon the occurrence the worse I moped And I would have achieved a wildly Jealous and unreasonable unreasonable unreasonable mood with which to welcome my poor man home ta dinner had not mother phoned me to come over at once j f Society saved me mei that hat day The announcement of the engagement be began began began be- be gan to take effect Never had such an item produced more remarkable results re re- re Intimate friends of of mothers mother's readIng reading reading read read- ing that her son was to no wed the beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- Miss Miller sh she able hadn't neglected to send her picture with her news came to sympathize with mother It appeared that all the tle older women had hadan hadan hadan an opinion of the girl They came cameto to amplify that opinion to mother mother- and remained to drink tea with Bobs Bob's lawful wife Martha Palmer Talmer dropped in she in-she she Isone is isone isone one o of mothers mother's favorites After Martha Martha Martha Mar Mar- tha had hugged me after we had wept together she Impressed me with the idea that it is an awfully serious thing to disappear and come to life again I 1 resolved never to do so any more I r suppose I acquired her legal view of the case To keep her from questioning questioning question question- ing me they me-they they say she is In line to be bethe bethe bethe the next assistant prosecuting attorney ney ney-I ney I made her talk about herself She's built up a fine law practice while Evan Kvan was with the A. A E. E F. F Chrys came in She usually avoids a group of women When she and Martha observed that I 1 was terribly distressed about something they turned the conversation into safe channels Awfully exciting world remarked my sister in Let the actors strike We can furnish our own stunts for awhile Lucie Lucle Searle Is doing her turn just now non GettIng Getting a divorce I suppose This from Martha And she was one of our original war brides Married Grant Searle the night he left for overseas service And now she's telling her Intimate friends that Grant is so conceited since he came back that she simply cant can't put up with him What ails lilIs Grant Lucie Lucle says sas hes he's soaked In egotism because he was so EO popular with French and Belgian girls Lucie Lucle says sho she could stand for the mamzell but when he ho took to boasting of how the fell for him him him- Daddy Daddy Lorimers Lorimer's hearty laugh stopped our gossip Daddy Is fond of Martha Martha always always hunts her up when she comes to the house Its no laughing laughin matter to Lucie Lucle Chrys went on has actually driven that butterfly butterf girl to take a position in Judson's Judson silver shop Where shell she'll remain six weeks probably was Marthas Martha's comment We Va women are an uneasy crew Lucie Luclo is helping to promote unstable wage conditions Women are partly to blame for the II H. C. C L. L Why some women think that b by adding to the family wage they increase the family comfort Half the time they subtract from It it Youve said it It Martha said daddy Ive a first class foreman who never employs men men whose whoso wives work away aa from home He lie says such men are only half as efficient as those whose wives w ives stay at home and mind the babies bable I end nd do the marketing and making and canning and pack their husbands' husbands lunches In the old fashioned way And AndI I bet hes he's right too While the reconstruction period lasts why dont don't we women reconstruct our kitchens kitchens' I ventured timidly I dont don't mean on the theor theory that we ought to get out of them and away from home and Into o our r husbands husband's employments J mean on the principle of getting more efficient kitchens better better better bet bet- ter cooking and more comfortable homes in return for the tho amount of labor we put into them Youve said it Jane remarked daddy To be bo co continued hU d. d 1 |