Show Conf Confessions ns I Of a Bride I CHAPTER I II I My Office Friends and I 1 Discuss Wars War's Effect on Matrimony I Hysteria and nerves are mostly I plain selfishness Jane Lorimer said I myself to myself Evidently what I you need is to stop all this silly i thinking about your rOl own hurts and I your Ideals and your our mistakes You T need ned to get zet right down to real business busi busl- l ness And so having confessed bUSI 1 my sins to myself just to finish off the theold theold old year car artistically I went back bacI to tomy tomy my desk In the Lorimer office with witha II a genuine satisfaction In owning a anice I Inice nice little 10 jo i iI I Some Feme of ot the girls in the office re xee j letting me get acquainted with I i iI j I at last and I feel grateful for their kindness I am so glad we wo have got over the snobbishness with whit I women who are unacquainted meet each other whether they come to together to- to toI I I tether gether ether in the home society or 01 the business world I II I am particularly glad Iad to to have the girls take me up because the war has hal ended life continues to tobe he be an sting confusion contusion of human ideas and ideals And the women who are employed reflect the effects of the war in some new way each I day like a kaleidoscope which Is constantly shaken I Some girls Iris are afraid the they will lose their Jobs and some are afraid they I cant A few are afraid the they will have 0 to marry and some are afraid they will never have ha a a. a chance I And somebody in our office pets gets i terribly excited about once a da day day- over the effect of the of-the the war on matri matri- mony LatelY Dolly Bennett had a aletter aletter letter from her brother in France Franco saying that he had married a Paris- Paris I ienne for lenne for my first wife he wrote i How many wives does Joe expect to have Tolly asked indignantly i Ive rear read that nol is going goin I Ito to be all nIl the fashion in Europe for years ears to come remarked Miss Johnson Johnson John John- son SOil who is s f forever rever r Doll Dolly 1 Polygamy is unthinkable Dolly protested vehemently Women omen will never neer be e party to tn it iL over there thero any anymore I here more than over oer Any decent girl pirl knows know she cant can't I Ilove love two men at a time so why should she throw herself away on a aman aman aman I man who thinks he can love two or orm I mn m women at a time But man you know has a most accommodating heart sang san out pretty Miss Manning who was the mirror as she powdered powdered powdered pow pow- dered her nose You sure ou ought ht to know purred tho the Independent Johnson girl I I t exclusive heart Anyway womans woman's I has never l kept her r from loving Jg any V I Iback I Iback number of f men In s succession ss c came back that provoking voice from the corner cornel nor from being a third wife or or a thirteenth thirteenth-or or a thirtieth thirtieth thirtieth-it If I sh she had the chance Youre only saying savins that women women marry to be Dolly replied to this taunt Maybe she has But I Ithe the war has put her to work and j made her perfectly independent of a Iman's Iman's I Iman's mans man's pocketbook both here and J abroad I think Its It's perfectly stupid to say that the war has Imposed polygamy on an any class of women anywhere in the world Instead war has set women free from all kinds of sex slavery forever she finished triumphantly Well Id I'd be mighty slow to swap my independence for even one marriage marriage mar mar- license said Miss Johnson w who o is III reported to have loved her her married employer once unon a ai a time She's a 1 beauty too so there was a point t to her next remark I certainly couldn't sr s sr- sr sra a polygamist who vho takes out his licenses by the dozen I. I if lost good But v v you vou your Job Miss Horner of the I corner Then Id I'd get et another you goose goose- not nt a husband came the quick reply then In a 0 softer voice if there happened happened happened hap hap- I to be a man left in the world worth north loving To be continued FADS AND FASHIONS Some of the new frocks have bibs The summer wrap has haA no fastening Evening coats exhibit double collars Colored silk umbrellas are in high favor Tho The most fashionable hat is hand made I The loop fringe is hew new and Interesting Evening gowns have ha adopted belts of I I I fur Tho The off oU the shoulder line is a excel eicel cel- cel I lent I Coat t belts beUs when used are very nar nar- row The straw hat Is extremely Popular pop pop- ular In Paris belts are growing smaller and smaller A smart spring suit shows a shirred bolt Buttons Muttons lead as decoration on serge frocks The fingertip length is a safe one for suit coats Light weight laces will appear on spring blouses Quilting appe appears rs occasionally on taffeta taffeta taffeta feta dresses The new skirts are Inclined to hug the tho figure Vests Vests' h have lve the tho privilege of growing 1 Into aprons The yardage veil is steadily ino Increasing easing In favor Jr |