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Show I ( WOMEN'S NEWS ) iH I3ACH TO HIS OWN PATH H Probably the strongest-minded fe- H male ever born treasured a secret H wish to be dominated by some man. H Doubtless the successful business H .woman never lived who was happy H In having more success than her 1 liusband. No woman lives for pow- H er nlone. She wants love. And lovo fl implies protection; protection lin- J plies force of character which In fl turn generally carries with It a big H sharo of this world's goods. H Jcnet never, even to herself, J thought of her husband as u failure. H "Womanwise, she raised htm to pedes fl tal of strength and triumph. He H was working along lines lie had fl marked out for himself and that H allowed grit. Ho was doing cxcel- H lent work; every one told him ho, H even the publishers who rejected his fl manuscripts. That surely showed fl a mcasuro of trium,ih. And ho fl -would of course ho would, In time, fl Jcnet persistently told hersolf set H his feet high on tho ladder of sue- ppfl Hut Hhc was Impatient. Her path ppH had always been tho commercial fl path, a steop path enough, but one fl which had tho steps ready cut In It. fl Opportunities had always been wait- ppH lug for her, llko foot-holes In a rocky ppfl wall, Sho had novcr had to make ppfl her own opportunities, slowly and pH with lnllnite labor. JppJ Jenet had grown a bit commercial Ippj minded. Fat salaries had been a ppfl part of her opportunities. It was ppfl Jus a littlo hard for her to under- pH stand tho writ ing temperament Its ppfl longing for expression without com. ppfl promise. For have not women for ppfl centurion hud to compromise witli H their hoarts and their own minds ppfl In order to he what their world np- ppfl proved of and called "being a suc-ppfl suc-ppfl ppfl If Jenet had analized her exact , feeling toward Walt in tho matter of his refusal to wrlto tho serial story as NIcoll wanted him to wrlto it, sho would have called him unreasonable, l'xasp.eratingly and stubbornly unreasonable. un-reasonable. Would it hurt him Just to change a few things in tho story to conform to popular opinion and tasto? Could It hamper his career as a writer to do just ono story for money? Wouldn't ho gain enough by a littlo compromise to do Just as ho pleased In futuro stories? Having a plump bank balance would In itsolf give him confidence and dash, and make his success the moro soon and certain. cer-tain. nut no! Ho chooso to sacrifice everything comfortable to his fanatic fana-tic adhorenco to principlo! Well, then, sho, Jenet, would subordinate all other things to HER WORK! She would mako It her' lovo nnd her refuge, re-fuge, her ambition and her roward! Sho would have no Ideal savo Success! Suc-cess! It was enough to havo Walter Walt-er burning out his Ufa nnd strength on the alter of Principle! Ah for hersolf, she proforrcd somo thing moro tangible, something that PAID better! Kor a tlmo theso thoughts remained remain-ed imprisoned In Jenet Stedman's subconscious mind. It would havo been better If sho had spoken them, even scolded nnd spat them forth, ns tho light minded, loso tongucd typo of wlfo would do. Being bottled up, thoy gradually drovo Jonot In tho direction they tonded that way Is, away from Wnlt. Less nnd less did sho think of him, nnd moro nnd moro of tho powerful successful, opportunity-giving man ho constantly in her vision, Hoy NIcoll. Fewer and fower wcro tho happy evenings at homo that Walt nnd Jonot had so loved a whllo ago. lioth now wero engrossed In work that somo how thoy did not care to talk about. There scorned an under un-der current of differing opinion. Walt rarely spoko to his wlfo of tho stories or plays ho was at work on. Jenet almost never consulted Wnlt about her affairs In her realm supreme, sup-reme, tho ofllco. , Without appearing ever to stop ono Inch from his regular course, Hoy managed always to bo about when Janet needed consul. His oar was ever ready to listen to her problems; prob-lems; his advlco was Invariably kind keen nnd encouraging. Janet always al-ways had a renewed senso of success suc-cess nnd stimulation after sho had talked with him. She was so astonished at her own undreamed-of capabilities that sho oxclalmcd ono day to NIcoll: "Isn't It wondorful, Roy, how it's turned out! It was a risk, my taking this big job! I never belloved I could swing It. It's tho luckiest thing that over happened In this world." Roy looked Into her eyes a moment mo-ment nnd then said with a certain slow, Impressive lowering of tho volco: "No, my littlo girl, it Isn't wonderful. Nor wns It n risk. Nor a 'lucky' thing. It may seem so to you, but not to mo. I K-N-K-W! It was no gamble, no mere 'luck.' I thought It all carefully out. You simply did not know your powers, nor had you any chance to upset them. Now you havo tho chanco. That's "all." Ho stopped abruptly, then tilkcd of other things business matters. Presently ho bado Janet a pleasant goodnight nnd, to her surprlso nnd vaguo disappointment, loft tho ofTIco for tho day. ' It was part of Nlcoll's talent to know exactly when, Where and how to Btop talking. |