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Show I Woman's Page I MARRIED LIFE ON il MONTH H Mrs. Eva Leonard's Story of Married Life on $80 a Month H Six Things for the Housewife to Remember Two Nov- H elty Bags When Your Crepe de Chine Blouse H Shrinks Recipe for Curried Oysters. H 'Julia told me about her broken H engagement today," said John Sutner, H ns they sat by the baseburner after H Jack and the boarder were in bed. H "Molly dropped her work in her H lap in the intentness of her interest. H "It's all a horrible misunderstand- B Ing, as those things generally are," H continued John. "Cane's mother is H an aristocrat. She thinks her son is H ruining himself for life if he marries H a common stenographer" H "But she went to see her at the H hospital." interrupted Molly. H "She had to to combat his nlan cf- H feclively. You see Cane insisted that H If she saw her she would get over H her prejudices. Of course, as she H went there to find fault, she suc- H cc-eded." H "I do not, see what she could find H fault with," said ISIolly loyally. H " Blame timber' is easy to find M Julia is no beauty, and she has had M only an ordinary business education. H Her son is a college man, and they m are rich. She had set her mark high M in a matrimonial line." H "She might get beauty and a col- H lego education and miss all the fine Hf qualities Julia possesses. Character M counts for more than anything else H in choosing a wife, and she is old H enough to know it." Molly's tone was B belligerent. M "Unfortunately age docB not neccs- M iarily mean wisdom. At any rate she H determined to break up the match. Hj She went to see Julia, told her son H that she was no lady " H "Did he tell her that?" broke in H Molly. m "No, she says there are some H things one does not have to be told." H John shrugged his shoulders. H "Do you mean she guesses at what H . was said and acts accordingly?" ask- H cd Molly in amazement Hj "That's about It, as far as I can H see," replied John. H "That's not sensible; that's not like H Julia." H "People are never sensible when it H comes to a love affair, I guess. Any- H how, she told the young man she H -would disinherit him if he persisted H in marrying the girl. She did not H imagine that." John frowned fiercely. H "Do you mean he was the kind of H a man to give up the girl he loved H because his mother objected?" asked HJ 31 oily incredulously. H "No. As I said, it is all a misunder- H standing. Julia is very proud and H she did not want to 'cripple his life.' H She thought if he bad to sacrifice H so much for a girl he would regret H marrying her." Hl "Not if he really cared for her," ex- H claimed Molly. H "Not a girl like Julia who has real H character," echoed John. "The young H fellow came up here to explain mat- H ters to her and she made things hard H instead of easy. She started with the H assumption that he perhaps wanted to H break the engagement, and beat him to H "Poor, dear girl," sighed Molly. H "I suppose he thought that the loss H of the money made some difference- H People in love always persist in H , thinking the wrong thing If they have H half a chance," said John gloomily. M "Now -we cannot see a girl who has done what Julia has for us spoil her life while we sit by -with folded hands." burst forth Molly, after a silence. "I can't see what we can do. I told Julia 1 was sure she was dead wrong, but told me it was too late to do anything about It and forbade me to try " "To late, indoed! Well, I am. under un-der no orders and I shall put on my thinking cap and try and find a way out of this," announced Molly. (To be continued). THINGS TO REMEMBER. Put a funnel into the plant pot and pour the water through that. , This will save the usual spilling. When removing the baked potato from the oven do not forget to burst the skin, else the potato will become seggy. If you boil it before baking, slightly burst the skin, then bake. Fill the ice chest In winter from -a bucket of water which has been left overnight to freeze. Wax your darning cotton and you will experience no trouble in keeping the strands separate. Use a mixture of equal parts rose-uater rose-uater and glycerin, with a few drops of tincture of benzoin added to it, every ev-ery night and the hands will not chap in the coldest weather. If you live in a swampy country, g?ther cattails any time after frost; strip them from their long stems, put the down In a strong cae, and you have a fluffy, light filler for sofa cushions. TWO ODD BAGS. Two novelties in the way of bags are worthy of special mention. One called the muff bag, Is made of wide, richly colored tinsel ribbon. It has a center compartment, drawu up with a cord to match the ribbon, for the handkerchief, pockctbook and so on, while below, and surrounding the compartment com-partment there is a lined and lightly interlined space for the hands. The ribbon for this bag Is chosen to harmonize har-monize with the gown with which It is to- be carried. The other bag is made of three-inch satin ribbon. It is twelve inches deep, shirred and finished at the bottom with a silk pompon, while at, the top each ribbon end Is fastened in a point. The bag Is lined with yellow silk, and when drawn up it looks like a big flower with pointed petals and yellow centers. cen-ters. WHEN BLOUSES SHRINK If the crepe tie chine blouse shrinks a bit, after the first laundering and becomes just a trifle too scant to cross the bust, the edges at the front may be faced all the way down with similar material and the blouse worn open over a chemisete of argandle. These chemisettes In all manner of styles comes ready to slip under the bodice and for the purpose just described de-scribed the best model ia one which opens slightly at the throat but has a smart, upstanding collar at the back, kept crisply in position by a bit of stiffening. CURRIED OYSTERS. Drain and wash twenty-five oysters. Take an ordinary pancake griddle and throw the oysters, three or foar at a time, on the griddle and brown on both sides. Lift quickly and place in a double boiler, which stands beside be-side the griddle. When all the oysters oys-ters are cooked add to them one table-spoonful table-spoonful of butter one-half tablespoon-ful tablespoon-ful of flour, one-half tablespoonful of salt, one tablespoonful o curry powder pow-der and a dash of cayenne pepper. StJr until the ingredients reach the boiling boil-ing point nnd add one tablespoonful of lemon juice and one small onion, grated. |