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Show I tj I Iff Woman's Page Rij: 21 , Bll ! Ev Leon" story Married Life on $80 a Month Mtlrfc Handbags More Interesting Than Ever Before Tan BillB Pin Se UnU4ually Smart Bag Recipe for H WL Chicken and Corn Salad. If MARRIED LIFE ON $80 A MONTH mk: is . Hfct ! ?Sf Jnn- Butmnr find raothw laJc and y ; ,aiccidc to Btop it up although Molly HfJj! IWTSutner protests. I t M "John, I am afraid I trill bave to lit' fm. little Jaclc a pair of shoes this I m P Hn veek," said Molly Sutner, la an applo-' applo-' Mtj getic tone. "His feet aro almoBt on !$ fl the ground." Bill' vfw fiMiW "Another pair? 'It: 'au IPhTVbI Jt lBnt moro tnan HJf i i mUHHvSH two "ecks since I 1 1' 1 PIBJ &ot the lafit onos' I -ft Mr f ' lsS$H You niuet remem-Btf' remem-Btf' -1 H ItisMiM br that I am get-Ill get-Ill 1 f I'fPftW ting five dollars a BHIa &m&$M week less for ten IIKm weeks now, until H i ll tVlH Benson's fifty dol-K dol-K 3t S&ISbB lars is paid up." H$b HttBBW Jonn nad seenl.ed HIl IMFwbI more than usually Nil ii-sTBB irritated for the Jfl &VBB1 last few days and ft I k8!l Molly would not Hi I S"4W W have mentioned J S&&lVK-fel the shoes, but she Bll SsfcfilfEKK! was afraid the UQ; m V if child would take Hf 9 cold with his feet half on the ground. BflljB Tho tension of asking for money un-BIS un-BIS der srfcn- trin circumstances was Hfl H i almost more than she could boar. Hirl, , "For -heaven's sake. John," she et- M I claimed, flushing angrily, "I would Hth 'rather do without everything myself ID' ' tnan aak for lt but cannot Bec t!ie HH jjB- hoy suffer and keep silent. I will ttjfflp take some money out of the Jiouse-BBfW Jiouse-BBfW llold allowanco, if you say so, only raw' that means. less to spend on -food this II week." As John did not reply, she HV added resentfully: "Perhaps you thin. JjB T wore the shoes out myself very Hll' carelessly." jg - "Now don't get touchy. I've n enough to stand without your begin-Bl begin-Bl ning that again. Besides. I do think BB you could watch Jack a little and ft keep him from wearing his shoes out l quite so fasL" HB" "AH mothers say that the shoe bill BBV Is te Dlest item in 'clothing a Hn, fcChlld," replied Molly. "What can you HhBF!' exPct from an active child? He's BBBj "o? them almost a month." H "Anfiy guess I know better," in-BBP in-BBP terrupted John. "I can prove it by the bill." Mollv B rose and vanished into the bedroom, B and sooq reappeared waving it tri- n umpnaniiy. u was inrea weeKs iaai. Bj Tuesday." H John took the bit of paper in his B hand. "It js a little better than I B thought." he admitted reluctantly. B "I'll take Mm down after I get home B tonight and see if I can't find a shoe that will wear , a little longer than BUihe ones you select," B "Let me get them, John. He can't B wear heavy shoes. They will hurt B his feet." Molly looked appealingly H at her husband. M "There you go. He is a poor man's m ,son and may as well begin to realize M the fact. The children of the poor B can't wear soft hand-sewed shoes that B wear out every three or four weeks, j That has been one of our leaks and j it has got to be stopped, along with fl the rest. I thought you were anxious M to save. That is what you have B been talking all so fact," B "I am anxious to save," blurted out B Molly, "but! can't bear to have Jack's M dear little feet made sore and. per- B haps start trouble that may be hard fl to get rid of by putting clumsy, hard .shoes on him. We will save some B other way, John." M "We have got to save some other BBJ iway and that way, too." John's tone B jwas harsh and the boy had a scared M look on his face, and sidled off of his (chair and took refuge under his mo- ther's arm with Jais head, in her lap. "It is Just one of your foolish no- tions. Jack is getting to be a big iboy and can wear big boy's shoes. Can't you. dear?" John could not stand It to have the boy afraid of (him- H "Gome and see daddy and he will tell you about the fine pair of big boys shoes that wo are going to get BB tonight when, daddy cornea home." He shoved back from the table and held "rout his arms and the boy ran into them. H .Molly, saw that It was useless to say anything. One of the wava in which her self-discipline was show- ling was in her ability to leave a dis- .agreeable subject before a violent row was precipitated. "Well, we do need to save; trying this will do no harm," Bhe thought and, sighing, shoved back her chair and began to clear the dinner table, (To be continued.) HANDBAGS FOR CHRISTMAS. Never before were handbags so interesting. in-teresting. Whether or not wo like the frocks and coats and suits of tho season, we must like the bags. Leather always predominates among bag fabrics; this year, as ever before, there are moro leather bags than any other kind. There are many gathered and pleated bags with the leather folded and gathered into the metal frame Black Is perhaps more used than any olhpr color: but all shades of brown arc also highly favored, fa-vored, aud so is blue. Some of tho frames aro Irregularly shaped higher on the one side than on the other. Some are crescent shaped. Some are incurved at each end and come to a high point in tho center c An unusually smart bag is of tan pin seal, lined with red and yellow silk, the red stripes figured in yellow, the yellow ones In red. There are some very long, narrow bags not more than three Inches wide and six or eight long Although they are not very commodious in size nor convenient in shape, they are decidedly pretty. II is quiie possible to make up a bag in the silk you like, for the metal and enameled gate tops and the tortoise tor-toise shell tops can all be bought for small prices. |