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Show Woman's Page MARRIED LIFE ON $80 A MONTH ij H Mrs. Eva Leonard's Story of Married Life on $80 a Month B Fashion's Decree Black Broadcloth Smart The Un- B Even Hem Still Prevails Low-heeled Shoes Hints B to Housewives Cereals Should Be Washed Hu Before Cooking. Hv "Well, this seems natural to look H over to your cheerful face. It surely H was a different place with you gone," H said John Sutner tho morning Jnlia H returned to the office. H "Mr. Jaynes is a good man to work H for. I do not believe I could better H myself." Julia's cheerfulness was evi- Ht dently an effort. H' "Ho certainly has been good to B me." John was looking steadily at his H book. H "It was a temptation to cut and H run," began Julia after a silence. H John looked up, but said nothing. H "perhaps I will not mind it after "-Mife "first cold plunge," continued Julia. H John tried to look sympathetic, but H Vae afraid, to venture a remark, know- B lng his capacity for saying the wrong j B 'thing. B j '"The only redeeming thing about a B jbltter cup is the privilege of drinking B tit ltt secret, went on Julia, evidently B determined to make a clean breast H )of it and havo it over. "I know I am - i&s conspicuous as a movie actress. All HHMpairport is watching to see what trap-m trap-m gpings of woe I will wear. If I lived V in a city I could feel that tho crowd r ' shielded me and I should not see H ' 'written on every face: "Her engage-H engage-H ment is broken, I wonder how she'll H " take it.'" H' f "Oh, it is hardly asjiad as that. H( Your imagination is working over-K over-K retime. Don't you remember when you B i told me that, when I was in so much H rouble? I can see now that you Hl -were right. We are so constituted H1 that we think every one is thinking La thing because we are. Besides, the Rfevhole thing will be exhausted as a Htopic of conversation in tvo or three Hiays. Fairport is like a big hornets' Kiest when it is disturbed. There is Ha big buzzing, but gradually all the Bhornets settle down and go to work again." John was making an honest H effort to be comforting. B "You are right about its being a H hornets' nest if in nothing else," re-vplied re-vplied Julia with a hard little laugh. BJ"I do wish I could keep my affairs B' ofc PePle's tongues." B; "All they will know is that you H' are working again. Of course they H will surmise that the engagement is ibroken, but that is such a common BMtGlgthatit cannot be a nine days' vwonder." V "That's so," said the girl in a re-VJieved re-VJieved tone. "If only mother was not Brso down on Mr. Cane." The name B;cairAe out with an effort. BtfyVjohn looked up inquiringly. "It Hf jntkes it doubly hard for me to hear V; hlto abused. He was not to blame. m, I fcroke the engagement." She evl-V evl-V dently was determined to tell him H ablut it, and he wondered why when H1' ltjwas so hard for her to speak of BKtht subject M T'TOow can she blame him in that H y1 ca?" he asked, all at sea. H ,$ She rose and came over to bis ta- H ,H "i must tell someone," she said in ; H a lew. strained tone; "must have ; M i soma advice. Perhaps a man's point M of "view would help me and I know Hj, . 'you tore a friend." Br.s ? .John reached out and wrung her H IVhand. Hr' v"!-K".ou see Mr- Cane's mother is an i K f'?cra'' an( sne feels that her son j Ht ' sstooptng to want to marry me." bbbbbT jjJ0"1 interrupted with a contemp- Hi' -, vU8 snort- H 'v.''5he. came to see me at the hos- pital," continued Julia. "I knew she did not like me, but I hoped I could learn to please her. All their property prop-erty is tied up; is In her hands, in fact, and-: She will disinherit him if he insists on marrying me." The girl looked away, a look of hopeless hope-less misery on her face. "Well, he has his business. He can support a wife, I should think, without the madam," flamed John. "Someone is coming," whispered Julia. "I'll tell you about It later," and she walked away. (To be continued), |
