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Show I Woman's Page I MARRYING FOR MONEY H Marrying For Money By Mrs. Eva Leonard Three Recipes H For Winter Soups Mock Oyster Soup Lingerie Blouses B Becoming More Popular One-Piece Dresses Practical. H "Ortrudo Blakoly is over at the B new houso nearly every minute after B school," cold Nell Morton. "You sit 1 here by the window and you will see H her pass lu a minute." She placed H a chair for Olive. "I am seeing a H great deal of her lately. She runs in B here nearly every day, cither going H or coming." H "How do you like her by this time?" Hf asked Olive. H "She is very interesting because H she is so utterly different from any- one I have ever known." Nell brought H her sewing and sat down by Olive's H "In what way?" asked her friend. H "Her utter frankness, for one thing. H Tor instance, she seems to take it H for granted that I will know she is B not marrying for love." H "Why, how strange!" interrupted H "She said the other day. 'I do not believe there aro 'many love mar- H nages. In nearly all the marriages I H know anything about, one does the H loving and the other consents to be HH l....l T .InrylAnA Hint X -n'Mllrl nrnfof J lOVCU. 1 UCUIUUU Lllitt 1 NUUIU Jlioiui H to be the one who consented to' be H "She certainly has the grace of H honesty,", remarked Olive. "Is that H she coming down the road?" H "Yes. She is ' good looking, isn't H Olive went out on the porch to sec H if the wind was blowing on the baby, H and at the same time get a good look H at the new neighbor. H "She is too haughty to be good H looking," was her comment when she H sat down again. "She is a handsome H woman, though." B "It will be quite exciting to see H how the affair turns out I predict a H passage." Neil fell to work at her "Poor, blind girl!" said Olive com- H passionately. H "Blind! What do you mean?" ask- H cd Nell. H "Blind to her own best interests; H blind to the wreckage that is likely H to strew her path." H "Oh, she is very bright, she may be H able to make the marriage a success," H said Nell cheerfully. H "It takes great grace of spirit to H make such an ill-assorted marriago a H success. The attitude of the children H is bound to be hostile, ami if the tilt H of her head is any Indication of hoi 1 altitude of mind, she is not likely to H be conciliatory." Olive looked H thoughtful, H "She Is having some lovely furnl- ture sent down from Kansas City. There is none half as good in town. Speaking about it she said: 'The children will want to keep their mother's moth-er's furniture. They would not like to have me use it' " "Did she mean that?" asked Olive. "No; she smiled one o her sarcastic sarcas-tic littlo smiles when sho said It," replied re-plied Nell. "Dou you know when they are to be married?" asked Olive. "Some time in June. She plans to be married In her new home." "Has sho no home of her own to be married in?" Olive looked up In surprise. sur-prise. "No, poor girl, she has never had a homo since she can remember, she says." "We1 can see where the temptation came in to have a home of her very own." "Well, the only thing we can do is to welcome her to the neighborhood and show our good will in every way possible. The time may come when we can do something to help her." "I must eo homo now and crnt sun- per started," Olive said, gathering up lier work. (To be continued ) WINTER SOUPS. Cabbage Soup Chop enough outside out-side leaves of cabbage to make one quart; add two tablespoonfuls of chopped onion, a small teaspoonful of celery salt and cover with one quart of boiling water; cook until the cab-b.ige cab-b.ige seems done Press through a colander, add a pint of milk and two tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed with two tablespoonfuls of flour When thick and smooth take from the fire, add a dash of black popper, turn Into a heater tuieen, drop in tiny cheese bulls and serve with toasted bread fiugers. Cream of Lima Bean Soup Cook a pint of Lima beans in salted water until tender. Press through a colander. colan-der. Put one quart of milk In a double dou-ble boiler, when it is hot, add two ta-Llespoonfuls ta-Llespoonfuls of cornstarch, dissolved In a little milk, stir until it thickens, add a bay leaf, mace, a littlo grated onion, and beans, salt and pepper Cover and cook five minutes, add a tablespoonful of butter and serve hot Mock Oyster Soup Scrape twelve good sized roots of oyster plant or salsify, and throw them at once into cold water to prevent discoloration. Cut them into thin slices, cover with a pint of boiling water, add one ounce of salt codfish, cover and cook one linnr "Romnvrs tlirw flcsfi nrlrl m nnart of good milk, salt and pepper and two tablespoonfuls of butter. Serve with oyster crackers. Lingerie Blouses. Lingerie blouses hold a prominent place among the blouses that have been chosen. They are specially attractive, at-tractive, trimmed with lace and tucks and with frills at tho front, some of them. They have, most of them, a low neck line at the front, with a collar that is often wired high at the back. They are more like the first lingerie blouses that were so becoming becom-ing and better liked than anything we have had since then. The Fashions. The foundation patterns for most of the waists this season are very plain and good fitting. The dress waist is made on this foundation and finished with trimming The fronts of the waist may be turned back and a ves-tee ves-tee of a contrasting color and material mate-rial inserted to which Is attached a collar of lace or embroidery. Sometimes Some-times wide lace is frilled down tho opening in front and made into little puff sleeves at tho wrist. 'the one-piece dress has proved so practical that separate waists and skirts are often put together for convenience. con-venience. Woman's World for February. |