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Show II . Woman's Pagej Zoe Beckles Story Five Helpful Hints for the Housewife To Get Rid of Ants To Mend Hot Water Bag Satis-factory Satis-factory Polish for Hardwood Floors Recipe for I Veal Loaf Lemon Jelly With Apples. "But, Cora, d-a-r-M-n-g." protested I Beth Woodford for the dozenth time, ! Cora's cousin being a woman of un-modern un-modern Ideals and of the typo known as "sweetly (feminine," what a mistake ! you make in leaving them to them- i i selves! Your first mistake was in i letting that Laurence woman put her Inoee insido your home. But if she i :must come in, your course was to hold I 'the tightest sort of rein on David, j 'Give a husband the least chance to hfall in lovo with another woman and ! he'll do It Oh. they may not mean ! hmy "wrong. But they're like a certain brand of pickpockets they feel It's an affront to their intelligence to lose o.n opportunity when it presents itself." "But, Beth, If you can't trust the man you lovo and who loves you, what's the use of living with him?" urged Cora wearily, for they had been over the ground many times already. "There isn't any special use In it," agreed Beth, "but we all do it We women haven't the courage to stay single. Yet, once you're married, it's an eternal struggle to keep your man. A husband is like a child. From the moment you hnvo one you bear a rc- sponsibllity. Whenever either a child or a husband Is out of your sight he's liable to he In. mischief or trouble." trou-ble." "You think very lightly of love, Beth." "Oh, love be bothered! A man can change his loves aa he does his gloves. Some suit some occasions; others suit othera. It's all according to his mood, his destination, and the weather. Men are just naturally polygamous." "If that's true, then what's the use of fighting?" urged Cora, "You might as well say what's the use of sweeping your house since It's the nature of houses to get dirty," retorted Mrs. "Woodford. "One does the best one can, that's all." "Don't you think any meu are faithful faith-ful to their wives?" "Oh, yes; just as some people never want new "furniture or a change of boots!" snapped Beth. "If It wasn't the nature of some men to be true and loyal, women like Mrs Cottle or Aunt Betsy Tannchlll would have been left on a desert Island long ago. Sarah Cottle has a figure liko a baked apple and not a brain in her head, and Aunt Beth well, what's tho use? Their husbands would love 'em If they were even worse than they are. And look at Ray Standish! The temper of a hyena, and Sam thinks she's the finest woman this side of heaven. Those things happen, my dear Cora. But so do the northern lights. You don't see them often, nor can they be explained." "Sometimes, if you give a man and woman as much of each other's society socie-ty as they want, they get over the the attraction," faltered Cora, "and come back to normal." "Certainly!" mocked Beth. "By all means give a child all the candy It wants to stuff and then nurse It through a sickness and take care of what's left of its constitution the rest of your life. A fine principle to go on! I'd rather have the young one stay well In tho first place, even If I had to shut It up to keep it away from sweets." |