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Show Ill Woman's Page l ill l1 Her Side and His Needlework Notes Sew Hooks and Eyes j ! ,l) 5 on With Buttonhole Stitch Latest Pillow Case Holds I- ! 'M Both Pillows During Da3'time Gowns Are Placed I ' tfjj in Linen Cases Recipe for Macaroni and i 1 , Peas To Iron Needlework. II THE BREAKERS. I 'fi f "Walt came into the office of Mr. H I Haines, his employer, to get his O. K. Ill on some advertising matter he had L j J written the day before and had hand- , J 1 1 ed in for approval. Haines looked up Uf at Walt's troubled face. I ,'Hjjfj "Sit down, Stedman," his employer , !' ! said, closing the door. "I'm going to ' , Hj I take an older and more experienced - j j i man's prerogative of butting into an.- n ' , " i ; J other man's private life. My excuse ' V j j i Is that I think I can bring relief from m a needless tension. May I go on?" i j Walt nodded, j I L; "You've shown all the signs of a ':::?& man -worried about the outcome of his i 1 jfj b marriage lately," Haines went on II' I kindly. "Am I on the right track?" I iSrJ Again Walt nodded after hesitat- i 5j 3 ing a moment. ! "All right, then, I think I can help," i , J Haines said cheerfully. "Just as a - f r j man who's sailed over certain waters '111 can be of help to the young captain 11 who's starting out on his first voy- ' ' jit age, I've been married twice." i j h Ui Walt looked up gratefully. This was ' ; wl just the kind of talk he had been iffli wishing to hear. j j I good way of putting it," Haines went f ; I I on. "And you have just launched your j hi little bark you and the missus. Now, 1 J by that figure, your little craft is at , J jj present in the breakers. You two . j Jjj I don't know it's the breakers. You . think you're on the high seas and thrit j . f'h the whole voyage is going to be as , i h, g;ffl rough and strenuous as it seems to be ' ' 'fi j W now. i Jj 4 "Well, it may or may not be. That H 7 ? aj ? lies deep down in yourselves and in III fate. But the breakers aren't deep. i 8 Ml They're just breakers, and if you push H r It j on you'll be in calmer waters in just ' f ' ,; a little while. tlf "You and the missus are finding it H ; f If, a little tcctery, your craft, are you? , i, You're keyed up. You think the spill H ' '! "2Ji; is coming any minute. Well, it does H ; j jig l to many a young married couple. But H f A they're the ones' who either mistake I ; j $, the breakers for the big deeps and H ,i jump back to shore or they're the un-M un-M 1 ! Itfj? fortunates who're doomed to ship- ' j i( wreck from the starL Now I judge you I 4 j iff two are not. Most marriages arc not." H j jlrij-: "What is troubling you two Is that I j Jljjv you two are strenuously adjusting , 15 f - your lives to the biggest change in -j 5L human life. A landlubber who sots I : out on his first sea voyage has an I i! even worse time; but the cause is the I pj: same at bottom getting sea legs, ' ' BI which is a nervous strain at best I - BV; . "You vratch each other too closely. I o Y You take each other too seriously. I " ' You give each word and look too If much meaning and weight. You read I I ft things into what the other says which don't exist. Everyday imperfection IfltJ or discord looms up big to you. In I I other words, you two, like.every other I . yXVi married couple who have shipped in I J k tlie same cabin, are too near each oth- i , ! er and you're not yet used to it. I 3 iflj "Now I'm telling you all this with- 'Mi: out your having revealed by one word I iflUt how things are with you, or without I M even having met Mrs. Stedman a : ; m i pleasure I hope to have. I . ' ! 18 j "I'm only speaking from what I've !;J5J been thronugh. If, in the first few , ! fir months of my first marriage 1 had . ffl known what I've just told you about : M the breakers in marriage well, may- ! M he I'd have stuck it ouL But I didn't. i! 1 ftr both got scared and jumped back ' ' S ; to .shore. ' J "L 1ucw better the second time v and we're out in naimnv nni ii Vj ' water, my wife and I, who want you . )l J a"d, yours to conie to dinner soon. m Will you?" ') , Wat grasped his hand fervently and i ' t H nodded. He felt tremendous relief at j ' i m what HaIncs had told him. So they I were only going through breakers, Ja-'net Ja-'net and himself? It was just a mat-j mat-j ter of pushing ahead and they'd be all . right In a little while. I The thought gave him comfort. It relieved the . tension on his nerves, ' which in turn had its good effect on Janet's. Then one day, soon after, a cold word passed between them and ihey did not exchange another word of any kind for days. Was their voyage to be a storrav one after all? |