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Show Ij Woman's Page Her Side and His Novelty Cushions Seen in the Stores Attractive At-tractive Cushion Shaped Like Big Bow Smo-ved Cushions Cush-ions Pretty Novelty Recipes for Date 1 Jding and Rice Pudding. THE LOVE FEAST. "'An tirafier-shaded lamp shed its homqy glow over the Temples' living room'. Peace and reconciliation were in the air so that even a stranger com-ing com-ing In must have scented it. M. .Its good to have you 'back,' dear," fr said David, looking up from a batch K. I or papers he was going over carefully fi- with a fountain pen, cutting sentences J1 here, adding a word or a punctuation V mark Mv "If I told vou I was at that min- rli ute-thinking how blessed it Is to be H ( back," said Cora with a demure smile, I, ".you'd think me a gross little senii- jV mentalist. I was just telling myselC H for the hundredth time how much more I I love you, Davy, since you p. came around to the the human view- T"1 point about the Rourke outfit. I I Kf couldn't love a man, Dave, who had nothing of womanly tenderness in him no compromise at all." "Humph!" grunted the man across the living room table. "I'll never have I done with that crowd till I find a way T , of keeping them politically decent. Womanly tenderness be His last word was drowned in a - whirr from the telephone. . 1 "Gosh hang it!-who's that? I'm not in the mood for callers " H- Cora, at the telephone, turned to- ward him with dancing eyes. "It's Dr. Hartley and Wanda," she whispered brightly. "He says he's got wonder- I ful news for you. They're downstairs and coming right up." ' Three minutes later every one was j talking wildly, shaking hands, dancing IB' j about the room, laughing, squealing, Mm t offering congratulationsr for the two HH had come to tell David of his appolnt- H ment as tenement house, commlsslon- 2 "The mayor," said Dr. Hartley, mak- IH, ing David a mock obeisance, followed IH by a mighty slap on the back, "bids IB me offer you this post. You are to In appear at his offiee tomorrow morn- HH ing for more formal acceptance. How WL about It, old fellow? Guess the City HH club's pushing power Is something to Hi' reckon with; hey, son?" "Isn't it a dream come true!" cried mm Cora, with glistening eyes. "Now you'll have weapons to fight the I Itourkes with, Davy, if they start any-Wjm any-Wjm thing crooked again. Oh, thank God! Mm thank God!" she breathed from a pro-flj pro-flj foundly grateful heart, BR "Wanda gripped David's hands, look-Mi look-Mi ing steadily Into his eyes for an un-tmS un-tmS wavering moment. "Dear old friend," IH she said briefly, "I'm so glad!" And, IW r Cora, -watching the woman she honest-ag honest-ag I ly liked, yet who had caused her the H .' keenest suffering a wife can know, H . saw "with thanksgiving that Wanda's gaze soon turned from David and set- . tied proudly upon "her man," "the Br ' splendid doctor -who had loved her so M f long in vain. Her heart was fully in 9J' , the keeping of Hartley now, Cora M ; " knew knew. She was even conscious BJ of a tiny gleam of amusement as she Bj noted, as woman can, that Wanda re- H ' r . garded her fiance as the superior man, H fc tho man of power, wealth, of mighty BT Influence and steem. H'. ( .Through Wanda Laurence's mind, H 1 3trangely enough, the same though was jm, , passing the little gleam of amuse- I; ,tui. i.uou vjuiii au ouviuusiy regarueu , "her man," David, as the supreme jt man, the good sport, the champion of right and honesty. . ,. , , And so both women rejoiced and i ; were exceedingly glad. ; 1 & , David himself said little. Quite Sim I ply as men do, he put' an arm about Hartley's shoulder, his other hand grasping his friend's. I "I'm going to try to deserve it, old man," he said. 'I'll work for you and your crowd and your principles as long as life's in me." Then the whole bunch broke into a gale of merriment and scurried over to Marcello's, where Wanda and the doctor had in good typical American fashion "engaged a table to celebrate." |