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Show I Woman's Page Her Side and His Midwinter Menus Ideas for Tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday's Meals. THE OUTLET fl To quarrel or not to quarrel? That fl Is question in married life, which H clamors to he anftwered and D6T6T will he. The easier way In to say with the careless thinker, "Never quarrel!" H Bui a quarrel I mm ol H marital unhnppin88 so much as the. B effect. It is the natural outlet for an , MMMW inner clash. Stop its outlet and the H Bore may fester and take some other B and more dangerous escapement. H Janet was both exasperated and dc- I t.,.v..,I -,t W'.ili'o nfiK.-il In write ill'" j ; i i ooru ft ' mi n 1,1 vvr i strlal story for Roy Nicoll. It seemed to her there wero a million rrylnc ' needs for him to do it; and not one real reason against It. The lowering of his little bank reserve; the monotonous monot-onous rejection of his work by editors nn.l nlou mnninnrc w 1 1 h ttlfir ehnrilS Bj of "This fine and strong, but not 1 for the popular taste," the Iran, fam H Ished look on his face from overwork H and undernourishment of the spirit H al these harassed Janet even more H than they did Walt, and made Roy H Mr oil's offer loom in greater splendor. H But she bit back every word of dis- ;it his course. She felt he H had enough to bear H But if she succeeded in suppressing H her fault finding with what seemed B to her his stubborn refusal, she could not find the spirit to praise and en- H Courage him in everything he did. as H she used to do. Had he only spoken I i (mi. he would have met her complaints H with a host of good reasons why he could not accept N-icoll's proposition. fl Quarrels, misunderstanding would H perhaps have arisen. But they might B hav- cleared the air; at any rate, the H tension would not have sought another Nor was the tension only between! H Walt and Janet. Wait himself had HI daily to fighl within himself all that; H Janet hr-lieved. That he no longer, H had Janet's outspoken and inspiriting I B encouragement to hearten him was a H great loss and taxed his strength the: H harder. He lived mostly on his cour-l H age these days, and lanet's cheer; H was sorely needed nourishment. H One evening, when he found work H impossible and Janet was at the office H working overtime on her magazine, H Walt went to the Lafayette for a H smoke and a crumb of old-time com panlonship. He sat down at a table H b himself From a group at another j H table Lucy Benton detached herself H and came over to him. I "Is your mood for one, two or many?"' she asked, with the excep, tlonal woman's instinct about the man j she loves. Two" Walt said, pointing to the I opposite chair. "That was a splendid bit of yours in 'Truth' 'The Silken Noose' do more like it ," Lucy said. Wall laughed! There was no pleas tire in his laugh. Lucy read it well. Bit b bit she got him to tell her of Roy Nicoll and his offer, though 1 Walt gave her no hint of Nlcoll'fl sua- pec ted motive. She had, nevertheless, no difficulty In seeing NiCOll'S whole i motive and scheme. Even to herself she tried to hide the exultation she felt at the knowledge. But her face shone with a gayer spirit as she said: , "You're in greaf company, Walt. Brer man with a message Instead of an echo to utter has been alone and had rough traveling. The hard road oi can't avoid. Rut you need never be alone. Janet's loves you so much she cun t bear to see you suffer reverses, starvation. Rut if Bhe under, stood ou better she would he willing to see you cut yourself on the stones so long as you were going in the right direction. There is much that is shabby about our bohemian crowd hero But they are not afraid of 11 v-lng v-lng on crusts and cooking on a kro-sent kro-sent stove if the situation calls for it. Janet's seen so much penury In her earlier days that it's become nlght-mare nlght-mare to her. I've seen so much of It that I've become callous to it. That's the difference between us that and Mm the fact that I'm a rebel; while she I belongs at the king's court. And ?ou, Walt where do you belong"" Jr party Of gay nonentities in cv-nlng cv-nlng dress, chattering futilities and staring with shimmers' eyes at Walt and the strikingly dressed Lucy, quietly quiet-ly chatting, passed by thorn. The women were all of the "Louise" type Walt had described in his story. "I am with you. Lucy!" Walt said "I'm a rebel!" MIDWINTER MENUS. Sunday. Breakfast Baked bananas, baked potatoes, baked bacon, eggless muf- fins. Diner Spiced beef, baked macaroni, maca-roni, scalloped tomatoes, hot slaw, apple ap-ple dowdy. Supper- Welsh rarebit, celery and peanut Salad, whole wheat bread with butter, canned peaches, eggless fruit i Monday. Kreakfast Steamed prunep, fine hominy, creamed codfish on toast. Lunch or Supper -Cold sliced spiced beef, encumber pickles, baking powder pow-der biscuit, dried peach shortcake and cream Carried Lunch Spiced beef and whole-wheat bread sandwiches, cu. cumber pickles, eggless fruit cake, cheese, banana. Dinner Lamb potple. boiled carrots, car-rots, boiled rice, beet relish, ginger pudding. Tuesday. Breakfast Raisins and rice, browed hash, drop biscuit. Lunch or Supper Bread omelet, Ly-onnaise Ly-onnaise potatoes, rye bread with butter, but-ter, cottage cheese, hot gingerbread Carried Lunch Egg and rye bread sandwiches, drop biscuit and Jelly, gin. gerbread. cottage cheese, raisins. Dinner Scot broth, pork pie, mus tard pickles, sauerkraut, baked potatoes, pota-toes, Princess pudding. |
