MISS LULU BETT
। By ZONA GALE
"MY WEDDED WIFE"
SYNOPSIS.—CDnerel factotum In
the house of her »later Ina, wife of
Herbert Deacon. In the email town
of Warbleton. Lelu Bett leads a
dull, cramped existence, with which
she Is constantly at enmity, though
apparently satisfied with her lot.
Bobby lou-kln, recently graduated
high-school youth. Is secretly en
amored of Deacon's elder daughter.
Diana. The family Is excited over
the news of an approaching visit
from
Deacon'a brother Ninian,
whom he had not seen for many
yeara
Unexpectedly, Ninian ar
rives. Thus he becomes acquainted
with Uulu first and understands
her position In the house Tu Lulu,
Ninian Is a much-traveled man of
the world, and even the slight in
terest which he takes in her is
appreciated, because It Is something
new In her life.
At an outing
which the family takes, Ninian and
Lulu become confidential. He ex
presses his disapproval of her
treatment as a sort of dependent
In the Deacon home. Diana and
Bobby, In the course of “soft noth
ings," discuss the possibility of
eloping and “surprising the whole
school.*'
Lulu has awakened to
pleasant
possibilities
concerning
Ninian's Intentions toward herself.
IV
—7—
July.
When, on a warm evening a fort
night later, I.ulu descended the stairs
dressed for her Incredible trip to the
city, she wore the white waist which
she had often thought they would
"use" for her if she died. And really,
the waist looked as if it hail been
planned for the purpose, and its wide,
upstanding plaited lace at throat and
wrist made her neck look thinner, her
forearm sharp and veined. Her hair
she had “crimped" and parted in the
middle, puffed high—it was so that
hair had been worn in Lulu's girlhood.
“Well!” said Ina. when she saw this
coiffure, and frankly examined it,
head well back, tongue meditatively
teasing at her lower lip.
For travel Lulu was again wearing
Ina's linen duster—the old one.
Ninian appeared. In a sack coat—
and his diamond. His distinctly con
vex face. Its thick, rosy flesh, thick
mouth and cleft chin gave Lulu once
more that bold sense of looking—not
at him. for then she was shy and
averted her eyes—but at his photo
graph at which she could gaze as
much as she would. She looked up
at him openly, fell in step beside him.
Was he not taking her to the city?
Ina and Dwight themselves were go
ing because she. Lulu, had brought
about this party.
“Act as good as you look, Lulle.”
Mrs. Bett called after them. She gave
no instructions to Ina, who was mar
ried and able to shine in her conduct.
It seemed.
Dwight was cross. On the way to
the station he might have been heard
to take it up again, whatever it was,
and his Ina unmistakably said: “Well,
now, don’t keep it going all the way
there”; and turned back to the others
with some elaborate comment about
the dust, thus cutting off her so-called
lord from his legitimate retort A
mean advantage.
The city was two hours distant, and
they were to spend the night. On the
train, in the double seat, Ninian be
side her among the bags. Lulu sat in
the simple consciousness that the
people all knew that she too had been
chosen. A man and a woman were
opposite, with their little boy between
them. Lulu felt this woman's supe
riority of experience over her own,
and smiled at her from a world of fel
lowship. But the woAian lifted her
eyebrows and stared and turned away,
with slow and insolent winking.
Ninian had a boyish pride In hfs
knowledge of places to eat in many
cities—as if he were leading certain
of the tribe to a deer-run in a strange
wood. Ninian took his party to a
downtown cafe, then popular among
business and newspaper men. The
place was below the sidewalk, was
reached by a dozen marble steps, and
the odor of its griddle-cakes took the
air of the street. Ninian made a
great show of selecting a table,
changed once, called the waiter “my
man" and rubbed soft hands on “What
do you say? Shall It be lobster?”
He ordered the dinner, Instructing the
waiter with painstaking gruffness.
"Not that they can touch your cook
ing here. Miss Lulu,” he said, settling
himself to wait, and crumbling a
crust.
Dwight, expanding a bit in the aura
of the food, observed that Lulu was
a regular chef, that was what Lulu
was. He still would not look at his
wife, who now remarked:
“Shelf, Dwightie. Not cheff.”
This was a mean alvantage, which
he pretended not to hear—another
mean advantage.
“Ina,” said Lulu, “your hat's Just a
little mite—no, over the other way.”
“Was there anything to prevent
your speaking of that before?” Ina
inquired acidly.
“I started to and then somebody
always said something,” said Lulu
humbly.
Nothing could so much as cloud
Lulu's hour. She was proof against
any shadow.
"Say, but you look tremendous to
night,” Dwight observed to her.
Understanding perfectly that this
was said to tease his wife. Lulu yet
flushed with pleasure. She saw two
women watching, and she thought:
“They're feeling sorry for Inn—no
body talking to her.” She laughed
at everything that the men said. She
passionately wanted to talk herself.
“How many folks keep going past,”
she said, many times.
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At length, having noted the details
of ail the clothes in range, Ina's iso
lation failed upon her and site set
herself to take Ninian's attention.
She therefore talked with him about
himself.
“Curious you’ve never married.
Nin.” she said.
"Don't say It like that," he begged.
“I might yet."
Ina laughed enjoyably. "Yes, you
might I” she met this.
"She wants everybody to get mar
ried. but she wishes I hadn’t."
Dwight threw in with exceeding ran
cor.
They developed this theme exhaus
tively, Dwight usually speaking In the
third person and always with his
shoulder turned a bit from his wife.
It was inconceivable, the gusto with
which they proceeded. Ina had as
sumed for the purpose an air distrait,
casual, attentive to the scene about
them. But gradually her cheeks be
gan to burn.
"She'll cry," Lulu thought In alarm,
and said at random: “Ina, that hat is
so pretty—ever so much prettier than
the old one." But Ina said frostily
that she never saw anything the mat
ter with the old one,
. "Let us talk," said Ninian low, to
Lulu. “Then they’ll simmer down.
He went on. in an undertone, about
nothing in particular. Lulu hardly
heard what he said, it was so pleasant
to have him talking to her in this
confidential fashion; and site was
pleasantly aware that his manner was
open to misinterpretation.
In the nick of time the lobster was
served.
•
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Dinner and the play—the show, ns
Ninian called It This show was
“Peter Pan,” chosen by Ninian be
cause the seats cost, the most of those
at any theater. It was almost inde
cent to see how Dwight Herbert, the
immortal soul, had warmed and melt
ed at these contacts. By the time
that all was over, and they were at
the hotel for supper, such 'was his
pleasurable excitation that he was
once more playful, teasing, once more
the Irrepressible.’ But now his Ina
was to be won back, made it evident
that she was not one lightly to over
look, and a fine firmness sat upon the
little doubling chin.
They discussed the play. Not one
of them had understood the story.
“Why Not Say the Wedding Service?"
Asked Ninian.
The dog-kennel part—wasn't that the
queerest thing? Nothing to do with
the rest of the play.
“I was for the pirates. The one
with the hook—he was my style,'' said
Dwight.
“Well, there it is again,” Ina cried.
“They didn't belong to the real play,
either.”
"Oh, well,” Ninian said, “they have
to put in parts, I suppose, to catch
everybody. Instead of a song and
dance, they do that.”
“And I didn't understand," said Ina,
“why they all clapped when the prin
cipal character ran down front and
said something to the audience that
time. But they all did.”
Ninian thought this might have
been out of compliment. Ina wished
that Monona might have seen, con
fessed that the last part was so pretty
that she herself would not look; and
into Ina's eyes came their loveliest
light.
Lulu sat there, hearing the talk
about the play. “Why couldn't I have
said that?” she thought as the others
spoke. All that they said seemed to
her apropos, but she could think of
nothing to add. The evening had been
to her a light from heaven—how
could she find anything to say? She
sat In a daze of happiness, her mind
hardly operative, her look moving
from one to another. At last Ninian
looked at her.
“Sure you liked it, Miss Lulu?”
“Oh, yes! I think they all took
their parts real well.”
It was not enough. She looked St
them appealingly, knowing that she
had not said enough.
“You could hear everything they
said,” she added. "It was—” she
dwindled to silence.
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Ann Adams'
Conquest
Dwight Herbert savored his rarebit'
with a great show of long wrinkled
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dimples.
"Excellent sauces they make here—
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excellent," he said, with the frown
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of an epicure. “A tiny wee bit more
Anu Adams looked her uxuul charm
Athabasca," he added, and they all
laughed and told him that Athabasca ing self as »lie ant al her desk beside
was a lake, of course. Of course he the window. Her fluffy light hulr wus
meant tabasco, Ina said. Their en dressed us prettily us ever, her blue
tertainment and their tulk was of serge frock wu» faultlessly pressed
and brushed, her white collar und cuffs
•his sort, for an hour.
"Well, now," said Dwight Herbert! immaculate. Nor did Ami's linger»
when it was finished, “somebody duties lug us she transcribed her notes. Yet
Ann wus dejected, confused, uncertain
on tlie table."
us never before in ull her short, cheery
“Dwightie!"
“Got to amuse ourselves somehow, j life.
Anu did not look at the man at the
Come, liven up. They'll begin to read
big desk in the center of tiie room.
the funeral service over us."
"Why not say the wedding service?” She did not need to, fur ahe sensed the
moody, brooding aspect of Idin. He hud
asked Ninian.
In the mention of wedlock there worn it for three days now, ever since
was always something stimulating to lie had abruptly checked himself in
Dwight, something of overwhelming the middle of what appeared to be u
This wua
humor. He shouted a derisive en proposal on Monday.
Wednesday.
dorsement of tills proposal.
An extraordinarily good new posi
"I shouldn't object,” said Ninian.
tion wus offered to Ann, and while
“Should you. Miss Lulu?"
I.ulu now burned the slow red of •lie regretted leaving Lester Sawyer,
her torture. They were all looking to refuse the opening would be folly.
at her. She made an anguished effort Ann told Mr. Sawyer on Monday.
to defend herself.
Lester Sawyer hud hesitated, said
“b don’t know It," she said, “so I that he must not stand in her way,
can't say It.”
then, lighting into most appealing ten-
Nininn leaned toward her.
denies», he had usked tier tu marry
"I, Ninian, take thee. Lulu, to be him, but before he finished his sen
my wedded wife,” he pronounced. tence he drew himself up shortly and
“That's the way it goes!”
reverted to his usual office manner.
“Lulu daren't say it1" cried Dwight.
“Well, think the matter over," he
He laughed so loudly thut those nt said; "I'll meet their offer If possible.
the near tables turned. And. from Wa can't spare you here.”
the fastness of her wifehood and moth
Ann was puzzled. She wus not deep
erhood Ina laughed. Keully, it was . ly In love with Lester, but she knew
ridiculous to think of Lulu that that she could be. However, the pres
way . . .
ent situation was Inipoaalble.
Ninian laughed, too. "Course she
"Mr. Sawyer,” Ann suddenly whirled
don’t dare say it,” he challenged.
In her chair and faced him, “I think
From within Lulu, that strange it best to accept the Hudson people's
Lulu, that other Lulu who sometimes offer."
fought her battles, suddenly spoke
Sawyer looked up, surprised, but.
out:
had he known it, scarcely more sur
"I, Lulu, take thee, Ninian, to be prised than Ann herself, who had
my wedded husband.”
spoken without any clear intention of
“You will?” Nininn cried.
doing so. She found herself Immeas
“I will,” she said, laughing tremu urably relieved once she had spoken,
lously, to prove that she, too, could smiled naturally and turned buck to
Join In, could be as merry as the rest. her desk without awaiting an answer.
“And I will. There, by Jove, now
Lester left his desk und went over to
have we entertained you, or haven't Ann's side.
we?" Ninian laughed and pounded his
"Come out for luncheon with me,”
soft fist on the table.
he pleaded. “There is something I
“Oh, say, honestly!" Ina was must say.”
shocked. "I don't think you ought
“All right,” said Ann, cheerily, al
to—holy tilings—what's the matter, though site ordinarily found it best to
Dwightie?*’
refuse all Invitations In business
Dwight Herbert Deacon’s eyes were hours. “Only I have quite decided
staring and his face was scarlet.
that it would not be fair to ask the
“Say, by George,” he said, “a civil firm to meet the Hudson's offer. I’m
wedding Is binding in this state.”
not worth that salary here.”
“A civil wedding? Oh, well—” Nin
“Well—’* Sawyer's tone was doubt
ian dismissed it.
ful, “I don't know about thut. But—
"But I," said Dwight, "happen to there’s something else.”
be a magistrate.”
All of Ann’s briefly banished con
They looked at one another fool fusion and indecision returned, but
ishly. Dwight sprang up with the in she concealed It under a smiling nod.
determinate Idea of Inquiring some and dismissed Sawyer by letting her
thing of some one, circled about and hands fall upon her typewriter keys.
returned. Ina had taken his chair
At the cozy little table In a far
and sat clasping Lulu's hand. NInlun comer of the restaurant Sawyer was
continued to laugh.
delightfully self-possessed ns he per
"I never saw one done so offhand,” formed his duties of cavalier and host.
•aid Dwight. "But whut you've said But when he approached the matter to
is all you have to say according to be discussed all his ease of manner
law. And there don't have to be wit disappeared.
nesses . . . say!” he said, and sat
“I must have seemed a cad the
down again.
other day.” he began without pre
Above that shroud-like plaited lace, amble.
“1 started to ask you to
the veins of Lulu's throaMshowed dark marry me, and I didn’t give you a
as she swallowed, cleared her throat, chance to reject me. But I acted as
swallowed again.
If I thought you were going to accept
“Don’t you let Dwight scare you,” me—1 had absolutely no reason for
•he besought Ninian.
thinking you would—and withdrew the
“Scare me!” cried Ninian. "Why. I offer as Impulsively as I made it. I’d
think it's a good Job done, if you ask like to make it clear that I was think
me."
ing only of you.”
Lulu’s eyes flew to his face. As he
Ann smiled iflto his troubled eyes.
laughed, he was looking at her, nn<J
“It is all very well put.” she said,
now he nodded and shut and opened “but It really doesn’t make sense.”
his eyes several times very fast. Their
“I suppose not." said Sawyer. “Did
points of light flickered. With a pang you ever notice that I’m a grouch?”
of wonder which pierced her and left
“Never to me,” said Ann, gently.
her shaken. Lulu looked. His eyes
“That’s Just It,” the man answered,
continued to meet her own. It was
bitterly. "Never to you, because I'm
exactly like looking at fils photograph.
not married to you. That Is what has
Dwight had recovered his authentic
fooled every last man In tny family and
air.
equally deluded the girls that have
"Oh, well,” he said, “we can Inquire
at our leisure. If it Is necessary, I married into the family. You can
should say we can have it set aside smooth me over in any business crisis,
quietly up here In the city—no one’ll you can take care of that imp of an
office boy and adjust all the little dif-
be the wiser.”
“Set aside nothing!” said Ninian. ¿jculties, avert the annoyances of the
day's routine. That Is why you are
“I’d like to see It stand.”
worth an increase in salary to the
“Are you serious, Nin?”
firm, because I’m no good without
“Sure I’m serious.”
Ina Jerked gently at her sister’ i you."
“You were a valuable man when 1
arm.
came to the firm,” reminded Ann,
“Lulu! You hear him? What yo
oddly moved nevertheless.
going to say to that?”
“But you have no Idea how much
Lulu shook her head. “He Isn't 1: i
you have Increased my value,” he
earnest,” she said.
“I am in earnest—hope to die,” Nir • said, with a tight-Upped smile. "Well
Ian declared. He was on two legs o' —that is the firm’s side of It. My
own side takes only an explanation.
his chair and was slightly tilting, s
that the effect of his earnestness wa I The men of my family are beasts in
their homes, my father, my uncles, my
impaired. But he was obviously 1
grandfather. There’s only one thing
earnest.
They were looking at I.ulu again. to be said for any of them—they don't
And now she looked at Ninian, and display their dispositions in public.
there was something terrible in thak But I don’t intend to bring to any
look which tried to ask him, alond, woman’s face, ledst of all yours, the
hunted, beaten, fretted look the wom
about this thing.
en
who have married Into our family
Dwight exploded. "There was a fel
low I know there In the theater,” he wear.”
“I'm not afraid of you," said Ann,
cried. “I’ll get him on the Une. He
could tell me if there's any way—” sweetly, suddenly leaving the safe
ground whence she could retreat or
and was off.
advance at will. “You have always
shown your real self with me—you
always would."
"I don’t know what to make
Lester shook his head.
of Lulu'a l»tter*. They are »o—
“If you’d ever heard my mother
excusing this or that or the other
grouchlness of father’s by quoting
(TO BE CONT1NVED.)
some charming Incident of their pre
nuptial days, you'd lose faith. Those
Has Had Long Vacation.
old stories are worn pretty thin, but
One of the national standard weights
they prove conclusively that the fam
of the United States has not beefi ily Irritability doesn’t appear in court
used for actual weighing since It was
ship.
And I don’t Intend to make
received from the International bu any woman, least of all you, miser
reau In 1889.
able”
“Then what," asked Ann. soberly.
“I wish you would stay on with us,"
Lester aald. “The future with the
Hudson people may be better, but the
Kulary 1» all thut concern» you, for
you’ll marry, anyway. So If we meet
their offer tn salary and advance you
In »alary as they would, our proposi
tion Is reully as good a» theirs.
“I need you, Ann,” said Lester, after
a pause.
Ann looked up with a mdlnnt smite.
"Let'a do a little psycho -analysing,"
she suggested. “Since neither of us
know anything shout It It is perfectly
safe I According to three learned folk
you have taken your demons out where
you cun watch them romp and you
know exactly what they ure and what
they are doing. You ure muster. Yuur
relatives possessing similar collec
tions, put theirs down cellar and lock
the dvore-iind the uproar destroys
the peace of the entire household. I'm
not afraid of you,” Ann ended firmly.
"Then you'll stay?” cried Lester.
Ann Bhook tier head.
"No. I'm going with the' Hudson
people. I'm going to prove to your
self that It is yourself, not I that Is
fighting and winning thia battle. I’ll
stand on the aide Une» and cheer."
"Where dore thut leave u»T" Lester
inquired perplexedly.
"It doesn't leave us—It starts us,"
snld Ann. “We are engaged. We are
going to be happy engaged, and ua
Apollonla Chalup»*, better known to
the lovers of motion picture» a» Pola
happy married."
"I—-I believe you are right.” said Negri, the "movie" star, was born In
Lester, returning her radiant »mile.
Bromberg, Poland. Her father had a
Pola Negri
good fabric buslne»». Ho died In
1505, leaving her af the age of six
FOUND POSITION OF NEPTUNE with
her mother, who later »ent her
to school In Wareaw. At the ago of
Young English .Mathematician Solved
ten oho decided »he wanted to bo an
What Wat Long a Mystery of
actre»». At »Ixteen oho made her pro-
the Sky.
feooional debut in a Warsaw theater.
Later oho received many offers to en
According to nn English writer, ter the "movies” and finally yielded.
many years ago astronomers were pus-
sled by the weird wanderings of the
two glguntlc planet», Jupiter and I'ra-
nus. Sometimes they arrived nt points
In the heavens long before they were
due; at other time» they were unac
countably late. Their paths, too, were
strangely crooked.
No one could furnish an explana
tion. A young English mathematician
named Adams Bet himself to tackle the
problem. If these worlds wandered
out of their courses, he argued, some
thing must be pulling them astray.
After nearly two years of work upon
figures he was convinced of the exist
ence of some still unknown planet,
whose mighty bulk was responsible for
the apparent confusion. He calculated
not only Its size und the path that It
must follow tn the skies, but also the
exact places It would occupy on certain
future days.
As he hnd no telescope of his own
he sent his calculations to the Astron
omer Itoyat asking him to search the
part of the sky he had Indicated. At
flint the authorities were skeptical, and
would not make the search, but eventu
ally they decided thut there might be
something In It.
The huge telescope was swung to
the proper quarter of the heavens, and
there, precisely In the spot Indicated,
was a dim point of light. Rubseqoent
observation showed that It was mov
ing. Tn this way Neptune, most «11»-
tant of ail the planets that swing
around the sun. was discovered.
Its size, 17 times that of the earth,
was found to correspond almost exact
ly with Adams' predictions, and he
had calculated Its year, which Is al
most 163 times us long as our own.
Old Newgate Prieor»
Newgate was u famous old Jail In
the city of London, originally used as
a place of imprisonment for malefac
tors and debtors, und afterward» as a
house of detention for persons await
ing trial at the Old Bailey court. It
was said to have been the oldest prison
In Englund— huvlng b«*en commenced
during the reign of Henry I (1100-
1135). In 1241 the building had fallen
Into decay, and wus restored by ex
torting the sum of 20,000 marks from
the wealthy Jews of thut city. New
gate wus destroyed during the Great
Fire of 166fl. It was rebuilt In 1770;
the exterior was destroyed by Are dur
ing the Gordon riots of 1780, but was
restored in 1782. It was finally demol
ished In 1902.
Among the noted prisoners confined
within Its walls In times past may
me mentioned George Wither, Danie)
Defoe, Jack Sheppard, Titus Oates and
William Benn.
Spends Little for Food.
“Seventy-five cents a day is whnt I
spend for food," said a young man,
“und I am never hungry.”
“Gee," said his friend, whose re
sources are Just as limited, remarks
a New York Sun writer, “I spend a
dollar and I always feel as though I
had gone without food for a week.
How do you do It?"
“My scheme Is this. My first course
for each meal, Including breakfast, la
a 5-cent bar of the sweetest candy I
can find. When I have finished that
my appetite Is gone and I can buy all
I want for 20 cents."
Good for Local Talent.
John E. Hazzard, actor, tells this
story: "When the 'Lion and the Mouse’
was playing in New York a man from
the far-distant suburbs came into the
city and saw the play. After the first
act he walked out to the box office and
said: 'I Have enjoyed your show, but
I'd like to know, so I could tell the
folks, where all these actors come
from.’ So he began with the program
and asked where they all lived. The
young man at.the box office replied
they all lived in New York. ‘Gee,’ re
sponded the countryman, 'it’s a corking
good show for local talent We tried
local talent, but they never were able
to give as good a show ss you are
doing here.’ ”—New York Herald.
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THE RIGHT THING
«4 the
RIGHT TIME
By MARY MARSHALL DUFTEB
BREAKFAST
And to breakfast with whnt appetito
you have.—Mhakrspearo.
of th«* men back from France
S OME
ure full of enthusiasm over ilia
French way of solvhig the breakfast
problem. They like the habit of inking
u light breakfast of coffee and rolls
on rising und not assembling for a
hearty breakfast until the middle of
tlie day, Thut second breakfast, which
Is more like our luncheon. Is a lel»iir<s
ly meal and quite often It la the first
occasion of the day wheu the entire
family gut hers together.
There 1» not much likelihood that we
will adopt the continental breakfast,
but it Is easy to we tintt we American«
are finding th«* convenience of hating
a breakfast that is a moveable feaat.
That is, we nu longer regard it as re-
sentiai for every one to appear around
tlie breakfast board at once. The time
for breakfast should be arranged to
suit tlie convenience of the one who
breakfasts ami this I n quite possible
(o manage, whether you have many
servants or none. If there ure guests
In your bouse they will quit«« likely
u»k you before retiring for the first
night whnt time you have breakfast in
tlie morning. If they (io not ask, you
should tell them your breakfast ar
rangements. A very good thing to do
is to tell them that breakfast is Served
up t<Ai certain time In the morning.
If there are some members of your
household who arts«* front necessity or
choice nt a very early hour, flint In
no reason why n guest within your
wnlln, who may not be used to so curly
a rising hour or who perhaps need«
more sleep nfter n Journey, should
rise nt tlie sniue time. Moreover, we
no longer ent the kind of breakfasts
that must be served promptly, as noon
as they are ready. Fruit will keep all
the morning nnd cereal. If left In a dou
ble boiler and covered on the stove,
dore not deteriorate. Eggs enn be
boiled as they are needed and coffee
can be left In the percolator for nn
hour or so without becoming unpala
table, or It Is an ensy mntler to make
a fresh brew when the late brenk-
fasters need It.
There Is not the sllghtret discour
tesy, then, In taking your breakfast
when you find It most convenient,
without waiting for others In your
family, though of course ono should
try to make the luncheon hour or din
ner hour one that will make It possible
for the entire family to sit down at
once.
Now, here Is another question:
"What Is considered the fashionable
time to have breakfast?”
Well, whether It Is "fashlonaole” or
not to get to one's work on time In the
morning, It certainly is something that
every one strives to do. If there are
children In your family who go to
school and those children have break
fast with* you, then it Is hard to ar
range breakfast later than half-paet
seven or eight. The man or woman
who is given to late hours, either In
the pursuit of pleasure or because his
business begins and ends late In the
day. obviously has a later breakfast.
Really, there Is no "fashionable” time
for this first meal of the day. The
only thing that can be said is that
farmers and farmers' families slways
have to rise earlier than most*clty folk,
and the latter nre regarded as being
more fashionable than those of the
country. And ft may be that they are,
but they surely are not a bit more well
bred, and that, after all, la the Impor
tant thing.
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