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-' " 1 THE SUXDAT OREGONIAX, 'PORTLAND, 3IARCH 4, 1917. ; l. YOUTTTS BITTERNESS TOWARD LIFE SOFTENS AFTER YEARS , . i - 1 ' Girl's Heart, Broken by Man's Cruelty, Mended When She Learns Expe- v rience of Woman Who Actually Won Him for Husband. -"'; BY MART INEZ MARTIN. '. VHE was the type of woman, from -; whom you would least expect a . . ' Declaration of Independence. If ":.. she had lived a generation or two ago ' ihe would have submitted meekly to '.-.he bullying of her lord and master -'. , ."lind at last Joined the ranks of Mar-, - .yrs to the Cause of Matrimony. But i . . .his Is the Woman's era and the .germ ')! self-government found Its way. Into sven little Mrs. John's mental makeup. ! Mrs. John's husband was of well-'-raown Human Sponge variety. For .."io better reason than that he hap : .oened to be a man be soaked up all - " i- he love and service and sacrifice his .' : a-ife poured out at his feet as no more ' " rhan his lordly due. but In all the years ,; ?f their married life It had never oc- , .burred to him that he was not fulflll- ., ng his whole part of the contract by Just letting her share his lot. His .'word was the law under his roof and " alraself the last court of appeals. -. i For Instance, while he never scrupled . ' show his admiration for the good . ; ooking. Intelligent women of their ao- '' 3uaintance. he cherished a prejudice -,' -'galnst all Women's Clubs and the Suf . -. Trage movement, holding stoutly with the conservative old-fogy sentiment .that the woman's sphere lsjn the home. . ' '-' 3o. although he was making strides In - - "Ms profession and keeping abreast with -ihe advance of the times, his wife had , . "fallen behind because of the bars his "prejudice had put across her path. . - . .- Neither did John approve the mod vn fashions of false hair and "rats." . .' . .he wearing of short skirts and low .'. 'Bollars, although be always displayed ' his best courtesies to the moat modish .- women he met. Consequently Mrs. John, after the Illness that made her ' ' hair fall out. had to go around look- ' 1 . 'Jngr 10 years older because of her ". "scanty locks. Hi. John Revolt. ,' ". At last Mrs. John, seeing th Injus tice and inconsistency of her hus . . ."band's position, woke op. It was a ' little thing that aroused her. Just one ' . little last straw that broke the back -". '. -of her submission, but It was a dls- ' ,-tlnct call to arms. Her husband's ,- ...dominating Influence had crushed out whatever of originality or Independence ' 'the might have had, and she now rec- . -agnized herself as merely a shadow a .V'-weak contemptible shadow of this man ' .'whose wHl had been her law all these . years. Her friends seemed to have lost -.. '-Interest in her because Bhe had fallen '-'-. out of step with the broader actlvi- ,les of their lives, and as all the social . life of the town centered In the Wom- en's Clubs, she found herself being left : -V . out of everything. . Being a woman, and a weak one, aha . ". (Chose the weapon of weakness she '- I .'tneaned. Baying nothing to her hus- .-.".band she took her courage In both '-.'hands and Joined a Club. It was the ..'. .largest, most aggressive Club In the " town and went in for Clvio lmprove- - " ment and the discussion of all the po- - '":. lltical and social problems of the day. .'-. , Big, burning questions were debated by earnest, broad-minded women, and ;t here Mrs. John found an outlet for all - t the pent-up ardor and enthusiasm of A , ' her nature. John, of course, took the '.- " newspapers off to the office with, him - in the morning and never thought to trtng them home in the evening, but . 'Mrs. John found she could save ourta . hour or two of her dally routine and y-sret down to the library during the -; i day, where a new world of magazines ' -m and papers lay before her. ; ' Often as she sat opposite her big, r . self-complacent husband at the table . . she longed to open her heart to htm ;.;,' and ask him his views upon the ques '.tlons she heard discussed at the Club, - vibut his unqualified disapproval of all i-' ." .Women's Clubs would probably lead to '.his forbidding her to take any lnter-;-- est, much less belong herself, so she - ; -. held her peace, but kept on reading ' . and studying along the lines that had . all these past years been beyond her pale of precinct. .. . ' . : Perhaps it was Just this zest for the - s . j forbidden fruit that put the woman on ". her mettle. At any rate It was not long before she was recognized as be ' lng one of the best workers In the Club. To her surprise she was In time elected to fill an office in the Civics Study branch.' and to. her still greater surprise she found it a fine exhilarat ing thing to stand before her class of fellow-students and address the as semblage. False' Hair la Worn by Mrs. John. On one memorable occasion after having made a little speech that had entailed a great deal of study and re search, she followed the suggestion of the president and offered her paper for publication in a magazine. If she could have thrown her arms around her fat, complacent John and shouted for Joy when her article was accepted and paid for her cup of happiness would have ' been full, but having learned her lessons during all the bit ter years that had gone she kept her own. counsel and went on living her life In her owik; way. This money, being her own. Bhe felt. she could use as she chose. Whereupon slie went to a hair dresser and - bought the false hair her soul had longed and fainted for as she had sat and drawn comparisons be tween her own scanty locks and the glory of her fluffy co-members of the Monday-Tuesday Club. Now, at last, she was on an equal footing with the best of them. The last barrier of dis similarity waa broken down. Now, with an ease and poise unknown, she faced her audience or presided In the Chair serene in the consciousness of her pompadour. There were stirring times In the dub when a representative of the Na tional Federation came West to visit the local branches. A- reception' was planned, to which were Invited many representative citizens of the town, and It was to be made a brilliant af fair. .Here poor Mrs. John flinched at the thought of the reception, for where a home-made shirtwaist was not in. order she was not able to appear. After her wedding dress went out of style she had never had an evening gown, and during the years that followed It had been laid away, destined with a morbid self-pity to be her burial robe. But now the self-pity that had brooded over the day of burial robes was lost In the demands of the vital present. With a sudden determination she pounced upon that long, white satin gown, ripped It from stem to stern, and had It dyed a rank and riotous pink. Whereupon her cold remains might go hang for a burial robe! And when it was remodeled she directed that It be made as short of skirt and scant of sleeve as was consistent with modesty and good taste. Then when the presi dent sent word to her that she would not be able to Introduce the speaker of the evening and asked her if she, as vice-president, could be relied upon to take her place, she promptly agreed, feeling ready and equal to doing It. ' Such trifling details as going out In the evening without the knowledge and consent of her lord and master had been left to take care of themselves, he was usually out In the evening him self. In fact, so full was her mind of the larger interests these little details were beginning to fall into their right ful places. She watched hlra covertly that evening at dinner as visions o( the pink-clad vice-president floated be tween them. 6he was absent-minded and Inattentive to his objections about the crust of the biscuits it was really a small matter whether he liked them this way or that when the other half the world was bleeding and dying in the trenches with no biscuits at all. To 'her surprise John condescended to tell her where he was going that evening, with a sweeping denunciation of all Women's Clubs, and adding that this lot of ranting, addle-pated women were a travesty upon the sex. The little vice-president greeted this remark with a laugh values were getting wonderfully clear to her lately, but she made no explanations, why should she? Dinner No Talkfeat. Mentally waving the long, lustrous false "switch" that stood In her mind for emancipation marital tyranny and the breaking down of barriers between herself and her advanced fellow-towns women, Mrs. John finished her dinner In silence. There was a growing sense of self-sufficiency on his wires Dart. John had been noticing lately, ankl & f It -is- nearly forty years since Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham first prepared a botanic remedy for her women neighbors who suffered with ills peculiar to their sex. The roots and herbs the same as are used today -she steeped on her kitchen stove. Since which time the fame of this wonderful remedy has spread all over the world. There is barely a towri or hamlet in the United States or Canada where , you cannot find some woman who has been relieved of suffering by , . ' Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable'Compound Thousands upon thousands of such letters as the three following tell why this famous medicine has stood the test of time. - . Maryland Woman Testifies. Cambridge, Md- " I wish all women who suffer from female troubles would take Lydia E. Pinkham s Vege table Compound and be convinced of its worth as I have been. At one time I was a great sufferer and my hus-' band bought me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound and it helped me right away. Again, after my second child was born, it overcame a female "weakness after everything else had failed. I know how Lydia . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has helped me, and I know it will help others. Mrs. James A. Beidel, 107 Maryland Avenue, Cambridge, Md. "Wisconsin "Woman Testifies. Milwaukee, Wis. " Before taking Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound I was a physical wreck. I had been going to a doctor for several years but he did me no good. A friend told me about Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, so I decided to give it a fair trial, and it gave tne relief from, bearing down pains which had been so bad that I would have to He down. I also used the Sanative Wash and it has done me-a great deal of good, and I am not troubled with a weak ness any more." Mrs. P. L Brill, 1299 Booth Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Ohio Woman Testifies. Lima, Ohio. "I was all broken down in health from a displacement. One of my lady friends came to see me and she advised me to commence taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash. I began taking your reme dies and took J5.Q0 worth and in two months was a well woman after three doctors Baid I never would stand up straight again. I have recommended Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound to many women and it surely has proved a godsend to suffering women." Mrs. Jennie Mover, 342 E. North St,, Lima, Ohio. Every sick woman owes it to herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial, for it cannot harm her, and there is great reason to expect that it will completely restore her health. For special advice write The Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. v r i oonld not explain. Time was when his comments upon her biscuits would al most have brought tear, to her eyes, now she seemed wholly indifferent, rather amused than otherwise. There had also been a sort of nervous effort on her part to please that had some times annoyed him and brought a crusty answer, recently there had been occasions when she might have pleased him very much by a little serv ice which she had not seemed to see, and strangely enough, be had not felt quite free to call her attention to It. When at last he pushed back his chair and arose from the table she was still toying with her cup, lost In thought perhaps she was touched by her biscuit failure, after all. At any rate, she did not see. or appeared not to see, the long, quizzical look he bent upon her, the first time he had seemed to notice her with any Interest for years. ' A few hours later the meeting of the Monday-Tuesday Club was called to or der. A. little woman. In a modish pink: gown, short enough to display trim pink ankles, took the stand. Her cheeks, whether by fair means or foul, as fresh-colored as a girl's, and a low, waving pompadour gave a soft round ness of contour the scant, straight locks had stolen. "Men and women fellow-citizens " the vice-president began ln full, well measured tones that showed 'no trace of nervousness. John looked and heard, then looked again and blinked. Something In the speaker reminded him of a girl he had known 10 or 15 years ago. but. pshaw nonsense she was a different type of woman. "With a few well-turned remarks, rounded off by a timely little anecdote which sent a ripple of good feeling over the house, the vice-president pre sented the speaker of the evening and retired, with much applause, to the back of the stage, where she took her seat. John did not hear much of the ad dress. This girl In pink did seem enough like Kitty to be a younger sis ter. Poor Kit had developed into such a colorless personality marriage Is a great lottery, to be sure you never can tell whether your wife is going to turn out a nonetlty or keep her looks and spirit like soma women he could mention. When the address was over and the reception In progress John sought an opportunity to meet this girl in pink, but -She was busy meeting and intro ducing people to the guest of honor, and seemed eq in demand he was not able -to get near her until the crowd began to thin out a bit. When at last he came In line to be presented to the representative of the Federation the girl offered him a cool hand and smil ing face as she said, "Good evening. John," and turned to say, "Let me pre sent my husband " Bhe was stand- I ing on a low platform which bfought liher eyes on a level with his own. hon est, straightforward eyes they too, which did not flinch. As John escorted this attractive little w,oman home, helping her gallantly over the Imaginary roughnesses, he seemed very awkward and 111 at ease, but the tenor of his thoughts was re vealed when at the door he bent and looked Into her face. The confused blur of years swept away, he caught up this dainty little figure in the plnK gown and with an onrush of the old feeling ho said as he had done years before, "Oh. Kitty, I love you will you be my wife?" And the vice-president, looking hlra In the eyes, laughed and said, "Don't be silly, John, I am your wife, but X do want to be your friend." LATEST DESIGN FOR BEAUTIFUL CROCHET LUNCHEON SET . ' ........ ......... ......................... .........i.....r,TTT,,T T.TT,,,....,.t,T,Wt--Tr - -- - sj sti mM -Jiff m : 'Ittag i ! ' ' VJF&&9$Jr'' . - : - Linen for centerpiece measures 14 inches ; for plate doily, 8 inches ; for tumbler or cup and sau cer doily. 4 inches. - , Buttonhole around the linen centers first, then make lace edging and sew lace on edgo of cen ters. ' Crochet a chain long enough to go around edge of centerpiece loosely. First row make d. c in every t of eh. with ch. 2 between all around. Second row D. c over every space with ch. 2 between all around. Third, fourth, and fifth rows 2 d. C over every other space with ch. 2 between. Sixth row , ch. 20, skip 1 space, sL St.-over next space ; repeat from around (the number of loops of 20 ch. of this row must be a number di visible by 5). " . -. 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Eighth row Fasten thread over narrow space between" two leaves on outer edge of novelty braid; , ch. 10, sL st. over same space; ch. 10, sL st. over same space; ch. 10, sL st. over same space ; ch. 10, sL st,' over same space ; ch. 8, sL st. over second loop of leaf; ch. 10, si. st. over bottom loops of 2 leaves; ch.,10,.sL st. over next to the top loop of second leaf; ch. 8, sL st. over next narrow 'space between. 2 leaves; re peat from around, j. r . ; Ninth row SI. st. over center of first loop of ch. 10; , ch. 6, make a picot; ch. 3, si. st. over next loop ; repeat from around and join. For the edging of the two smaller doiHev crochet the same as for the centerpiece, with . the exception of leaving out rows third, fourth, and fifth. ' 4 i -'Vis '. r i V" i- ' :-i i
