By BUD FISHER-
THE GUY NEXT TO ME WAS
EATING PEANUTS!!
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
They Don't Kid Themselves
MARY is really the plainest girl! "You and I would pacle up for keeps if we had half her disadvantages.
She lias: no call for pretty pre- tence. The womany we see in Stella working steadfastly through her difficulties is the genuine woman: She hasn't the looks, she hasn't - No human being will ever be the clothes, she hasn't the money. disappointed in her no man and But still she gets round.
no woman either. She is attrac- tive because she is admirable.
Badly served by fate how she turns: the tables
soma- and
makes life hand out what she
wants.
That pittance of a salary she more than carns does not get her down, or hold her back.
If she can't have a new hat, she's just as pleased to have a new turban scarf or bandeau.
She makes do with everything. She'll walk if she can't ride.
She's never sorry for herself, and you don't get a chance to be either, since she's so clever at covering up.
You wonder uneasily how she does it aware of your Own scrimpings, your waiting bills, Does she sometimes curl up and cry in that room of hers which she has made so attractive that people are always crowding into it for a cup of tea?.
You give it up and then one- day you see she has holes in the soles of her shoes-right through; and' stuffed with paper.
She sees you looking, and, not a bit abashed:
"I've holes in my shoes," she says, "stuffed with letters: love: letters. It gives me a grand sensa- tion!"
to stuff them.
The man who is at present slow- ly falling in love with her will eventually give her an affection that most of us dream of.
It will be loyal, steadfast, un- breakable—it shall not be less than she deserves.
We don't know the third wo- man. but we've seen her often in the block of flats where we live,
Until we spied her on the busy pavements we thought she hadn't a care in the world.
But alone in the crowd, she was taking a moment off. Her face was thut with worry--anxiety. No one but herself knows it's there, or why.
She walks alone with her trou- bles, only letting them out when she imagines not a soul can see:
She has passed through the "T ages--Teens, Twenties: Thirties.
Yet she is still a girl, young at liegt, born with a gift for laugh- ter.
We have heard it tinkling in the lift as she talks to her husband of the other passengers.
Not a bit humiliated! No, trium- phant like Cleopatral You begin to wish you had holes in your soles too, and love letters enough In what a funny, little endear- ing way she talks! "Oh, darling "Of course, she's a bit of the you are crushing my capel" wheh vagabond," you explain apolohe puts an affectionate. but crump- getically to your most favoured Ding, arm round her shoulder. malo, who has met her for the first tinie.......
He corrects, you slightly. "The Beloved Vagabond," he says.
And that gives you a thought. Some day somebody she adores avill adore her too.
She'll probably have dozens of children, and everybody will won- der how she can possibly make do. But everybody will be very gled, for wa can do with quite a lot more of the "make-do Mary."
more
We've seen Stellà. take smacks than a cricket bat. Ont she keeps on working at playing the game.
her
Her eyes are bright-piller over-bright occasionally. lough is nervous, but still it's there:
She's constantly harassed with the multi-million tasks that keep or turning up for her to do. And almost everything goes wrong with fer personal life..
Experience has taught her that if she makes a firm date, the oddy ard: that something will turn up to quash It
Some people's lives seem to run like that.
So she doesn't make those dates, She'd rather let herself down than let her friends down, she says.
These are the least of her trou- bles. Recurring bruts of illness result in loss of employment ---- that's some drawback in any girl's
But she is brave, spirited, re- solute. Some day everything will be better. That is her credo. And“ same day everything will.
Meanwhile out of her miseries, her disappointments, she is from! mering a great person out of Hers
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Not a huffy peeve, you know, but like a sunny child ask- ing someone not to rumple her
curls.
Of course, her husband adores her. You can see it... the way he clings to her side when he walks with her, he jaunty way he steps out to work in the mor- ing with her calling "Goodbye, darling," from the door.
Those worry-worry sungs WC, all have, she keeps for the care- less thoroughfarer, the deep hours of night maybe.
When she meets the world she
"Make-do Mary."!
"Staunch-hearted Stéflä
We don't know her name.
fronts it with a merry presence, Smiling lips. laughter-tipped words, joy-such is she.
Straight Skirts- Easy Jackets
The new
suits have short, straight skirts and easy, fitting jac- kats. Widèr'armholes are the rule, The bloused back above a pin-neat whistling is easier to wear, than the corset fitmg classle jacket:
Skirts are straight and plaïñg
: but not tubular. They widen a
little at the hemline.
The best buy for any? woránn who must have a whole new out- fit is a three-piecë.
Silvaine has sketched one. The coat has breast, and hip pockets of goldenï'scal:... the colour of the brown cross-bars on a dull sînte cloth.
We like sults with button-up jackets. Red and black diagonál tweed, for example made with a neat double-breasted jacket and.
In turned-down cöllər,
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