Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-02
Adventures
CONTINUED from yesterday
Clothes and Comfort.

A nerve strain brings different re-
actions in men and women. | fell
very tired and very quiet after this
quarrel with my wife. Indeed, l sat
rather alphabetically by the window,
smc king, while Mary dressed.
Mary, on the other hand keyed to
a nervous strain, slipped somehow
into an unreal sparkle of vivacity.
She glanced over a great many
| gowns, she bothered a great deal with
her hair. She ran UP and down stairs
a number of times and seemed to
hold whispered conversations in the
kitchen with her mother. I knew
we'll enough that I ought to be at the
office. Yet in my mood didn't cars
how much time I wasted, until I
grew tired of waiting for Mary, and
then I began to look at my watch.
Peter said my wife, ''please don't
look at your watch again. I'm nearly
ready, and 1t does make me ner-
vous."
How did you know I was looking
at it?"
81 saw you plainly in the mirror.
Anyway. it's at least the tenth time
| you've looked"
you've taken so long to dress
Peter, I'm sorry to have to say
| this but I'm very much afraid you're
| inclined to be cranky
said nothing at all. To be sum-
moned home, however, in the middle
of busy morning to quarrel, and
| then to wait ages for ones wife to
dress for peace conference, luncheon
was almost enough, | thought, to
| make any man impatient.
III - u
waited upon the porch. Ny mother
| in-law had apparently gone home
II was warm day and the sun
blazed fiercely on walks and flowers
And presently Mary came forth, ra-
diant in white, her smile challenging
any neighbor to guess that she had
been quarreling more or less tear
fully with her husband.
Women, I think, possess more pow
er of discrimination than men. More
over, they are wonderfully clever
about concealing the ravages of tears.
Powder and thin cobweb of a veil
had done much for Mary. She
looked radiant, rosy and perfectly
happy I envy the domestic woman
her chance of slipping into fresh
clothes whenever she feels SO in
cllned.
Time That's wasted"
The business man jumps from one
thing to another and meets his wife
after office hours, feeling very much
as if he had been crawling through
particularly dusty series of keyholes.
And when his wife floats serenely
into view, Immediately coiffed and
laundered and tailored he feels
sort of envy at her opportunities. So
today. Mary looked so snow-white
and spotless and cool against back
ground Of blazing, sunlit walk and
flowers that / spoke rather enViously
of it.
well, Peter" said my wife tn
stantly, "all that time you sat by the
window smoking your pipe you could
have been bathing and shaving and
changing your clothes just as well as
not"
This was SO very true that it was
sort Of shock.
ITO be quite honest" I said, 81
didn't think of It."
"A man and a pipe never feel In
| clined to effort" remarked Mary.
"a woman with a new gown"
countered good-humoredly, will
energetically struggle into It on the
warmest day"
"And be cool when she's through
said Mary provided the gown suits
and she looks we'll"
"And If 1t doesn't look well?"
Then" said Mary. "by some freai
Of woman's destiny she'd be flushed
and dreadfully warm. I feel per
fectly cool myself"
1.-The gown does IT," I smiled, "ant
1t looks wonderfully we'll"
ITO be continued)