The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-24
BUSINESS OF LIVING
Eleanor Puts an Idea Into the Frivol-
Gus Head of Mrs. Weeks.
BY MRS. EVA Lee NARD

Eleanor Puts an Idea Into the Frivol-
Gus Head of Mrs. Weeks.
Bring your mending basket over
here this afternoon and / will help
YOU 1 want to tell you more about
my summers experience" 1t was
Mrs. Weeks voice that reached Flea
nor over the wire.
The baby is alseep. 1 cannot come
till he wakes up. Why don't you come
| over here?" said Eleanor in cordial
tone.
"All right. 1 will bring my thimble
and needle and be right over" Eleanor
! heard the click of Mrs. Weeks receiver.
and hastily gathered up the baby's
playthings and made the room tidy.
She brought out the mending basket
and set the little sewing table between
two rocking chairs.
| Now, Margaret, Elizabeth is COM
ing over to play with you this after
noon and you can have a tea party
out under the tree in the back yard.
food" Margaret clapped her hands
in glee. Tea parties were the most
fascinating thing she knew about at
| this time. She gathered her dishes
together and carried them out to the
shady lawn.
Come in" Eleanor smiled a well
come as the mother and child came
up the steps. Margaret is waiting
for you out in the back yard
When the little girl had gone. Mrs
! Weeks said: Now We can have a
good visit. 1 got a letter from Caro-
Ign this morning-the first l have had
since L came back from camp. She
asked if my mosquito bites were all
gone and said she was having no trou-
BILE with her wasp stings-"
| Wasp stings!
| "Oh, yes, Carolyn and Ralph went
blackberrying together. They were
always doing some crazy stunt like
that, and Carolyn got into a wasp's
nest some way and the wasps got I'M
der her skirt and stung her horribly.
1t might have been all right if she
had come back to camp and .doctored
them but she would not for her pail
| was not full of berries. When she
| came back she was sight One had
stung her on the lip, another in the
eye. She laughed about it and when
we went to dinner all the hunters and
fishermen who were in camp seemed
to think it was clever stunt. l SIM
crawling over me and l do not care
who knows it," The tone was defiant.
Did you have any cooking to DOR
! asked Eleanor
Not unless it rained so hard that
we could not get to the dining room.
You see there were a number OF
houses or shacks built around in d
sort of village, tho they were SO hid
den in the trees that no could be seen
from any other
That sounds good to me-" inter-
rupted Eleanor smiling into the dis
contented face.
II suppose you would be like Caro-
Ign; put on khaki skirt, MILDLY, weal
sandals and think you were having the
time of your life. 1t is a pity Ralph
did not marry such a woman"
My DEAR" Eleanor reached for the
little hand that had been sewing sc
industriously all the afternoon, would
it not be better to try to cultivate &
liking for your husbands interests
The more points a married couple
have in common the better, and il
would give him great pleasure to feel
that you were enjoying his vacation
with him. Could you not at least hide
your own distaste for that kind of life
for one little month";"
Mrs Weeks pouted. 81 don't see
why he should not cultivate a liking
for the kind of outing l would enjoy.
WELL L am nottalking to him now
but to you, and l want you to see his
point of view. He has only this one
month to see enjoyment. You know
he works very hard; you have saio
so many times. If it is more of a rest
To go to the woods and hunt and fish
and see few people, no society people
in fact isn't it up to you to help make
that month a real rest, and to con-
tribute to his pleasure in every way
He does things all the time to make
your life easy. Couldn't you devote
one month to doing just what he
wanted you to?"
Mrs. Weeks pecked at the threads
in her dress with her needle but she
made no reply.
You know you would not Willingly
do anything to push your husband
away from you; yet if you make il
impossible for him to have the kind
= of a vacation he wants with you he
will go off by himself and when a mar
begins to seek his pleasures apart
from his wife it is the entering wedge
You-sannot afford to let that happen
II never thought of that" answered
Mrs. Weeks without raising her head
(To be continued.)