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u il U! i UJJi JWOimppP MJI.J.IIHUUIUV i m m THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE A QUESTION OF PIE (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association,' "Miss Margaret, how is it you do be makin' punkin pie?" asked Annie as she was picking up the clothes yesterday morning. "I have to confess I do not know how to make one, but I am sure Aunt Mary knows how to make them and 111 ask her to write it all down for you," I said. "Are you going td try and make one? You know it is a New England and not an Irish dish." "I know it, Miss Margaret, and that's just why I want to make it Yuh see since 11m got on the police force he has been havin' a beat over on the boulevard and he has made the acquaintance of all the children, cooks-and nursemaids on the strste. "It's himsilf that has been telling me of the fine things they do be givin' him to ate and I guess punkin pie is about the tastiest of thim all. "Yesterday I got through me work early and I sed tt meailf: '111 walk up and see how Tim looks a marchin up and down.' Ye .seethe is not yet one of the traffics sq&jL -Well, whin 1 got up to a corner wJojre there was a fine house whad dlflI see but Mr. Tim a leanin- over a tack gate atalk in' to a woman. I couldn't see Eer face at first but he seemed much in- interested like. Finally she.'pa&sed him out a big piece of punkin pie and he chucked her under the chin, "I started to get the p.ie and throw it in her face when I caught a glimpse of it and honestly, Miss Margaret, she would stop a clock one of those sour lookin' females that are built like a shalallah wid a nutmeg on top. Then I knew it was the pie that got him. "Her face was all crinkled up wid a smile and Tim was goin for the pie somethin' awful. Neither of 'em saw me so I quickly changed me mqlnd and hid behind the fince at the cdrner and what do ye suppose I heard that spalpeen of a Tim say? 'Shure, Miss Brown, it's the best pie I ever put in me month and I tell ye what a man wants in a wife is a good cook. When I get married it's not for looks but cookin' 111 be look in' for ' Master Tim made a mistake there fer I know that the uglier a woman is the more she wants some one to tell her she is good lookin' and when she's good lookta' it's her cook- in she wants' praised. "He seemed to since that he was in bad or perhaps he knew he was not going to get any more pie for he said: Well, s'long, 111 have to be on me Way. See ye again tomorrer.' "I decided then and there, Miss Margaret, that I'd learn to make pun kin pie and Fd niver tell him what I'd seen. But 111 get Mr. Sullivan to transfer htm to some other beat mighty sudden." As Dick would aay: "Annie has got the right dope." Every woman, high or low, must be ready to battle for her own, for that craving for rov ing about in flirtatious pastures is as much a part of a man as are his eyes and his hands. He can no more resist the invita tion, whether it comes through -a laughing mouth, the glance of a humid eye or a piece'of pie handed to him by its maker, than he can stop Dreatmng. This longing is as overwhelming and as natural as his desire for work or the peace that comes after. I have been curious to know if it was a mas culine attribute or an educated taste. He sees no harm if in the words of the songr " 'is 'eart is true to Poll." From moon to sun man feels "When far away from the lips that you love You've but to make love to the lips that are near." A woman wants always to be loved exclusively and a man thinks he has j done Tils duty if he loves her best mmmianiiMWiJiuiitiHiiilriiiiiliiiiiiiiiaufi Infcfciiiniiil t mfcr J - -