Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 14, 1911, Page 7

B e porch. Though my gaze was vent on |pid's arrows. my book, I saw not the printed |fed in his libra :‘om. b::: :he advancing youth. 1 | the artifielal ca ve a miniature portrait made of [he left it. Hi him at that time, and many who have college, and g;.(tm;f:t:: T::etnc': z seen it bave taken it for an ideal crea- | jove for seven or eight years to come. tion. He was tll for his years, and |arhat he had right under his own nose his beautifully shaped head was set | put o repetition of what had occurred on as beautiful a neck, his collar be- | gver ginee human beings were born ing of the open sort, which showed into the world waé furthest from his thoughts. In nature the first step in mating s to bulld a nest. In my case there was & lot of preliminary work to do. My ::t great object to accomplish was to o 8 in ; induce my mother to procure some 'mwn m‘g dresses that would reach at least to than & minute. Within that pe- | @7 ankles. After much trouble I per- 1 caught sight of the youth, flung suaded her to engage a dressmaker to The natural he stud- ry from the ancients; me to him the moment A Matron’s Conf_ession ghe Tells How She Gave Up Her Doll For a Lover — By EVELYN D. WILCOX 'right by American Press Aseo- CopvTIERE B fation, 1811 I bave spoken from experience in saying that Dame Nature will turn a | Father has never done a day’'s work Ls life. I have often heard him say to the house and make me some { 10 §0 to & store OF an office every (SWAY By doll and was in love. come and attend to details such as buy- | The more atten- wmr euht:mg By day mother and selling and shipping and finan- g: been made, | Would give her instructions as to the g and such matters that have no | 1 was stung hc:otnymmmuy night 1 ortance except for the time being, look at ':l“l surreptitiously lower them g as fast as they are born, like cer- for fa- | while they were merely basted. When in insects, would soon wear him ouf house. I |they were finished mother would scold ot to sit In a library and read im- mfll'““l: the poor woman for not obeying ber ortal works such as the Greek poets of the ““‘""‘ d the Latin prose writers—father P 'How is your pupll getting on, ds thew in the original Greek and waited for him to do 0. When | papa?” I asked one day. tching bim from | “Not at all. He's stupid as an owl. wa Ho walked with a | Ho satisfled step, as though he bad come for a purpose and had accomplished it. hl; wllhe‘tli to go right down to the li- ry and learn all about the visitor far from a great city. Father bad | from father, but I feared to show an berited some property from his an- | undue interest in him. I tried hard ors that had been handed down |to wait a long while, but five minutes rough several generations, and our |was all my impatience would allow. ome, though small, was sufficlent | Going into the library, I pretended to our wants. So father was at lib- ' hunt for a book, at the same time y to spend his time in a way that he | asking as if incidentally: i profitable. 1 sometimes | “Who was your visitor, papa?” people sneering at bim for | “Julian Trowbridge.” fe of a drone, as they ex- | “What did he come for?" A it, but since T have grown old | “To ask me to coach him for his col- seclis to me that even the real | Jege examination. Ile has applied for ones i 4 colony of bees must have | admission in June.” I asked father if he thought his pupil éir plce in nature's workshop or, “Are you going to coach him®” would be able to enter college that 1 not be there. “Yes. I couldn’t very well refuse. | year. g ngular thing about Dame | He's the son of my old friend Trow- [ “Possibly,” he replied, “by hard 1t, while she requires years | Dridge, who was in college with me. | boning, but he has po taste for the 1 4 boy into a man, she will | Trowbridze has devoted himself to | classics. I don’t sce why his father o a woman fn a twin. | 18noble pursi'ts and got rich. I pulled | wishes to send him to a university.” I¢ rate it was 8o with me, | him through his graduating examina- | “Has he learned to conjugate the - thirteen I was sitting one | tions.” verb ‘to love? ” 1 asked. ou the porch at home, my doll || “Oh, my goodness gracious!” Isaidto | Father gave me a quick glance. 1 i chnir beside me. Seelng a | WMYself, putting my hand to my heart [ had changed a good deal within the «w~Tie appeared to be about | 80 still its wild beating. Then I asked, | year and might now have passed for come into the grounds, I| I8 he coming here for instruction?” |a& young lady. But he saw no con- te combination of china, cot- “Yes, every morning at 11.” sclousness of a double meaning in my ~awdust and fung it in an And so I should see this young god | demeanor and replied: i behind me. There were | Whom I had suddenly set up in my| “Oh, he's got beyond that, of course, on a table mear by, and, Deart every day till June. If father | but he couldn't yet pass an examina- ie of them, pulling down | 284 known the tumult within me be | tion on Caesar's Commentaries.” rt of my dress at the same ' B0uUbtless would have ordered me to | “He must be very backward,” I re- that it would cover my knees the nursery every morning before his [ marked carelessly, and as I left the d 1o read. : nlpll‘l comlln&.) Futth‘e)r I:nd '!):?tmhi xmdfntthholr called to me, “You're far a translation of Ovid's of ead of him. g ‘r“l::“;e: "tlll:: :_::(‘ :’r".?_‘ Love” with coplous notes, but he did | - This gave me an idea. Liad recently put forth that sea- ltives—and approached t° tin—that is a way of spending one’s pe fitted not for commercial slaves, intellectual gentlemen. (When 1 was a child we lived—my nts live there yet—in the country can't even conjugate the present tense of the verb “to love.” “Do you think he'll pass his entrance college examinations?" “Not this year.” Father was not looking at me, so 1 was at liberty to ralse my eyes to heaven with a mute thanks and resolv- ed that if the coaching shonld continue for another year in case the instructor could not teach the pupil how to con- Jugate the verb “to love” I would do 80 myself, For a year Julian Trowbridge eame and went for his lessons, taking no no- tice of me whatever. The next spring I had met suspect that his own daughter had | was beginning to treat me with more already been plerced by one.of Gu- | consideration. One day I said to him: : “o~smmmemme== | o] think father is too impatient with you. If you'll let me read Latin with you I'm sure we'll be a belp to each other.” He accepted my offer, and 1 told fa- ther that he might spend the time he was devoting to Julian in his library, turning his pupil over to me. Father was very glad to get rid of him, and the very next day Julian and I were seated on a rustic bench under a tree with a copy of Virgil between us. 1 have boys of my own now, and 1 surely would not consent to have one of them fall under such an influence as Julian Trowbridge experienced at that time. I had no more intention of teaching him the dead languages than I had of teaching him to fly in N Tweedell’ Is Headquarters for Everything in Groceries A FEVW SPECIALS Sugar. 13 pounds ............. ... .. : Switt's Premium d Best Butter, per Mm.g pcrpou P““,“ Hams, per pound ..... F e e the air. Fortunately for him, how- Mothiers' Qats, per package..... .. e ever, I had inberited my father's abil- Heckers' Whole Wheat Flour, per bag e 35c []| 17 to learn and to teach them. My Heckers' Graham Flour, be object was to teach him to conjugate Heckers' R, Fl , per bag ... .. Cere e eee e, 300 the verb “to love”—*I love, thou lovest, 121"i1nd" IDREEDOE M. o o2 s sve s sie wse ors N8 be or she loves, we love, you love, they R bag best Flour ....... ... ... ... ... ... .....40c [}l love” In short, in my code of instruc- I LI o o GRS ERNE IR e .80c | tion evgry one loved, and that's all at Mackerel, each . . ....10c B| they did. But since Jullan’s mind was Ly per . 85c []| bent especially upon getting into col- .......................... 3% | icee and be found In me & more e i ductive teacher than my father the """"""""" e 25c lesson resulted more to his erudition than might have been supposed. I didn't care how much Latin he learned provided he didn’t fall to master the verb “to love.” Girls between, say, twelve and sixteen are usually far more capable of learning than boys. This gave me an advantage. 1 taught Julian Latin and at the same time deft- Iy wove In that otlier instruction which was far nearer my heart. I pre- pared him to enter tollege and to be| my future hushand at the same time. In learning the first he was not as & stupid as my father considered Lim: | a8 to the other I confess I liad a very | hard tfine with him. He would conju | gate the verd “to love.” saying “I love” E.G. TWEEDELL v v mot know enough about love itself to | the “blockhead” many times, and bhe| ™ THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA.,, NOV. 14, 1911, else. Why, do you know, he spent months trying to teach me to conju- gate the verb ‘to love' without my be- ing able to catch cven the mood. As for ‘I am loved,’ I didn't know any- thing about it.” I laughed and remarked that I was the only oue of the three who at that time knew all about that mood. I bave said that, having boys of my own, I would not like to have them fall under the same Influence that their father fell under at eighteen. This Deeds to be qualified. It depends on the girl. If any of my sons should at that age fall in love with a girl who would have in her the traits to hold his affection when he has grown older and to make him a valuable life help- meet I should be very giad to have him do so. 1 believe that early mating is not only natural, but benefictal, pro- vided the persons mating are fitted for 0 life partnership. - It may be a little early for po- litical prognostications, but if Park Trammell is not elected Governor of Florida to succeed Mr. Gilchrist, then we are badly mistaken—and we speak thusly only after feeling the public pulse carefully and unbiased- ly.-—Palatka Times-Herald, The most important railroad com- paries operating in Florida are sce- ing the advisability of thoroughly co-erating with the Experiment Sta .on in the efforts to run over the State the Farmers' Institate Special that the University now has in preps arvi.tion, The Professions DR. 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