Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 29, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX | | | ANTIQUES AND CATS By Donald Allen | {Lopyrighit, 1911, by Associated Literary Uresk) | When a girl has finished her edu- cation at couvent or seminary and re- turned home tor good--then next | comes marriage! The young lady must “hang around” until somebody takes her for good and all. No sign 15 hung in the parlor window of “Girl Waiting Here.” Dut she is waiting just the same. That's the way Alleen <astle looked at it, and she was hu- mifliated and angered. She stood 1t | for a few weeks and then said to her father: Why don’t papers that [ Latin, French, the classies and that, and am now on view at Roseland avenue? Mr. Castle was an antiquarlan. He dealt in antiques and was :mnqlu-i gimself. When he was on the trail of we of Cleopatra’s rocking chairs or a Lucretia Borgia spinning wheel he (orgot that he was a widower and had a daughter who at least wanted to be talked to across the dinner table. When addressed on this occasion he was in o reverie. He wondering d it would be possible at this late fate to get hold of any of the relies f Noah's ark, and he came out of his raction with a start to reply: less me, danghter, but what were | you saying? Who is on view?"” ‘I am finished with school and now what next?” she demanded \Why--why —have you any taste tor antiqu 4 “ hate them!"” ‘Yes, | now recall that you do. Well, didn’t yon attend a matinee the other day ?" “What's question?” hat's so, daughter—that's so. 1 will think it over. Just now [I'm wondering 1f the cliff-dwellers used neer bottles for candle sticks, ahd what a genuine one would cost me.” “Father, do you know I'm going to do something?” asked the daughter as she rose up. “Bless me!” b o e I | e s, dear.” “I'll open a home for cats If | can't think of anything else.” *l see. (ood idea. Funmy that no eats were ever buried with Egyp- in the with all 622 advertise have finished you that got to do with the Mr. Castle Was an Antiquarian. dans! A stuffed cat dating back n\'n: thousands years would be worth a | hundred dollars at least.” Miss Aileen tossed her head and | walked out of the room to tell h('l‘; aunt, who was the overseeing hous keeper, that she was going on the stage or join a cire “Oh, but you'll get married day,” was the soothing reply. ‘But 1 won't. 1 told tather I'd open | a hone tor cats, and now Il do it I've got money of my own, and I'll rent a place and ! “And 1 can recommend a woman to take charge.” “I'Nl take charge wmysell and wel ome every cat.” Aileen te!™ “You see it 1 don’t. If father can poke away over musty antigues 1 can! polke away at cats. 1t will be philan- theapy anyhow. Yes, sir, I'll open a cat home and take in all Kinds ot cats.” The aunt had little to say about it, | thinking it an idea that would ho‘K forgotten by next day, but she w wrong. Within three days a building was rented, and the sign read ‘Homeless Cats Received Here!” | Miss Aileen sat behind the desk as | matron, and a boy was engaged to nanlle the cats and receive the bites. | Nothing was said to Mr. Castle. The | | some | | | danghter started to tell him, but he . o with some other Chinese while mterrupted to announce that he was ybont to close a deal for the purchase | fower and rolled three times around don. cats, but they could wait. how or other he got to calling at the house, and by and by the day came home? even opened one! | time ing boy, and she would then be talked £’ to and shown the heinousness of her offense. On the second day no one called. It looked as if all the cats in town, bob-tuiled omes included, had a good thing and didn't care to change. There was almost a caller, however. | Mr. Cline Winwood, the young law-| ver, with offices on the next block, passing when he noticed the sign something new and stopped. He sawn the sign and he saw the girl, and that was enough for him. He didn’t look for any cats going in or coming out. When he moved on he was say- ing to himself: “Bright idea. New sign. looking girl. Really, now—" And he passed again in the after- noon, and three times the next day, and then he called. There was no question of law, but there was a ques- tion of cats. Mr. Winwood took no chances. Good- asked as he removed his hat. sir” “l didn’t know but that—" “l opened the home myself, sir.” “Ah! Well | have a cat.” (He boarded at a hotel and would have kicked a cat out of his room.) “l have a cat. She is a Persian cat, I think."” (He couldn't have told a Persian from a Connecticut cat.) “She doesn’'t seem altogether satis- fied with her home.” (No cat. No home. He was glibly lying, and at the same time thinking what a sweet girl was looking straizht at him.) day. (The girl was looking puzzled.) “And should she decide to aban- don her luxurious home and go wan- dering about, could I replace her with another from this institution—one with a more contented disposition?” He lied, and he knew he lied, and he knew the girl knew he lied, but what other way was left him? He saw a smile in her eye as he con- cluded, and the smile broadened as he was advised to wait until his tabby had actually disappeared. Then, if a homeless cat with whose looks he was pleased happened to be on hand, | his case would receive consideration. There was no fee in the case, and vet the lawyer took it up with the greatest energy. lle called next day to leave name and address. He called the day after to announce that his Persian cat was still with bim. The day atter that it was to say that he had a book on cats, and that he would he only too happy to lend it to the institution. Then one day elapsed without a call. An excuse was hunted for in vain. The next call was a very important one. Mr. Win- wood had been talking with a doctor, and the doctor had told him that cats were as liable to rables as dogs. Was Miss Castle aware of the fact? Was she prepared to risk her life to re- ceive some old cat that was better dead in the gutter? And then Mr. Winwood took to dropping in and saying nothing what- ever about cats, but talking of the theater and hooks and Paris and Lon- He hadn't lost all interest in And some- when Miss Alleen had to say to her father: “Did 1 tetl you 1 had closed the cat “Bless you, 1 didn't know you had How did you come out?" “Mr. Winwood wants a private in- terview with you this evening to ask for my hand.” “l see. | wish he had an old-fash- ioned New England bake oven to sell, but as he hasn't—um!” CHINESE COULD TRUST WIFE Celestial Had More Confidence in Women of His Own Race Than Those of This Country. There was a knock on the door in the midst of the packing, and the lit- tle globe trotter opened it to behold John Chinaman with her laundry bun- dle. “I'll not need you again, John. I'm going away to your China,” was the smiling explanation. “To my China!” gasped the usually stolid Chinese. “1 go backee some My wife and 1i'T" boy in Can- ton,” he added wistfully, with the privilege of one who had long done the little globe trotter’s “washee,” and to whom she had spoken more than one kind word. “Of course you will go back some | day.” was the reassuring reply. “You are industrious and saving, and I'm sure it won't be long.” The Manhattan girl who was to ac- ompany the little globe trotter on the oriental tour became interested at this juncture. Glancing up from the steamer trunk she was packing she eved John Chinaman and remarked Toftily “Aren’'t vou afraid your wife will vou are away, John?" The littie Chinaman’s reply. “Is this the—the superintendent?’' ¢ may decide to leave me any | globe trotter, much an- of a roll.pin brought over on the May-|,,, .3 by the speech, awaited John Without so much | Loaiized it. the state of Massachuselts, and so e |, gychsafing a glance at his inquisi- } THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 29, 1911, The Hidnaper By lzola Ferrester (Copyright, 1911, by A:sucisted Litcrary Press.) | Doris came on deck early that last | morning before the Carania passed | Sandy Hook. Slim and graceful in | | her long gray steamer cloak, with | ! wind-tossed wisps of fair hair y- ing out from beneath her close, | quaintly shaped cap, she seemed 10 | | Derington the winsomest maid he | had ever met. And Derington had | | been many seasons out of knicker- | | bockers. i ! Haif way around [ deck he joined her. | “The last day,” he said, as he tucked her arm in its accustomed place and held her hand closely. b 'y are engaged,” Doris an- nourced with a splendidly triumph- | ant note of relief and satisfaction “You don’t mean Raleigh and—" “Vivien? But | do. And | am =0 g'ad. He'll make a darling brother- in-law. | have never blamed Vivien a particle. He is so altogether — oh, bully, don't you know? That is what a man would say, wouldn't he?” “Am |- bully?’ asked Deringion, " the promenude darkly. “Not as Raleigh is. He is like | some big, overgrown college young- | ster—just a big brother. 1 don't quite see how Vivien can really love him as a husband, but tastes are very different.” “Do you think | would make a good husband ?" “For Vivien?" “For anyone, ples, | mean.” Doris shook her head. *I hardly think so. You scem more like a pal, or a chum to me. I have never found any one who understood | just what [ meant, and could throw | the ball back, know what I mean? | 01 course, you can't expect a husband { to be just a good pal.” “But he should. It's part of the ideal dream, child. A husband should remain three things, a lover ever, 4 friend always, and a comrade every day.” “If they only could,” breathed Doris, bending her head to the wind and laughing up at him. “1 could.” “l think perhaps you could,” she said. “1 am so sorry Vivien didn't take On general princi- “| Refuse to Be Disengaged.” you. did.” “Perhaps it was pure contrariness. When are they to be married?™ *As goon as papa and mamma have recovered from the blow. 1 am to be maid of honor, and Raleigh says he must have you for best man.” “1 gee your mother and aunt proaching’ Doris clung close to his arm “Then look as if you were making | frantic love to me.” “But L am.” “You poor boy, vou really you are, don't you? Never Lean your head down ana sigh” From the forward deck came Mrs. Vaughan and her maiden sister, both anxious and troubled “Doris, dear, have you seen Vivien?” And all the rest of the family ap- think mind. | across his eyes. e —— glances, as Vivien drew near. Gladly I had Doris lent her assistance in the werry war. It had been she who had 'mken the entire matter frankly to | Dick, told him of the family objec- "tion to Jack, and asked him to pay complete and undivided attention 10| ner on the voyage. “But 1 am not in love with Vivien,” _he protested. “She's a charming girl, | but—" | “Nobody said you were, goose,” | Doris had returned. “But mamma; hopes you may be. And she will deny poor Vivien to all comers as long as you are a possibility. Therefore, you must, you simply must become at- tached to me during this trip only. When we land, I will break the en- gagement, truly.” So it had been arranged, half in jest, and as the days of wonderful October weather passed, Derington | [ himselt hardly realized how dear his | proxy ties were growing. “Were you looking for me, mamma dear?" Vivien asked, gently. “I'm 80 Isn’t this a regular family party,” exclaimed Jack with boyish exhuber- | ance. He was looking buoyant and proud. I say, Mrs. Vaughan, [ don't know how to tell you, but Vivien and | are engaged. Won't you wish us happiness, please. I'll be terribly good to her.” Mrs. Vaughan hesitated, reach:d } her hand toward Miss Somerset veakly, and bowed to the inevitable. She had to. There were too many on deck to permit of a scene, “Come in out of the wind, chil- dren,” she said, with a deep sigh. “We'll all have neuralgia. Vivien, give me your arm.” Doris looked after the others with gay amusement gleaming in her dark ©eyes, “All's well,” she said. “Let's look down at the water. | love to see the foam break around the prow. Wasn't mamma a dear not to scold a bit? Did you see her look reproachfully at vou, just as if your lack of atten- tion had permitted this affair to grow?" Derington's hand closed firmly over as it rested beside him on the rail. “Doris, it hasn't been a joke with me. It is deadly earnest. | refuse to be disengaged, 8o to speak, as soon as we pass the Narrows. Will you bhe my wife?" Doris glanced at him with a glint of rebuke in her eyes. *l never meant for you to carry it so far, Dick. Truly. “Why do you suppose | have trailed after you over the map of Europe for three months? To act as Raleigh’s best man? Listen. He promised faithfully to act as mine long ago.” Doris turned her head suddenly at the long pause that followed, and found his face 8o near that even an unprejudiced onlooker would have exonerated her from blame in what followed. Derington’s lips found her own, and the wind blew her hair Silently he held her close under the shadow of the great gilt figurehead until suddenly Doris laughed softly. “Manmma will be so glad to have you in the family, Dick,” she whis- pered. “But I'm perfectly sure papa will call you a kidnaper.” CALLER MET HER WATERLOO Mrs. Podway Beat a Hasty Retreat Be- fore Mrs. Tarberry's Onslaught of Chores. Housewives in Beanburg had grown to view with dread the evening calls of Mrs. Podway, a widow of an econ- omical turn, although in easy ecireum stances, because, as all declared, she never knew when to go home. Weary matrons who had been up at daybreak might nod sleepily, their voices grow drowsy and their interest in the visi tor's chat flag. Mrs. Podway placidly continued her “visitation,” and pail no heed Mrs. Tarberry. a woman of much foree of ch ter and a hard worker, had endured so mueh discomfort from her neighbor's ealls that she felt jus- tified in taking decided measures to free herself from the nuisance. One evening, then, as the clock struck ten and Mrs, Podway showed no intention of going, Mrs. Tarberry rose, lighted her bedroom lamp and sail to her caller “1 reckon I'll have to go to bed now, Mrs. Podway, *seeing T have to be up | egriy in the morning, but von novdn'ti asked the aunt. “Won't take cold in this wind? you ever have neuralgia? Doris comes from an afflicted family. \We're all tof us given to neuralgia: that is, all | on the Somerset side. The Vaughans never have it.” “We'll be in by noon. they say,” Mrs. Vaughan remarked “It's so dear of you, Dick, t¢ take my baby around. and look after her. This is her first crossing. Where can Vivien i be? 1 wonder—" | Just at this point they caught a | glimpse of Vivien, tall and lithe, with a certain well-known form beside her. | As they neared, Mrs. V' n stood her ground, with Mrs. Somerset as aide. 1t was her last stand, and she She had fought for three to make a match between yon months got no information regarding the new | tor, he picked up his bundle and when Vivien and Dick Derington. He was enterprise { Onu the first day the home was| opened there was one caller. She | was an old lady, who called to say | that she had a cat eleven years old,i and if that cat ever got hilarious and | strayed from home she hoped she would have the glad hand extended to | her at the new place. She was not 0 be punished for her hilariousness, but sent home in a hat box by the band of a very careful and God-fear he reached the door retorted: “My wife she no Melican woman; she Chinese leddy.” Not a Fashion Plate. “] am afraid your clothes are very much out of style,” said the sporty youth. “I hope #0.” replied the conservative father. “I pay the tallor extra to keep ‘em that way.” the most desirable husband-clect on the horizonm, thirty, wealthy, a law- ver whose opinions were weighed as pure gold by the powers that reigned over the nation. Yet Vivier. had re- belled. She would have none of him. She had given very spare moment of her time to Jack Raleigh, one .of the younger set, with only hope ahead of him, and a patrimony. The two sisters exchanged laughing Pt A Mr. Derington, do ¢ hurry off. Just hank up the fire when | vou do go, and put the cat Jown cel lar, and take a look at my bhread-! sponge in the kitchen to see if it's too ‘ cold to rise, and if it i Yring it in and set it by the fireplace, and move | the flowerpots a little closer to the fire, and shut the winlow down tight | and stick a nail over the sash to hold | it. and brush the coals into the fire- | place so they can’t set the rug afire, | and then blow the lamp out Mrs. Podway was on her foet at once. “1 couldn’t remember all them | things!™ she said. indignantly, tving on her hood and taking 1p her gloves “I'l ruther go home now, and done with it. 1 dont see what vou're in such a mortal rush to go to bed for I won't be able to sieep for an hour | or two vet, ‘cause I don't get up early, | and T'll have to light up when 1 get | kome and stir open the fire, and waste | a lot of wood and oil!"—Youth's Com- | panion. ! Useful Friend. \llm west of Irrican, in the Canadian The Sickly One—Doc Gellers is an right. He put me through the insur- ance examination without a hitch. The Robust One—You bet he's all rigit. He gave me a certificate that got me off jury duty.—Life. pand associate howel disorders, , pletely relieve constipation, except of | g EVERY LINE OF INSURANCE Carried Withthe Best Companies 3, P. E. CHUNN Successor to Johnson and (Cannon. Suite 7, Raymondo Building FOR HOT DRINKS CENTRAL PHARMACY Open after the Shows THIS WEEK oy Hot Chocolate | Our Own Brand | “QUALITY” POLGVVOVOVCOOV0O > SO QO | SMOKE “Inman’s Blunts” R e | ydee A Strictly Union Hand Made Cigar. on every box Made by C.INMAN Lakeland, CHILDREN INJURED. | Ordinary Cathartics and Pills and| Harsh Physic Cause Dis- tressing Complaints, | You cannot be over-careful in llll‘! selection of medicine for children. 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They also tend to overcome the nec- essity of constantly taking laxatives to Keep the bowels in normal condi- tion. Three sizes of packages, 10 30 cents. Re- member you can obtain Rexall Rem- vdies in Lakelaud only at our store, The Rexall l.ake Phar- macy cents, 25 cents, and Store Seems to Justify Superstition. The opal associated with misfortune by Russians of both sexes, who should they chance to see an opal among the goods displayed tor purchase will buy nothing more that day, and it is a cu- rious fact that the Japanese, being un- der the sign that this stone belongs to, sLould be the nation to bring such ill luck 10 the Russians during the disastrous war letween these two countries Baptized in irrigation Ditch, Probably for the first time in the history of irrigaticn a new member of the church was imimersed in an irriga- tion ditch in a baptismal ceremony, Pacific rallway's irrigation block, Al- | berta. J.S. Culp, a farmer, and lllo" pastor of the Church of the Brethren, officiated at the ceremony, and Mrs. E. Studdebaker was the member who embraced the faith and was immersed fn the irrigation ditch. e C——————— Hot Beef with Celery Hot Beef Bouillon Hot Tomato Bouillon Hot Malted Clams pects defeat usuaill = g . o SOOOS ¥ OO Look for the Blue Lab ez} AN INVESTMENT Lakemlan Highland Will Prove Profitable We have sub-divided our pre erty in Lakeland Highan centering around Banana, S and Seward lakes into Bungil lots and ten-acre tracts We are developing this erty as a high class res have sold a large port: property tc people of ! the northern statcs, build beautiful ho grapefruit, orange ¢ ine groves on their Lol A number of sales h made to residents ot Pol who realize the inves portunity and who I sire to take adva ( pleasure and social teats this high class Club Col Elevation of Lakeland H. is 300 feet abuve sea | panoramic views al¢ ! ed in Florida. The ! ing and naturally climate is pure aud and there are no malaria at Lake The improve construction, cons:t nificent Countiy ! Spanish Mission < tecture, schoci and houses, stables aud - A golf course planned in addit: er out door and ments. The approd be $25,000. With the abot and developments * that property valic: tion will incre during the » An investrent the present .. terms, should - some commerc:a would not be s this property « during the next The social an’ tages at Lakela:’ = be worth the a vestment. A : lot or ten acie i to a membersh 1 Highlands Clut privileges. If interested write us for furt’ W. F. HALLAW & € Lakeland. - Expectat <™t . " The man who i* finds it &'