Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 18, 1911, Page 9

e SO way, and he patted me on the shoul- der and called me good girl. As I was saying, I was putting in my best licks when along came a taxi with a fat woman in it. Maybe she was eloping, and maybe she only wanted to get home to lunch. Maybe the chauffeur yelled ‘Hi!" at me, and maybe he just wanted to kill another girl. However it down. Yes, cousin, out.” I was knocked | “Gracious, but how igrorant you | are for a girl of twenty! Nobody can be knocked out without losing their consciousness. of #t. Yes, I was knocked out counted out, and when | came to [ was in the hospital with thrce broken ribs. That fat woman 1must have weighed a ton. It was hours and hours before I came to, and then—oh, | then—" | “Then what?" “Then there was the loveliest angel <1 each other in the ' porning room sat a pital you ever saw. Nobody ; woman and a girl of g | who I was, and they had rung for the welve 4 i ambulance and taken me to the hos- Now, Cousin Hilda,” said | pita), And, oh, that angel, cousin— latter, as she smoothed ! tndt angelr” r dress and settled | «yoy pean a nurse, of course.” colf in ber chair, “I'M - wp qon't. [ mean a man—a doctor. o the beginning and 1o pog hold of my hand. He was shout it, and ll:(-x‘x We | looking down on me with his ey i buy a Santa Claus 10 ¢ i ' sad eyes. I saw at once that he had m." ! some great sorrow on his mind. Yes, mewered the YOURE po paq the finest eyes—and curly A0 2 i hair, and a hundsome nose, and wheg y « 10 Furope. You had, yo gh0ke 10 me there was patbos in and skated as the 1is voice. And the fun of the whole ¢ you. Motier said thing was that I knew him at once, i you wanted 10 B0 wipe he didn't know me from a side I¢ i, but that your moth- ¢ g1 jather, Oh, you are interested, 5 = , are you?" nsense, lolly." | “Polly, I was Just thinking how v ed 15’1-"““’“" | frightencd you must have been to find : u.;‘x;r-bn i thali l\l?gurlsl:l's‘in a hosiptal,” said the blush- Lot ”“_‘"_;‘ sv‘vr;':[”‘“_‘o?! “Oh, 1 see! Well, save your sym- UG ERATRIIENS el pathy. A hospital with an angel-! s ! was out walking with | e hen w boy came along | o~ He was tough. So 3 ila shouted at me: if v of your dog!’ L d. | will chew him | a half bad place. well that I Hed to stay there.” “Polly Sewell!" “I sure did. They had gone through in the town. \When I opened my eyes and sort o' winked at the angel—" “Polly, that's surely slang!"” “No it fsu't. I told papa about ft, and he sald things had come to a pretty pass if a girl with three broken ribs couldn’'t wink at the angel-doc- tor who has set them. When I had opened my eyes and'winked the doce- tor said: ““Little girl, what is your name? “‘It's Hanah Jones. *‘And where do wou live?” “ At far-off Blackberry Corneis.'” “Polly, you ought to have been sent to jail'" was the emphatic comment. ! “But I had my little scheme to work, you see. Papa hunted for five days | h < soing to tell him that | e would be trouble ! hen it sprang upon r cided her life. 1 can't | lines as I saw her ) 10 1ty to—not if there's % Hilda, | haven't sald a slang ! i »w how very, very par-| with me. No, I can't toelings, but 1 remember tor that boy, tooth and | and scratched and | and 1 was doing him Sowel]!” exclaimed Miss Polly | before he found me, and then it was ‘s happened?” ten more before the angel would let I told it to papa just this FOR Turkeys SiIIT PICKLE. PEARS AND PEACHES. OLIVES AND OTHER D. B. DICK was, he ran me| “You mean you lost consciousness?” | That's the whole idea | and | standing beside my cot in the hos-. knew | doctor to fix up your broken ribs isn't | In fact, 1 HKked 1t 50 | my outfit without finding my address | and had concluded I was a stranger | Christmas Table YOUR EYES SPARKLE AND YOUR LIPS SMACK AT THE SIGHT. Use Burnett’s Extracts Lemon, Vanilla, Rose, Banana, Pincapple and Strawberry Use Burnett’s Color Extracts For Cakes, Cream and Desserts I Have Fruit Cakes, and Other Cakes and Crackers, in quantity. hite' Rose” Plum Pudding, Good enough for Kings and Queens. i T e niitns 1000 Ibs. of fresh candy, including ad0 Ib. stick Fresh Nuts, Raisins, Apples. Chestnuts, Grapes. All Fruits and Chlistmas Luxuries. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 18, 1911, him take me home. Cousin Hilda, & girl who is the real thing can accom- | plish a heap in fifteen days, even if she has broken ribs. I wanted to have ' a chat with that angel on outside mat- | ters, and 1 had three or four of them. You ought to have seen his face when ! ' I told him where I had seen him be- ! fore and asked if he didn't remember | | me.” “But—but I don’t—don't tested Hilda in a puzzled way. “But you will in just a minute, I told him I kad seen him in this very house! Now, then!" | | “Polly, it wasn't—?" | “Oh, it wasn't eh? Want to bet & $20 hat it wasn't? Of course it was, and I was so mad at you that it set! ! my broken ribs back all of three days. ' Dr. Charles Mortimer, and because he isa't rich your motlicr is down on him | and she skated you oif to Europe. Ol, I got on to tho racket right away.” “Polly Sewell, you are a wicked girl! You use slang, and you fib to the doctor, and you meddle with other ' people’s affairs, and—and—" “And such dark eyes—and such a deep, pathetic voice! And we had i configential chats together— v coniidential. We didn’t even let a truined nurse come within ten feet Pof us. Hilda, you don’t know how confidential @ girl becomes when | three of her ribs are broken and she is afraid to draw long breaths!” “And—and you talked about—me?” “We did. 1 told him just what I | thought of your wmother, d 1 told him I was going to have a plain talk with you, and I told him “Polly Sewell, I'll never speak to you again!” declared Miss Hilda as she rose and tried to look very angry. i "You'll have to, as we are going | down town right away to buy Christ- mis presents {or your Sunday school klds. I want you to help me pick out | something for our angcldocter.™ “You--you can do . hat by self.” “But you can tell me whether the dlamonds are all O. K. or not. No rhinestones for the angel with the decp, dark Dear me, while [ can't help but grieve about poor Flora’s death. 1 almost wish [ could have three ribs broken on the other side!™ It was three days before Christmas, cand the streets were crowded and | the stores packed like a ward caucus, It was crowd and jam and push. The cousinz had to link hands to prevent separati®n. They had visited two or | three stores and were still in the jam when Polly suddenly disengaged her { hand and whispered: “Watch my hike!” And ten seconds later she was lost in the crowd, and the angel-doctor and Miss Hilda Fitch stood face to face. They were penncd in. They had to lean against a show-case and { hold their own. They had to talk { and say things, and by and by the angel-doctor had to help select the presents for the Sunday school chil- SeVe your- eyes THE Cranberries and Celery DELICACIES THAT MAKE - Vi TR | a5 S 28 | dren and to help Miss Hilda lhmugh! e L G. N hen o th ep Day. e vab Hard to Bear. | i It 1s always painful to see somebody | 13! else fooling the public. land ——— e e ———— ——————————————— Cut Giass and Hand Painted Chin Nothing has ever been place for the dinuning roowm. ment embraces et p———————e e Lt L.akeland, Y Landd coertitying of PAGE NINE o Pt O IF FOR NO OTHER REASON ; Than that of econon:y this store should appeal to every < man and woi.an & that just takes 1l Our cut g cutting from found s depa the hest tactories. In ted ching we have a large as sortment from thoee of the e ntdios H 5 Silverw..¢ This departn =l oavd complete, hotl N sterling silver and nlaied ware The line is exeep ticnally zood in st coods, sieh oas knives and forks awd spoons Kinds \ ty ol old picces, A fine i of Dressing Ca Man = Clothes Brnsies ! | [H] Ve } that you could d ‘ Yo vourhd line dappreciate dat Jevielry Phis depay s it ¢ \ ' y v lar gl u . " | i 1 question 1 . ent artick ) 4 there i 1 | Voir wait Hue, come it i = Leather Goods g UG H LR | it onpho You the ( :;. . Hlv .v.lu‘ ! wl -:: cloth o prices Ht watd Q@ H g “o fountain Pens § We canry three makes < Waterman Parked " ' I'hess ! make vice prosent vorenthen Come inoard give your eves o tei A PLEASURE TO SHOW GOODS . FUNK & CO. tucky Avenue Opposite Park :,’ Elorida * NOTICE OF ELECTION ‘ Soeso 0 only resident Electors, whe are othorwice gqualificd to vote i i | oo the Generad Blection of the City of o L || 'l ) Il : U Lakeliond, who own peal estate with- noand | ¢ City ol Lakeland i Db, : : Lin the City ol Lakeland, and who [Ftte o Flovida, 1o he held o the | g { {have paid taxes thereon for the last S0t day of December, A Dy o0t ; | H U pvear tor which taxes were due, shall [tce the purpose of submitting (o the | ° e S : % | be quaditied 1o vote in said Election caalitied voters of the City ol Like | [ larad the question of dsaning Munic- | S Notice of said Election [l Bonds tor the purpose of cons {hall beogiven by the Mayor for soruering aosystem of Sewerage, padv- | thivty G days, nest preceding e strects and Sidewalks, and [said Election, by publishing the Pevecting Pablic Buildiags, ivcladin . [same inoa newspaper pablished i a0 Fire Station, Jail and 4'Il|:II'L'iI\J:I|H' City o Lakeland, according to | [the Uity dlall Said Election to e law neld o cortified inaccordiance Wit o e ors to e used at Libs Csaid Blection shall be drawn so that g cich for or Ordinanee of the City ot the holdi Elections, dhy Ordinance num providing for voter ean vole against coneral cach Bond issue proposed. 1oas provide Lev 122 ealling soid Bonding 1le Sevo e There shall be elected at {ion sid Edection theee Bond ‘Trastees, Throw: Bond - Trosten hatl b who shall compose tie Board of Pub- Clectod at said Bleorion, who shatt] e Works and who shall vegotiate fampo-e o Moard of Pablic Works the sale of caid Bonds, according to | JOHN 1 COX, the Charter of the City of Lakeland, Mavar of the ity of Lakeland and recoive the funds derived from cadd sale s and who shall have power to contract for the congstruction of g PSR the dmprovements for which caid ORDINANCE NUMBER 132. | hords were beoaed, and dishuese the Y: deodorived from sale of e A Ovdrianee providinge fo e | | anl Bond Trustecs s “You Mean a Nurse, of Course.” ' neaned holding of an Election d oo il give bond in a cum o the jam to a taxi, and und il Jeilh il At Lo Dl | et approved by the ity “Say, now," observed the twelye- '~ ' ©P17Puse of voting on the questionfeonncil, payable to the City of Lake- year-old Polly when she made a call nine Municipal Bouds by 1 pland, conditioned for the faithil three days later on her cousin, “I'! § 14 ind, and tor the o pottormanee of their duty don’t claim to know eversthing, but I 10 o Frustees Tor said Bond] See. 6 Swid Eleetion shall be do know when to--to hike!"” | the dishupsement of the| Ied and held, and the retusns S BNE WARDY RYCH ARNGd WO devived Trom the sade of aid Scpeof certitiod in the same manner ‘bike” meant! ) 7 > 5 tonids { her Blection s { Holly and Mistietoe. T ORDNINED BY THE COUXN Seco T AN Ordinanecs wr parts In the language of flowers holly slg-| ¢ 11, OF THE 1TY OF LAKE L op Ordivances in conflict with the nifies foresight, and mistletoe means LAND: = provisions of this Ordinance bhe and { “I have surmounted all difficulties.” | Y I = Phat & ilesilon the came are hereby repealed Holly, as everyone knows, is the gym- | =100 et el oo, 8. T} o ahnil bol or sign of Christmas, but the eus. | bereby callod ivoand for the ity of |~ : ! ance chall thike tom of using it is older than Chels- | Lakolavd, in the State of Flopida, (oot dmandiately sipon its pascage tianity. The Romans sent friendly | jor 1L puop i or 1t approval by the Mayor rreetings and sprigs of holly to one ' another during thier winter festival b by the I For this reason, perhaps, it was taken s rehy certify that Torego- to stand for the spirit of love and y . - was zood-will. i g b the City Couneil of Mustn’t Spin at Christmastide. b : 1 ) e =Sth day of Ne- In North Germany, where the prac- { £ tical yet poetic spinning whee! <1l 0L SWATTS, hums in the cottages, one must not City Clerk. spin during the twelve mnights of s Christmas lest he or she walk ufter : L =30H Giy O | death. If the spinning is done after : ; ' by sunset on Saturday, mice will eat the i i TOHIN F. COX, work. If one wishes to have money ' ! Nuyor. and good luck all the year one should P b M ] kil Dot fail to eat herring on New Year's of The purp ‘ ine| Concrete Perfectly Handled. A sumier house in Havana built of conere < made to represent a log | and straw hut, and the illusion I8 said to be perfect, even after (lose examination ty of Lake- -