Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 19, 1911, Page 4

(1 \ PAGE FOUR. ——————— ,ooooooaoocoooaaa S CHUKCH CALENDAR. 000000000000000@ Presbyt-rian Church. Rev. W. I’ aalmers, pastor, Sunday ool 9:45 a. m. Morn’ scrmon 11'00 a m, Ev .g sermon at 7:00 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. meets ‘n 6 p. m. Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7:30. L4 a Christian Church. Geo. W. Weimer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Communion 10:45 a, m. Preaching, 11:00 a, m. Y. P. S. C. E. co-operates with other societies at Cumberland Pres- syterian churth, Evening sermon, 7:30 a. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Cerner Florida avenue and Bay St. The Rev. Willlam Dudley Nowlin, D. D., pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. H. C. Stevens, superintendent. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m, and 7:15 p. m. Wecekly prayermeeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. Weoman's Missionary and Aid So- ciety Monday 3:30 p. m. Baptist Young People’s at 6:15 p. m. Regular monthly business meeting first Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. East Lakeland Mission, Sunday school at 3 p. m. B, A, Milton, supcrintendent, Prayer- meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. Meeting Episcopal Church. Rev. J. 1. Weddell, rector. mach 3 o excepting only the third Sutduy of cach month, Sunduy caco) every Swnday at 19 a, m. Sei E. Py caurch, South. \ o, Pastor, & R ool 9:45 a. m, N coraon 11:00 a, m. gdee 6:00 poom., (DA Fvice, 7100 p.om. . Priv ocameceting Wednesday #:00 p. m. Lutheran Church. Rev. il. J. Mathkias, Pastor Sunday school 10:00 a. m. Preaching service 11:00 a. m,, and 7:00 p. m, sccond and fourth Sun- days. Catholic Church, Rev. A. B, Fox, Pastor. Services are held on second fourth Sundays at 9:00 a, m, Cumberland Presbyterian. Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hoar Y. P. S. C. E. at 6:30 p. m, and - mn«mnm»fiwz-:»w«s»xuwe«i'-:«? MILLINERY|"7ui | 4 Laddes' Tailored Suits and i’ Skirts. & e 4 MISS MINONA HERRON Herron Block. b4 o e R o e A gw%www~ 3 Bl > @ B & L. M. Futch. J. H. Gentry. Gentry lllldel'ldkillfl Co.| Successors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS. 'Phones: day or night, 245, “Just a Little Christmas Remem- brance.” ! S L A CI-ON'I'S mind getting it ahead of time, will 0 ° ° you? Such good friends as you and 1 needn’t wait for Christmas day it- DEALER IN self, need we?” . She carefully stood immediately be- neath a spray of mistietoe when she said this, but Andrew did not notice it. This is further proof that love is blind. PO “Thank you,~ Andrew mumbled, nervously. “l—I—I wish you a merry CITY AND COUNTRY PROPEBTY— Christmas, Am-amabel.” SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts' Building. J.W. ELLI.S City and Country Property; Orange im- proved and Unimproved Groves a Specialty: WE HAVE SOME OF THE FINEST TRUCK LAND IN FLORIDA Room 1, Raymondo Bulilding. L Phone 309. like the little gift. A BASHFUL - * (Copyright, 1911.) T was Christmas eve. Andrew Hillingtor, with a neat little package in his breast pocket and a throbbing heart beneath the same pocket, had been trying for a full hour to muster up enough courage to take out the package, and offer it, together with his throbbing heart, to Amabel Tuttle. Amabel was just such a young woman as just such a young man as Andrew would ardently desire to present with his throbbing heart and the contents of the neat package. The latter contained a ring, set with a single diamond. The throbbing heart contained what Andrew was ready to promise should be life-long devotion to Amabel. Why 20 into detail regarding the whole year during which he had laid siege to the heart of Amabel? There had been moments this Christmas eve when Andrew's fingers nervously s=ought his hreast pocket. Amabel knew he was on the verge of proposing. Gracious mercey! The woman who cannot diagnose a threat- ened proposal is no woman at all The stammering speech, the flushed brow, the hesitant remarks, the fixity of stare--all these and many other symptoms are to the average woman what temperature and respiration are to the specialist in fevers. For some unexplained reason women like to postpone a proposal. They prolong the agony. They enjoy the sighs, the awkwardness, the anxiety, of the swain. They revel in his ab- ject willingness to sacrifice himself, if need be, to gain their promise. It may be that instinct teaches them this is the only moment when the man will be a slave. At last, however, it became time for Andrew to say good-night. It was Christmas eve, and he knew Amabel's family would have some little prepara- tions to make for the festivities of the morrow. He did not think for a ment of the tremendous fact that when a young woman allows a young man to spend Christmas eve with her she is writing “Yes” in large letters on the wall. No man can realize any- thing at such times, Andrew said he must be going, after Amabel had begin to wonder if he was going to talk about the weather and the latest book all evening. “Must you go, really?" she asked, brightly. “Wait just a moment. 1 have something for you."” She went into another room, then came back with a small puckage, which she handed to him. “Just a little Christmas remem- she smiled. “You won't “That’s nice of you, and | hope you It really isn't a gift, Andrew. It's just a necktie I made for you myself. have bLeen something nicer—but you'll let the sentiment that goes with it count for what it lacks in value or beauty, won't you?” She carelessly reached up and ad- justed the spray of mistletoe, smiling also at Andrew. Andrew stood there, turning the package over and over in his hands, blind as ever. What Am- abel thought we never will know. There must be times while a woman is landing a man that she is so en- raged with his obtuseness that she would keenly enjoy thumping him on the head with a shovel. By Wilbwr D Neshiy Andrew got his eyes away from hers long enough to ask: “Are you going to have a Christmas tree?” “No. We're old-fashioned, know. * We're just going to hang up our stockings in front of the grate, and let Santa come right down the' chimney. I love those old customs, don’t you?” As she spoke of the old customs ' she once more pushed the spray of mistletoe up into place. This time Andrew saw it, and away down deep in his heart he wished he were just a good friend of Amabel's. You see, under the mistletoe, things may be done by good friends which would call out the troops if attempted by a lover who has not yet declared “Oh, Andrew!” his love in speech, but whose every action tells what is affecting him, He told her he had spent a pleas- little gift; he promised to come again, and he got out and away—and then he realized that he had not given her the present he had meant to hand to her with a few well chosen words which should cause her to fall into his arms and promise to be his forever. Also, he realized that he had not even wished her a merry Christmas in the | way he had planned to wish it. All the way home he abused him- self for being such a fool. Why, any man with a spark of self-confidence, he told himself, would have told the girl what he had in his heart and in his pocket for her—would bave made a neat but effective little speech of presentation, and would have conclud. | ed his peroration with her head against his shoulder and her plump white hand in his. ' There came to him a flash of in- spiration. Why not play Santa Claus, take the , ring to Amabel's home, climb in a side window from the porch, deposit the ring and a note in her stocking? This would make her feel that he had | planned it all as a real Christmas sur- prise for her. A Christmas gift and a Christmas proposal all at once | would certainly appeal to the roman- | tic side of any girl. . 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Wheeler S: ' OSTEOPATH PHYSICIAN & | Rooms §, 6 and 17, Dryant Building g w‘ 2 LAKELAND, , : i ‘ ® ¢ 3 TUCKER & TUCKER. ! —Lawyers— ‘ Raymondo DBldg. | Lakeland, Florida R. B. HUFFAKER, | ; -—Attorney-at-Law— M A K E I wish it could | The porch from which he planned Roor 7 Stuart Bldg. Bartow, Fla. | | to effect his surreptitious entrance | was a !.de one. |le I‘émenlbel‘(‘d tha[ f_ | ! last summer Amabel's father had | MME | said he must have the catch on the C. M. TRA i, : window repaired. He knew pertectly | well A1 1bel's father hadn’t done so— for he kiew Amabel’s father was like | | all men. ' Through the side yard and over the | porch rail he went. The window he' found unfastened. Carefully he raised | it and felt his way into the room. To ! his astonishment he saw a ray ol‘ light beneath the door and heard voices in the adjoining room—wnerg the stockings were to be hung. “Well, Amabel,” her father was qay. W, ing, “what did Romeo have to say lo- Jlo . EAD MR W { ttorney-at-Waw night 2" Office in Munn Attorney-at-Law. i, Offices, Bryant Building Lakeland, Fla. ROGERS & BLANTON ! Lawyers. Bryant Block, 'Phone 319 | Lakeland, Fla. ; The reply was a &niff from Amabel, | Buildine. ' ! which Andrew interpreted as being a s | suggestion to her father that he mlnd LARELAND, FLORIDAL | | his own affairs. “Did you give him the neckti | Amabel's mother asked. ',,, | ser— mo S. EDWARDS Attorney-at-Law. | “Did he like it?” |3 { “He mever looked at it.” ' Office in Munn l‘uildim.j 4 | “Well, I must say! In my time al e i3 young man would have shown more| LAKELAND, FLORIDA. O gallantry.” | é. “Not a Hillington, mother,” Mr. | & Tuttle said. “They never think of |J- B. Streater C. F. Kennedy | & what to say until a week later.” i STREATER & KENREDY ‘ 3 Andrew grated his teeth. This was | true, but not pleasant. Contractors and Builders, “Well, you couldn’t expect him tc ' Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. tell how he liked it when he hadn'. 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