Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 25, 1912, Page 2

y7) By FRANCES BOYD CALHOUN (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) g crous. The combination of coai black ! skin and red gold hair presented by l the little negro exceeded the wildest | expectations of Jimmy and Billy. They shrieked with laughter and rolled over and over on the floor in their un- bounded delight. “Hush!” warned Jimmy suddenly, “Yes, it do,” was Billy's mournful | “I believe Sarah Jane's coming out response. “It done worry me 'mos’ here to see ‘bout Benny Dick. Let's to death. Ever sence me an’ Wilkes |get behind the door and see what's Booth Lincoln's born we done try!she's going to do.” ev'thing fer to get the curl out. They was & Yankee man came ‘long las’'| *‘Hit were good fer Paul an’ Silas, fall a-sellin’ some stuff in a bottle | Hit were good fer Paul an’ Silas, what he call ‘No-To-Kink’ what he say Hit were good fer Paul an’ Silas, would take the kink outer any nig- An’ hit’s good ernough fer me.'” ger's head. An’ Aunt Cindy bought a o bottle fer to take the kink outer her ’ :g:::g Sarsh Jane's song nearer and hair an’ me an’ Wilkes Booth Lincoln | t CHAPTER IX. ‘Changing the Ethiopian. Billy and Jimmy were sitting in the swing. “What makes your hair curl just like a girl's?” asked the latter. “It’s 'bout the curliest hair they is.” put some on us heads an’ it jes’ make | mine curlier'n what it was already. I's “‘Hit's de old time erligion, Hit's de ole time'—" She caught sight of her baby with ‘shame’ to go roun* folks withi my cap : his glistening black face and golden off, a-lookin’ like a frizzly chicken. Miss Cecilia say she like it though, | hair. She threw up her hands, closed | her eyes, and uttered a terrified Lakeland Lodge No. 91 F. & A. M. meets in Masonic Hall every Second and Fourth Monday nights. A cor- dial invitation to visiting brethren.’ C. G. Arendell, secretary; J. L. Love, W. M. M Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M. No. 29 meets the first Thursday night in each month in Masonic Hall. Visit- ing companions welcomed. C. G. We Are Now Featurin T The Savoy Shirt, Made-Well Underwear, Stetson Hats, Diamond Brand Silk Hats, and Caps 50c up, Onyx Hose, Lisle and Silk, Walk-Over and Hanan Shoes, Schmidt Knit Sweaters and a complete line of Men's Arendell, Sec'y.; J. F. Wilson, H. P.' . Palm Chapter, O. E. S. meets every Furnishings. second and fourth Thursday nights' of each month at 7:30 p. m. Mrs.' Flora Keen, W. M., Eaton, Secy. L] Lakeland Camp No. 78, W. 0. W, meets every second and fourth Thups- day night. Woodmen Circle first and third Thursdays. nedy, Council Ccmmander, Mrs, Sal- lie Scipper, Guardian of Circle. . & C. F. Ken- Lucie F. B.; Don’t forget we are making Spring Suits 5 i an’ we's engaged. We's goln’ to git _ : ., | shriek. Presently she slowly opened m:;;’:‘:! r::: svx:uml:i:nm;lel?:g l]’{’;]l;‘\"';" her eyes and took a second peer at abkted the olh['r v * ¥* her curious-logking offspring. Sarah | “Well, T don't know nervo 1y, but | J“.'.’,", poreamed, glony I been to Sunday-Sc! r times. ‘ ita d? han'd.iwork er de gl:eat Je- [ got engaged “" Miss Cecilia 'hat‘honh;\phm. Hit's de Marster's sign. very firs’ Sunday. b;n he did n’ know Who turnt yo' hair, Benny Dick?” she “1¢ tell 1 went o‘v'er t& NEr house the asked of the sticky little pickaninny nex' day an’ tol’ hvr' ‘bout it, She sitting happily on the floor. “Is a 1. 0. 0. F. Meets every Friday night at 7:30 at 1,'0. 0. F. Hall ,corner Main and Tennessee. Visiting brothers cor- dially invited. J. Q. FRENCH, Noble Grand. K. OF P. i T. 1. WOODS & Co. Drane Building Phone 208 " say she think my hair is so pretty.” “Pretty nothin’,” sneered his rival. “She jus' stuflin’ you fuller'n a tick, with hot air. It just makes you look iike a girl, There's a young lady come | ‘o spend a wecek with my mama not | long ago and she put somepin’ on her | head to make it right yeller. She left | the bottle to our house and I know where 't is. Maybe if you'd put somef o' that on your head ’twould take the curl out.” “*Tain't nothin’ a-goin’ to do it nol ~00d,” gloomily replied Billy. “ 'Twould s2st make it yeller'n what 'tis now. Won't I be a pretty sight when I puts on long pants with these here yaller curls stuck on topper my head? I'd ‘nuther sight ruther be bal“-headed.” “Bennie Dick's got 'bout the kinki- est head they is.” Bennle Dick was the two-year-old haby of Mrs. Garner's cook, Sarah Jane. “It sho’ is,” replied Billy “Wouldn't 1o look funny if he had yaller hair, ‘cause his face is so black?’ “I know where the bottle is,” cried Jimmy, snatching eagerly at the sug- estion. “Let’s go get it and put some «n Bennie Dick's head and see it it'll .urn it yeller.” s “Aunt Minerva don’ want me to go over to yo' house,” objected Billy. “You all time talking ’'bout Miss 'linerva won't let you go nowheres; .he sure is imperdunt to you. You bout the ‘fraidest boy they is. . . . Jome on, Billy,” pleaded Jimmy. The little boy hesitated. “I don’t want to git Aunt Minerva's ‘ander up any more’n I jest natchelly “oun' to,” he said, following Jimmy “sluctantly to the fence; “but I'll jes’ ake a look at that bottle an’ see ef : looks anything ‘'t all like ‘No-To- ok Giggling mightily, they jumped the! “viding fence and slipped with | ‘ealthy tread around the house to ‘arah Jane’s cabin in the back-yard. Bennie Dick was sitting on the floor i-»fore the open door, the entrance of hich was securely barricaded to keep .m inside. Sarah Jane was in the itchen cooking supper; they could sar her happy voice raised in relig- ;us melody; Mrs. Garner had not yet ' turned from a card party; the coast as clear, and the time propitious. Jimmy tiptoed to the house and soon turned with a big bottle of a power- 1 “blondine” in one hand and a stick . candy in the other. “Bennie Dick,” he said, “here's a ce stick of candy for you if you'll + us wash your head.” i The negro baby’s thick, red lips :rved in a grin of delight, his shiny ony face beamed happily, his round | 1wk eyes sparkled as he held out ! s fat, rusty little bands. He sucked eedily at the candy as the two mis- ievous little boys uncorked the bot- » and poured a generous supply of | * 3 liquid on his head. They rubbed ! in well, grinning with delight. They | :de a second and a third application ' fore the bottle was exhausted; then »y stood off to view the result of | slr efforts. The effect was ludi- | | Society,” remarked the host. ‘ill)?l‘l been here?” Benny Dick nodded his head with a delighted grin of comprehensicn, “Hit's de doing er de Lord,” cried his mother. “He gwine turn my chile white an’' de done begunt on his head!” There was an ecstatic giggle from behind the door. Sarah Jane rushed inside as fast as. her mammoth proportions would ad- mit and caught a culprit in each huge black paw. ~“What yer up ter now, Jimmy Gar- ner?” she asked. “What yer been er- doing?” Sudden suspicion entered her mind as she caught sight of the empty bottle lying on a chair. “You been er- puttin’ suthin’ on my chile’s head! I knows yer, I's er-gwine ter make yo' mammy gi' ye de worses’ whippin' yer eber got an’ I's gwine ter take dis here William right ober ter Miss Minerva, Aln't y'all 'shame’ er yer selves? Er tamperin’ wid de ha'r what de good Lord put on er colored pusson's head an’ ertryin’ fer ter scarify my feelin’s like yer done. An’ yer hear me, I's gwine see dat some- body got ter scarify yer hides.” “It that ain’t just like you, Billy,” sald Jimmy, “you all time got to per- pose to make nigger heads yeller and you all time getting little boy's in trou- ble. You ‘bout the smart Alexist jack- rabbit they is.” “You perposed this here hair busi- ness yo'self, Jimmy,” retorted his fel- low-conspirator. “You's always blam- in’ yo' meanness on somebody else ever sence you's born.” “Hit don't matter who perposed hit,” said Sarah Jane firmly; “mean- ness has been did, an’ y' gotter be structified on de place pervided by natur’ fer ter let my chile erlonc.” »’n.. ww Aytalege. CHAPTER X. Lo! The Poor Indians. Billy had just decided to run down to the livery stable to pay Sam Lamb a visit when the gate opened, and Lina and Frances, their beloved dolls in their arms, came skipping in. Jimmy, who had had a difference with Billy and was in the sulks on his own side of the fence, immediately climbed over and joined the others in the swing. He was lonesome and the prospect of companionship was too alluring for him to nurse his ao- ger longer. “Avnt Minerva's gone to the Aid “Don’t y' all wish it met ev'y day ’stid ‘ef jes' meetin’ ev'y Monday?” “Yes, 1 do,” agreed Frances, “you can have so much fun when our ma-' mas go to the Aid. My mama’s gone too, so she left me with Brother and he’s writing a love letter to Ruth Shelton, so I slipped oil.” “Mother has gone to the Aid, too." gaid Lina, “My mama too,” chimed in Jimmy, “she goes to the Aid every Monday and to_ card partics mearly all the (Continued on page 6.) . Regular meeting every Tuesday at 7:30 at 0dd Fellows Hall, Visit- ing members always welcome, F. D. BRYAN, Chancellor Commander, A. M. JACKSON, Secretary. G.I A toB of L E Orange Blossom Div. No. 499 G. 1. A, to B, of L. E. meets every second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 2:20 p. m. Visiting Sisters always welcome, MRS. J. C. BROWN Sec'y. Mrs. J. B. HOGAN, Pres. G. A R Meets first Saturday month at C. E. Dayton's, South Ten- nessee. J. R. TALLEY, Adjt. S. L. A. CLONTS DEALER IN in. every CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts' Building. JUST A _MINUTE! {A New Meat Market on Florida Avenue Next Door toG. L, Gardncr | we have opened up a grocery store {ord meat market and are able to :‘l‘LI‘I\ish our custemers in good Floi- ica and western meats of all kinds Eiguh-k and prompt delivery. CALL PHONE 67. | | ! Really Interesting Item, | ®A newspaper receives daily for i pablication,” says the Berliner Tagze- { blatt, “a lot oi siuff which has about | @8 much literary value as a laundry | &lip. Bt ally something |c0mvs along which, unknown to the | writer, is so funny that it sees the illghl of publicity. Tlus, a corres spondent calls attention to the fact that the drama ‘Royal Love, which was seen for the first time at the Gira Theater, is by Daron Rosenkranz, who is a direct descendant of Rosen- kranz and Gnuildenstern, known to the world through Shakespeare.” oced Poetry in Skyscrapers, 1t is a mistake to think we must go back a thousand years or more for genuine poetic Inspiration or that the poet of today must necessarily confine himself to the veins that the Greeks worked to create their lasting vogue. There is poetry in the big modern in- stitutions where twentieth century life pulsates, if only there be the imagina- tion that can treat it in a masterly way. The Determination to Do. “The longer 1 live, the more deeply am [ convinced that that which | makes the difference between one ! man and another—between the weak and powerful, the great and insignift. cant, is energy, invincible determina- tion—a purpose once formed, and then death or victory."—Fowell Buxe ton. Cod. 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