Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 5, 1912, Page 7

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TWEEDELL 1 | life, poised on tip-toe, | ing toys; Pegsy told her mother about him. “Are you sure you are telling me tke truth?” Mrs. Danforth asked. “Of course I do not want to doubt your word, Peggy, but you know you do | Weave fairy tales sometimes, and this l sounds like one.” “No, this is a really and truly man,” Peggy Insisted, “and he lives in a big | bouse on top of a hill, and you go in { by a little gate and there 1s a walk with holly trees on each side of fit, 2nd at the end there is a door, with a brass knocker with a funny face, | and yon knock, and the man opens the [ door, and shows you into a long room < that is aimost cark except at one end | where there is a window with a lot ’of colored glass in it, and all around , the room are toys, and the man wears "1 velvet coat and he has a lovely | i Mrs. Danforth demand- | you happen to go there, '\ll lhn children do,” Peggy de clared. “When we go home from ' school we run up the path and bang with the knocker and see the toys, | and he never scolds, but just scems | glad to have us.” “Well, don't you go again,” Mrs, Danforth said, “until 1 find out about him, P It is a stranze Kind of | | man that wanted to bother with all | { the small boys and girls from your; | school.” “They don't all go, mother,” sald { Josephine, who was I’ 's glster, | nineteen, and very “I went to meet Pepgy ves ay and there ls‘ a colored porter who stands at the gate and he does not let all the chil- ‘lh'l‘ll in, just the lttlest Peggy.” ones like | just the littlest onecs like 1 Peggy, complacently, “and 1 asked him who the toys were for and rid he was making them for good children for Christmas.” Joscphine laughed. “Do you think you're going to get some?” Peggy nodded, “I am going to be as good as good," she said. When Peggy had left the room Mrs, Danforth asked, “Is it the new tenant at the Ouks that she is talking about, “Yes. He moved in a week ago, and it is a funny household, mother. Thera 18 just the toy man with two old servants, two wolf-hounds and a white cat.” “Does he make the toys?” Mrs. Dan- forth asked. Josephine nodded. “Yes, he carves all day, so the teacher told me. ! met her the other day when I went for Peggy.” The next afternoon Peggy did not get home on time. Her apologies when she did return were profuse, “The Toy Man was waiting for me and I just had to go.” “But I told you not to,” Mrs. forth said. “He asked me and asked me, moth- er,” Peggy said, “and you wouldn't want me to be not polite, would you?” | “The next time you must tell him that mother does not want you to go in. Now, remember, Peggy.” The next day Peggy came home with a rueful countenance, “He came out and asked me to go | in,” she stated, “and 1 did not feel | very nice to tell him you wouldn't let me." “I wonder why he wants P¢ | more than the other children?” Mrs. | Danferth asked Josephine, | “Goodness only knows,” said Jo- | sephine, and that afternoon, moved by curiosity, she made her walk take her in the roadway that led to the Oaks. Thus it happened that she met the gentleman with the nice smile and | the velveteen coat face to face, He was standing at the gate, and as the children passed he asked them to | come 1n, selecting, as Peggy had sald, | the littlest ones. Josephine joined Peggy as the little maid sald, regret- fully, “I multnt come in. Mother | won't let me.” Then she questioned | | Josephine, “Don’t you think I could, | Jogey?” | Josephlne hesitated. “Maybe if I went, too.” “Would you?" asked the Toy Man eagerly. “I should be 8o glad to have | you.” He led the way to the big dlmr‘ with the brass knocker and Josephine | and a group of little folks followed. | Josephine found that Peggy had not half told of the beauty and charm of the big room where the toys stood In | shadowy corners, and the stained- | glass window gave a mysterious light. | They were strange toys, some of | them litile green gods with yellow eyes, little ivory elephants, whose heads nodded, Chinese mandarins, bronze lions. “Surely you do not make these,” Dan- | Josephine satd. He shook his head. “These are what I make,” he sald, and brought down | from a high shelf a little figure at the | sight of which Josephine exclaimed, “Why, it's Peggy!” It was only in the rough clay, and a tiny thing, but it was Peggy to the curls flying, eyes wide with mystery of childhood. “They do not know,” he sald, “when | they play with my lions and my little old gods that they are my models. | work brigkly, and tell them I am mak- otherwise they would be :elrfonsclous Do you use only children for mod ¢ls?” Josephine asked, i THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAR ELAND, FLA., FEBRUARY 35, 1912, land was surrounded by an admiring | from you,” he explained, | together.” Self-Confidence. “Self-confidence 1s not egotism, It 18 knowledge, and it comes from the consclousness of possessing the abil- ity requisite for what one undertakes. Civillzation today rests upon self-con- fidence.”"—Orison Swett Marden, —— ‘T lke them best—yet I have thought that my masterpiece will be the figure of a girl, halt child, balf woman, ‘Where the brook and river meet.'” “You should have a very beautitul model,” Josephine sald. “Won't it bel hard to find?” He smiled down at her. found my model,” he said. But Josephine did not understand “ have Love Must Be Present. A crowd is not company. Faces are the significance of his tone. but a gallery of pictures, where there “I wish I might watch you work,” |15 B0 love, and talk is but a tinkling she said, ;cymbal —Francis Bacon. “I hope you will watch me many | times,” he said. He hesitated, and then asked, “Do you think your moth- er would let you sit for me? 1 should | like to do you as you are now with that big muff and fur, and with that | three-cornered hat on top of your | curls. You seem the very spirit of youth; your vividness almost lights up this dull room.” Josephine had never been called pretty, and there was something in this man's tone that made her feel | that he meant what he said. It was not flattery, but rather the satisfied | estimate of one who has found what | he wants. “I am afraid mother wouldn't let | me come here,” she said, “but if you | | conld vork at our house.” | “1 will ask her,” he told her it he [lul(hd S0 vloqurn'l}' Danforth consented, and ev Hot Chocolate ery duy after that Josephine sat lnr. him, with Pegey and the little folks, | and the statue grew under his dol‘(‘ fingers, It scomed to Josephine in these | days that life took on new meanings This nan, with the slender, white | fingcrs ind the kind smile, beeame so | much a part of her thoughts and her | daily lite that when one morning he!‘ announced that the statue was fin- | fshed and his sojourn at the Oaks end ed, & cave a little gasp of dismay Are you going to leave us?" she ! asked He did not look at her as he s:ml PHONE 62 slowly, “L must. [ cannot stay here SO0 any lonzer; 1 must not.” She didn’t dare ask him why; some | instinet told her that ft was because of her that he was going. Because she vwius a woman she must let hlmi leave in silence. The children ex- | presscd their regrets; they did not know how they were to get along without thefr dear Toy Man. | “Aren't we ever going to come and | Rich Men’s knock at the knocker and sce the | SRR mandarin and the lons?” Peggy walled, “Joscphine shall have the key,” he sald. “Perhaps she will come here sometimes and let you play. Will you?' he asked and Josephine sald, “Yes." After he had gone, however, she found that it was not easy to visit the big empty room. The spirit of the man who had presided was lacking, the children were restless without his quick suggestion and tactful planning It gradually came about, therefore, that the boys were left alone in the big room, and the children played out of doors In the winter sunshine, Josephine droopped and lost her brightness, and at last Mrs. Danforth sent her to visit an aunt in the eity. Then a round of sight-seeing and of excitement began for Josephine. ! One day she came to an art exhibit and was startled to find her counter- ! T F FOR A FEW the goods : part in white marble in the center of the room. 1t was a beautiful figure crowd, Josephine, gazing at it, forpot her surrcundings. Then some one said, “Hush! here comes the sculptor,” and L she turned and faced the Toy Man, “You—at last,” he said, and drew her away from the crowd. In a se- clnded corner of the room he asked | § her many questions. “Did you think me cruel to leave you?" Jogephine’s face flamed. dare think,” she said. “If I had not scen you here,” he | told her, “1 was going back tomorrow | 10 the Ouks to find you, and you know \\hy I want you Josephine?” “I am not sure,” she faltered. “There were things that kept me . “I didn't | Beginning LJanuary Ist, Florida. “I had had great money fallures, and the old furniture in that house was the extent of my possessions. Everything depended upon my ability to make good with this statue. | was to recelve a contract for larger work, if 1 could produce something besides the tiny figures over which | had wasted 80 many years. If my statue (of you had failed I would have had no right to ask you to marry me for ruin would have faced me, but now— now | can go back, and we will work Phone 233 Red The children in the little town wel- comed back their Toy Man with en- | thuslasm. He was too busy now to have them every day, but once a week they were welcome, and just hetore' Christmas he and Josephine were | married. After the wedding there was a strange departure from the | usual custom, for Instead of a recep- | tion at the bride’s house, there was a | house warming in the big living room at the Oaks. Only children were in- | vited, and each child as it went away | received a toy, and Peggy rnmumuq and smiling assisted in the distribu- tion. “It is perfectly lovely,” she an- nounced, “to have a Toy Man for a brotaer-inlaw, it is almost like being in the game family with Santa Claus It's just the nicest thing that ever Jappened, isn't it Jo hine?” and Josephine, standing radiant by her busband’s side, agreed, Eastern grown. wherever the best grow. of Pure Maine | ALSO FERTILIZERS D. B. Dickson A Queer Habit, “I'm sure that my hushand docsn’t rink,” sald the bride “That s0?” asked the oldt “Yes, but he has one very pe uHar habit. 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