Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 7, 1912, Page 2

PAGE TWO New line Beds'in two-inch Post | Verni Martin, Oxodized, and; Near Brass Finishesf rom$2.75 | and up. SPRING TURMED UNDER |~ & FORUSE I¥ wooDeeD- |~ ADJUSTABLE |~ TOALLBEDS |~ HOOKS W POSITION TORUSE INIRON BED Our line of Springs are correct and prices vigut, From SI.75 and up. ROCKER THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., FEBRUARY 7, 1912. | ATypographical| Error By Jane Ludium Lee “I’'s no use, Edna, the Lord never meznt me to be very happy in this world. I'll bave to take what I can | get and be thaukful.” Edna looked up with a bored ex- pression. “Some people don't deserve even what they get.” The two girls were directly opposite types. Eleanor was tall, graceful, high strung, nervous, full of life and energy. Her most attractive features were her eyes, dark and deep set, | with a longing, unsatisfied expression. Edna was a type much less interest- | ing, cold, phlegmatic and near-sight- ed; a much smaller woman, too, with colorless gray eyes. On the bed lay lingerie of the most alluring kind, the sort of things that only women can appreciate. Pile upon pile of lacy stuffs were scattered about the room. Negliges so attractive that one could almost wish for an illness as an excuse to wear them. Surround- ed by these pretty things that women love, sat Eleanor Godfrey, who to- morrow would be the bride of Tom Grant. “There's one thing I can never re- gret,” she said. “I told Tom every- thing before he took me. It was bru- tally frank, I admit, 1o tell your fu- ture husband that the best love of your life has been given to another.” “Poor boy,” murmurcd Edna. “Poor boy, indeed. Don't T have to live with him? Don't I have to see him waste his life? And is it nothing that I have to eke out an existence crushing down my sighs, forcing back my tears?” Walking across the room to where Edna sat, she put her hands on a pair { of very unsympathetic shoulders, “How can you jm!;;«-‘f You t'n n | know the L conldn’t ve { he never I\v- loved lmn ever s a little girl, but you se: v well marry him bed asked me. Then, too, . is g0 poor, and all my life I've been | longing for things that Tom Grant's voin Oals, Reed, Rattan and Misslon at prices to suit. Cash or Instalment. Your Credit Is Good With Us, LAKELAND FURNITURE & IIARI)WAR[ C0. S. l A, Cl.ONTS Real [state, CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. IN Office in Clonts’ Building. NEW MARKET! MEAT MARKET AND GROCERY STORE. Good Meats, Fresh Groceries prompt service, reasomable prices. Call or phone J. ). Thompson & Son 809 North Florida Ave; 'Phone 287 Black. D00 FOPOFOHOFOPOIIFOF0S D004 QHQF0IOPOPOENET L0 SMITH & STEINZ Real Estate of All Kinds Rooms 19-23 Raymondo Building The Owner’s Price is Our Price SOSREOHOEOHPOIOSO IO MISOTOFO FOEQFOFOEOFOFOTFOFOSPOFOHF040O To Him Who Learns, Perenmiai youth and health of mind and body is only for him whose mind Is growine doily through the absorp- tion of 1t thouzhts that quicken every faculty and thrill every feeling with a sense of unlimited life.—Walter De Foe. T — Baltimore's Experience, The more you hear about what them boomers s goin' 10 do the more you don’t hear about what they have went to work and did —Baltimore Evening Sun. K\ How car " you /cdjtf money will buy for me. I didn't de- ceive him. 1 said I couldn’t love him; but he, still knowing this, wanis to marry me and I accepted. Now judge me if you will.” Edna straightened up a bit and the lines about her month seemed to grow dm' er.in an instant. “Ore question, please, before 1 cen- der tiie verdict. You take upon your soul the wrecking of this man’s ex- istence. You will suck the noney from the flower of his life and leave him nothing but the stem. This is easier for vou than being an ‘old maid.' Then, tso, supposing that Tom was in love with some other girl?" “I plead guilty to the charge, judge, and accept the sentence of the court. Your logic is getting stale; so let's go to bed that I may get ray beauty sieep and make a handsome bride. Think of it, dear girl, tomorrow at this hour my visiting cards will read ‘Mrs. Thomas Kemp Grant.'” The lights were put out and Eleanor was soon fast asleep, while Edna lay wide awake, as though her brain ran the words “I do not love him and he knows it.” If she only dared. The next morning was colorless, the air heavy; in fact, just the sort of day to make a bride look out of the win- dow and wonder if she really were superstitious. It was about 9 o'clock and Tom was whistling one minute and singing the next. He walked into the bedroom where his friend and best man lay peacefully sleeping. “Get up, you lazy vagabond. We can’'t keep the bride walting, you know That’s her privilege.” The best man rubbed his eyes, growled a bit, and finally crawled out. “Guess I'll take a shower,” he said. “Need some sort of a bracer to put me through this ordeal. I wouldn't do this for every fellow I know. Whisky,” he went on, “as a bracer is far superior to water in my personal and valuable opinion, but the maid of honor might object. Better take one or the other yourself, old chap. You’re looking pretty ragged for a bride- groom * Tom was practically ready. After working about an hour on it, he had managed to arrange his white puff tie to his entire satisfaction. He had but- toned and unbuttoned his waistcoat until his thumbs were blistered. He buckled it at the back untll the seam: threatened to give way. “I say, old man,” he yelled at the bathrocm door, “do you believe in presentiments?” “Bet I do,” screamed the best man. “Got one now.” “What's that?” shrieked Tom. A shaggy head appeared at the door and amid the soapsuds came this, “I've a presentiment that this is going to be a jolly cold proposition.” | “What, my marriage?” “What a conceited ass you are, Tom. | 1 had reference to my shower.” The door closed just in time to re ceive a well-aimed boot. By 11 the men were ready and on their way to the house. As they near- ed it, Tom became more and more nervous. There seemed to be a weight on his heart that he could not lift. At that moment the best man was hang- ing out the cab window, cursing the driver for the snail-lilke pace they were pursuing. “I say, Cabby, this is a wedding that we are going to, not a funeral. I'll give you an extra half dollar if you hurry.” “An extra half, is it? You talk like a politiclan. Well, sir, you might cor- rupt me, but this horse can’t be bribed and weddin's or funerals, his gait is all the same. Rest easy while you can, sir—the lady will drive you fast enough once she gets the reins.” The best man was about to rall at the Irish as a nation, when Tom said: “If anything should happen—" “Jumping Jupiter, Tom, brace up. You look as if you had curvature of the spine. you? ing object as you on her calling list would be ostracized by good society and one who would marry you woull be declared mentally incompetent,” “All right, I'll pull up, but I've .1 beestly idea that something is going | wrong. Jack, old man, I can't do it. I'm in love with Edna Cross and not | with Eieanor. I've just begun to reul- ize 11" Puli yourself together, will | Any girl that had such a look- | Repairing OF ALL KINDS ON WATCHES CLOCKS | JEWELRY The place where the Railroad Watches are repaired The place where your work should be done All work guaranteed. Prices as low as honest work can be done for. . Nothing but the best material used GIVE ME A H. C. | JEWELER \ _ | | { cnacher, then why did you i wnor to marry you, when you Inew that T have loved her all my lite, and T have been trying to forget ber for months? Night after night [ went over and sat with Edna, trying to male myself think T was forgetting | " a Lleanor.” “And every went to sece |5 nizht,” said Tom, nor heecuse you were over at Ildna's and 1 had no right to! | on your preserves. A nice What are we tres mess we've made of it, going to do?” “Do? Why, that's easy enough,” as- sured Jack. “I am going to be the groom and you can just slide back in- to my boots as best man. We'll blame the whole thing on the printer. Trust me, old man. I said I'd see you through this ordeal, and I'm going to! keep my word.” As the cab finally reached the house | the men stepped ont and were usher- ed into the room where the minister was waiting for them. No word of ex- planation was uttered, and the men took their places by the minister, who was to pronounce them man and wife. The wedding march was played and as Eleanor in her gorgeous robes came forth to meet the man of her choice, Jack Winston stepped forth and offered her his arm. Eleanor was speechless, but too happy to resent, and before the gaping crowd the min- ister tied the knot that made them one “till death do them part.” Then Jack began his explanations: “Simplest thing in the world,” he said, “You see, Tom ordered the in- vitations, and of course the printer took it for granted that it was his wedding- merely a typographical er- ror, more,” Ieanor's mother stepped in at this monent and with a haughty manner inquired: “Then may 1 ask why Tom gave the bache .ur dinner—why Tom bought the ring? “Yes, mother,” said Jack, with a very proprictory manner. “You see, I was broke at the time, and Tom, as you all know, is just loaded with mon- ey, o [ gave him carte blanche to Just go ahead as if it was his own wedding and I'd pay him back in good time. You see, 1 only came into my inheritance yesterday, and that would have been too late to order invitations, give dinners, etc. Anyway, how could you ever think that Tom was going to marry Eleanor? Why, he’s engaged to marry Edna, and if you don’t be- lieve me, ask them for yourself. not! —nothing more.”, The color that suffused Edna’s face, and the smile that glorified Jack's verified the statement, and the guests were in a flutter of pleasurable ex- citement when, in the corner, Jack | was shaking Tom by the hand and | saying: “Didn’t T tell you I'd see you through it, o!d man?” Attar of Roses to Be More Costly. The yield of attar of roses for the Bulgarian district known as the Valley | of the Roses, where some 7,000 acres are under cultivation, amounted in 1910 to 5,500 pounds, valued at $720, 242, an average of $130 a pound, as against 11,000 pounds, valued at sfl9w-‘ 436, an average of $81 a pound, in 1909. The 1911 crop has suffered from | frost and the price of the petals has risen from one and one-half cents to four cents a pound. A rise may con- sequently be expected in the price of the essence. Sultably Attired. Jester—I don't approve of black garments on solemn occasions. Lester—Not even for an execution- er. Q Jester—No; be should be dressed had pulled it down in fromt lnfll to kill. nl | I tell you it was a typographical error | Signs That Forsatell Weathar, The 3 wer signs t} Aad s couniry dweller timcans very 1 street, ul. 10 the icates rain o that other of the r notices and fore- traight in 1} ns that a farn olis bad weather, nmoon and san, louds and the | birds and peculiar actions of ! domestic animals are all in- dications of some change in the }'\u-.nhvr to the man whose eve has been trained to recognize the signs, | Absorb Water Through the Skin, Experiments have been made with frogg which tend to show that those I inimals rapidly absorb water through the pores of the skin, Emphasis is laid by certain authorities upon the fact that frogs never take water by the mouth. On being exposed for sev- eral hours to dry air some frogs ex- perimented with lost 14 per cent. of their weight, but this was nearly all ‘regained within 24 hours when they were placed in a dish containing wa- ter only one centimeter in depth, Asbestos Shingles. Asbestos shingles are now being | m inutactured in this country vith suc- cess, and the trade has grown cuorms- . The new produets are of the ll;.:hu‘ht weight temperature ot more degroes, acids and as long as a <o and fireproof up to a two thousand and hey are nroof against and id to last crete building will, 3 \*“lieted, it to church, mber all the had received, . keeping Lis the prayer, ete. ; in petition of the service nut m a complete battle over memory and Jocoram, ".\Imhor." shrilled the weury yvoungster, “when [ will it be tire for me to straighten | my neck? lr s like to break if I don't | do it soon! —— Why the Passengers Kicked. and he tri varied jus such as not head bowed But durivg the ure rises | o Circles about the streaks of greasy ' A motor-bus while traveling in Bow road recently was struck in the rear | by & tram car, and the impact forced |it on to another bus, which was sta- {tionary. The latter mounted the pavement and smashed some rail- ings. 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