Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 8, 1912, Page 6

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Phone 298 —_ Office and Show Rooms With the Florida Electric & Machinery Co., Drane Building “ W. E. O’'NEILL Plumber and Sanitary Engineer Lakeland, Florida Beauty and the Doctor By Catherine Coope by Assoclated Literary (Copyright, 1911, Press.) The young doctor drew in a great breath of country air. The garden at { the rear of the old home in which he | was to spend his vacation was a mass ' of scented flowers. Roses, zenias | dahlias all clustered about like little | Jorous souls roving in the moonlight. | A refreshing rain had cooled the | @ir, and because the night was beau- | tiful, and the doctor young, his ! thoughts turned toward the girl to whom his heart had lately responded ! Because his mind was in a chaotic | condition regarding the depth of his feeling toward Rose Langdon, Dr. | Emery had come to the solitude of the o!d manor house on Long Island. | His thoughts, for the moment bent ! chiefly on the beauty of the night, were casily interrupted. He paused | and listened, ! In the walled garden next door o solt swishing sound made regular har- mony to Lis car, e drew ncarer the 211 and looked over throueh a clump of bushes. is eves opencd wide and he leaned cautiou: away from the moon rays. Was she a wraith or a blood and \l.(me girl who trailed back and forth over the rain-couked grass? Dr. | Emery, so completcly startled out of | his every-day, humdrum city life, could xmt definitely an r the question. He watched with fascinated attention. The girl's attire was white and c]lugy and traily, and as she moved 1y | peeped forth. Those little feet found ‘n pool of water left by the recent | the girl's lips. tor. “By Jove! as beautiful as the lilies. “They toil not, neither do they spin,” thought the doctor, and the pity dropped out of his thoughts, the evidently joyous in this condition of the mind. After humming a few notes of lilting melody the girl tripped The girlis attire was white clhingy and /ra:fl/ quickly toward the house and disap- peared. Dr. Emery frowned, partly because | the garden seemed less beautiful and partly because he had been inter- | rupted in his attempt to diagnose this | peculiar form of brain malady. The puzzled frown remained as the doctor returned to the house, At an early hour of the morning there came to the doctor's ears that same tinkling laugh. He jumped hur- riedly from his bed and looked out of the window. The sun was a great ball in the eastern sky, and it cast its dawning color over the girl in the next garden. “This is assuredly a peculiar case,” muttered the doctor,. while he kept fascinated eyes upon the girl. She was in the front garden now and a blue kimono enveloped her; her head was bound closely in a turban effect of the same shade, and she wds trip- ping quickly about among the great hydrangea bushes. From time to time she would select a blossom and hold it in two caressing hands, then depths, { the little laugh rang out. The doctor watched her fuss over the tiny white | petals that clung to her eves and lips and nose. “She is just plum dippy!” ejaculated ! Dr. Emery, with a tinge of irritation { that she should be getting so much | joy out of living. *“I suppose if I dis- covered a cure for her she would be as grumpy then as she is happy now.” The girl then went down into the back garden and selected an ear of corn from the stocks, which she ate, nibbling it with apparent relish. Then she sampled peas, carrots and beets. “Mud and all! Most extraordinary!” For the first time in his career Dr. Emery regretted that he was not an insanity expert. “She seems to thrive on it—never saw such a beauty in all my life,” was the doctor's thought as he crept back into bed after the girl had returned to the house. He lay a long time wondering how he could ar- range to talk to the girl without arous- ing her suspicion. During the day he watched for vari- ous moods of the case. When the sun was high the girl came out with .ur( ss the long grass her bare feet | iraln, and a gleefu! chuckle fell from | “Insane!” muttered the young doc- | What a pity—she is | girl seemed so absolutely happy, so | [} uer ;.Iur:uus red-gold hair hanging, and pr icd to sway backward and for- | w 'rd, swishing it to the wind in the . after which she brushed it vigor- Now she thinks she is an halian wood carrier.” The doctor waiched | her put a book on the crown of her | head and walk slowly arcund and around the house. “I'll bet there is a specialist in that house watchlng her every minute!” In the evening when the moon was ! high the girl came again into the back | garden. Dr. Emery was well hidden' behind a clump of bushes. “Great Scott! She has on her buth- ing suit! And she is rolling in this | soaking grass! She’ll have sométhing | HOOOVOIVIGFOOQVPAOV tomorrow that will need a doctor as | sure as my name's Emery!” After rolling over and over in the wet grass and then lying full length ! on her back for a long moment, the | 'n“l pulled a bathing cap well merrg g er head and turned on the hose. \\‘nh laughter falling from her lips she ran in and out, squealing with the cold and exhilaration of her hose bath. A door opened in his own house. | “Oh, Dr. l.mery! Here is a tele-| ram for you,” the voice from the! | | | rering look at the hose | Cmery went for his’ tele- ‘ m. | e was summoned back to town. A aiient needed him and Ewmery took late train out that night. He went, determined to return as t.'ui(-klyi 18 possible. Pity being akin to love, | ie young doctor felt the diag 110HSv nf his own case was eagily made. Wecks wore on and still Dr. Emery was harnessed to the grind in town. | tle felt, however, that since the snow i wuas upon the ground the girl would not be permitted to carry on her in- sane wanderings in the garden. Rose | Langdon had drifted entirely out of his thoughts and only the girl of the garden lingered. It was at a big New Year dinner, his first social moment of the past months, that Dr. Emery glanced up {to meet his partner for dinner. The most radiantly beautiful girl | he had ever looked upon had laid a hand on his arm and was walking be- side him into the dining-room. “Then you are not insane!” he asked. The girl turned wide, violet eyes upon him. Then she laughed that same tinkling laugh that he had heard in the garden. “Not that I know of, Dr. Emery. Is there something in my appearance that suggests—" “Nothing but—beauty,” the doctor sald, beause it had been in his heart 80 long. “But last summer—" The girl turned quickly toward him and a bright blush crimsoned her cheeks. “Where were you?” she asked. “In the garden—next door.” Violet looked into Dr. Emery’s eyes and seemed fascinated by the multi- tude of questions she saw there., She laughed and tried to keep the color from her cheeks. “But why did you wiggle your toes about in the oozy mud—and why did you lie down in soaking grass that might have had copperheads and black beetles in it—and why did you come out at dawn and bob into the hydrangeas?” The dotor's look was so serious with its mixture of adoration that Violet laughed aloud. “You are forgetting the corn and carrots and peas?” she smiled and tried to recall just how far her experi- ment had taken her. “You see, Dr. Emery—you are not a beauty special- ist, or you would know there is noth- ing like early morning dew for the complexion. The hydrangeas gave me that. From the oozy mud, as you call it, and the grass, I was absorbing elec- tricity and nerve force.” The doctor was beginning to un- derstand. “But the book on your head and the green vegetables that no doubt had lots of little green—" Violet stopped both ears and turned slightly away. “I refuse to listen. You are trying to disparage my quest for beauty and I think it very com- mendable.” “It might be in some cases,” said the doctor, and when he smiled straight into her eyes Violet had the grace to blush. Vanishing Delicacy. The United States government will have the aid of the fishery experts of practically all the countries ot northern Europe in tracking down the mackerel schools which used to fre- quent American waters. In 1886, after several years of unusual friendliness, suddenly bury her face in its soft‘ the mackerel seemed to take an aver- It was at such moments that ! sion to their ancient habitat off the ! New England coast, and the catch has been dwindling ever since. In | 1885 500,000 barrels were salted for consumption in this country, leaving out of account the supply eaten fresh. In 1910 the entire catch was only 2,710 barrels. The mackerel is one of the best food fishes. The Spanish mackerel in particular is a delectable morsel, and its progressive disappearance from the market hos been a calamity. ! As the cost of n.est and game has | risen the range of table delicacics | has been sadly circumscribed, ana the mackerel’'s perversity in taking to new cruising grounds has been all the more heartless and inopportune. It is to be hoped that the Permanent In- ternational Council for the Explora- tion of the Sea will hunt him down and instil into him a new semse of duty to suffering humanity, For Effect. Caller—What a splendid library you bave! How in the world do you ever find time to read all these books?" 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