Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 15, 1912, Page 7

Job Printing A WING to the enlargement of our newspaper and publishing; business, it has been necessary to move The News Job Office up-stairs where it will be found in Rooms 11 and 12, Kentucky Building, in the com- For anvthing that can be printed, lif,you want petent charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. the best work at the| right prices, call on Mr. Williams, The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upsteirs) Kentucky Building. HOGDHIG GOIVDOOODODS PO UST RECEIVED Full Line Reach’s Base Ball Goods Our 50 cents Book Salc Is Still On Stationery in All Shapes .. Post Cards 1 cent Each i .U LAKELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, cated on East Lake Morton, Solicts the orders of all requiring anything in this line. POTATOES BEANS AL SEEDS Don't send away for such. Ihave as good as money and experience can command. N. Y. and Listern grown. Some from Jother sections “herever the best grow. FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes ALSO FERTILIZERS D. B. Dickson P OSGOCOOO cwwm&mmmmmw : ) ) OOOOOHOOOL ' » HONOGONDOONOOD & B OO OHOMOHOHE FO00COV0OVTILCIICACONOOC O TOCOIOIPLOOOLOLOLY | - > 3 R < TLOIOT THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKEI On Flossie’s Advice “Yes,” said young Mrs. Tomlinson as she poured a glassful of water into ! a shallow bowl filled with blooming bulbs, “they did bloom at last and they are pretty. But don’t you ever | let any one tell you what Flossie told | me about them, for it isn't true.” “Chinese lilies or narcissus?” asked | her visitor, as she slipped off her pin- | less hat and warmed her blue tipped fingers against the tea cozy, all set for gentle brewing. “I'm sure I don't know. I bought both kinds of bulbs and they got mixed, and now every bowl has some flowers with yellow centers and some that are white and everybody tells me a different story about which is which. But that doesn’t matter nearly 8o much as the rest of it.” Young Mrs, Tomlinson sank into her wicker chair and began to arrange the delicate tea cups, and after that she uncovered a pile of cheese sandwiches. “It is all lovely,” exclaimed her friend. “All—tea, cheese, sandwiches and flowers., I am cold and hungry, 80 hurry the tea, and do tell me what Flossie said that wasn't true.” “None of it was true—about the bulbs,” declared young Mrs. Tomlin- son, sternly. “And she started me on them, you know, She was here last summer when we gave our rubber plant to Aunt Sophie because Harry said it was too big to live with and fussed so about it. I was sorry to see it go, for it was the only thing I ever made grow, and I have spent a for- tune on ferns and various Kinds of plants, They die the minute 1 touch them. So Flossie suggested bulbs. They were quite cheap, she told me, “*Just get some cheap, pl2in glass bowls, said Flossie, ‘and you can gather enough pebbles this summer to fill them. Then get the bulbs—at 26 cents a dozen—and you have flowers for the entire winter. Plant them two weeks apart and then keep them in the dark for two weeks. In six weeks they bloom and you can keep taking out your bowls as the old flowers die.’ ' | It sounded delightful, so I decided to 1010 100 OTOPOIGHOIOIIE 0000 O BB John Edmunds, Prop. | butbs. try it “That was in July. We were going north for the rest of the summer, so I just made a note of it and watched for pebbles. Whenever we were in swimming or were walking by the lake I made everybody pick up peb- bles for me. Harry sald his pockets were full of stones all summer long, and he got awfully mad once because I emptied the cigars out of a new cigar box to put stones in, though 1 covered up the cigars and they weren't hurt a bit. *“I brought back four boxes of stones —perfect beauties, blue and white and yellow and pink. Then 1 began to look up bowls. Flossie sald the bowls would cost almost nothing at all, and I began to look for plain glass bowls. The cheap ones were dreadful pressed glass things and the only pretty ones were $1 each, 0 I got two of those and then looked at pottery bowls. Harry says that there's where I lost my head, but I looked on the bowls as an investment. And I got some beauties. They cost more than the others, but [ thought they were worth the money, and the Japanese clerk was such a dear about choosing them. “Then I got the bulbs. And instead of co:ting 25 cents a dozen they were three for a quarter. Flossie said 1 went to the wrong place, but I didn't know that, and I had bought six bowls, so I had to have plenty of bulbs. “About October 1 I began to set them out so they would begin bloom- ing about November 15. I never have got over this part of it. Harry has always given his cigar boxes to a neighbor boy and he came over to play in our basement one day and found my pebbles in those boxes and threw them all into the alley! “Harry wasn’t at all sympathetic. He simply refused to go and gather more pebbles by the lake, which he might have done to save expense, and 20 I bad to go back to the bulb store and buy little ugly, commonplace stones for ten cents a quart, “I finally got one bowl started in the dark In the coat closet. There Harry found it before it was & week old and spilled it all over the =ik lapels of his new tuxedo. Of course, his tallor could fix that, but he insists on counting it in as part of the ex- pense. He never seemed to care for my bulb ambitions, “That bowl was broken, and of course it was the nicest, and the little tender sprouts were harmed, so I bad to begin again. I took all the things out of the closet and had the janitor put up some shelves, and it didn't cost much and was a splendid place for the “But all winter Harry has said that : he hasn't been able to find a thing | in its proper place. He quieted down | a bit after the bulbs got to blooming | | —until he got his newspaper in a bowl one night, and then you really should have heard him rave, though it was just hi§ own carelessness. “Of course, I have learned a lot | about bulbs. I tell Harry that mext | year, since I have my equipment, everything will go much better. It is an investment, you see, so I must go on, for there are only the bulbs to buy. “If you ever want to try them, dear, come to me, or ask Harry. We know. Do have another sandwich.” 'SOLVED PROBLEM OF SPEED _— Engineer's Happy Thought Enabled Lusitania to Obtain Requirements Called For. A year ago I crossed the ocean with | Sir Willlam White, the expert em- ployed by the British government in building the fast vessels of their navy. We were on the Lusitania and he told me the story of that steam- ship. He was called in as counselor by the buflders. \When the boat was built, it was figured out that she should make twenty-three or twenty- four knots an hour. As a matter of fact, they could not get her above twenty-two knots, no matter how hard they drove the engines or how much conl they burned. He finstituted a serles of experl- ments, and it finally occurred to him that it was useless to try to drive the engines harder. The propellers, driven beyond a certain speed, beat up the water so rapidly that the air united with the water, with the effect that the propellers found no corre- sponding resistance. The water was too light. It was as when a man pushes his feet against a pillow. It occurred to him to enlarge the blades of the propeller, When he added 26 per cent. to the area of the blade, rals. | ing it from eighty to a hundred feet, at once the boat shot ahead up to the estimated speed.—Rev. H. A, Sthwson in the Missionary Herald. Putting Himself Right. Mrs. Scant—Will you have another slice of cake, Robbie? Robble—No, thank you; mother said I must refuse a second piece, ‘cause you mightn’t have it to spare.—Judge. In The Prompt Procurance of Man and the Rat. Man and the rat go everywhere and eat everything. They are the twd creatures that dwell in houses and travel in ships. Each drives its other rivals to the wall, but neither, except locally and for briet periods, has ever come near to exterminating the other. The use of cement is greatly facilitat ing the fight going on against the n'- One Old Method Retained. Prof. Griith at Leeds, England, speaking of dentistry in 500 B. C,, sald that the ancients attempted to re- place lost teeth with pieces of wood tled in with string. Dentists have now got beyond that, but they still yank out the peccant tooth in the old Babylonian way. New Industry for Italy. In Italy a means has been discov- ered to turn to account the hitherto worthless pips of the grapes used in wine-making. Oil is now extracted from them on a commercial scale by & process of direct heating with tetrachloride of carbon. The latter I8 obtained in abundance in Italy in the preparation of clectrolytic scda. Pig’s Co=tly Banquet. Pat could neither read mnor write, and it appeared that he had always kept his records on potatoes by cut- ting certain marks in them for cer tain persons and amounts. One day his pig found his way into the room and made a sumptuous meal from the brecious “records.” Ingenious O!d Sea Clock. The most popular form of old sea clock was the sandglass, which great- ly resembled the present day egg boller. Many of these glasses were timed to run 34 hours, and prior to the actly at noon. If it was carefully watched and turned as soon as the sand ran down the skipper could reckon the days with falr accuracy. Romance and Fiction, When a very rich man marries a very poor girl, that's romance. When a very rich girl marries a very poor man, that's fictlon.—Galveston News. Post-Mortem Statement. An Irishman saw while passing through a graveyard these words writ- ten on a tombstone: “I still live” “Be jabbers, if I was dead I'd own up |} to it."—Unidentified. P. E. CHUNN, Manager & IRONING SHIRTS . l | THE LAKELAND STEAM LAUNDRY " i .I ship leaving land the glass was set ox- | 8 PAGE SEVEN Rich Men’s Clothes at Poor Men’s Prices FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY Values are big enough to make them go fast so step lively if you want to save money. You’ll buy if you see the goods . . . ; COME, AND COME QUICK! 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