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

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Inside the city one block from Lake Morton Smith & Steitz and G. C. Rogan Rooms 19-23 Raymondo Bidg. ' When you take a walk or ride, go through Rosedale the newest pariof Lakeland R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER wmmlhlludmdlnfiouflwfllfouo'mphund specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland homes 1 have bailt UKELAD, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA | | “What special luck has befallen you?” | being a business woman, free from | after night, while I'm One Gul’s Luk | “It’s funny how we never appreciate jour own good luck,” said the little |rather tragically of Helen, who was stenographer as she pinned tissue pa- per around her clean, stiff euffs pre- paratory to attacking the day's work. | “Well?” The bookkeeper's tone “Oh, it’s just the glory of being able | to work,” she declared. “Think of earning one's own living! Think of all the cares and tribulations of home life—nothing to do but earn a nice little salary that I'm sure of getting each week! “I'm much to be envied by my sis- ters in society, the poor butterflies who are forced to stay up late night renewing my beauty—such as it is—in sleep. The worn, ennuied, ambitionless girls who drag out a wretched existence trying to have a good time—how I pity them! The—" “Here, here!” exclaimed *the book- keeper, excitedly. “Stop before you're all run down. You're overworking yourself, child. I'm afraid you're go- ing to be ilL” The little stenographer smiled, “And he thought I meant it!” she ex- claimed, under her breath. “No, but listen to me!" she insist- ed, aloud. “Think of it! Here 1 get up at six o'clock mornings, well rested after a good, long sleep, having gone to bed at ten--no social engagements having kept me up—and 1 dress in five or ten minutes, having things all my own way, being bothered by no maid, and knowing exactly where my things are, having put them in certain places myself the night before. 1 know ex- actly what to wear, so I don't have to worry for an hour to decide which dress will be most becoming. 1 just put on my working dress on work days and my Sunday dress on Sun- days, and that's all there is to it. Why, it's beautifully simple. Think of the joy of having no worry on that score; then think of the trials of society belles, “Then, too, 1 know exactly where I'm going every day and just what I'm going to do. I don't have to worry and fret over whether I'm insulting or pleasing by accepting or rejecting invitations. 1 don’t have to attend leng receptions and meet illustrious folk and feel alarm lest 1 won't be smart enough to talk with them. 1 just calmly take a nice, convenient street car to my daily work. After 1 get there I find my day all arranged for by the firm—no worry whatever on my part. Shouldn't I appreciate all that? “I never have to face emergencies, being never called suddenly to some important social affair in New York or San Francisco or to Europe. Think of the poor girls, no older than I, who suddenly face the dire necessity of getting twenty or thirty new frocks and the sundries to attend them! Think of having to let modistes fit you to dress after dress, and having to suf- fer in silence, so that the fit of each may be perfect! For, being in the public eye, the society girl can't stick a pin in anywhere to hide a wrinkle and then stand so that side of her won't be noticed. She must be abso- 1lutely perfect all over. “Think of her troubles, and then think of me! I can devote any noon hour to shopping merely by going without lunch. I can pick up bargains at any sale, Then in not more than two or three weeks, by working eve- nings and Saturday afternoons, I can have a new dress made exactly as | want it. 1 don’t have to take just what some dressmaker tells me I must have. 1 can have a low waisted dress if 1 want it—and that kind is easier to make when every one is wearing high waists—and on one can stop me. “Think, too, of the poor society girl's having to take along a chaperon wherever rhe goes! Why, 1 can work nights until ten or eleven any time the firm wants me to and then take my five-mile trip home alone, and no one says a word. I have such per- fect freedom! 1 can go to a theater with just another girl, if I want to, and, sitting high up, no opera glass- es are turned on me to note with whom I'm eitting. From my comfort- able chair I can see the poor rich girl, In tight clothes and a stiff, un- | comfortable position—for she can't slouch down and be comfortable—try- ing to look unconscious of the opera glasses turned on her. I can enjoy the play, but she must be constantly think- ing of herself. “Say, honestly,” declared the little stenographer, looking half seriously at the bookkeeper for an instant, “do you know, after all, I don’t know but that I'm half right in what I say. I didn’t mean it at all when I sald it, but I've just about convinced myself that it's a pretty good thing to be me. “I don't know that I could ever live up to the requirements of a soclety bud,” she confessed, “and it's sort of comforting to know that I can be nat- ural once in a while and tell my trou- bles to a friend who likes me, not my money.” Then she turned to her typewriter, humming a little tune.—Chicago Daily News. Profitable Transaction. A great auk's egg which a collector dought in Parls for about 2s. was sold subsequently for £315.—London Mail { ! {my mo-t persuasive arts to engage the { called for particulars. Then he asked: | wealthy landed proprietress to do our | confided to me a week ago that he was THE KVENING ‘TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA.. APRIL 15, 1912, Her Unlucky‘ Star “Do you remember,” asked Laura, calling on her, “the time we sorority girls rented a cottage for a month | at Robiusdale and 1 endeavored with housework? Perhaps you recall how [ labored with her under the mistaken idea that she was a newcomer in this land of the free and that she was looking for a job as cook when she came to sce us?” “Yes, | remember,” answered Helen, | with a reminiscent giggle. *“I'm sure if 1 hadn't had the presence of mind to explain to her that you were so pit- iably near sighted you could scarcely distinguish the faces of your most in- | timate friends she would have turned us all out of the cottage in her indig- nation. 1 hope I shall be forgiven that very helpful little fiction about your defective sight.” “Do you recollect,” inquired Laura sternly, “that other occasion when I told the girl who roomed next to us at St. Agnes’ school that 1 had almost perished during the sermon of the long winded stranger preacher who had been inflicted on us in the chapel one morning?" “Yes," responded Helen, cheerily, “and she told you with unnecessary emphasis that the visiting clergyman was her father! 1 haven't forgotten your expression of dismay. It was too comical. And the enormous quan- tities of our precious goodies that you lavished upon her failed to soothe her injured feelings.” “Did 1 ever tell you," Laura asked again with a grim countenance, “how last summer I gratuitously and force- fully favored a Princeton freshman with my scathing opinion of any boy who couldn't pass his college en- trance examinations? If 1 did tell you I must have added that I found out later that he was conditioned on three studies. Of course the bright little summer flirtation with him that T had dreamed of promptly shriveled into a mere frigid acquaintance.” “Why do you indulge in these pain- ful remintscences?” demanded Helen. “Because of all the many malapro- pos things 1 have ever said or done there is none other that cquals my latest. Helen, behold in me a quiver- ing mass of contrition! 1 am think- ing of having my horoscope cast by some professional wizard in the hope of discovering under which planet | am especially prone to make unfortu- nate remarks to the horror of myself and the indignation of my acquaint- ances. Then 1 could elther have my- self gagged or [ could retire from so- clety during that destructive period.” “Your latest unfortunate remark must have been even worse than the one you made that time when you mentloned to Mrs. Ackers out at the golf club that you had greatly en- joyed being In a foursome with her son and she thereupon feily informed you that she had no son and that Mr. Acker was her husband.” “Oh, that was a mere pleasantry compared to the thorough manner in which 1 have forever lowered myself in the opinion of my cousin, Tom Bur- rows. You know that I have always adored dear old Tom and when he engaged 1 was tremendously excited. I begged him to tell me the name of the lucky girl. 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Dickson MAPS, Maps of any description compiled on short notice, given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints at rea- BLUE PRINTS 1 Special attention maps kept on hand. sonable rates. Special rates for prints in large quantities, e South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. LAKELAND, FLA. Prompt attention given mail orders. Room 213-215 Drane Building " DOUBLY DAINTY | is the sight of a pretty girl buying a box of our confectionery. The girl vulge her name-—just to tease me, 1 supposed, for Tom has always been an incorrigible tease. “Well, last evening at the Montrose dance Tom came to me and said that the time had come for the great meet- ing of his favorite cousin and his sweetheart. “l eagerly followed him across the floor to the side of a most attractive looking girl. Then Tom actually in- troduced her to me as ‘Miss Snickle- fritz.’ “‘Oh Tom!' T exclaimed, reproach- fully, ‘How horrid of you!’ “Then I turned to the girl and said, ‘Ot course you've learned already that my cousin always has to have his lit- tle joke under all imaginable circum- stances.’ “Tom glared at me furiously, but 1 couldn’t understand why, so I con- tinued as pleasantly as I could, ‘Please tell me your real name. “*Snicklefritz,’ she murmured. “I almost collapsed. Do you wonder that I feel it is necessary for me to take some kind of a cure? [ suppose Tom will never forgive me.” “Most certainly not, Laura,” was Helen's none too comforting assur- ance, “How could he, when the name is doubtless a thorn in his flesh? Snicklefritz! Isn't it dreadful? How delighted she will be to change her name!"—Chicago Daily News, London’s Consumption of Water. Londan consumed the enormous to- tal of 223,536,884 gallons of water ev- ery day last year. 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