Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 20, 1912, Page 7

THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LARELAND, FLA, JLLY 20, 1912, faces and new cation Days mvite KODAK asv for Ar\\u.c to Koaad. < sliow you. e have Ko- rom =2 up, Bmwmc Cameras places your $1 to $12. e CENTRAL PHARMACY Quick Service Phone 25 SR ? THE WORLD SMILES AT YOU through the fragrant smoke of of an Inman Blunt cigar. As you smoke it your troubles vanish as if by magic. Mind and nerves are soothed and dif- ficulties become trifles or fade away entirely. Think that's 2 lot to claim for a 5-cent cigar? Well, try an In- man Blunt tonight after supper and it's a safe bet you admit the claims are justified, ) Matufactured by lnma“ Cigar r actory Lake.and Fla. Phone 233 Red Whu it pays te Buy Hal%dwage Here & talk personally to every man and woman who reads PO i s and defects and disexrd every article that we believe ! any way prove unworthy when placed to the test of ac —they would realize why they could not afford to buy goods é iy other store g 3 3 , : & © lor nstance, granite ware. All stores are not as careful :;. & & e A tiny chip off or 4 slight blemish here. and the ar ,;: s not go out to any customer, because right at that flaw o <is to work. and the avticle is worthless Everything you is exactly as represented, @ ter what you need—a wrench—pump—food chopper— *to us. Let us show you our stock and pive you onr A s o ] <3t Ihe Jackson & Wilson Co. l;‘n SELOCKADED]|" = “'If you d(mt mind I would | But still doing Business at the OLD STAND Aotk * 0L special sales all arourd vs and blockaded for several ¢ postoffice building, w: are still selling pure, clean \ N v Jem out promptly. If w ¢ cannot do business by ont door _we will try Crders, P. PILLANS & (0. Pure Food Store Ask the Inspector W, The p, PHONE 93 vrtisement—tell them hew we carefully examine every hic @ ire before it is placed in our store: how we search ‘og L OHOBOCOO 1 | | mosphere and he provided the tea and | to have been brought under compul- | ment sketch of a bathroom Getting His - Willie's Start Surfeit “We all have to have our begin | nings,” said the artist, as he put the finishing touches to a soap advertise- interior. “l was not always famous and pros- perous. I have known the time when a sudden sight draft for less than four figures would have seriously embar rassed me.” “You figure in the cents in that statement, 1 suppose,” said the studio loafer. “1 might even go as far as that,” as- sented the artist. “Did [ ever tell ycu bow I got my start?” he continued. “Well, I'll tell you; it was in triplicate portrait work.” “Portraits of triplets?” inquired the studlo loafer. “Dobber told me he did dime museum posters, too, at one time.” ‘He ought to have stuck to that branch of art,” remarked the artist. “No, you misunderstand me. I'll tell you how it was. There was one win- ter I was pretty well on my uppers. At that time I got acquainted with Glotto | you sure you don't want to go?” Parkinson, and I tell you he was a| “I'd ruther go play with Arthur godsend. He had a studio in the Gros- | Jones,” Willle sald, wriggling. He veror and he didn't use it nights, be- | edged out of the door sides having a samovar that he got in| “I just know he's going to be sick,” the Ghetto and plenty of alcohol. The | repeated his mother. Grosvenor doesn't favor light house-[ “I wouldn't worry,” sald his Aunt keeping, but I was pretty careful how | Victoria. “He looks perfectly healthy.” I threw my scraps out of the window. “One day Parkinson gave an exhib- it. He knew quite a few people in re- spectable circles and he thought there was a chance that some one of them might buy a picture of his if they got well under the influence of a proper art atmosphere and Russian tea. I stuck up a few little things of my own with his to furnish the art at- Willle's His mother sald she just knew the child was {1l and she held the medical thermometer under his tongue by main force, but his Aunt Victoria raised her eyebrows and narrowed her eyes while studying him, The trouble was that Willle had not shrieked with joy when his mother had said that she would take him to the circus. He lad not even seemed faintly interested. It was an unheard of state of things! “He hasn't any fever,” announced his mother anxlously, consulting the thermometer. “Does your head ache, darling?” “Nope,” Willie said cheerfully. “I never heard of a boy who wasn't perfectly crazy to go to a circus!” per- sisted his mother. “Why, usually you worry the life out of me from the time the posters are put up! You was announced, and I don't see—are amazed as was Willle's mother. Re- garding Willie from a calin, unemo- tional point of view, she recognized the fact that there might be other ex- planations than any which came into the mind of his worried parent. for several weeks in the suburb show- ing forth the glories of the small cir- cus that was coming, and Willle, with the other small boys, had followed the Lil) poster about, hysterically whoop- ing with glee, e had talked circus and dreamed circus for days and had the samovar. 1t turn. 1 out all right. [ There was a coal haroness among I those present and 1 got her worked up to the point of orderving from me a [ portrait of hee tenyvear-old son for $50, rearly broke his neck practicing on “she broue) around the very | the tight rope in the back yard, to the et day i vits it good fel- | eerious injury of (he family clothes- | low and hie Tet nie have the ugo of his | line. And now, the second day of the hop 16 job. Weo had a hally good show, he had rejected his chance to dginner on the stecunth of the condl- 0. It certainly was not normal con- tons anyway, The Kid was a sallow- | duct on Willle's part. faced, sKinny-like monkey, not at all His Aunc Victorfa coraered Willie like mamnia, but 1 caleulated 1 could that evening and oftered him some idealize him by a wide streteh of my | chocolates, “Tell me why you don't| well-known imaginative faculty, He had one sitting that day. The next day and for several other sittings his nurse brought him, and 1 want to say that 1 had the dickens' own time set- ting that imp to keep still. It didn't do any good to talk to him. All | got by that was sass—oh, the worst sort. I just sweat blood fnr four days trying to get some sort of expression on that portrait that wasn't exactly diabolical and yet resembled the kid, At last I got it. “Two days later the plcture was done and the sigh of rellef that I heaved made the windows rattle, [ notified the baroness and she and the baron came to look at it. He geemed want to go to the clrcus,” sho sald, be- gullingly. “Huh!" said Willie. “I scen it." “l knew perfectly well you weren't antly. “Have another chocolate, Did you go to it yesterday? “Huh!" conflded Willie. t.” Aunt Victoria clutched the chair arm, “In t?" she repeated falntly. Willle kicked one foot meditatively against the step. “Well,” he amend- ed, “not eggzactly in it, y'’know. 1 wuz on ft.” Aunt Victoria felt her back hair dis- tractedly and swallowed hard. “Willle!" she cried impressively. ‘Tell me this minute what you mean! If your mother dreamed—" Willie edged nearer. “I rodo a nele phunt,” he confided, “in the parade.” “Do you mean to say,” his question- er gasped, “that you actually were in the procession? On an clephant that has a milllon more germs than a fly has—and you know how frightened Your mother is if a fly gets near you? How did yon dare—" “A man said 1 could,” Willle pro- “l wuz in sion and to be but mildly interested, I had learned that he was nierely stepfather to the brat, so I dldn't won. der so much at it. But the baroness threw fits of cestasy over the plcture and ordered two more at the same price, after trying in vain to beat me down, “I won't tell you what | went through within the next month with the heir apparent, how day by day 1 grew to loathe the litt'e wretch more tested. “I was hanging around with and more. The dear angel had per- | the other klds. [ seen it all becauso 1 fored a large variety of intere ting | erawled under the tent. I helped feed tricks around the place to relicve the the clephunts an’ the man he ast if I monotony of the gittings, and he wanted to be in the percession, an’ 1 { Wound up by coming early onc ter- | gajd I did, an’ he got a red coat an’ I noon and coloring Parkinson's cher- | wore {11 Say, did you know elephunts ished Florentine prints n oil i onr are £o high up when you ride ‘em?” absence. . When [ remonstrat i ho “Wlllie is not coming down with { 8ave me a choice line of ga | [ knee and lald merrily on Cro- typhoid or the meas les,” his Aunt Vio toria announced later to his parents., “In fact, I should say ho is more than ordinarily sane and healthy.” Willie’s father hates germs ag murh as docs Willle’s mother, and he wag ! upon I took my little man acr my ‘Nearly two weeks later the baron cawght e in, “‘Don’t be alarmed, he gail I oal retreated to the window. ‘I onl led annoyed on hearing of hlq son’s deeds, | to pay you for the pictures. 11 ive “You really ought to tell him not ta | th l- is the right amount.’ do such things!” he sald to his wife. ‘e lald a slip of paper on tae It was then that Willle’s mother n was a check for $100 turned on Willie's father. “My good. ness!” ghe gaid. “Who on earth would '7 | ever think on g tting up In the morn- | shake hands with yon, he cornt L | ing of telling = jorhe ctly well brought “I backed aw up child "h[ Le 1pust not on any ao~ “'I see that you still fail 1 ler | count put on a red coat and ride rm etand, he said. ‘I want to ¢ U | elephant! Dot 'H'l and your som | | sir, that you have re 1y | you'll drive m 7 | and heartfelt tha 1 Ul “Anyhow,” I Willie contented | | You gave that young : -« ['y 11y, “T geen the i . ' longed to do it N r, G é ‘ I envy you. By the way, | n ’ I ! | | | like to talk to ; it Bay you are sorry. Plence y --and" that. I'm pressed for time r t T hope to see you snon. 1 ’5 check is right, i=n't it 7; i Mattress M ak I n very much. Good day.’ | “He thook hands with n 7| FURNITUR: but vigorously and then t | OLD MATY { denly and bolted. I called « 1l cus ION S ds 1 we got quite chummy. I . ;nrr'~ r e Rlatne Mustrating for a railroad + 2 i ! as a gide Issue and I did it I T * may say that he discos 1{laid; also mat ete, know that if i hadn't ! tie| In regards 1 rkm: way he boosted me ame - | Mr. W. P, Pillins, of Ls | eved acquaintances I wor °B |krew me for about 16 years at or-| :'o‘l;marallve]y obscura and " | lando, Fla, Drop me a postal card oday.” ‘ I8 C ; el “Boosting for basting, « sall th oyt d SN T 411 8. Oale n - studio loafer, 'make it conveni ilpholstering fice I have o flflfififififlfifififil “You ean’t keep genius down,’ artist. Artllur A I)ouglas‘ mother was amazed, but | Willie's Aunt Victoria was suspicious. | But secretly she was as much | gunable rates. There had been gorgeous posters | Room 213-215 Drane Building golng to be sick,” she sald, triumph.|= IN. A. RIGCINS PAGE SEVEN PATRIOTIC MUSIC cn the Fourth as a matter of course. IBut how about a piano to accompany the singers? You certainly should Fave one and there is no reason why you can't, and at once. Our pay a# you play plan will enable you to se- cure a splendid piano right mnow. 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