Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 19, 1912, Page 6

*aivg lll Every little bit helps. You can always spare ‘“something™ if v ve just a little within your income. By adding a ‘“‘trifle” ev- ety aay you will, in time, have a fortune and jn any case Provide against misfortune. Bring a “little bit” into this bank every day start now. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND ; Under Control of U. 8. Government OO G B g REAL ESTATE 3 You want, see us "\.hvrc you buy. We have it 2 anywhere and in any size tract., and if it is ® ) INSURANCE 3 You are needing we can give you the bestjon carth and treat you right, 3 g Polk County Real Estate & Insurance™ Co. Office: Rocm 7, Deen & Bryant Bnil-ling TGO LI IOIO YOU SHOW WITH PRIDE the bath room you have had us cquip in up-to-date style. You don't show the old fashioned kind at all. It you have heen deterred from having the yours modernized by imagined expense, have a talk with us. It may nct cost nearly so much as you have been led to believe. lakeland llardware & Plumbing Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will fornieh plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications turnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakelond homes I have built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We arc exercising great care to s+l our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other aitratcions. Wide strects, shade treps, fertils sall, bullding restrictions. Inside th. . one block east from Jake Mor ten. SMITH & STEITZ and G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Bullding Whatever You want in rea lestate wq have it . Fate of Elfida Elfridla Mooner had been well brought up. Her mother had seen to that with the painstaking care of one who herself has learned through experience, Elfrida knew 2t once when con- fronted by a bouillon spoon that it was not a cream scoop and she had W great scorn for a young man who walked on the wrong side of one upon the street. She ulways signed her formal letters “Most cordially yours,” and spoke of Lcr mother us “m'-mab,” and with the accent care- tully placed on the lust sylluble, So it is easily realized that tre- mendous self-control was required on Elfrida’s part to endure the young man who sat next to her at the dance given by the Royal Order of Brothers of Something-or-Other in Elton Cor- ners, where she was visiting some hitherto unknown cousins. When the young man at the dance had broken the ice by saying that it was a pretty party Elfrida had re- coiled. Ho had not been introduced! Everybody seemed to know everybody else in this town and she could not get used to such a situation, There was something familiar about the young man's face as El- frida stared at him, but when the full sweep of recollection rolled across her and she recalled vividly that she had seen him in Reston's butcher shop Elfrida almost choked. He was a nice looking young man. Dimly she recalled that his father was Res- ton, who owned the shop. Perhaps this young man cut off steaks and sliced bacon! “I think not,” Elfrida sald faintly [ when young Reston asked if she would dance that waltz, “All right; saild as a matter of course, the next one, then,” he Then It was early morning and the Bark- tons stood in the door of their sum- -er cottage talking things over. The tember air was still raw and har- S to the marrow. Even at that r.om-nt relatives were heading toward i+ arktons' city home to do some y , and the Barktons were won- ( what they would better do. 2K} ood fresh country air was all T for them, facing a winter in the ¢+ . grimy, worked-over atmosphere, b+ ¢ there is nothing appealing about i simple, suburban life to those who e to spend part of their vacation {0 ing in the sights of the great, ' bbing city., And the Barkton cot- t » lacked running water, hot water an! a lot of other conveniences. ‘'he more they thought it over the wre clearly the Barktons recognized that they ought to go back to their flat and not drag their visitors out to the cottage. Then after their company | had sped along they could return to the country and remain until the chill autumn winds would drive them back to the city for the winter. “It's a sbame,” while they were packing up. “This thing of going back to the city to listen to the toot of auto horns when you're trying to sleep and to breathe soot instead of air is enough to make you weep. How I hate it! Then this packing up and moving to town and; packing up and moving back to the country isn't making a hit with me.” “Perhaps we'd better just close up the cottage and stay in town,” sug- gested Mrs. Barkton. “If we come back to the country it'll be for so short a time that there's hardly any use in it.” “You've struck the combination!" | said Barkton, with much sarcasm. “Go back to town and sit around in a lhe went to hunt for another partner. oy ;v flat when we have the whole Elfrida’s cousins Ystened wonder- ingly a moment later to her fire of| ¢ 1 know it questions and her tale of woe. “Why on earth shouldn’t Ned Res- ton ask you to dance?"’ they inquired. “He goes with every one, and we've grown up with him! He went to the college across the river and is good looking! Why shouldn’t he go to the same parties as we?” Her sense of being wronged was hard to maintain, begause young Res- ton had proved himself a good dancer when he had come back and taken his waltz, Elfrida had touched his arm with the tips of her fingers and had tried not to breathe as she went S | through the ordeal. The next night Ned Reston called and her cousins seemed to assume that the call was meant for their guest, for they gradually disappeared and left her the burden of entertain- ing him. Only a strict sense of duty to a guest under one's roof prevented her from rising and bidding him good night. She resolved in a kind of cold fury to have it out with her cousins after he left, and it was when she was taking out her hairpins later that she realized with a start that she had forgotten to do so. She had been thinking about a western story that Reston had told her. In angry disgust she admitted that he could talk well. Still, the taint of the bucher shop hung over it all. Elfrida writhed the next day when her cousins_frankly joked her about her “catch.” She felt disgraced. When there were picnics and other testivities to which every one went in crowds Ned Reston singled out El- frida as a matter of course and no- body acted as though it was in the least extraordinary. help her evade him. It was lwmpos- sible to make her cousins realize the fine line of distinction which made | it right for Ler to evade him. Elfrida felt her brain tottering, espe- | clally as it grew harder and harder | for her to realize In Ned Reston's company that the situation was im- possible for a well brought up young gitl, Finally the young part van quished the well brought up section | of Elfrida’s nature and with a little ! thril! of exquisite horror she realized that Ned Reston was making love to 1 her and that she liked it It was some time ~fter mother was told that her was going to marry Ned, who | was buying him a hall inter t in the leading hardwure store in Elton Corners, that she discovered the dark | fact that this afluant parent owned the village meat market “We'll never, never speak of shie gasped to Elfrida in anguis w.l dismay. The troussean was ng | finished and she really couldn’t break off the match. “My poor chili' How ! could you, how could you'" | Elfrida regarded her mother in med itative curiosity as though recalling | the time when she, too, had felt that | way. Then she laughed—uot a well | brought up laugh. but an amuased | chuckle. “My goodness,” she said re “Things like that don't seem 1t a bit of difference to me g | Chicago Daily News Chief End of Trave!. “We must go to Stratiordi” “What's the use? We Etratford post cards in Tondon” “My friend, one thing more than | to write my name en S tomb ™ buy Nobody tried to | J | fug and walked into the adjoining autumn ahead of us hey? Well, not Of course I might h ve known that you'd rather sit half sv To- cated in a flat and stare at a brick wall across the court than be out in the open drinking in the fresh alr and the gorgeous autumn scenery, wouldn't you? “What's that? We'll come back to the country if I prefer it, eh? Oh, yes, and you fuming and fretting about it, I s'pose, and wearing that abused, patient look you put on when you're doing something that doesn’t just co- incide with some wild feminine ideas of your own. Yes, you can just bet a pint of assorted hairpins that we're coming back to the country for an- other month and don't let that get away from you, either. Or, at least, I'm coming back. If you want to stick around a flat just when we're enter- ing on the real choice season of the whole year, go ahead. Put don’t count me in on any system of that sort.” The morning after their return to the flat Barkton arose leisurely—it was on hour later than usual, for he didn’t have to allow time for the trip to town—and strolled Into the bath- room. He took a brisk bath and then got out his shaving implements. He turned on the hot water faucet, coated his face with a luxuriously warm prep- aration of lather, took the chill off his razor under the faucet and then be- gan to shave. “Say, this hot water helps some’” he observed to his wife. “I've been blaming it on the razor. All I need- ed was something warm to limber my beard up a bit. Say, this water’s good and hot!™ Five or six days later the Bark- tons' guests went on their way. When Rarkton got out of bed the next morn- room he found Mrs. Barkton busily folding a lot of things and placing them in two suit cases that lay open on the spart bed. “Whutchuh doing”" ton sharply. “Coing where? Back to the country® 1Is that so? Then, vou're goinz back alone. for I'm not| fn on it. This place here looks pretty rood to me. Looka pretty good, [ say. Maybe some Sunday U1l take a| run out to the country and fool around | +i11 night, but onteide of that I'Nl Just postpone any more country life till| next spring. and vou can take those shirts of mine out that suit case! it you will mut ‘em back | inquired Bark- in the chiffoni s thev belong *“This coirniry Yness can be | nverdone I've the morn- ing and washed shaved in that| cold water at the cottage t ahout I care to 'hiei vear, Just back-to-the- country notior r svstem | withont any unnec. Y. Garden Science. son tne tcmaio vines In Doubt. cting to equip a r the Electoral col-| Where's that?” — Baltimore muttered Barkton, | We Won't Sacrifice Q" but we are always stedyving more. Best Butter, per pound . Sugar, 16 pounds . ... Cottolene, 10 pound pails Cottolene, 4-pound pails Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails. . . 4 cans family size Cream 7 cans baby size Cream 1-2 barrel best Flour. .. 12 pounds best Flour....... Picnic Hams, per pound Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams. Octagoa Soap, 6 for. Ground Coffee, per pound 5 gallons Kerosene WE WILL GIVE some REAL 1ty in your home if you will but ask us for an ESTIM\T! You can depend on our estimats sou can obtain a thoroughly fipst- right materials and fixtures Prompt work and no “skimping” DRANE|BUILDING Job Prlntmg | 71\ \ O\\’l.\'(} to the c¢nlarg newspaper and heen necessary 1 it has up-stairs where 1t will be 11 and 12, Kentucky petent charge of Mr. G. J. 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