Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 13, 1913, Page 6

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FLORIDA THE EVENING TELEGRAM, I P QIO POPO QPO O !'of character 1o show, < | AKELAND, FLA., JAN, 13, 1913, NOT A SECAET NoW| Daisy Kilrain, Stenographer, Talks to Her Wrmng Machine, By HILDA CLIFFORD, - I'really wonder if every girl feels as I do under similar circ umstances, Cer- tainly, I hope so, for I am too happy to draw a long breath., What is it that has made me so wildly joyous, oh lit- tle typewriter of mine? I will tap out the story on your keys, for you are in- directly responsible for it all, First, do you need an introduction to me? If so, I am Daisy Kilrain, stenog- rapher, and happiest girl in the world, just nineteen. Yesterday I could have said nineteen and never kissed, but today, well, typewriter, I'll tell you all about it. I've had several other places, but came here six months ago, and am the only girl in the business, the oth- er employes being all men lnd boys, from the Head down to Kit the office boy. Of course my work was taking the letters of the Head, and occasionally ones from the rest, although they talk 80 slow that I can write them right off on you. The Head can rattle them off so fast that it keeps my pencil fly- Ing to keep up. It's hard to tell you just what the Head looks like, for | you aren't a girl with eyes in your head; but he's great and big and such a man! His eyes look right into yours, and woe is me if you ever tell even a tiny fib; but I never have, There is something about such a man | that inspires confidence, and, yes, love; I might as well write it and get it over. Some of the fellows ia the outer office said that he was a wom- an hater, but I never believed that, for | there are kind lines about his mouth, and when he smiles his whole face | lizhts up, and you feel better and stronger for having known him. There | s a lot of work here, but I like to work and keep busy, so I didn’t mind, until the bookkeeper bhegan putting off some of his work on me. He found | out that I can add better than he, and | then he kept on giving me more and ' more of his figuring to do, so that I had to stay overtime every night. At first 1 said nothing; then I thought I “Is It Possible You Can Care for an Old Crusty Fellow Like Me?” spoke about it. unpleasant smile, and said: “Righto, Miss Daisy, you shall have your dinner, but I'll pay for it,” and of course that ended dinner money for me, because 1 wouldu't have let him pay for anything Ior me, not if 1 starved, Some one once told me that no girl ever married her employer unless she was fearfully in love home very much indeed. Perhaps she is right, but I wonder why. Of course a man's stenographer know { him better than hiz home folks, in & way, but when he has only nice traits why shouldn't she love him, all the more? girl sees a man bear up under misfor- tune, keep his temper, show considera- ticn under circumstances that would make a saint long to hreak all ten of the commandricn why, that tends to show how awfully nice he is, doesn’t it? [ think so. At yeserday morning, things came 10 a climax, The bookkeeper had piled tiings up on me the day before so that it was nine o'clock before I left the office, and I {had nc¢. stopped for dinner. | left does last, the work on the desk ready for him, but when I came down iy the morning I found Kit the office boy nearly fran- tic because he had spilled ink all over au that carefully tabulated stuff, and 1 knew 1 would have to do it all over. This upset me 80 (though I didn't say a word to Kit; poor little chap, he couldn’t help it) that my hands were shaking when I went in for dictation, and everything looked blurred before my eyes. The Head began, speaking in his usual rapid way, but it really seemed to me that he, too, was nervous. Sud- denly I found that he was beyond me, and I sald, my voice trembling: “Excuse me, but you are talking too fast.” He stared at me, and no wonder, | for it was the first time I had ever asked him to speak slower, “What's the matter?” he asked kind- | ly, and I broke down. Just think of it, T cried like a baby, and all the time i was entitled to dinner money, and He smiled, a rather | or wanted a| When a ! 18 was patiirg my sloulder with the uler which he bhad snatched up in his axcitement, not knowing what to do vith a sobbing girl. | kept on crying jarder and havder, and he kept on vatting my shoulder with renewed force, until at last I couldn't stand it uny longer, and so I gasped out: “Please don't hit me any more, vou're fairly pounding me,” and then he looked at the ruler and realized what he was doing. He gave a gasp | himsel?, and said kind of breathlessly: | “Why, bless my soul, what bave I been doing?” and gazed at me, as I could see through my fingers, for my huinds were over my face. | “l didn’t mean to do this way,” I began to apologize, | “And I never meant. to pound you,” he explained, still holding the ruler und looking from it to me and back ' again, The funny side of it struck me and I began to laugh through my tears, and then to cry again, and then it all happened so suddenly. | He bent nearer, asking in that kind, nice way of his: “My poor little girl, what is it? Who has been imposing on you? Bless me, I can’t bear to see a woman cry. “My dear Miss Kilrain, I am golnl to ask you a very strange thing.” “Yes,” I sald encouragingly. “I am wonderirg if you would feel Lurt if I asked for your resignation,” he blurted out. | “Why?" I asked simply. He turned towards me, and caught my eyes. I did not try to hide my se- cret any more. There was no need. ' ‘The dear reached forward, caught my ! hands in his own, asking eagerly: | “Tell me, little girl, if it is possible ' | that you can care for an old crusty fel- | {low like me?” Dear typewriter, he is | | only thirty-five, and to call hlmselli old! | “It not only is possible, it IS,” I said, not as to meaning; and then | '.n is my last day here, dear thought it his duty to send me wway because he feared his love for me might dlhllllh‘m(‘ Do you wonder, cwriter of mine, that 1 am the hap- t girl in all the world? T xv\ru,m l"l.‘ by \\ G. Chapman.) ' THE WOMAN WHO "COLLECTS" | { As a Rule Ske Is Tno Apt to Surround * Herself With a Lot of Useless | Junk, The collecting fad is an abomina- . tion; it takes hold of the weakest part , {of & woman's nature, the love of some | especial thing, and soon she finds "lierself surrounded by a lot of useless | SEEEEE.. w ————— . | stuff that in case of a hasty move, | | she would willingly submit to the ' | lames of a hot fire, There are fads and fads, to ba sure; to some women a fad is a necessity, | and may prove a salvation, but where ' | nerves are normal, it will be well for ! any woman to try to select a fad for, ; something that is really of use to her ! self as well as others. | Think of owning 350 teapots, col-, lected from the four quarters of the‘ | earth; think of the duties paid, the| troubles in packing, the dread of flnd-‘ ing many bits broken and so on, and then to think of what earthly use | 348 of those teapots can be to one| { woman, except to look at and admire, Collecting as a fad is not confined to women, by any means. A man con- fessed to having over 100 razors, [among them the terror-inspiring, huge sharp blade, really a weapon of | unusual size, that had descended from | his great-grandfather. We all know of the old book collector; how im-| possible it scems to be for him to! ! pass a dusty, smelly secondhand shop where he is always hoping to find | some treasure, some windfall that is junk to those who do not care for old | books, but dear to the bibliomaniac. ! We hear of collections of all sorts of things, dolls of all nations, but- ! tons by the thousand, no two alike, | odd-shaped bottles and jugs from dis- tant lands, even call holls, as used by housewives of different countries— | | these are hoarded,-added to as occa- | sion presents, until an entire room, |its walls lined with shelves, must be kept for their proservation, | Suf‘h fads may do for the extreme- 'ly wealth Who have nothing else to! do with their money, but the ordinary everyday woman and man, they who have to make a living, will do better | sire very sparingly, Risking Life to Catch Sea-Birds. Few occup.tions are more danger- ous than the hunting of sea-birds which engages the attention of Scot- tish fishermen at certain secson of | land. The islunds where the birds‘ assemble are mere rocks standing out of the Atlantic, whose great roll- | ers are daringly faced by the fisher- | men in their cocklo-shell boats. The only inhabitants of the islands are eheep, whose owners are frequently prevented by storms from shearing them. The result is that when the poor animals roll themselves on thel ground the weight of their two or three years wool on their backs pre- vents them getting on their feet again and scores may be seen lying dead, on their back, their feet in the air. The taking of the sea-birds is o hatardous business, for the men have to be lowered over the face of elifts that rise 400 to 600 feet from the sea, | and the birds are lassoed out of thelr nests by means of a fishing rod with a noosed string at the end. Not Risking Interference. | “Why do you insist on staying downtown tonight?” | “1 have reason to believe that my daughter is planning to elope with a voung man who has nearly a million | dollars in his own right” rather mixed up as to words, but cer- | ¢ ceased to belong to the unkissed, and | The poor ! to indulge a caprice or rather a de-|! the year off the northwest of Scot- |j s H b4 & i We Won’t Sacrifice Quallty but we are always studying how « Increase The Quantity WL give the “most now but we are anxioy. more. Phone us and prove it, Best Butter, per pound ... Sugar, 16 pounds ................. Cottolene, 10 pound pails. .. ... Cottolene, 4-pound pails Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails . 3 cans family size Cream........... 6 cans baby size Cream 1-2 barrel best Flour. .. 12 pounds best Flour. ... .. Picnic Hams, per pound ........ Cudahy’s Uncanvassed Hams. . ... Octagon Soap, 6 for. . Ground Coffee, per pound...... 6 gallons Kerosene .. reeccemmess SMOKE 5¢. CIGAR The best Union Made cigar in tovn. They have stood the test. [ = i) Sebring, Florlda The Town of Beautiful Locatic The Town of Progress The Town. of Opportumty lnqmre About It At Room L Raymondo BldgA. Lakeland C. D. M'CAIN, MANAGER. Telephone 309. (Wit sn\n WARKE] GUY W. TOPH G. P. CLEMMOXS PROPRIETOR MANAGER Phone 279 Corner Florida & Main The Sanitary Market Florida and Western Meats of All Kinds Fresh Vegetables 4 Mother’s Bread