Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 3, 1913, Page 7

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A carload of the Famous Strawberry Cup, the kind th..lt fits the Refrigerator Boxes. A tull line of Sash, Doors, Builders’ Hardware, all at prices which will make it to your irterest to let us have a share of your trade. TheJackson & ilson Co THE EVEN HER CHRISTMAS GFT It Was a Nice Little Fluffy dle, Full of Life, Kicking and Squirming. By CLARA DEANE, Christmas was coming by leaps nnd. bounds. It was coming in a way to strike panic to the hearts of people who never began to think of it till! after Thanksgiving, and all over the country they were hastening to make embroideries and fancy work and calendars. “I do hope,” said Mrs. Martha Iver son to her husband. “that Fred and Neelie will send mother a Christmas present this year. [ just can't for give them if they don't.” “0, well, they will,” said her hus- band. “They didn't last year; don’t you remember? Mother told me all about her presents, every who it was from. but not a word about them. At last I just asked her. ‘0, T didn’t get anvthing from them,' she said. ‘but vou know they are just beginning housekeeping, penses are so heavy in the city.’ Huh! a salary as you do, and their apart- There's another thing, John, no one in the family has ever said one word to Fred about going off out west and never writing home one word for five vears and nearly breaking mother's heart. He's never had one word of reproach.” Mrs. Martha paused. “Don't you think it would be all right if I should write to him and ! make him realize once how happy he's made us all?" “Well, my dear, it doesn't seem to me that this is the psychelogical mo- ment. Fred tore away from us all vears ago; I don't know just what was the matter, but I know he was discouraged and sore at made up his mind that father had no uge for him. Now he {8 married and doing well, and at last he has writ- ten home, or she has thing- and mother is happier she has heen for No. I wouldn't write that lotter to Frod just now.™ cood them out with a depressing feeling of their inadequacy Her zreatest tron gave her more than she was able to give them. mas rose had She couldn't, Mrs. of another Christmas and see nothing from Fred and Neelie. And she was o afraid there would be nothing She believed she would drop a hint in her next letter to Fred. “How nice it would be if you could come home for Christmas. But [ suppos that 18 quite impogrsible, tance and expense are so great. shall think of you. We put our pres ents on the breakfast table In same old way, 18 getting a little old, and T think he would be very much pleased if there was a little remembrance from you ' She discarded this. Fred would certainly remember that father, good man as he was and fairly willing to pay all the bills, never bothered about Christmas, neither making pres ents nor caring whether he recelved any. more plainly. Perhaps he showed al! his letters to his wife. That was th penalty a mother paid for a man's being happily married. She made up her mind to wait till the last hour of the day before Christmas, and then it nothing had come to slip quietly down town and buy something that they would be likely to send. “Father,” she said that night, re joicing in the new happiness of be Ing able to talk about the bo whose name had laid =o long like guilty secret between them, “we haven't heard from Fred and Neo! for a eouple of weeks, and she's heor g0 good about writing. The last tir she said she wasn't feeling so very well 1 thought perhaps—I thought of it--hadn’t we better send them a Christmas gift?” simply couldn’t, have “Why. ves. mother, you get send something.™ “You. too, father.” “I wouldn’'t know what to ge! They've probably got everything they need. Young people do somehow And I wouldn't know what they want Better send them a check and let them buy what they please.” “0. father!” she beamed at him and the grace that is God's gift tc mothers kept her from saving, “von owe it to him—you owe it to him: he's your boy, you know he's never had what the other boys l':uve had™ Instead she began talking about Neelie. “Fred’s little girl wife! 1 knon she's just dear, father, and do you know, I think it is because her own anxious to know us. I think it wae ter. It takes women to hold families together.” The days raced by llke telegraph poles past a car window. The post | man came and went, leaving pack- | | ages, but none from the far west. She | little thing, and, and their ex-: when | know that Fred gets as good | i ment costs them only thirty-five dol-, lars a month partly furnished. And! heart and | little | § than | “Well, perhans not, bohn, you're so forgivine. But 1 do hope they won't | forget mother this year.” “Mother” her heart traveling its faithinl rounds amony the absent ones, hoped so too. Christmas was always a time of stress and strain with her With th old fashioned fecling of economy strong upon her, and not much moeney of her very own for spending, €he did her best with her little hand made gifts and sent ble had always been that other people | Jut this vear her Christ- a distinetly new thorn. | ' Martha look over the presents | a8 the dis | We the | and you know father | And she could not write any | people are all dead that she was so sweet of her to write that first let | yiug a gift if none came. 'lt seemed dreadful to sully the pure white Christmas time with a lle. Her i New England conscience never let | her call it anything else. But the re-, Bun.l membrance of Martha's crucial ques- ' itlons nerved her. She didn't care for herself, but she wasn't going to have Fred and Neelie weighed in the fam- ly balance and found wanting. ( Mindful of the warning of the con- | | sumers’ league. she did her Christmas | shopping early. So, apparently, did, {everyone else. The crush bewlldered | her. Evervbody was buying madly. Everybody seemed so rich. Late In the afternoon of the day before Christmas after the last mail | delivery. she went down to buy the present that had not come. Her one little gift from Neelie had been a | daintily embroldered towel sent n the middle of the year, just bo('aule she wanted to. She stood at the counter, hard to please. Everything was so uvordm\e,l She thought she would buy a scarf for the dresser in Pred’s room, the room | they would have when they came home. How could the weary sales- woman know that she was trying t) | find something that looked as fif | Neelic had done {t? She had one pnarrow escape. While she was wait- fng for her package Martha came by “Well. for two women who did their Christmas shopping early!™ sald Mar- | that. “But of course there's always some last thing that one forgets. 1'd forgotten to get anything for Eileen | Atkins' baby. And John its god- | father. She would never have for-| given me. That's what brought me i down.” Mother was less communicative. | She merely sald she was sorry she | had had to come down. and how was Eileen's baby, and would John and | Martha be sure and come to breakfast {on time in the morning; 8 o'clock seemed late to father. And then | ghe hurried home guiltily through the rearly dark with her seeret. “1 saw mother downtown tonight, John. at Untermeyer's. She looked | i tired and worrted. 1 wish she would | {let me do things for her. And T've {made up my mind to one thing; ff "llu-rv < nothing from Fred and Neelle, !T'm nor coing to say one word about iH N r do you | Tate that nicht mother put the as ifs at each plate and chair Liad Neelie's eard, undat- Lwidd it in plain sight on the cor osearf. It might save ques! T wias Luci ! { ed, and she opening packages pleasure of show- other had begun irprise of and the ing 1 to cach whet doorbell rang. She looked aro 1o table, They wero all the \nd then ina minute Fred wa the room with a queer little hur fn his arms which he pressed int rs o a little bundle that stirred and oke, and set her trembling with me happiness than could well be I e, even on Christmas morning. [ 00 father was kissing a little wom- i whose wistful face was a little uner than in her picture, and a bit tvavel worn, and in another minute her new daughter was in her nrmn “You see.” Fred was saying, t thought we'd surprise you, nnd It SRR | $OBOPOBO DO Something In his mother's ¢ But nothing could 2 List Your Property Today | has taken everything we could scrape | 1 to make the trip. That's why we | lidn't—" f o gtopped him top the little woman, “0, yes, that was why. You see, T' made all the baby's things myselt, ind T had ne time or n(rl-ngth left to vork at Christmas gifts.” RBut there 13 something from ynu. \elfe, with your eard” Fred had :de the round of the table and he and Martha met above the accusing ' 'W. FISKE JOHNSON card. 2led Rut 1 didn't—" she began. | Mother rose to the occaslon. “Yes, dear. conld do to make it seem as though von were all here.” Copyright, 1912, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) His System. A gentleman who was a stranger to The little woman looked pusz- | | ahogany, ordered a New Orleans 7,2, and, reaching in his pocket, pull- ! forth a live toad and placed It on | he bar. “For the love of Mike"” yelled the | i next to him, “Why the toad?” | ‘That toad plays a star part In a& svstem that 1 have used for many | ars with great success,” replied lhe} sentleman. ] “Spring it,” shouted the mob. i “Well, you see, 1 take my little | ‘riend toad and place him on the ma- 'ogany in front of me and order my irink. 1 take my drink and then 1| rder another, and sometimes an- other, and perhaps then another. | ook at my toad, and if there is only one toad there 1 stay and enjoy a few more rounds. As soon as there are two toads there instead of one 1 ¢o home. [ have never yet stayed until there were three. That’'s my system. Well, 1 don’t mind it I do. A little more of the same, please.”— Philadelphia Record. Always Fatal. § But it was the only thing I |$ “You seem to have a heumly‘ climate here,” sai? the easterner, who had stopped off at Naked Dog, Aris. “We ain’t had but five deaths in five vears,” replied the native, “and they was all cause by the same trouble.” “What was 1t?” asked the easterner. | “Five aces,” replied the native. Bowling Alley for Church, A parish house equipped with a | dance hall, a bowling alley and a mov- | ing picture theater 18 to be erected for the First Presbyterian church of | Newark, N. J, if the recommendation of the pastor, Rev. Willlam Dawson, | . never wavered In her intention of 18 adopted. Phone 28. .3 o 8 ¢ 8 2 SOPOS0E0FOF0IDIOFOFOFOPOPE 0 +OSOSCPTINEIDOCEIONONON Lakeland Artificial Stone Works Near Citrus Exchange LA SOOI AN For nice meals, good homecooking and pleasant rooms, apply to MRS. HENRY BACON PAGE :EVEN. \G TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, FEB. 3, 1913. 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