Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 6, 1913, Page 7

PAGE SEVER TELEGRA), LAKELAND, 'Ly, FEB. 6, 1913. e e ———————————— . THE EVENING O-EO'PO !'0-90-»0“'0 »om«;w'o :*OW ~Cm0 O ol Big Cut in Maz- da lamp Prices 15, 20 and 25 Watt were 50c now 40: 40 Watt we;e 55¢ now 40 Watt were 75¢, now 100 Watt were $1.10, now. . .... .80¢ 150 Watt were $1.60, now. .. 250 Watt were $2.60, now. Bir lorida tlectnc & Machinery Co. T 46 O OWW!'CWW: '1azda tamps and reduce your light bill. For sale by DRANE BUILDING # LOOK # WE HAVE PUT IN A NEW LINE OF ICE CREAM WHICH WE GET FROM TAMPA. GIVE US A CALL LAKE PHARMACY 10 QLOPOSIBC: , Candics, Nuts and all Cf, r.f‘.cii.ms FROMPT bt t 4 FOPQRC CpOBAON L DELIVERY E;"} a::.NNY SRR DR Tas an el Tal T O S A We have in our employ, | Mr. S, Miller, who is an xpert in his line. Let him figure with you on your Sheet Metaland Tin Work Do all kind of Roofing. For Gravel, Slate, Tile, Tin. Make or repair any- ol I“ thing in SheetIron or Tin, A carload of the Famous Srawberry Cup, the kind that fits the Refrigerator - B XCS. A full line of Sash, Decrs, Builders’ Hardware, all at prices which will make it to your i1 terest to let us have a thare of your trade. EaeJackson 1lson Co. OO0 T 03 IDSGPC OB HOL O OPOSOEOSOFOPOHBOPO MO0 DOBO OBO b ¢ .":““’ Ste T Eidden in an Old Match Caze. By A. MARIA CRAWFORD. “An ojen fre is such a conversa ‘ tional impetus,” said Polly McGregor | who had just enough Irish in her to | give color to her cheeks and laughter and tears in turn to her eyes. “Then light the logs on the and- frons,” suggested Mrs. McGregor, “al- | though I faney that Phil Brooks won't { need any impetus to start him talking to you. He is in love with you, Polly.” “I think thot one of the most essen- tial qualifications for splendid mother- hood is faith in the charms of her own olispring. You are a dear to flat- ter me but Phil isn't in love with me. He azdmires clever women and you know that I never learned anything at school execnt how to sinz atlictle and to make ecandy.” “At any rate vour marks were ex- cellent. Phil admire brainy wome en, bat clever men never want clever vomen for thar wives. It is an aphorism, trite but true. Men de mand the privileze of teaching the girls they marry all that they want them to know. 1 heard Anne Carter say to her fiance, young Dr. Brandon, that she hoped to study medicine this winter in order to be able to discuss his cases understandingly with him. ‘My dear girl,’ he told her, ‘1 don't want you to know one thing about medicine.. If you did, 1 wouldn't love you.' | am certainly not ambitious to study law, Frankly, I haven't brains enough to grasp legal matters and . Phil knows it. The other day at a bridge party 1 was introduced to some dignified looking girl frem Boston and when she asked, 'Do you believe in granting the fr: nehise to women, Miss 1 couldn’t answer her. | tared at her” Mrs, MeGoogor laughed “You hod botter liht your fire now, | Polly, 1hore icn't a ecrvant on the ploce. 1 let them 01 go to a hig eir- angt rocor? with her mitehes?” ques il 1 find atl o hor soft Heyves o ona ihle." tow that Il run little bhox o k. Marghal) I'hrnvy when a50." I' tm on the able he here MeCre olad fivure mo endden hptred flamed in her against the boy who hod lichtly won her Pol 1v's heart only 2ch it to ache, He was a diseipated follow, but Polly had loved him and when he came from hi far-nway western home two years be ‘ore and askcd Polly to marry him ghe two cor watched unt th to t had boezed Mim to wait and ask her ; serin when he had schooled himself to he temperate veturned with his bride and had, per Iuns wirely, onitted to ask Polly to call on her, “Ife was not worthy of you,” her mother had insisted, but Polly only chook her heed and sald that Mar chall was the firest man ghe had ever known and that he had a perfect right | wanted to | to full in love v do fit. ain if he “He married in average little town | i zirl. gomething of a prude,” declared | (. J. Claiborne, 2 friend of Polly’s wit had met the pair on their honeymoon “Just a case of the fcl'low being lone ly In that for aken place! Propin quity 1s the oaly thing that have done it.” DBut none of the light chatter abhout the two dulled heart. She plunged every diversion Ber hurt except her mother, who som« times gurprised her looking at th feverishly brave, boyish pi-ture that hung over | her desk, a lit'le amethyst rosar swung lizhtly over a corner of ft¢ its frame, “Funny thing how foolishly senti | { in game preserves, and is regarded as mental a girl can he” her knees befor - irons. “I am re lly grieving b I must burn one of these matches.” “Name the fir:, Polly,” urged Mr: McGregor, jokin oy, mused Polly, or of Marshall's m tches, preserved wit! time @nd spiced with the romance o my youth. Dear me, I don't belicve it is going to burn!™ Tiny blue flam~s darted here and there and then catching the black-jac! i lozs, spread into a roaring sheet of red. “Out of the ashes —” began Mrs. M- Gregor. “Symbolizing new love out of the '01d? Ah, no” eizhed Polly as shs | -ent to answer the door. precious comforter.” “I think that I will go 2troad for a year or two,” said Phil that eveninz. ' “1 am unhappy for the first time in my hfe”™ “I hope that there 1s nothing s«ri- ously wrong. Are you ill?” “I have never been more fit, physic- 21lv.” He paused a minute. “Were you ever 1n love, Polly?” For a famously | logical lawyer, he was getting at his | cubject by very round-about means Polly glanced at him quickly She | went to the mantel and took down the little box of safety matches and hand- ed it to him. “I have kept that in my desk drawer !-“r Love Had Been, | the blue- o ostpirs glowly. A | 'HATED BY ALL AUSTRALIA - A year later he had | could | | biunder. the ache in I'oll_\'s‘; site 1 inte and nobody fuspectid | the old brass and | { tor unauthorized | preserve, “Not when I ¢ n lighting it with on { “You're a| ¢ I\r i vour love? s h'a dednetion, Mr. 1 oover,” langhed Polly. N ' in your ques- i | Phili “] wish that past. hor. Sometimes ft na to tell except that she docs or me.” | low do vou kuow [ “l miet hoer cor ntly at dinners and dances and she seems just as happy with any one of thu men she Knows she does with me.” “That's no reason for your conclu- sfon. Nobody wears her heart on her | sleeve now-p day The woinan s merely o diplomat.” “She is that and more, an exquisite creature from the top of her beautiful head to the soles of her litte feet™ “Love is blind. i dare say [ would consid. "vr quite homely.” “I wouldn't let anybody call her I'o faced her, a whimsical his face. AU times, 1 ost d‘l-d to hope that she enrcd. Cnoonr long rides into God's open cowntry, at dipner in quaint lit- tle inis by th 1side, at the thea- ters o in various other places of amusement, she has frequently sald, ‘We get a lot of fun out of life when we are together, don't we, Phil?”” | Polly raised her head slowly and met the challenging look in Phil's eyes. lLove was there and tenderness and Polly hh, all at once, that real happiness was within her grasp. | “I ha d that to you, Phil.” | “You are the woman I love, Polly. Until 1 met you, 1 thought of girls as just 20 many pretty toys, made for an hour's amusement. But you--1 need vou. All that is worthy in me is yours. It you dan't care for me, Polly, I am woin g cvey and tey to heal the hurt. Fhe o tont thou it of you and the puin of not having you s playing trich 'homy nre donal ability.” ftey A wond eful thing to know that o biv eteeng men of the world nec! roeile bit of woman- rot ¢l hoot! a vo s hanpy Hzo that yr-stene on iry to make you not \ Iy who W ont his arms 1 the meteh bhox on the the contonts splut- | Yo like a miniature vol- like a littlo on over atd Py rodded, the lmghter ling for ensrene ey in her blue “1 think thiot my love for you «hut up in that mateh and tears t heve IH on Phil.” | amtelad thot van have let it out,” ericd, holdinve her close, “to give it | haneo to grow.” it R R J\.vu\;‘.: 1018, by the MeClure News- ,‘.x.,u\uu.u) ! E pyright, Man Who lntroduc:d nabbits Into the ! Country Is Cursed by the Nation. Australlan | nobody can cmigrant In the early days of settlement-—just when, wosome well-meaning iiled from old England, Lim, among his most cherished pos- | cssions, a counle of pairs of rabbits, | robably the {he name of that pioncer lironfeled In Australia's history. He y hzve been a most worthy man— i man whose life and works in the ountry of his adoption might very ! w11 have earned for his memory lhe sreatest respect and regard, but noth- ing he did or could have done would | v sufficient to wipe out his terrible ‘ His name, whatever it may have been, is anathema; his memory - vile; his folly unforgivable. | This pioneer may have had the best | ntentions in the world. When Aus- rralians speak of him they admit that | ossibility, but in their anger they re- | se to accept it as an extenuation of 5 heinous conduct. They are ready o believe that in England the rabbit s harmless. They know that in Eng- l'nd “bunny” s carcfully protected delicacy for the table of the rich. [Miey know that it is a serious offense perzons to kill or | tcal rabbits from an English game and that not so very many ccars ago poachers were transported ‘o the convict settlements of the cclonies for life for no greater offense ‘han this; but when they see their Australian farms or grazing lands de- nud :d of every vestige of herbage by hordes of hungry rabbits, the pro- zeny of those first two pairs, they curse loud and long. 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