Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 22, 1913, Page 8

»AGE EIGH?. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND; FLA., APRIL 22, 19 . |WHAT SAM THOUGHT' - : GETTING THEM TAMED BY. SARAH JORDAN, ! “Mtnnie is geing to be married,” sid the girl who likes to talk., “1| don’t suppose you are acquainted with Minnie, by the way. She's been a! member of our family for six years and has done the second work. You ean’t imagine what a vortex of emo- tion we are plunged into because of hils move of Minnie's. It is like hav- g your father or your mother sud- @knly arise and say casually: ‘Well, I; slust be going now. I'm tired of this | otitit and guess I'll move on!’ P“Minnie is the least excited of any of us. I said to her the other day, f;lho was -laboriously dusting the ' By BILLY BACHELOR. “Well, what dp you think of this, Billy?” Sam Martin exclaimed, as he honded me the evening paper, point. | irg to a paragraph under the head Ing, “Social Gleanines,” which read: “Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hamilton an nounce the marriage of their daugh- ter, Ethel, and QOscar Newman, at Grace church. Qakburn, Tuesday, October 1.’ *“What do you think of it, Sam?" 1 inquired az I tossed the paper bu:kt u . to him, | “It's an outrage, a blanked outrage! | What right has Os Newmzaa to mml anybody but Beatrico Price? Don't; {2l her friends, all bis friends, know he s wildly in love with her? Haven't ' they known it for ever a year? Hasn't be followed Beatrice about like a; hungry dog chasing & bune ever since WORRIES OF ONE GIRL| BY NELLIE COOKE. Qeten FIRST METHOVIST CHURCH. (South Kentucky Ave.) Rev. Isaac C. Jenkius, pasor. temporary residence, 911 South Florida avenue. Office at church. iours, 11:30 to 12:30. | ‘unduy Services— Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Epworth League, 6:30 p. m. Preaching, 7:30 p. m. Week. Day Services— Woman's Missionary Soclety, e e e R gt P e~ Sl A, { “\What's the trouble tonight?” agked | the young man who was calling. “You look bothered about something and you are painfully quiet.” “That's a dreadful slam,” said the, giry with mild resentment “There magple. I shouldn't like to be told that I'm a chatterbox.” “I mever said such & thing of q:." declared - the young man; ou couldn’t be a chatterbox it you tried. 1 am just wondering why you are more than usually silent. Are ml tired?” “Not exactly. Just » #ps of the window casings: ‘Good|pg firgt met her? 1 repeat, what! worried. wéss, Minnle, aren't you getting merv-| .,.;¢ oy he to marry Ethel Hlnll-l “Why are you worried? Who is ili? sus and excited over your wedding? oo why sbe's & child, & silly little' Why didn't you tell me? Is it your You are so calm and act just &8 puicerfiy of fashion. Os mever can mother? She has beem looking & It Monday afternoes. . Orayer meeting, Wedneaday & en- ing, 7:30. . Teachers’ meeting Friday evening. e T — though nothing unusual was going 0! jove that type of woman, and you tle pale lately, I recall” Bbappen!’ Minnie looked down benign- ¢ from the top of the stepladder. o’ she sald, apologetically. ‘Some- 86w it doesn't bother me in the least. . You see, Jim is just an ordinary fel bw and I'm not particularly set up gver getting him. Almost any girl! sould a-got him—he’s se good natured Wke!’ ) “] sat down at once,” sald the drl! who ltkes to talk, "because I sa @Gere were vistas in Minnie's mind Bud not suspected. ' 9 't you love him at all? 1 asked severely. “Minnie paused in her labors and Poked at me rather pitying. ‘That's as how you look at it,’ she confided 0 me. Tm not much on holding Bands. 1 tell you,' she sald with &, sndden rush of confession, T don't: Snow as I'd got married if you and: your family badn't been so nnltndy; tha: last few years! If you aren't go- ' g down the N'le you're off to Call-! fornia or other heathen parts, and I like people around me. I'm tired of ataying here for weeks and monthe with perhaps just one lone man to Mook after. and your — “‘Let me tell you, when you gour mother are gone and leave fither ar brother here it's the tele ‘ phone every other blessed afternoon | end “Minnie, I won't be home to din- | mer tonight.” That's no way to live! | When I see that a meal’s on the table | ¥ want it et up as though it was' mlished—and I will say Jim has &' Qearty appetite! He's awful slow to think, but he makes good wages, and I tell you it's better to marry be meath you! Yes, it is—because then you'll always be looked up to! Don't: ‘yow ever go and marry & man that! tnows more than you da. “‘Jim he says always for me to do fust as I think best, Now, I aim to! fave a mice home. 1 wouldn't marry & man who couldn’t have a nice home, and Jim says to me when we talked | i over: “There’'s $500 saved up to; tarnish the house or the flat or what- | ever you pick out for us to lve in, oend you just go shead and blow it! ff you wart,red plush you get it aa’ ‘dlstien lke of. trouble with him. He's going to feave everything to me, you sec, and that helps a lot. Some men hold out o0 long before you get ‘em tamed to that point where they realize a wom: afv Rnows what's better for ‘em than ey do!’ | “‘But are you sure you do?' I asked Minnfo doubtfully. ofly. ‘You don’t have to live very| Soog’ she sald, it you keep your oyu; apen, before you learn that men are, poor Delpless critters. They nuy‘ fzow who to vote for and: all' that, ot show me.a man*who knows what Be ouglit to eat or what he ought te wear or do any more than a baby! @an would bave worn those neu| sight out among people if & WOmAR ' 4ngugh, without any one else butting t0 be ashamed of himself. 'n:. idea Sadn’t deen handy to stop him! And 'y gnd making things more miserable ' Of his worrying you like that! pour father wanting lobster at! midnight, and at his age—not M' W's not well preserved! And both of ‘m just tagging around after you and | your mother, waiting to be amused sad told what to do to pass the time! | *‘Why, I've stopped Jim already. $20 suits when he can $18. I thought h::lnhtulln ° ! i 41 81 ] i iz [ g ¢ 5 § H : i it : trii 1 fl i j ; !i?";i : i il% { i always are fatal—show suffering self- know {t, Bill.” “Yes, I know it. What do you sup-'587- But there's lots of things to pose poor old Oscar did it for?” | Sam hitched his chair up closer to inbalations before he replied by his head slowly and pro- ing around moment’s pleasure, or how, such circumstances, they can for happiness passes my understand- [ {*It Just goes to show, I think, em' what 1 always think” the love such people have is very! small, not the grand passion, the over | powering devotion of a great soul, as they like to imagine it is. Hurt vain. ly, smarting _pride and the fiendish | esire to hurt in return are more re- sponsible for the marriage from pique ! than any ‘heart wounds’ either man or woman may feel, “The man who hag tried his best to win the one woman fa the world and falled; the woman who has given her best to & man who proves himselt false, will not be in any hurry to bind themselves by marriage vows to an- other person. “Such fatal steps—and they nearly | conceit rather than a broken heart— an error into which those who are! only half in love ever fall. “The man squares up his shoulders «d says, ‘Well, maybe I won't show that girl a thing or two!' The girl tosses her pretty head, pins en a' saucy little bow of ribbon or dons & uew frock and fares forth, vowing: that she'll just show that man how little she really cared. “This is far more dangerous for & man, especially a man of Oscar's tem- perament, than for a woman. The woman may come to love her husband it he is kind and good to her, but, as you know, Sam, no man ever gives his heart to & woman after marriage.” “You are right about that, old man! |. It burts, though, to think that Oscar) could display 0 much innate mean-| ness. I can't understand how any honorable man could allow himself to commit such a fraud. It is a fraud, s lle, a cheat! Do you suppose even silly little Fthel Hamilton would con- | “She flirted the dust cloth dlsgust-| .on¢ to marry a man who frankly ad | witted he only asked her to be his wife in order to ‘get even' with an- uther woman? “Os has committed not only one of the greatest pieces of folly in his lite, | YOUT" out has acted in a shameful mumu! toward the girl who is now his vl(o.‘ By George! 1 feel like—" But here I laid a detaining hand on Sam's arm and told him it didn't mat- ter what he felt like doing, he must aot do anything. “If Oscar has beea fool enough to marry out of pique, ! 8che over it?” sald the young mam, then his life will be punishment ‘or the.girl.” “You're right, old man! Well, so ‘ong; it's about time to turn in, and 'm tired.” “Good night, Sam. Don't whout other people’s troubles. We all aave enough of our own.” i 8E337Es Trying His Own Hand. “John" sald the minister of icoteh parish, “I fear you are emiss ‘n ‘your religious duties. i u;numpmuamnml 1 just like a girl of your nature to worry the one word, “Pique.” l like it, I must admit,” said |Mhtherunhodoeln'tvllhmw | what I can do about it.” , opens In a neighborhood it is every ‘ aunt “No, mother’s all right, I'm glad to| A cordial invitation to everybody ! .0 all services. + business may not be getting on well.” | DIXIELAND METHODIST CHURCH “You certainly are a trump!” the young man, admiringly. "ltll. Services at 11 a. m. by the pastor. | Sunday school at 3 p. m. { worry about besides fliness. People’s 1 When her father is feeling anxiety. I' poworth League at 6:30 p. m. :::."' appreciates your thoughtful | proyer megting every Thursday -t L e S i ven' z est idea how father's business s do- | CUMBERLAND PRESBY. ln&u’:‘:on'thubdnmcml TERIAN CHURCH. [ t” “No reason why you should!® | (Corner Florida Ave. and Lemon 8t.) agreed the young man. “You coulda’t, Rev. J. D, Lewis, pastor. possibly get hold of the detalls of his | Sunday school, 9:45 «. m. e A R R froed it's days, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Weekly prayer meeting Wednes- day evening at 7:30. “Even the troublesome things,” the| Woman's Missionary Saclety on girl sald, understandingly. “A worry. ' tLe third Monday afternoon of each hared is a worry divided. That's ' month. To all these services the public is “If it isn't something relating t0 | cordially tnvited. your family that i» going wreag, what | s ite” il “Well, I suppose you'll thiak ll.‘ FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCA. foolish—" “You're never foolish!" “You don't know me, I'm M! You see, there's a little fur store that's Rev. W'. 8 Patterson, (Tennesses Ave., Between Main and opened up over on the eorner.” Sunday Services—Sunday sehool. ..-Ye:. I've noticed that little far ¥:45; presching. 11 am. m., and T, thath &° 7:30 p. m. “That's what?” Wednesday—Prayer meeting o' “Why, don't you understand? Tha¥s | 7:30 p. m. what I was worrying abeut, that store.” “What happened there? Did they lose your furs or spoll tliem in any way?” S “They haven’t had any furs-of mine,. ———————————— SIXIELAND AND MYRTLE STREET METHODIST CHURCHES. Dixieland Church— Services—1st and 34 Sabbaths, 11 ~.m; 24 and 4th Sabdaths, 7:30 p. ma. Sabhath School—3 p. m. Prayer Servico—Thursday aight ar 7:30. ¢ Myrtle Street Church— fervices—1st and 3¢ Saddaths. 7:30 p. ®.; 34 and ¢th Sabbaths, 11 & m Sunday School—3 p. m. Prayer Services—Tuesday aight at 7:30. W. K. STEINMEYER, Pastor. take mine to him. I dom't know “Take them to somebody else.” “But you don’t seem to get the idea,” sald the girl, patiently. “It's because I wart to help the man that 1 want to let him clean my furs. They were eleaned in the spring, s0 1 don't need anybody else to do the work over again, yet that poor:mas | has just set up in bdusiness and J don't tshk be's had a single custom- yot. “Did you promise him any customr ers?” “Why, of course not. I never saw tim before he opened the store.” “Then where does your responsibil ALL SAINTS CHURCH. Cosner of Lemon Street and Mama- fty come in?” chusetts Avenne. - “Everybody’s responsible,” sald the| Rev. J. H. Weddell. minister ia girl, severely. “When a new store | charge. Services at 11 a. m. and § p. m. All Sundays except the third in the month. Other services as appointed. East Lakeland Misslon. Sundayecheolat3p.m B A Milton, superintendent Prayer- ~eoting Thursday at 7p. @ Latheran Chureh. Cor. B. Orange ane $0. Teanemee Sunday echool 10:00 &. m. Services are held on sscond ame tourth Suadays. body’a duty to help it get a start. This nelghborhood has let three stores fail fn the last year, and I'm awfully afrald this one is going to g0, t00.” “] shoulda’t think a fur store was needed in this neighborhood, should “That isn't the point. The point is- that the man has got to support his family. He has a wife and three chil- | dren, besides an invalld mother or an. or something. It's just too pit- |: words.” “So you worry yourself into a aeads | indignantly. “I think the man ought “Now you're laughing at me.” “Indeed, I am not,” said the young man, fervently. “But, really, I know of something lots worse that I wish R ST AR e o o avhul thing fa 17" b mumr—c&mm TIRST BAP: ‘I‘-"‘ Coraer Flores avenue sad Bay B The Rev. Wikian Dulley Newita * D., vastor. Sunday echon! 9:45 o m. Preachiag Sunday at 11 & m. 08’ Wemas's Mirsionrary and Ald On oty Moaday $:30 p. m Baptit Young People’s "1l ™ Regular mon*hiv business meetin: ot Wellr -2 L8 LI Mestin: FOR SALE | wseriumgans . 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