Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 23, 1913, Page 6

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3 b4 CURBING OF CHARLIE By LAURA HOOVER, BULK DRIED APPLES 10c. 1b. Pure Food Store W.P, Pillans & Co. PHONE 93 Miss Stelter finished arranging the last of the display cards of buttons, her ears as she warily located the dis- tant form of the floorwalker, “Mame!” she called across the isle. “Seen them airships?” “Sure!” responded the girl at the handkerchiefs. “Art he said last night he'd take me up in one, only he was afraild I'd yell. He knows a man who is cousin to a man who cleans an airship garage—an—" “Charlie took me down Michigan avenue yestidday,” interrupted Miss Stelter, ruthlessly. “Charlie always wantsme to be in on everything. Say,it was great! I nearly broke my neck— “Those 'y’ ten cents a card. No, we ain’t got none bigger for ten cents. “Wouldn't some people frost you, always wanting more'n their money’s worth! Well, we looked at them things floating around in the sky till ' I was dizzy. Then I grabbed Charlie , by the arm. ‘Don’t you never, I said | to him, ‘don’t you never go up in one | of them machines as long as you know me, Charlie Johnson! You've got to promise’t ' “What'd he say?” inquired the girl at the handkerchief counter, ‘ “I ought-a-known better,” pursued | Miss Stelter. “I ought-a remembered Charlie's high-strung nature, and how it always makes him stubborn to cross him. But I was that foollsh! It made my head ache to think of his being & thousand miles up in the air | and me down below wondering if two baskets'd be enough to gather wp | the pleces in. Anykow, I'm nervous. i “Dress goods, three aisles to the left. No, madam, we don't carry that style button. I tell you that we don't, so what's the use of looking for it here? “I'd like to give these people a plece of my mind who think because this is the basement they can impose on us! 8o I said, ‘Charlie Johnson, you can just promise me this mip- | ute. You know how stern Charlie ! can look when he wants to—I suppose | it comes from ordering people to step ! forward in the car—and he just turn. . ed his full expression on me, And thep ; he sald he wouldn't!" “My!" said the girl at the handker chiefs, “Is he that stubborn?” “Uhhuh,” said Miss Stelter, proudly. “That man is a regular stone wall 1 He gald a man that was a man eourt ed danger instead of running from it, and it was a duty he owed— “Six cents a dozen. These' are eight, “He looked grand, too, as he said ! is, Five aisles down. I wish peo- e BuildersLumber & Supply COMPANY 3. K & E 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Foot of Mais Strent Phone 3. NO.1%4 AND & INCH CYPAESS SHINGLES “L4MD5INCH ¢ ; 400 M ND. 1 STANDARD CYPRESS LATH 400N MR FLG & CEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00 M We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnisb you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart it wanted, cut from round timbcr, We make doors and sash and can furnish any kind of mill work out of pine and cypress lumber. Re carry a first class line of points, varnishes and oil. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. H. Hopkins, who s well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumber man. Terms: Strictly Cash on Delivery of Goods A o MRS . nessand stop interrupting! He said J. J. DAVIS & CO. Heo just laughed at me in a scornful Successors to D. Fulghum § sort of way. ‘Afraid!’ he said, ‘Me afrald! Well, I guess not! Golng up 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue in airships is the best thing I do! Why, I'm perfectly at home in the airt Of course, he says, ‘I've never been up in one of these here machines, but being on top of the Masonic temple shows a fellow what Le can stand. These people who talk about danger, huh!’ I felt proud of Charlie when he talked like that!” “Of course you did,” agreed the girl at the handkerchiefs. “I know whea Art says—" “But I wasn't going to give in,” went on Miss Stelter. “It's a bad habit to get into. ‘But it's dangerous,’ I told | him, ! “Charlie just hooted. ‘Dangerous!’ he said. ‘About as much danger as you could put in your eye! The ma- chines are perfectly harmless, and you can manage 'em with a single twist of the wrist, because I've rcad about ' ‘em. I expect I'll buy one when | they come down cheaper. Why, there won't be any accident when every- body travels by airship. They're great!® “We were standing looking up with ous necks ‘most broke an’ me hanging on to Charlie’s arm, coaxing him. I was bound to get my way, though I was proud to hear him talk, “Right in the middle of a sentence Charlie give a yell that you could have heard a mile off, and waved his arms like a thrashing machine. ‘Run!’ he shrieked, ‘run for your life! The thing'll get us all,’ and he streaked it Heavy and Fancy Groceries e e e e Rl e S Ml S SO Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty Phone 33¢ % Prompt Delivery story of a hotel bad dropped an open | newspaper from the window, Charlie's eye had caught a glimpse of | the thing floating down om top of our Here at this drug store. Ilf the doctor says you need a certain'instrument or appliance Come right tothis store—we have it. Red Cross Pharmacy Phone 80 ¥ Quick Delivery | TELEURAM. LaK ELAND, FLA., APRIL 33, 1913, and then gave a final pat to the large | Smafl Pleces Enhance the Beauty of wads of hair plastered over each of | Any Costume—Sometimes Serve as | " e . Be at length Tiarn ! ed that 'USE FUR TRIMMINGS Lad been written by 4, - HER HEART'S BLOOD | Siriscos of Bimem, Yo' o slowly gainisg & foothold 1y 1. " LEADING MODISTES INSIST ON BY JULIA CORNELL. erary world, he bad been infurr, g THIS METHOD OF DECORATION. ! Timidity was an unknown : {in Herbert Englerth’s life, Ho, Herbert Englerth, bachelor, man of | ever, found himself as timig ar ! business, was sitting on the veranda | proverbial schoolboy when . [ot the California hotel smoking a | little maid ushered him fnto 1, pipe, when an eastern Sunday news i rington home. i paper was handed him. “Did you say it was Miss pany “Silly sentiment to have tils trall- | ton you wished to seet™ " —_— lllxg after me. Surely in six months| “Yes, the writer of short Storteg» An ides of the number of ways in ! should be acclimated even to the “Oh, yes; she is mot in Just noy, which small bits of fur may be used . extent of reading coast news.” But, sir, she’s o miss; she's mameé may be had by glancing at any °g| After looking over the different |and has four children.” Shoulder Straps—Follow Satin and Chiffon, the afternoon and evening toflettes in ' Pages, with a stified yawn he turned e ——— these days. A gown of cloth will to the magazine section. Persian on “Suffringettss» have epaulettes of fox or squirrel. A “‘To the Unknown Man' Humph!| A Persisn puts forward a solyy dance frock will have a row of little | Queer title for a story!” of the problem of how to desl wits gy turry heads across the bodice fnstead | oo | suftragists. | of a row of roses, or the narrowest |y ‘am gitting by the window, my harp| It is true” he says, fn his auain] possible bands of fur around the edge : beside me, looking at the stars, think- | Phraseology, “that in my Persia of the short, fllmy sleeves, or a tiny {Ing of you. Indeed, you have lived in | are mot much troubled with yo, edging ou the chifon tunle. Collars | M7 (heushis evor sitce the day I packed | fringattes, though at one tin s on every sort of gowns are likely t0 | During girlhood hours I plctured you | Srettable old wife was receiveq into| be finished with & bit of fur on fll.ielndc:n vurenel;. dum:\: Intn::w'n on ufmy home in Tabriy who in prancing st , carrying me n your bmk. many m scratch my e, £ e i hoben, o2 | 1a, and alk and ik and ta 1 my Prince was on the way. I was six- | that with one wink en then. Tonght the clock of time shall rike thirty for me! Ah! You can never :| know what it means to a girl to face thir- ty unloved, unmarried! Why, why Buf of the sworq w.: | easily ceased, which with your law 1a) ; mot, I think, possible. “So. too, woula be unpoesible for same reason, I think, to take neyt Way to stop such women ag yo bave—rvis,, mount them with )| face to tail, with the overhead, ‘See the deserving punishmens of female chay. and so through all the in each street fop three strokes of stout stick upon bare by gyard attendant, to 288 g : f g s 3 e ~E. 2 7 ] THY il i ;_ 1 i 4 i Mansfleld and the Cabaret, show continues, prob. - the satisfaction of the ma but oertainly to the dissatisfag & minority. The latter cle 0o spokesman, as the sub discussed thorouchly, to: Richard Manstield g 2 i3 hat 1 wind yself /| bas en | O | spent ,ions for my home—your been collecting all these years, My | chest 18 . Ah! the tender 1) % g H £ 5 £ i g ] el jis L g tering in a hotel of P LB e e R R be did not know all he would i happy. But sometimes, at night, when i the wind is blowing and the rain dash- | ing against my window, the cruel thought that you may never come flashes upon | me—a long, lonely life without you! It | is torture, because, dear, I am not one of | | those strong, self-sufficlent creatures who can rise above the old law of nature. I'm | simply & home-loving girl, who asks nothe {ing of life but her inalienable right of i husband, home and children, i Oh, dear, unknom man, vll::t me in my dreams tonight prom that you 4 { will, will come, “T hear Jou are gulng"(o s mad | Inee today,” Miss Green said to )M .:s { “By George! I'm the man!” gasped | Blazer. “I hope you'll enjoy youn | Herbert Englerth. “For twenty years | self.” “Oh, I'm sure to have a zuod I've been on the lookout for just that | time!” replied Miss Blazer. “I'r. zo- {type of a girl. Heavens! that article | ing with a woman whose hushind twas written with heart’s blood! I'll strongly disapproves of her svving |find the girl or I'm not the man I shows like the one we are goiug to {think I am. Of course, she's eastern, 8ee; so I think we can't fail to eujoy “Do: you: have music in the dining room?” “Certainly, Mr. Manafield.” “Boy, give me. that valise. Il go elsewhera.”' © Added Zest. | possibly southern. I'm away out here, Ourselves” MUDAr cio, at0 Bometines on oatthe ibnt what's distance! I'll get her ad 3¢, dress from the publisher” collar, close-fitting as velvet, will be | ith Herbert Englerth, thinking o H;: :;-ew.," oo made of the fur—a separate onme or ] attached. Cuffs on tailored suits of l:::;:fl::l s dl‘lx:: o:t: velvet aud broadcl-th and all the now |1t ‘was ‘Nowerar, eharacredils of b elty goods from Paris are pretty sure | yyen ho started out to do a.thing he 10 be of fur, and many & sult, 88 well | giq 4 “Thiy quality bad made him 288 fur coat, boasts big round buttons | gy gagigpensable factor in ks bush great an idler. Do you kaow what be comes of people who won't work.?™ Tommy—*“Yessum. They gets sup ported by the rest of the family."— Judge. of seal or mole or ermine. Tbe eve ———— ness firm. So when he asked for an ::u wrap, ¢ it is not made wholly ot immediate leave of absence it was r, can hadily be said to rank high Usual Way. granted. “Truth crushed to earth will rise Upen his arrival east, after spend- ,zn11 * but nine times out of ton the ing some time posing. as. & man of i ioriobile gets away first—Lippin ' d unless it has at least & broad collar and revers of some soft fur, and per- haps a fur rose or buttons as a fas tening. Often it is bordered all around with the fax or ermine, or whatever chances to:- bave been chosen. The best ot the French wraps seem design- ed to give contrast, as except in the case of a faw all white models—white velvet edged with ermine or white fox, for instance—a dark fur is usually | chonen to ornament a light brocade ! or velvet, and a white or very light fur on a dark wrap. One of the very attractive acces- sories of the cloth suit or the after noon gowns is a large combination cole lar and jabot made of fine lace with. fur trimming. This is worn outside | the coat of a suit. Sometimes the entire collar is made of the fur, fas- | tened in the back, and there are small sable heads or what not down the | center of the large double frill, Narrow band trimmnigs of fur are | used on chiffons, and even laces and cometimes a band of fur serves as a | shoulder stra, instead of the more | familiar band of rhinestone or pearls, | A charming frock of girlish type . was seen recently. The blouse and ; tunic: were made of fine shaded lace, ! and decollete bodice being finished | with a row of tiny pink silk roses vell | ed by the lace. The skirt was border ed by a band of swansdown. The frock pictured is of pale yellow satin and chiffon with a lace tunie, Two narrow bands of skunk extend f( LAY 2t S el e i et T I S oSS e Mr. and Mrs. Homeowner:— Why do we love the forests and flelds? Because Mother Nature makes them beautiful with Sowers and streams and gram. We spend the greatest part of our time in the houss and we should bave beauty thers, te0. Wo know how to make your home har- moalous and beautiful. We have the furniture aad furaishings to ds it with. Come to see our stoek; you will not quarrel with our PRICES. TINNERS AND PLUMBERS The Model Hardware Co. : i f I i el §if I E f ] - ! ; ; { i lij £ :.55 % ! 2 g ,Eé j wearer. Th & straight strip, slightly hot in front if the meck s =\ 1eE HItiiiiiariliads

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