Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 25, 1913, Page 6

Ty A o SR RO i |IYSTEBY IN A POCKET 8y C. D. JAMES, Usher one day not long ago shouted Just five minutes to make the train to the golt club. “Gracious!” wailed Mrs. Usher back at him, “I never can—there's a thia above the edge of my low shoes and in 1t rud fato & {] g 1 10c¢. 1b. Pure Food Store W.P,Pillans & Co. PHONE 93 come along!” Thereupon Mrs, Usher came along, frantically struggling into a heavy coat and stufing hosiery and hand- kerchiefs into her husbagrd's pockets. “There!” she said, triumphantly, when they had played nine holes, “Look at my stocking!” An unmistak- able hole showed above the line of her low shoe. “What did I tell you?” “You can change when we go in for Juncheon,” sald Usher. “I left my coat hanging up In that little hall just outside the Junchroom—everything else has been shut up for the winter.” Mrs. Usher found the coat. There were two others next it. Only a few hardy persons were playing golf in the nipping air. After a while she re- appeared bearing in her hands a crum- pled ball of brown silk, the discarded hosiery. Just as she reached her hand toward the overcoat pocket Usher called from the hall. “Yes,” she answered, “I'm coming!” and hastily rammed home the hosiery. Let it be said at this point that Ush- er's coat hung very close to the next one. The next one belonged to Bea- ning. That evening as Benning settled himself comfortably with the evening paper there was a little choking sound BuildersLumber & Supply COMPANY B H & E 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Phone 8. Foot of Main Strest | BULK DRIED APPLES NO.174 AND § INCH CYPRESS SHINGLES §5,00 M “24MDBINCH . " 4.00 M ND. 1 STANDARD CYPAESS LATH 400 M MR FLG_8 GEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00 M We are Lhandling the cut of a small mill, aud can furnish you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart if wanted, cut from round timbcr, We make doors and sash and cap 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 is well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumber man. Terms: Strictly Cash on Delivery of Goods U J. J. DAVIS & CO. Successors to D. Fulghum § 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue “Don’t Look So Idioticl® fa the hall and presently Mrs. Ben ning stood before him tragically hold ing out something brown. “Huh?" asked Benning, peering at the brown thing. “What, may | ask,” demanded his wite, “are you doing with brown silk stockings in your coat pocket, Arthur? Kindly answer me that!"” She shook out the hosiery to: its full and incriminating length. “Don’t look so idiotic!"” she cried when she could stand the strain no l ' Hay, Grain, and lo?-!é;;}—why," stammered Benning, - *1 don’t know a th-thing about them.” F d S l Whereupon Mrs. Benning went into ee S a peCla ty hysterics and cried that Benning never had loved her anyway and what had she ever done that such an awful thing should blight her life? ' “Darling,” cried the frantic Ben- . - ) ping, “let me explain!” ’ 'Phone 334 M Prompt Delivery [ll| e expiaint” biazed nis wire k) “Good Lord!” grcaned Benning, af , H ter a wild instant. “I can’t! I—~" Heavy and Fancy Groceries *I shall go home to mother,” anm- e e e oo -—————— | BOUNCed Mrs. Benning. “I shall tell i the janitor to bring up my trunks.” The rest of that night Mrs, Benning 9| held her outraged head very high while carrying things from the closets and bureau drawers to trunks, Ben- ning alternately tagging after her, b | piteously expostulating, or sunk in the biggest armchair in an attitude ex- pressive of complete weariness with the world. “I kno¥X it sounds foolish,” he moaned, “to say I don’t know how the confounded things got there, but—" “It certainly does!™ Mrs. Benning “Hello!” said Usher’s voice. "Say, bave you by any chance got my wites browa silk stockings in your overcoat pocket—" “Here! Hurry!™ yelled Benning, beckoning frantically to Mrs. Benning. *Come and listen to this!” *] don't care!™ said Mrs. Benning some moments later, when the crying forgiving were over. “I never did | like that Mra. Usher, anyhow! And | 0w, Arthur Benning, you can just set | to work and help me unpack."—Ch} cago Daily News. l Australian Centenariana, Whete Can You Get - Them? ')‘ :’ Here at this drug store. 3If the doctor says 1 148 you need a certain'instrument or appliance come right tothis stere—we have it. Red Cross Pharmacy Phone 89 % Quick Delivery E THE NVENING TELBURAM. LAKELAND, FLA, APRIL 25, 1913, ‘—'— frivolous, they are the only weapon, SONNY WAS ON JoB|WOOING HER HUSBAND 27 o, veer <& upstairs to Mrs, Usher that he found his watch was slow and that she had | quick glance rested immediately upon spot in the heel of my stocking right | of | and the probaM= ccllapse af the pres- ¢ T —— By J. 8. COYNE. Mrs. F.—Perhaps By EDNA FERBER. Mrs. Swandown—I hope, now, ~Oh, po: s have come to spend a long day w’::: m:::n% the :mld'g:t alvayy me—we shall have such a delighttul | 4 husband; but if you want to fi chat about old times—but where is | love you must employ a little ar o your husband? I'm dying to see him.{q 1ittle delicate management Why did you not bring him with you? yourself the center of those pi Mrs, Featherley—Ob, he was en- | which attract him; surround m‘ In breezed Emma McChesney. Her Meyers and the boy. And in that moment some instinct prompted Jock McChesney to shake his head, ever 80 slightly, and assume & blankness expression. genenally is engaged. { Ao e ocses: | Mre. 8—Come, sit down. Tell me, | please him, and mever neglect thomsi ey, with that shrewdness which has Tade ber one of the best salesmen on | prr I Do like—is Be good lookiag. | accomplishments which fret charneq! the road, saw, and miraculously un- derstood. . “How do, Mrs. McChesney,” grin- mmgdlloyn '!oulfl.lm;mm“'&“m“wh 1 his aginary paragon of yours—you as| Mrs. P—But it “So 1 see,” smiled Emma, cheerful- | joye—handsome a3 Adonis—brave as ammm-mmm}" : ly. T was delayed. Just sold @ nice | 5 lon—gay as & summer bird—witty, | where? little bit to Watkins down the street.” She seated herself across the way, and kept her eyes on that closed door. “Say, kid,” Meyers began, in the busky whisper of the fat man, ‘I'm going to put you wise to something, seeing you're new to this game. See that lady over there?” He nodded dis- creetly in Emma McChesney's diree- | ered the delusions we practice on our- Artist’s Love at First Sight, tion, selves and fancy that the idol you| The great Gainsborough, the painter’ ”Pll::l"'l yl-n't she?” sald Jock, ap {:ncied was pl;u gold h:-h’pmnd to :t“ the ulne:’u;d “Stolen Duchesy” preciatively. an image of common ki “The ue” and many lovel; “Know who she is?” Mrs. F—'Tis too true. We have |landscapes, fell fa love at a glanc:! M”WO“;-I—OHH does look famlliar, o;:ly :eul nu.rrlo:;“ twelve months and :!uobm mn:lu a lanscape near Sug. bt already my husband treats me with , W 6 was interrupted in hiy “Oh, come now, quit your bluffing.|q coldness that his politeness cannot | work by a lady eoming between him It you'd ever met that dame you'd| conceal. and the sunlight. Her shadow fell remember it. Her name’'s McChesney | Mrs, 8. ~Impossible, my dear Eu-|upon his work, for she was wholly :Em;-knccg:s::y,l and she t.tekl:c: genia, impossible! it he ever loved nm':lo:: that .hl' n:} h;te;rup(gn‘ . Buck’s featherloom pe you. & wor & genius. Gainsborough I'l give her her dues; she'’s the best| ' Mrs. F.—He did Jove me—oh, most | looked up, perhaps thinking it was o little salesman on the road. I bet| devotedly! leov that was wandering by. It hap that girl could sell a rufiied, accordion| Mrs, 8.~And how have you let his ; Pened to be a very attractive woman, plaited underskirt to a fat woman|heart escape? with whom the artist was instantly who was trying to reduce. She's got| Mrs, F.—I know not—F am sure, to | smitten. 8he proved a very helpful the darndest way with her. And at| please him, I have neglected the world | Wife, and used to save every scrap of that she's straight, too.” —his interests have engrossed all my | WOrk her husband did, although he It Ed Meyers had not been gazing|thoughts; the hours which a woman Would dash off a lovely sketch and s0 intently into hia kat, trying at the | of my age usually epends at her toilet, | fing it under the table. These casy same time to look cherubically benign | I have given to regulating lis house. | Offs brought & large sum at auction at. he might have seen a quick and pain- | hold. ter the artist’s death. ful scarlet sweep the face of the boy,| Mrs. S—~Hem! Interests—house ooupled with a certain tense look of | holld—go on, my dear. ¢ Probably a Pc_ft. the muscles around the jaw. Mrs. F.~No wife ever attended more | :'!t is hard to be poor. “Well, now, look here,” he went on, | clesely to her domestie duties—to de.| Then it that's the case I am an still in & whisper. “We're both skirt | vote myself to them I have given upiex"‘""’t In at ’9"‘,?_‘ one thing.” men, you and me. Everything’s fair i “What {s that? my music, drawing and accomplish- #1 ‘belng poor. Being'p in this game. Maybe you don't know [ ments—as for my economy, I have car- | : oor s one gl shti M AU of the easiest things I do.” it, but when there's a bunch of tho!ried it even to my own dress, which boys waiting around to sce the head | you see is qf the plainest description. of the store like this, and thero hap-| Mrs, S.—Plain indeed—and men, un Added Zest pens to be a lady traveler in the/| fortunately, are too apt to confound a 2 crowd, why, it's considered kind of a| woman with her dress, Mr, Feather professional courtesy to let the lady|ley is doubtless a man of taste. 4 it miiRilgin have the first lookin. See?” Mrs, F.—Exquisite. And you think, Blazfr.“ J5 Bopeivoull lp,‘l; ikt I get you” answered Jook. then— aat® ropiled Miss Bhaser. 1. ko “I say, this is business, and good| Mrs. 8—I think you have neglected ing S P. by il i manners be hanged. When & woman | the very means by which you could’ o 1o gisapproves of her i breaks into a man’s game like this,| bave retained his affections. Instead shows like the ene wo aro golrg V!o let her take her chances like a man. ot worrying him with detalls of house-; o0." o0 v hink we can't fail to eujoy Aln't that straight?’ ‘eeping and monotonous lectures o8 o ioiven 3 “You've sald something,” ugreed|domestic economy you should endeaw Jock. or to charm him as you used to do, by, “Now, look here, kid. When that|your wit, your gayety and your ace: He Knew, door opens I get up. Sce? And shoot | complishments—sing to him, play to Teacher—"Tommy, you are too straight for-the old man's office. See? | hm, dance with: him, if he will; fas- | great an idler. Do you know what be Like a duck. See? Say, I may be fat, | ¢inate him by your graces—even ocomes of people who:won't work.” kid, but I'm what they call light on | DiQue him by your coquetry, for these | Tommy—"Yessum. They gets sup my feet, and when 1 see an order | &re the cages in which we keep men’s | ported by the rest of tha family.'~ getting away from me I can be so|bhearts our prisoners, Judge. fleet that I have Diana looking llke| Mrs. F—How, Julia, do you recom- e old Weston doing a stretch of muddy | mend me to employ such frivolousd: country road iIn a coast-to-coast hike. | arts with a sensible man? Usual Way. See? Now you help me out on thia| Mrs. 8.—Ah, my dear, the most sen- “Truth crushed to carth wiil rim and Il see that you don’t suffer for | ible men are fools where our sex is 882In," but nine times out of te: the it. Il stick in a good word for you, | Concerned. As to: those arts you call tutomoblle gets away first—Liojla ; wit'a display—kind and affable to all, but |'Still, I see no occasion to despair tender, loving and constant only to | bringing back the wanderer. pl v;;; you. h lay my lite that your rival, it yoy Mrs, F. (sighs)—Ah, that was s |have one, cannot boast the graces of schoolgirl’s idea; reality paints with |mind and person which you possesy very different colors. but want eonfidence to you. Mrs. 8.—~Ab, then you have discov- *1 hear you are going to A mib Inee today,” Miss Green sn'd to *lw belleve me. You take the word of an old stager like me and you won't go far—" X The door opened. Simultaneously three figures sprang into action. Jock | 3 had the seat nearest the door. With|# marvelous clumsiness he managed tc place himself in Ed Meyers' path, then reddened, began an apology, stepped on both of Ed's feet, jabbed his elbow into his stomach and dropped his hat. A second later the door of old Sulzberg's private office closed upon Emma McChesney's smart, erect, confident figure—~Amepr foan Magazine. AFRAID OF NUMBER THIRTEEN Remarkable How Many Really Intelll gent People Retain the Idea That It Is Unlucky. SRBHOSINSFO M SELPSOISUPIUIH0 3100w~ There is much superstitious bellet regarding the number 13. President. elect Wilson is not one of those who hold the figure in awe. On the “on: trary, he says it is a sign of fortunol for him, and so it would seem, in that he takes the highest office in the year 1913. There are some who go to ex- tremes in avoiding conflict with any- thing containing the ominous numeral. A movement has been started in Lon- don for the suppression of the num- ber. It has even been suggested that | the London county council be petl- tioned to authorize some change out of deference to the uncourageous. Aany people are writing to the London pa- I pers suggesting means of escape. One | who Dbas beea exploring hlltnry] writes: *T bave searched for reeordli spend the greatest part of our ttme ia the house aad we should have Deauty thers, too. We know how to make your home har- monious and beautiful. We have the furniture and furnishings t> do i* with. Come to see our stock; you will mot quarrel with our PRICES. TINNERS AND PLUMBERS 1The Model Hardware Co. eat goverament.” —aOh 210004C sz st = Sybscribefor TRETELEGRAM of the years 13 B. C,, 13 A. D, 1300 and 1313, and find them to have deen hopelessly commonplace years, during which the world apparently slumbered | tranquilly. The notable event of 1413 was the crowning of Henry V., but he can not be called a disaster. Tke 3 year 1813 gaw the beginning of Na- § Y Mr. and Mrs. Home-owner:— Why do we love the forests and fields? Because Mother Nature makes them beautiful with fiowers and streams and gras. We poleon’s collapse, but this was a dis- aster which was confined to Napoleon, and rather a gocd thing for everp body else. All things considered, 1 think we may look forward without acxiety to 1913, which opens with the bapplest auguries—a boom in trade S SNGV0VSNIVSDV SN P S04 S0P S0G® SOVVS OGN SN SOR S DSOS HISIS 1 b 5. 1@CPN SN BN SISO SO SO0 LH SIS SOSHSOBI) «