Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 20, 1913, Page 2

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MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue L L S SR THE EVENING (ELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, JUNE 20, 1013 e et e 5 R S e R fiS PECULIAR WAY Harry Weston Made Love Ac: cording to the Department Store Plan. BY BRYANT C. ROGERS. “1 hope you will answer at once and decide the matter.” That was the closing paragraph of a | letter handed over to Miss Nellie by | her brother Ben one rainy day as he returned from the village postoffice, three miles away. The letter was signed “Harry” Did Harry wish to buy a plece of real estate from Miss Nellle? Had he made a cash offer for her pony? Was it a matter of stocks and bonds? What was she to decide at once and answer? What was the momentous question that had been hanging fire until he had become impatient at the delay? All kinds of things might be guessed as the answer but they might all be wrong. All men do not make love alike. For instance, when Miss Nellie Vane's father brought Harry Weston home with him to dinner he had an ob- ject in view besides feeding him. He had decided in his own mind that it was high time his daughter married. He had further decided that it was up to him to select the man. As a widower he had no wife to consult. Harry Weston was a junior partner in a department store. He was prim. He was priggish. He was stilted. He was accurate In his figures and cor- rect to a dot in his language. If he had happened to get the wrong accent on a syllable, or made a lapse in grammar, he might have had to go home and take to his bed. He saw and admired Miss Nellle and resolved ! to win her for a wife. | No, all men don't make love alike. Harry Weston made love according to the department store plan as nearly as he could. There were no bargain days with things marked down one-third, and he didn’t quite look on Miss Nellie as a salesgirl not to be praised for her | sales for fear she would strike for ten cents a week more on her wages. No, not quite, but as they sat alone, ten feet apart, he talked to her of the ; tarift, discount, profits and losses and other things of absorbing interest to a girl of twenty. He had made an ex- cursion trip to Europe with his mother when he was a boy of ten, and he related his length. The Tower of London had given him | a chill. Windsor Castle had warmed} him up. Paris was tremendous. The tomb of Napoleon had brought tears to his eyes, though even at his tender age he had doubted that the great hero, if alive, could make a success of a department store. The Pyramlids of Egypt—ah! The Rock of Gibraltar— impressions at great! | ah! | Mr, Weston came down to the Vane manor every two weeks on Sundays. He was prompt to the minute. His greeting was always the same. His hand was always cold. No matter what the weather was, he always re- marked that the country was looking nice. There was one single exception, however. He had arrived with two feet of snow on the ground and a blizzard raging, and after some thought he observed that if it had | been of a Saturday the loss of trade | to the store would have been thou-| sands of dollars. | In due time Mr. Harry Weston asked Miss Nellle Vane to be his wife. But how did he do it? According to schedule, certainly. He couldn’t have done it any other way to have his life. No holding her hand! No arm around her waist! No soulful smile in his eyes! He was five feet away from her and standing with one hand on the center table when he calmly ro- marked: “Miss Vane, will you do me the| honor to become my wife?” It was just 23 if he said to the store advertising man: | “James, you may advertise those 98 cent corsets for 48 cents.” 1 “I—I will think it over,” sald the poor girl as she wanted to run away and hide and have a good cry. Truly Mr., Weston had aomemlu:I | Miss Nellie Vane started out one aft- fence. It's like sheep trying to climb 5 i & tree. Miss Nellie did just as any . 3 :th;:e girl svsvoulf:l lhave dt:ne. She Clltlery has blades o‘,hard, Sprlngy § the long ago. _heroine had to be conveyed home— ‘hero to call next day and give his ,and said the delay made no difference. :and he informed her that while in Lon- |don he had met Mr. Weston and his i tablish a “world centre” for the promo- | swered, although of conrse no money s——— o ————— iy and stamped it and called to brother I Ben that she would give him a quar- ter to take her pony and convey the letter to the village. ! “But it’s raining cats and dogs,” he replied. “But you have a raincoat.” “Gimme the coin.” Did brother Ben get out the pony and hie away to town and drop that Jetter into the postoffice with his own hands? He didn't. He was a dry boy and hated water like a hen. He sim- ply got out the family umbrella and gneaked out to the gate and when an auto came along with a young ma‘n and his chauffeur in it he held up his hand as a signal to stop, and then ad- vanced and held out the letter to the young man and said: | “Be good and do a feller a favor.” “For sure,” “Drop this into the postoffice when you pass through town.” “Why certainly. Any money in it to tempt me?” “Not a red. It's my elster Nellie's letter.” “Ah.” “And it's going to Mr. Harry Wes- ton, New York city,” said brother Ben as he read the address. “All right, my young friend. Mr. Harry Weston will get his letter, even it I have to carry it to him.” Brother Ben did not return directly to the house. He made for the barn, and it was an hour later when he en- tered the house by the kitchen door and sald: It was about eight months after that rainy day and that explicit letter that fiflmflw ‘ steel. T hj means a edged bladc ernoon after wild strawberries, It was to be down the road a quarter of a mile and then over the fence into the meadow. Brother Ben had been there and made a hog of himself. It is painful to watch a girl climb a climbed two feet high and got her foot caught and fell back to shout. At that moment a young man in an auto came along—sime young man thai had taken her letter to mail in He stopped. He ran to the prisoner and loosened her foot. It was a case of sprained ankle. The well empered. They have sharp edges, Inevery way they are of thet est quality. Tre Jacksol and Wilson (¢ iy W the family was startled—the doctor was called, Good form required the name and sympathies. This was done by Mr. Ford Grafton, and at his third call he produced the letter he hadn't mailed that rainy day, and had carried with him on a trip to BEurope an back. Miss Nellie blushed bride on their tour. “If my inexcusable carlessness has caused you any disappointment I shall never forgive myself,” he sald. “Oh, it was just an inquiry about gloves”; she replied and it was a whole year later that she told him the truth. “Father, I have taken what came along,” said the girl with a mischiev- ous smile after Mr. Grafton had had his talk with him in the library, “I see,” he replied. “Well, as I un- derstand it, yon owe your brother Ben another quarter!” (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News- paper Svndicate,) Cabinet Officers Get Queer Malil. Melody reached Secretary Houston of the department of agriculture through his mail in the guise of three pleces of music, one & love song, the others patriotic in their appeals. Fur- thermore, one of the world's dreamers has sought his support in trying to es- tion of broad huma:sitarian principles. A third contribution in the polygot mass of matter was a formidable-sized volume containing a jumbled mass of alleged universal genealogical informa- tion, collected from almost every source under the sun, astronomy and mythology, signs and symbols having been utilized. ne palpably spurious and one evi- dently genuine request for financial aid in agricultural work and several requests for autographs also came in the day's grist of mail. The bona-fide request for aid, which was from a western homesteader's wife, was an- An{ Endless Variety Of the Best Brands HAMS--With that ricy,, spicy flavor BACON--That streax of lean and streak(of fat¥” SAUSAGE S--Most:any kind to your likirg: could be sent, as the department has coming to him, and he got it. After the annual white goods sale he re-| ferred to the matter again, but with- out any great interest, and was again put off. After the $3 umbrella sale had closed with unprecedented suc- ' cess,—he offered his hand and heart for the third time, “I muet have more time,” replied Mies Nellie. ! A month passed and then came the letter brother Ben brought. Mr. Wes- ton wanted to know, you know, just' as he might want to know about an order of goods for the shoe depart- ment. “The wretch!” exclaimed the girl as she read the letter and gritted her teeth. “It shall be no! no! no!” And it was, and when the father' was told of it his reply was: “Well, you have thrown over a model husband and a lot of money, and for who and what? Well, you'll have to take what comes along.” He threw that at her as a scare, It | whether a chauffeur intended to go no funds for such relief.~Washington Evening Star. Potted. Meats Canned Med? Pickled Meats A different kind fo; every day in the ™ Watch the Wheel, “When crossing a crowded thorough- fare on which automobiles predomi- nated,” remarked a pedestrian, “it used to be difficult for me to decide | Beat Butter, per pound . Sugar, 17 pounds .. Cottulene, 10 pound paily . . Cottolene, 4-pound paily, ié Enowdrift, 10-pound pails. 3 cans family size Cream straight ahead or suddenly turn and dart around the corner. “I endeavored to solve the matter by watching the eyes of the chaut- |feur, the same as a boxer watches the eyes of his opponent to discover where he intends striking a blow. But the method proved unsatisfactory. vese P tae samamanttt S vesesenenerrtt he had understood girl-nature he would have realized that “what is to come along” is her hope—her mystery —her romance. And Miss Nellie felt that anything that might come along would be better than the lay-figure that had already come. The letter was brief, but as explicit as is the swear-word of a man when he stubs his toe, She wanted it sent to the postoffice &t once. When it reposed in the maill bag the case might be considered as closed. She eealed “The other day I accidentally dis- 8 cang bahy size Cream. ., .......... vuuus vn oo st ] 19 ot et ew direction he intends to turn> (@ 0000 CUreeestteed il Has Its Use, 1 see that the silk hat was invent. ed 100 years ago.” | “I wonder how they pulled off th, | firsts of April without ft? g i ——— Every Woman, Maud—Every woman wants large her sphere, | Beatrix—True, but not her eireum- ference.—Judge. L. 6. TWEEDEL |. e VSS9 SO ISR T Vet e to en-| D' Slasesee Accounting System M. WOODWARD sreeea., 1 L Teesseec Besserapunansertt’ TAMP,