Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 9, 1913, Page 6

| ! 'AGE SIX MUST HAVE LINEN CARDCAS Fashion's Decree Makes It Imperative to Include This Among Neces- sary Accessories. % The daintily ewbreidered cardcase of lineu belongs among the necessary accessorics, and the woman who does ot alrcady possess one should im- ‘mediately legin t» embroider the linen. The necdlevork shops sell a variety of designs stamped on coarse or fine dinen, according to the work you de- sire to place on it. The thin lingerie frock demands a cqrdcase of handkerchief linen, em-' #roidered with a very fine design;l those done in eyelet embroidery are | ghe most efiective. If you do the tiny flowers and foliage m solid work, pag ithe petals first with darning cotton and cover this with fine mercerized cotton. Scallop the edges, using the duttonhole stitch, and whipstitch the sldes together. | With the one-picce frock or tailored costume should be carried a cardcase of heavy lincn. The desigu is not 8o fine on these and can be done with white or colors. For instance, if you choose a card- case of nuturalcolored linen, the de- sign can be efectively done in white, bro.n or dark blue. There are a few degions to be worked with the Bulgar- dan cclors, and these are exiremely effective when done in the brilliant hues on o background of tan linen, ‘MATERIA'S FGR THE TOURIST Crepe de Chine Deservedly Popular— China Silk and Unlined Net and Lace 'Waists Useful. de clinos are popular and Eactlcal, as tli-) clean easily. The miliar double ri'l is still used, as mre also narrow [ ills which outline the front pleit:. -r follow the side Mastening. Nurrow pleatings to match Crepe _-31!" —* the house and the land,” John said to | . Some of these silks have a white towel. for the pillow. THE NEVENING FELBORAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, JULY 9, 1913. collars and turnback cuffs. They have the button through col- . lar and cuffs, with long shoulder lines. Crepe de chine is sometimes used ln | combination with net, lace or prlnted‘ " silk. China silk waists also have the frill | finish, but the designs are a little ] more on the tailored style. Striped‘ wash silks are popular with travelers. | ' ground work with broad or narrow | stripes in purple, gray, blue, rose, yel- low or brown. Then, again, the groundwork shows a soft shade of gray, blue, rose or tan with white stripe. These silks are made in the mannish shirt styles. Unlined net and lace waists are | very practical, as they are easily | laundered, thus doing away with the necessity of dry cleaning. FOR BABY’S BELONGINGS -.’I 3 i : | l A clever way to mark a pillow or The design could be enlaued arl Buttons Now In Style. Pearl buttons on patent leather shees are considered smart just now. Security Abstract & Title Company | Announces that it is now ready and can |furnish promptly, complete and reliable for “business, | abstracts of the title to any real estate in Polk County. SECURITY ABSTRACT & TITLE (0. Miller Building. East Side Square BARTOW . FLORIDA C. A. 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NENBECIES ; | PRESSING CLUB very day, John remaining there, Mary | | Stood Side by Side Upon a Little | carrylng all before ' through levees, overwhelming towns, dvrdeodrodrodoodoodoodooeod bbb i dd E e frills are used as a finfsh for flat bk l N THE_DRFTHOOD § Flooded River Brings Precious Gift to Reunite Husband | and Wife. By MARGARET CAMERON. John Basco:mbe stood upon the bank | of the whirling river, looking on the wreck of his home. His wife, Mary, stood at his side, but even in this extremity of affliction her hand did not seek his, and there was no sign that their common disaster had united | them, Things had not gone well with them during the three years that had elapsed since their marriage. He had been a clerk in St. Louis, and Mary was a school teacher. It was a boy i and girl flirtation, followed by a boy ;and girl marriage; then, spurred by necesslty and aided by the inheritance , of a few hundred dollars, John had | * purchased a few acres in the flat low- | lands'of the western part of the state. ; There they had struggled almost from | the beginning. It was the desperate | struggle of the soil-hungry, seeking, to maintain their hold upor the preci- f ous earth, ' Gradualiy, under the influence of the ! hard and remitting toil, they had ‘ot earth, Here their farm had been, drifted apart. If Mary had. had a child it might have brought them to- | gether. But because this was not des- tined to be they had grown to be al- ! most strangers. Mary found the hard | struggle intolerable and longed for | books, people, intellectual lite, such | i as she had been accustomed to; and | John, busy from dawn to dark in his | battle with nature, hardly had any ' other life at all. When they ceased to hope for a child it seemed as though they must drift apart for ever. In fact they had | 8poken of a separation, at first tenta- tively, then hopefully, then eagerly, as | something to be anticipated. ‘You can have everything except ! her. “I want to be free, as you do. I'll send you—" “I don't want your money, John,” she flashed out at him. “There isn't anything of yours I want—now. There was only one thing—love—and I don't | want that any more.” They were to have separated that Knoll. returning to St. Louis, to take up her work in the public schools again. And then, a week before, the river | began to rise. And soon came stories of the floods up the country that were them, bursting ' sweeping away houses and churchea as though they were but driftwood | floating upon the stream, and drown-' ing thousands. And hourly the river rose, and Mary, forgetting for the time her own plans, stayed at John's side and fought the floods with him.' It was little she could do; but all along the banks men were building up the levees, hoping to dam back that roaring tide before | it burst through into the fertile fields that they had won from the scrub-cov- ered bottoms of the o'd water-chan- | nels. And Mary, with a corps of de-! voted women, ministered to the sav- | age, wearied, toiling men. Then the worst happened; the river | and Mann Plumbing Co. teed. Cleaning, Pressing and Alteration. Ladies Work a Specialty. Work Called for and Delivared. Prompt Service . Satisfaction Guaraa- C-A. MAN N. Kentucky Ave. Phone 257 HOPOIRIOFHIISOOOPIIIGO S N MANAGER Bowyer Building IF YOI ARE THINKING OF BUILDING, SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0ld Rellable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who neyer “FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildings contracted for, residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their abiiity to make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue me 1 y $! The many fine g | burst its banks, and, when the crest ' of the flood had passed, the little set- | tlement was as matchboxes. Not a ! house was left standing. Only logs,! | shingles, and foundations remained. And down the stream poured the debris from a half dozen states on its | | wild career toward the Gulf of Mex- | ico. They stood side by side upon a lit- tle knoll and looked at the dull yel- | low ponds that covered their land. ! |The land was there still but all the fruits of their works had been carried |away They looked into the turbid | rlver. and then into each other's eyes. “What are you going to do, John?” asked Mary. “I'm going to move west,”” he an- swered. “And you?” “l shal' go back to St. Louis,” she answered. “There is no use in my staying here now." “No,” he agreed. Mary was to leave on the following morning. They were sheltered in the railroad depot nearby which accomo- dated the homeless sufferers and stood just beyond the highest reach of the flood. On the next morning John set off at dawn. He could not i the gleaming knocker. ;what county or state, even, it had | the curtains swayed upon their rods. J| | as gently as a child. thing?" she added presently | John looked after her, wondering at ! diately afterward ! he saw the little arms go upward, | walst and he drew her towsrd him. resist the temptation to look once again at the ruin of his home; but he had not the heart to awaken Mary. When he left the squalid, sordid en- losure it was with no intention of returnmg And Mary knew that. She had not slept that night. She had thought, all through the long, sleepless hours, of that other ruin, their common life. Had she not also been to blame for that? She recalled times when she might have been more to John; en-| dearments which she had repelled; times when she had let pride master her inclinations toward reconciliation. And John had not changed, only he had let material things creep up be- tween their love like noisome weeds, and strangle it. Yet she could not bring herself to call him back. She watched his tall, bent figure pass out of the enclosure, and out of her life, as she thought. Half an hour later he was back, his face aflame. She looked at him in amazement. He might have been another man—no, the old one, her boyish sweetheart who had so long been only a memory to her. “Mary!” he called. “Come! No,; put on your cloak and bring your grip. "I will carry it for you, Come—I' "Y ! show you!” She accompanied him outside the: squalid buildings to where the reced- ing floods hdd left a swampy stretch their house and growing crops, and now— She started in amazement. A new house stood almost upon the spot of | the old one. It might have been their house—the house they had planned in the first dreams of their married life. Firm and foursquare it stood, with its eight rooms, its neatly shut- tered windows, its front door with Mary turned | to John. “It's magic, John. What does it mean?” she asked. John pointed to the receding river. “It is the river's gift to us,” he an- swered. Torn from its foundations, hundreds | of miles away, in heaven only knew been deposited there by the flood. It needed but two teams of oxen to place it upon the foundations of the old home. And it was theirs! For it could never be taken away; prob- ably those who had once owned it had died in the cataclysm. It was theirs, this home. They crept up toward it, wading like children through the swampy places. And, looking in, Mary gasped with wonder. For it was furnished, neatly, cheaply, but taste- fully. There was a parlor, with a table and chairs, a living room; even The river had borne it upon its breast “I wonder if the upper floor is furn- ished, Mary,” John suggested. Suddenly she caught his hand in hers and motioned to him to remain silent. “Hush, John!" she whispered, listening intently. “Did you hear any- John had heard nothing except the | sullen lapping of the waves upon the | river banks. But Mary's eyes were alight with a strange fire and her cheeks flushed and the hand that he held in his was trembling. “What is it, Mary?" he asked stupid. ly. Suddenly she dashed wildly up the steps of the stranded house, while! the feverish eagerness which had suc- ceeded her customary apathy. She disappeared inside, and almost imme- she reappeared. Her hair was tumbling all over her face, upon her lips there played a smile of tenderness that he had often imagined there but had never seen. In her arms she carried a bundle. She came toward him, and, as she | unwrapped it, the feeble cry of a child smote upon his ears. “Look, John!" she whispered. An infant of six months was lying in her arms. And even as John looked seeking Mary's neck, and, having found it, they clasped themselves con- | tentedly around it. | “What do you think, John!" said Mary, with a little laugh. “He hasn't even finished his bottle—although tha milk is souring. You didn't hear him,” she added, “but I did." She stood there so proud, so happy | in this vicarious motherhood that John's arm stole timidly aiound her | “Mary, dear,” he whispered, “I have often thought that if we had a child— | like this—it would have druwvn us to- | gether. We would not have drifted | apart as we have done.” “So have I,” she answered passion- ately. “I felt that you re:ented it, John, mv.—un childlessness, and so— and so—" “You hadn't grown tired of me?” “No, John, indeed no. It I had thought you wanted me to stay—" “But I did and do want you,” he | an'swered triumphantly. “Only, Mary | “John!" “He stays “ith us.” “Of course,” she answered, turn- | ing up the little face for her husband's | kiss, (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. 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