Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 22, 1913, Page 6

®AGE SIX SEISBLE PERSOS IProspective Bride and Bride- groom Analyze Their Respec- tive Merits and Demerits. By JOHN DARLING. Miss Winnie Cable was an orphan ho had been brought up by her randmother. mcated, taken abroad and given all ad- antages, and at twenty years old he had half a dozen admirers, and ere was talk that she would soon e a bride. She mingled a good deal ith society, but she was by no means butterfly. On the contrary, she so tonished certaln people whom she me to know that they eald of er: “Why, that Miss Cable really has houghu! I talked with her for half hour last evening and she never jmentioned fashions a single time!" It was true that Miss Winnie had Rhoughts—a heap of them. Her grand- other was to present her with half a fllion dollars on her wedding day. (lus remarsable photograph was Laken at the very ... /the city auditorium at Long Beach, Cal., collapsed under the weight of the ten thouasnd merrymakers who had /mssembled for the celebration of “British Empire Day.” . easy-going. The girl had been ed- thinking girl Young Mr. Douglass Hardie was the son of his father. His father was fair- ly rich and easy going. As long as the son had an income from the fa- ther and expectations for the future, why hustle? Why not belong to three or four clubs and take in society? He was not bad in any way, but just Just the sort of man an anarchist would like to lift with a . bomb because he was taking life too easy. “Winnie,” 1 have been sizing up your varfous admirers,” announced grandmother brusque way. “Yes." “I like Mr. Hardie best of all.” “Yes?” *l think he will propose for your hand shortly.” Miss Winnie was silent, “You can tell your grandma what you think about {t."” “I shall not accept him—not for a while, anyhow. [I've got a plan or two, and when the time comes Tl tell you about them.” , “I'm sure you'll act wisely and for the best.” One evening two weeks later the | proposal came. Miss Winnie was. pre- his had been whispered about, and | pared for it. t least three admirers wanted the | dling of that money. The girl “Let us discuss the affair in & rea, sonable way,” she sald. ould marry some day, and she was | rjeq you 1 should expect a hame of ne to consider the matter Iefloully.] my own married her-—what could he offer her? | ¢ Thero was plenty to think of for & 1 know nothing whatever of man- aging a house. 1 could not even tell whether a servant was doing " | Lake! ¥ | | | e - will mak tention to the small work. the smaller work better. * i H Lake « There would be servants to N\'ha! could she offer the man WhoO | ;rder about and expenses to keep track lae one evening in her| i b o e ——————eem e WHERE MANY WERE KILLED AND INJURED dopcay e & AL i e e LAR BYENING Voula wie UoUble-ueCKed launicipal pler iu irout ot Thirty-three persons were killed: and: fifty injured B e e e el sweeping as it ought to be done. The best of cooks must have orders from some one. 1 couldn’t give them.” “But we'll have a housekeeper,” urged the lover. “But even she must have orders If left to her ways they might not suit us. And.thea there ara the house ex- penses. " | “Oh, you will be allawed so muely | a week, i “With the servants doing the mar- keting and. kmying what they wished! Why, we would, he nonentities in our own house!” “Other. follss seem tw gat along all: ght.” “Yes, they seaw to, hit they don't. A wife who is a novice at housekeep- ing can throw away mast of her hus- band's. income. Kvery. house servant and every tradesmaa is a grafter. Ninety-nine servants ont. of a hurdred. would rather thirow. avay i cents of your money than save a nickel. Do you know that ! never sewed on. & but-- ton?" “But pou will have a maid,” sasily answered the young man. “And be seo helpless as to win her | contempt!”* “But, you see--" “Oh, yes, I see oty of things 1 see, for one shing, that you have never 1 “It }. mar. | matter” given a serious. thought to the: i “Why, 1 have lowed yem for l months.” | The Services of Artists Are Yours When You Bring Your Work to the and News Job 0 ————————— S ————————— P B ———————— e ———————— v URANWRS, A L L A TR TR0 T T S N Y G S M S S PR ——— N OU g : work done by people who know --who will ‘ not lct some foelish error creep into your work that vour printed matter ineffective, and perhaps sub- ject it to the anused comment of discriminating people. Our plant turns out ten NEWSPapers every week==two of them being s xteen-page papers of state-wide circulation; but this docs not mean that we do not also give the closest at- An order for visiting cards, or for printir.g a ribbon badge, or a hundred circulars, is given the same careful consideration that enables us to. secure and successfully carry out our large contracts. And, having had to fit up for the larger work naturally enables us to do Let Us Figure On Your Printing and News JobOfrice Kent: cky Building, Rooms 11 and 12 “You have thought of lowe and a bridal tour; but how far beycnd that? It's the beyond that's golng to ccant witis our happiness, and I am frank fice o ELANL, viA., JULY u2, 1918 to Say That T@m not yet prepared for it. I will not engage myself to any | man uatil I am.” ’ “Then there is no hope for me? sighed tite young man. ! “] want you to sit down and think : ihings over. You think you are pre- | [mred‘ to marry. You think so be-l cause you have not analyzed yourself. | | have told you of my lacks; sup- pose you try to find a l’e\\.' on your <ide of the shield.” e ~“And may | renew my proposal? » shall not be engaged when we meet again.” “Iet's go over this thing together and see about my lacks,” said young Hardie to himself rext day as he sat dewn to it. “] am twenty-three years old. “I hawe a rich father, snd ca connt on at least $10(:000 as a wed- ding gift : 4] love Winnie, and her happiness shall be 1ay care. “Now fcr the other side: “Father is a speculator any may Joge all his money. “I have neither trade nor prufes sion. 2 “I. cottld net go out and earn.a dul lar { don't know & sirlofn steak from & porterhouse. ! “Tican play pool and bflllarcs and! whist and bridge, but | dom't kno® the ! wages a batler gets. “l can run an aute;, but 1 couldn't! run a chef. | “I'm Al at a high tea, but [ gueu! I'd be a food in my ewn house. | “When ] come to figure it out whati have | ot to offen thas girl”” Miss Winnie's Aunt Mary lived in ! | " S eV - STV PAOPOPU PP UUP QAP P PP LI TGP LTI I OmoC ) eaee scn L3 ! a city 50 milcs away. She was fairly| ¥ sundinailys e le‘ well off, and bad a big house and keptl i Cottlens, 10 P P : three serrants. One day wheo. the girl} Cottelene, 4-pound pails. .......... ... ...... walked im on her, she held up her |} » &P P hands and excfaimed: T IR smewdrify, 10-pound pails......... oo - “Goodness, but 1 was. thiaking of | § ‘ ; 1 ¥ou two minutes ago' Why didn’t you | Lo $ cans family size Cream ...... S LB RE N A write or tefegraph?” g 5 “Didn’t have time.’ %”, 6 cans baby size Cream.......... AT “Is grandma sic or dead?" - “Neither. ’ 1.8 barrel best Flour ... .........:--- “You just o0k a uoticn to: tome, | 3. ¢h?” : 18 ,m‘l best Flouwr..... .. 3 <o "1 have come teostay witd you until | . 1 know how to run a house. Then I kflfil '“” 6fer...... SS 8 S e L . may get marcried. and. hava a house wreund Cof r ponud of my own. 'can speak French but Coftes, per po ARt I cau't cook an ezg. 1 Know Latin, "‘u.u..m. S e D but | hardly know beans. 1 ean make & beaviiful bow. but | aean't s make a bed.” L ’ ¥7 “Aud you've no siow o learn. ‘here \ at grandma's? \Well, ysu can. take bold here ang 111 out you through.” [ ] d J Young lard'e ditn't stop thinking : after the first half aour. He kept it ¢ SEOITOON &) up for two or three days, and the long- er he thought the harder he criticized himself. He finally weat to his fa ther and asked: “lwook here, dad, doesn’t ‘ri strike you that I'm a earc of dodo?’ . “I never sax a dodo, but L think you must resemble that bird more of less,” was the reply, “Why haven't vou said that 'ong ago?” “l was in hopes you'd get aronnd to make the discovery yourseif.” “Well, 1 have, Will there be any mouey coming to me when 1 start out for myseif?" “Yes." “Is it whece it 2an't be lost wntil then?” “It is. What's up, Deuglasa?” “If I cap. get aver Yeing a dodo 1 cap marry one of the nicest girls in a year or s0.” . “Want te go nto basiness?”’ “Not vow. | want to increase my stock of common sense. 1 can play a filne gama of billiards, but 1 can't run a lawn mower. [ carn beat most of the boys at pool, and more than hold my own at bridge_ but L don't know why they put hair in mortar, and U can't tell you how a brick is made. “Good boy--go seck!” laughed the father. “If the dodo wakes up he may | amonnt to 30 cents yet!" | Douglass Harvdie dropped out of hisi clubhs, He dropped out of society, He | was not to be tound at his rcoms or B o o | away hz was serviug an appreutic ‘4| learucd to wmilk a cow ~q4! a horse. 3 } Every day he asked dozens of ques- 4! on the street. Some of the wewspapers hinted about the mysterious disuppear | auce of a well suowe youug wan, but | they failed to locate him. Kitty mil ship. lic learned vo plow, to plant, '0; hoe and to reap. He learned the uses ' | of the ax, the spade and the rake, He and drive tions, and every day he learned some- | thiug new. He got robust health, He got muscle. He got conlidence in him- self. He learned the value of time and | mouney, and he was taught that econ- | | omy was a watchword. | | One day, when nearly a year had | elapsed, Miss Winnie's Aunt Mary | came upstairs to her where she was | sewing and sa‘d: “There's u man downstair to see | you.” “A man’? For me? ' “Yes. I guess he's a working man.” | Miss Winnie went down. She had The Question of the ) With a Frugal Houseye The increasing price of food stuffs demanc economy. It's not necessary to buy cheaper food or buy less, jus; [ buy your groceries from us apg L. - GETMORE FOR YOUR Moy Best Butter, per pound. .- ........ Sugar, 17 pounds ...... FETTNTY » S Every Body Else Is Doing I SO WHY NOT YOU? ¥ Smoke ' “TOWN BOOST: That Good 5¢ Cigar Made in Lakeland v r . 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