Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 25, 1913, Page 2

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SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0ld Reliable Contractors :‘'Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and i never "FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction, # . All classes of buildings contracted for, The many fine sresidences built by this firm are evidgnces'of their ability to ‘make good. . MARSHALL & SANDERS AUTHOR & MAI _ “DAWN OF THE MORNING ™ ETC. ILLUSTRATIONS 6~ CHAPTER VI, It was half past eleven when she stepped into the first agency on her list, and business was in full tide. While she stood shrinking by the door the eyes of a dozen women fas- tened upon her, each with keen scrutiny, The sensitive color stole in- to her delicate cheeks. As the pro- prietress of the office began to ques- tion her, she felt her courage failing. “You wish a position?” The woman had a nose like a hawk, and eyes that held no sympathy. “What do you want? General housework?” “I should like a position as walit- ress.” Her voice was low and sounded frightened to herself. The hawk nose went up contemptu- ously. “Better take general housework. There are too many waitresses al- ready.” “I understand the work of a wait- ress, but I never have done general housework,” ehe answered with the voice of a gentlewoman, which some- how angered the hawk, who had trained herself to get the advantage over people and keep it or else know the reason why. “Very well, do as you please, of course, but you bite your own nose off. Let me see your references.” The girl was ready for this. “I am sorry, but I cannot give you any. I have lived only in one house, where I had entire charge of the table and dining room, and that home was _broken up when the people went abroad three years ago. I could show you letters written by the mistrees of that home if I had my trunk here, but it is in another city, and I do not in’?w when I shall be able to send for “No references!” screamed the hawk, then raising her voice, although it was utterly unnecessary: “Ladies, here is a girl who has no references. Do any of you want to venture?’ The contemptuous laugh that followed had the effect of a warning to every wom- an in the room. And this girl scorns general housework, and presumes to dictate for a place as waitress,” went on the hawk. “I want a waitress badly,” sald a troubled woman in a subdued whisper, “but I really wouldn't dare take a girl without references. She might be a thief, you know, and then—really, she doesn't look as if she was used to houses like mine. I must have a neat, stylish-looking girl. No self-respecting waitress nowadays would go out in the street dressed like that.” All the'eyes in the room seemed bor- ing through the poor girl as she stood trembling, humiliated, her cheeksburn. ing, while horrified tears demanded to be let up into her eyes. . She held her dainty head proudly, and turned away with dignity. “However, if you care to try,” called out the hawk, “you can register at the desk and leave two dollars, and if in the meantime you can think of any- body who'll give us a reference, we'll ‘look it up. But we never guarantee girls without references.” The tears were too near the sur face now for her even to acknowledge this information flung at her in an un- pleasant voice. She went out of the office, and immediately—surreptitious- ly—two women hurried after her. One was flabby, large and over- dressed, with a pasty complexion and eyes like a fish, in which was a lack of all moral sense. She hurried after the girl and took her by the shoulder just as she reached the top of the stairs that led down into the street. The other was a small, timld wom- an, with anxiety and indecision written all over her, and a last year's street suit with the sleeves remodeled. When | she saw who had stopped the girl, she lingered behind in the hall and pre- tended there was something wrong with the braid on her skirt. While she lingered she listened. “Wait a minute, miss,” said the flashy woman. “You needn't feel bad about having references. fen't so particular. You come with me, and I'll put you in the way of earn- ing more than you can ever get as a waitress, You weren’t cut out for work, anyway, with that face and voice. I've ! You were meant | been watching you. for a lady. You need to be dressed up, and you'll b» a real pretty girl—" As she talked, she had come nearer, and now ehe leaned over and whis- pered so that the timid woman, who was beginning dimly to perceive what manner of creature this other woman ‘was, could not hear. But the girl stepped back with sud- den energy and flashed eyes, shaking off the beringed hand that had grasped her shoulder. “Don’t you dare to speak to me!" she said in a loud, clear voice. “Don’t | You are a | wicked woman! If you touch me' again, I will go in there and tell all | stay overnight at m you dare to touch me! those women how you have lnsulted me!” “Oh, well, if you're a saint, starve!” hissed the woman. *] should rather starve ten thousand times than take help from you,” said the girl, and her clear, horrified eyes seamed to burn into the woman’s evil COPYRIGHT 19/2, £Y /5. LIPPIEOTT. Everybody | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, AUG. 25, Ghe MYSTLRY. of MARY Gy Grace Livingston Hifl Lutz of “MARCIA SCHUYLER,” “PHOLEE DEANE” ‘ { ¢ g L d * TCAY WALT zxfimm ihe wily old serpent that she was. th?)ovv'vnythe steirs like lightnlpg sped the girl, her head up in pride and horror, her eyes still flashing. And down the stairs after her sped the lit- tle, anxious woman, panting and breathless, determined to keep her in sight till she could decide whether it was safe to take a girl without a char- acter—yet who had just shown a bit of her character unaware. Two blocks from the employment of- fice the girl paused, to realize that she was walking blindly, without any des- tination. She was trembling s0 with terror that she was not sure whether | she had the courage to enter another | office, and a long vista of undreamed- of fears arose in her imagination. The little woman paused, too, eye: ing the girl cautiously, then began in an eager voice: “I've been following you.” The girl started nervously, a cold chill of fear coming over her. Was this a woman detective? “I heard what that awful woman said to you, and I saw how you acted. You must be a good girl, or Yyou wouldn’t have talked tc her that way. 1 suppose I'm doing a dangerous thing, but I can’t help it. I believe you're all right, and I'm going to try you, it you'll take general housework. I need somebody right away, for I'm going to have a dinner party tomorrow night, and my girl left me this morn- ing.” The kind tone in the midst of her troubles brought tears to the girl's eyes. “Oh, thank you!” she said as she brushed the ‘ears away. “I'm a stranger here, and I have never be- fore been among strangers this way. I'd like to come and work for you, but 1 couldn't do general housework, I'm sure. I never did it, and I wouldn’t know how. “I could help you with your dinner party,” she went on. “That is, I know all about setting the tables and arrang- ing the flowers and favors. I could ~ | - v T, “You See | Have This Particular Com- pany Coming.” paint the place-cards, too—I've done it many a time. And I could wait on the table. But I couldn't cook even an oyster.” “Oh, place-cards!’ said the little woman, her eyes brightening. She caught at the word as though she had described a new star in the firmament. “I wish I could have them. They cost so much to buy. I might have my washerwoman come and help with the | cooking. She cooks pretty well, and 1 could help her beforehand, but she couldn't wait on table, to save her life. I wonder if you know much about menus. Could you help me fix out the courses and say what you think | ought to have, or don't you know about that? You see, I have this very particular company coming, and .[ want to have things nice. I don't know them very well. My husband has business relations with them and wants them Invited, and of all times for Betty to leave this was the worst!” She had unconsciously fallen into a tone of equality with the strange girl. “T should like to help you,” said the girl, “but I must find somewhere to stay before night, and if I find a place :mnm:':1 take it. I just came to the y this morning, and have to stay overnight.” Bt The troubled look flitted across woman's face for a moment, but :hc: desire got the better of her. ¥ “I supbose my husband would think | I was crazy to do it;” she sald aloud, | “but I just can't help trusting youw. Suppose you come and stay with me today and tomorrow, and help me out with this dinner party, and you can ¥ house an ! in the cook’s room. If | llk: 'ylz work, I'll give you a reco 'mendation a8 waltress. You cant .ot g good | place anywhere withou not from ! the offices, I'm sure. 'commenda- tion ought to be worih couple of : day’s work to you. I'd -ayv v thing besides, but I rea!ly ca taoe. Bhe, turned and slid away, like it, for the washerwoman “fllfl and.a half 3 day wien put it you get your a reference, oard out to cook; that and lodging and ought to pay you «you are very «] ghall be glad to d 'IAud so they got into 3 car and were whirled away into a pretty sub;rr:: The woman, whose name wash i Hart, lived in a common little oa.nd filled with jmitation oriental rugs cheap furniture. The two went to work at omnce, bringing order out of the contualc;: that reigned in the tiny kitchen. the afternoon the would-be walitress t down with a box of water-colors :: paint dinner-cards, and as her skil- ful brush brought into being dalnty landscapes, lovely flowers, and little brown birds, she pondered the strange- s of her lot. lleThe table the next night was lald with exquisite care, the scant supply. of flowers having been used to best advantage, and everything showing the touch of a skilled hand. The long hours that Mrs. Hart had spent puck- ering her brow over the household de- partment of fashion magazines helped her to recognize the fact that in her new maid she had what she was pleas- to call “the real thing.” edSh(‘ sighed regretfully when the cuest of hon . Rhinehart, spoke of the defin and pleasant appear- ance of her hostess's waitress. “yes,” Mrs. Hart said, swelling with pride, “she is a treasure. I only wish I could keep her.” “She's going to get married, I sup- pose. They all do when they're good,” sympathized the guest. “No, but she simply won't do cook- ing, and I really haven't work enough for two servants in this little house.” The guest sat up and took notice. “You don’t mean to tell me that you are letting a girl like that slip through your fingers? I wish I had known about her. I have spent three days in intelligence offices. Is there any chance for me, do you think?” Then did the little woman prove that she should have had an e in her name, for she burst into a most vol- uble account of the virtues of her new maid, until the other woman was ready to hire her on the spot. The result of it all was that “Mary” was summoned to an interview with Rhinehart in the dining-room, and engaged at four dol- lars a week, with every other Sunday afternoon and every other Thursday out, and her uniforms furnished. The next morning Mr. Hart gave her a dollar-bill and told her that he appreciated the help she had given them, and wanted to pay her some- thing for it. She thanked him graciously and took the money with a kind of awe. Her first earnings! It seemed so strange to think that she had, really earned some money, she who had al- ways had all she wanted without lift- ing a finger. She went to a store and bought & hair-brush and a few little things that she felt were necessities, with a fifty- cent straw telescope in which to put them. Thus, with her modest baggage, she entered the home of Mrs. Rhine- hare, and ascended to a tiny room on the fourth floor, in which were a cot and a washstand, a cracked mirror, one chair, and one window. (To Be Continued.) CHIC PARISIAN GOWN D N Model of blue and. white . strl crepe with red flowers. The Mnm .“I: n one plece with short skirt, —_— Slashed Petticoats, At the sight of the w, tticoat ord one le apt to start in these dl:eys and say, “What, are there any?” 'l"hm x :l'::lh :d fe;h and the newest ones N e sla; n’fies on each slde.’h b e8e are particular] Paris just now, put m; s to us also. White LW. YA — TRANSFER |, Draying and Hauling of Prompt and Reasonay), Guaranieeq — Phone 67 Green Laky L ] SAVE TIME & MONEY! HALF TXRET - LINE PLATES oo 2 SPECIAL LGNS el fromy C I R N .Ihe Lodge Palm’Chapter, U. K. 8. myy second and fourth Thursy o each month at 7:30 p fiora Keen, W. M.; J. 1 507, aited Brotherhood of (y and Joiners of America, Loy Lakeland Lodge No. 91} ¢. Regular communication i second and 4th Mondays at! a. Visiting drethren corty rited. J. C. OWENS, ¥, J. ¥, WILON, K OF 2 Regular meeting every st 7:90 at Odd Fellows Hll \mg wmembers alwars welw F. D. BRY Chancellor Con .. W _ACKSON, Becretary. POST 33, G. A 2 Meots the first Saturus i aonth at 10 . m. at the i i. M, Sparling on Kentickys A. C. SHAFFEK, Comn J. R. TALLEY, A Lakeland Chapter, R A t9 meets the first Thursdsy sach month in Masonic Hal (ap companiors welcomed Leonard, H. P.; J. F. Wi, Lakelang €amp No. 78, Wi meots every Thursda night men Circle first and third T afternoons at 3:00 o'clock Bttridge, Council Commanié tala Hobb, Guardian of Civ P0LK ENCAMPMENT N0. 8,10 Polk Encampment No. i} f., meets the first and titd days. Visiting Patriarchs ¥ A. McDONALD, H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Chiet Patriarch. @LAtoBoLl Orsnge Blossom Div. N @1 A toB, of L E oM second and fourth Wedn sack month at 2:30 p. B ° Sisters always welcome, " "MRS, 3. C. BROWN Meots every Tuesday gt »slock, at McDonald’s hall Blnors Rebokah Lods meets every second and fo tay nights at 1. 0. 0. .1 tag ' brothers “and aister ° tavited. MRS. T. B ROBERTSONy MRS. GUY ARENDELL Leke Lodge No. % 1! neets Friday nights st 2. 0. ¥ hall. Visitiog b sordiaMy invited. J. L. REYNOLDE’ H. B, ZIMMERMAY PLASTERERS’ INTERNAM BRICKLAYERS, MASON > ON, LOCAL No. 12 0P - Meets each Thursds! brothers welcome. R. L. MARSHALL J. W. LAYTON, T 3. W._ LOGAN, 7. H. FELDS, Fia. 88" H. ¥. DIDTRICH, B* H. L. COX, Conduct