Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 17, 1913, Page 7

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Wilson Hardware Co Phone 71 Opposite Depot | TSI —————— lew Serial doon P and mother are going for | tWo wecks, and if you can only come down we will have an awful time." | | | willows, | er's bed. e AW ShaNt ‘a\\\'\\\\\\\ T - DCCTOR By JOHN PHILIP ORTH. = S0 wrote Miss Clara Joslyn to her city friend, Mis Irene Morton, and the prox of the “awful time" caused an appearance at the country seat. The program as outlined by Miss AN ELAND, | Clara in her mind for the entertain- ment of her friend was: Driving out with the pony and cart | and having adventures, Going in swim- ming in the creek Killing crabs along the same creek. ( limbing up the hill back of the house and rolling down. | Setting the dog on book agents and peddiers. Killing snakes down by the Putting a frog in the garden- There were a few other things on i the program, but the above are suffi- | cient to show that there were to be no i dull hours. “Now, girls, be as maids while we Mrs. Joslyn. “We will” “Aunt Jane is to have charge of the house.” “We will mind her like children.” “Don’t get the telephone out of or der, and don’t set the house afire.” “We surely won't.” “If anything should happen—" be- gan Mr, Joslyn as he turned back at the gate. “But nothing can happen!” The first thing on the program was a8 drive in the pony cart, and that steady as old are gone,” cautioned ! wards, drive was the beginning of heaps of | things. They were not a mile from the house when they espled a lone man and horse and buggy coming towards them from the village “l am quite sure that is the new doc- tor,” said Miss Clara. “Take a good look at him as we pass.’ W hat for?” “They say that while he's a smart doctor, young man he isn't getting enough practice in the village to keep a cat alive.” “"That's too bad. It may drive him to suicide “He doesn't kKnow me, and | wonder if he will raise s hat?” Do Phil Armous had put up his sign in the ge of Greenbriar many weelis ago, but there had not been a ingle call for his services The ailing ones said it was risky to trust them- { selves to 4 young practutioner, Dr Armour was far from starving and he feeding his horse oats three times | | | | | | | | | tient liy, but he was ambitious and impa- He knew the members of the Joslyn family by sight only, but when about to pass the pony cart he took the risk of raising his hat to the oceu pants and received two hows in re- FLA., SEPT. 17, 1913. PAGE LEVES wiscles. It s \\ell 1l morning."” & Wis up on ana- ' they bLoth had the it the doctor was hav- fun to himself, When he bad finished of one he turned to that of the other. No swelling. No sign of a twist. tle was elther a fool-doctor or else he was meeting their fun more than half-way. “Did you ever!" exclaimed Irene when he had departed. “You sald it would be such a joke!" accused Miss Clara “1 ought to have giggled.” “If you had I'd have pushed you out of the window! And he's coming again in the morning! And he says we must hop around instead of walking! Aren't you a daisy of a marplot!” “Did you understand words?"” “Not a one of them, nor he didn’t, himself! I'll wager he has us going on crutches after tomorrow!" But Providence came along to help the girls out. She did it by first bring- ing about almost a tragedy. victims were going up to their rooms for the night, hopping from stair to stair and giggling at every hop, Clara lost her balance and fell back- and as she went she dragged her guest with her. \When they brought up at the foot of the stairs one had her knee-cap out of place and the other a broken collarbone. “Now you've done it!" shouted Aunt Jane as she rushed around in excite: ment. “I don't believe either one of you sprained your ankle! You were just making a fool of the doctor. can’t make out the girls of today.” across the efflury that Ne % - ing all the bered them with the ankle Miss his Dbig “Well, here are two girls of today | that want a doctor,” “The same one?” “Oh, yes. He made such a quick cure of our ankles that we must give him this job!" “What has happened?” asked the as he arrived an hour later. “We have got over being funny! Nay, doctor, we feel Never mind.” “We felt that ' There-—there! bring on a fever.” I'he doctor had mionth, but it was more than a year be replied Clara. If vou talk it will fore he had Miss Clara Joslyn. She didn't exactly know whether she’ wanted to marry a doctor or not, but when convineod that she was liable to | full down stairs ¢ hand. And when she wrote to lrene about it the latter replied: “You are all right, but where does my gigegle come in?" (Copyright, 1913, by the MeClure vaper Syndicate,) Miss News 'ENGLAND HAS A NEW VICE | maniacs of its | before the tortured and fevered vis- | | ol frenzied des Drinking of Wood Alcohol Declared to Be a Growing Practice In That Country, Fvery one knows the torture through which opium victims pass. Happily we are comparatively free from the scourge of this drug, yet we i | CARDWELL & FEIGLEY A Kinds of Electrical and \Sheet Metal Work have on a considerable scale a vice which is as disastrous in its conse- quences, the Manchester Guardian as- Berts It 18 the drinking of menthylated | alcohol), which makes worshipers, spirits (wood jfons of its victims horrible specters which send men peration The vice is rampant among the | berry pickers of Scotland, and a police Innchtnr stated that a third of the pickers were addicted to the practice Out of 200 cases, it was stated | every third person had become drunk on menthylated spirits. The tims were men, women and girls in | . their 'teens, | of these with their | turn “Why, he's quite good-looking!" ex- | claimed Miss Irene when they passed “Yeg1" “But he had a mournful look It struck me so0.” “As if the world was against him?” “Yeg."” 1 say that it chame that old doe | tors wor't let young doctors catch on' I think so0. too There was silenee tor the next five minutes, and then | as Miss Irene who spoke Look here 111 tell you how | we can have lois and help the doctor at the same time” ‘Go ahead When we get out of the cart at home we twist ¢ ankles We do! You will t t your right one and [ my left ! I see “We hobble into the house We groan. We telephone for ln Armour He comes It will b ki 11l over | the vill: that he |} ‘|Hvll here 'prm‘» by | it t 1 ted an kles hazel 1 I ( betwe ) } according to \ 0 ¢ 1 the telephot ng. Wh Dr rived vach voung lady sat with her foot on a tool and there was a stiong smell of arnica | in the air Is it al was asked Not 80 v as answered in | bande chorus ‘Bandaged ur lu} I had best overhaul them The bandage must give support to certain tendons or you may be lame for life.” “But Aunt put the bandages and st 1d n “And vyet m'n not The ,«,w r cunk Jane irse know how on, i 0 down on one knee d the bandage from If she protested dmit the joke’ and bogzal tha ar ¢ he You cant 4 d d 8¢ 4 g 4 and it so- | As the ! Miss | i practice within a my day, she gave her | bringing | and women into fits vie- | | J. P. McCORQUODALE The Florida Avenue Grocer e PHONE RKRED-——290 Respectfully asks his friends and the publ i generally to give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 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