Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 2, 1914, Page 6

b s PAGE SIX * @b St B Sed b i G b dddbd GASOLI an GET YOUR NE OIL d DRY BATTERIES at the ELECTRICAL SHEFT & METAL SHOP - THOS. 1. CARDWELL Phone 233 [ ] L] MANLNE S GOOIIEINANSNE NALIE:N MrEI &L S sl S S A S e Lakeland, Fla . MBS B A POROrCr [} o~ i Atthis Period use all Safe- guards for Comfort and Well Being The best and most practicable of these is ice"OUR ICE. It preserves your food, conserves your health, increases your pleasure, does you good in ways too numerous to mention—and all for a very little money. Instead of decreasing your taking of ice on the cool days which will be occasionally sandwiched between the warm onmes, resolve right now that every day is a full ice day for you. And stick to that COUPON BOOK of ours, It is your consistent, per sistent SAVER, | Lakeland Ice Company Phone 26 Long Life of Linen that 18 just what we are giving is what you are looking for sme alony with good laundry work. Try us. Lakelana 'Steam Laundry Thexe 108, ' ‘“Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen Will sell staple groceries, hay, feed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of sh r ving crates and baskets, tc pr - oes, etc., at reduced v and rices West Main th, MAYES GROCERY' CO. - Mayes Grocery Co. '. Grocers . anelano, . & A & 3 S Florida | | SO BOFOFOROFOPOSTIGSOHOSOIOS L e b DB E BT bb PPERTEPEPPIE L e N R aaamasass s LIS THE PHOENIX $555"055 voa"aiba errs Christmas. I thank you tor 1913 patronage. Call again during 1914, bring a friend. =Y L. E. PEACOCK. MANAGER The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP R S VR S T 7S T ¥ T PG e s o NN} TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. 2, 1914. PHILIP AND GRANDPA By FRANK FILSON. It was a great shock to the Van Nor- dens when Heanry Bowes, Mrs. Van Norden’s father, announced by letter that he had sold his farm and was coming to live with them in their house on Fifth avenue. “Pshaw, Molly, we can stow the old gentleman away somehow,” said John Van Norden. His recollections of the days when he, a city clerk on a vaca- tion, had courted Molly Bowes, his farmer host’s daughter, had always thrown a sympathetic light around the old man. “I guess he's pretty lonely up there in Cohoes,” he added. “I shouldn’t like to have to live all by myself at eighty.” “But he’ll teach Philip such dreadful manners,” protested Molly. “You know, a child of five picks up anything and everything. First thing we know the boy will be eating peas with his knife and trying to chew tobacco.” “Well, what are we going to do, dear?” asked her husband. “I suppose we'll have to take him,” said Molly. “But I shall make it per- fectly clear to him, the moment he ar- rives, that he is not going to display himself before our friends and make us ridiculous, after all the trouble we've taken to get into the right set.” This was duly explained to Henry Bowes—“Hank” Bowes among: his cronies at the local store. The old man put his not too clean hand on his daughter's shoulder and looked kindly at her. “My dear,” he said, “I ain’t going to disgrace you, don't fear it. It's you I want—you and John and Philip. I'm going to make myself scarce when there’s swell company around.” He had included Philip in his sum- mary, but Molly Van Norden was de- termined that he should have no op- portunity of corrupting the boy's man- ners. Nevertheless, with that curious attachment which frequently exists between those of the extreme ages of life, Philip and the old man sought each other's company continually. Philip learned to whittle whistles out of twigs, to blow out the leaves of a certain plant into “frogs,” and sur- reptitiously acquired candy would fall out of the boy's pockets when he was Watched Him Unobserved. undressed at night. And the more Molly tried to keep him away the more he sought his grandfather's com- pany. Grandfather Bowes had been as- signed a little room at the top of the house, upon the servants' floor. He dined with the family when no guests were present. When there were visit- ors, his meals were sent in to him in another room. Grandfather made no objection. Molly excused herself on the ground of Phillip's welfare, and told her friends that her father was in poor health, But after six months or so Molly came to a determination. “John,” she sald, “Philip is learning the most disgusting table manners from father. He makes a noise with Lis soup and bites his bread instead of breaking it and—well, John, father is not going to sit at table with us any more.” gl John Van Norden shrugged his shoulders. Personally he did not ap- prove of Molly's treatment of her father, but he realized that it was no affair of his, and, evea if it were, it would do no good to make trouble about it. So thenceforward grand- father ate his meals in the next room in solitude. The old man, roaming about the house, gradually became a disintegrat- ing factor in the family. Molly was painfully conscious that she was be- ginning to conceve a positive aversion toward her father. She would have liked to send him home, but he hed sold the farm and had no relatives in Cohoes. That would be inhuman. “John,” she announced one day, “I have decided to send father to an in- stitution.” “My dear!” said her husband in re- monstrance. “Oh, I knew you would offer objec- tions, John. But I don't mean the poorhouse. I mean a home where in. firm old people are taken in and well cared for. Don't you see how childish he is becoming? His memory is going and he can't remember anything I tell him. He comes into all the rooms of the house—and he calls me ‘Fairy.’ “My dear, that name will always sound well to me,” said Jobn, “be- cause I called you that when I courted you” “John, please don’t remind me of the vulgarities of that dreadful town in which I was raised. The old man is as I said, becoming childish, and he uses that disrespectful term to me in front of the : orvants. Only yesterday I caw the butler put his hand in front of his mouth to hide his amusement. He forgets my position and his own, John. Now, it {8 no use saying a word, because I have spoken to Doctor Smythe, and he has recommended a very nice place where father will be well taken care of.” “How about Philip? Don’t you sup- pose that they will miss each other?” “I hope they will,” his wife retorted. “I mean them to, John. He is no fit companion for a child.” Happily, neither the old man nor the boy knew what preparations were afoot. Henry Bowes remained as much of a nuisance as before. It was not till the day before his departure that the child learned from the serv- ants that “grandfather was going away.” At that instant the first inkling of life's tragedy entered the little brain. He crept away, into the walled garden at the back of the house. Soon he was busy again. His mother found him there later. He had constructed a sort of picket fence from some stakes left in the tool shed by the gardener. In- side this was a packing case. Molly Van Norden watched him, un- observed. Then she hurried into the house. Her husband had just come home from his office. “John,” said the fond mother, “I want you to come and see what Philip has done. He has built a little enclo- sure in the garden and he is playing something. You know Mrs. Banner- man says it is the duty of parents to discover the bent of their children's minds. Now I wonder what thoughts are passing through his head.” They went out in amused eagerness. They were half ashamed of the new in- terest in the boy. He was standing before the packing case, talking to himself. “What's this, old chap?” asked John. “That's a table,” answered the boy. “Table? What do you want a table for?” inquired his mother. “That's for father, when he's old, 80 that he won't let me see the way he eats,” said Philip. “An’ this is a cage like the one gran'pa’'s to have,” he continued, pointing to the row of sticks. “That's s0's he won't make a darned nuisance of himself when I has comp'ny.” Molly Van Norden looked at her husband epeechiessly. Then she turned away and ran into the house. John found her on the lounge a few minutes later, sobbing hysterically. “John, did you understand?’ she moaned. “What does it mean?” “I guess it means your father's golng to take his place in the family from today,” answered John Van Nor- den, kissing her. “Don't you think so, my dear?” Molly nodded. . (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) CLIMATE AND THE GROUCH Weather Conditions Have Much Effect in Shaping the Dispositions of Even the Best Tempered. Climate has a strong influence in shaping the disposition, thoughts and actions of men. Piercing cold and high winds are not conducive to beace of mind and calmness of tem- per. To many temperaments a windy day means tangled and frazzled nerves and an irritable mood. The evidence is plain that a land endowed with bright skies and balmy breezes breeds sweet-tempered sons and daughters. On one side there may be irritability, keenness to get and to keep, “nearness” in money matters and a conservative chilliness of man- ner. Oh the other side there may be good temper, generosity, sociability, toleration and a disposition to some confidence in one's fellow-man, bred by the goodly sunshine. In the middle west they have been driven to experiment with a new non- toxic grouch cure. Downcast and downtrodden wives have been getting excellent results from a few pinches of the remedy In husband’s morning coffee, and many men are now capable of whistling on their way to work. It has even been noticed that men stop and converse with acquaintances in the street, and frequently a burst of raucous laughter is heard, under the stimulation of the grouch cure. A little later, when the elixir may be spread upon buckwheat cakes, a general era of good-fellowskip is looked for. At present the people of the middle west and the east are probably doing es well as the climate will permit. It is plain that the grouch cure will show more marked results in the boisterous climates than where the softer breezes blow, and the | summer skies reflect the glories of sea and lakes, mountain and plain. Locally, i ved that there never will be a all or need for the the few existing| cases of ill wear off under | the influence of an amicable environ- ' ment. 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