Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 20, 1914, Page 9

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. e Office B. N, Phone 348 Black. Res. Pnone 372 U 3 ue, . H. Alfield Res. Phone 39 Blue Belisario Let us estimate on your sidewalks or concrete floors. - We Tay floors that are water-dust and grease-proof, Ask ys tdv" t them. . . LAKELAND PAVING AND CONSTRUCTION €. Lakeland 307 to 311 Main st Fl We do out of town worl too b S S IEBE PO bR OR A FEW 15 PER CENT bAYS ONLY DISCOUNT On Belding and Eddy lefrigerators and Chests! old on Liberal Terms or 10 per cent Extra iscount for Cash. @ Manufacturers of these efrigerators offer us this Special Discount, <o we are e EMPIRE SCALES AND FIXTURES ComPANY peral Terms JACKSONVILLE, FLA tibera) Terms Who 1S Your Drug- assing it along to you. Write for Catalog O BB U O ST Let Us Be During 1914 We wish to supply your drugs this year. & When you want drugs or anything that $ O drugstores sell, you can make assurance of securing right quality and right service doubly sure by coming to our store Begin trading here with the intention ot remaining a customer only as long as you Receive Courteous Treatment. Get wholly reliable goods. Find what UISt you want, and are satisfied with prices. : This is a fair proposition. If you are 4 O > ) not acquainted with us ask your neighbor [ cr physician about us. 20 O ————— Lake Pharmacy Phone 42 Phone 42 The Rexall Store e Attractive Prices at the Store of L. B. WEEKS 20 pounds Sugar... ... ....en 10 pounds Cottoline ... ... ..oo: L8 P 12 pounds ‘Best Flour ... ... cocveees 0 * 12 pounds Best S. R. or Pilsbury Flour 435 2 HestUBUbter v v b Vi i e 8 é‘ ESmall COBMIM. v sr00 ovr swses + » pound Tomatoes .. ...ooovevves I 3 cans Victory Corn ... coveereeree 25 : 13 Soap and Washingpowder 5 Compound Lard ... ... ... ooeee 11 Van Camp’s and None Such Soups .. 40C Coffee ..o von vow wrinssnisnre B s 350 CotbEm . vivi ven o 10 pounds Meal or Grits. .. L. B. WEEKS Phones 1]9 and 234 PECIALSALE ON ALL CUT GLAS ur stock is over large at this tin RCTAT ) reduce the stock we will giv : i RICE Watch Ok WINDOVS. “A pleasure to show goods. COLE & HULL ®welers and Optometrists Lakelan- Fa i oo o oo o o o B oo s s i 3 E‘; L o e L L O | Dickson came along in that funny lit- v‘hlt of white along your temples is ?‘gn' D EO B OB DBO BB | tacked her # | tea into the pot with cold water and | | et: “there, Miss Brown, that's the last * £ IT PAVED ED THE WAY By CLARIS§A MACKIE. e ee—————— | Little Miss Cricket tolled up the long fiight of stairs to her hall bed- room on the third ffoor back. Onoe inside its narrow confines she closed the door and sank down upon the small bed that sagged in the middle. “Oh, dear, I am so dreadfully tired,” she sighed as she pulled out her hat pins and smoothed back the gray- brown hair from her forebead. “It must be perfectly lovely to have & home of one’s own and somebody to earn the money. I'm so tired of sew- ing, sewing, sewing—and coming home to this!" She looked around at the shabby room with its battered cak fur- niture and hideous wall paper. There came a knock at her door. “Come in,"” she said as she stood be- fore the mirror. “Oh, good evening, Miss Brown—is supper ready?" “l guess it is—the bell rang five | minutes ago; just button my waist for me will you, Miss Cricket? Say, hasn't It been an awful day?’ Miss Belle Brown who worked in a hairdresser's shop, turned her broad shoulders en- cased in a crisp white waist and Miss Cricket stood on tiptoe to reach the top buttons, Miss Brown chattered incessantly, while the little seamstress struggled with the buttons “l had a ride home tonight—Mr. tle red car of his wad brought me up in a jiffv. Saved earfare and 1 tell you every nickel counts, don't it?" “Indeed 1t does,” sighed Miss Crick- one “Thanks. You're not anywhere near ready, arc you? Can't I help you do your hair? It's pretty, so thick and wavy--say, you've got some gray hairs' We've got some stuff at the xhup that'll fix that in no time; but I '!UI t know as I'd touch it; that little righty becoming—there goes that ccond bell; 1 expect Biddy will be | cross as two stic If it's her even- | Ing out she'll expeet us to gobble and t There, 1 thought I'd make you } laugh! You oughter laugh more, Miss i Cricket, it's so becoming to your pret- |ty teeth and it shows your dimples!” Nancy Cricket laughed all the hard- er at this last sally, for she knew very well that the dimples which had | been one of her girlish charms must time. The Beeks boarding house was 80 thoroughly respectable that fts in- mates endeavored to endure fts in- | ereasing shabhiness as the years went by and the wonotony of its plain but substantial home table. The dwellers ,on the second floor who occupied the larger and more comfortable rooms had Leen there for many years and Mr. Benjamin Dickson, who kept a | stationery store on the Main street of the large city, was unquestionably the “star boarder” of the establishment. | There were never any frowns for Mr. Dickson even if he did appear late at his meals, nor was his especlal liking for a particular cereal overlooked in the morning. The other boarders, and those on the third floor especially, | meekly accepted what masterful Mrs. | ‘Hulth placed before them with the understanding that Mr. Dickson paid a “fancy price” for his room and| | hoard Miss Prown and Miss Cricket found all their fellow boarders gathered about the long table. There was the wesortment of workers | unbled eeg night!™ hissed Miss | B in Miss Cricket's ear as they | g I can always tell because stewed apricots and uinur-r-; 1 the same time-—ugh, just| think of eating stewed apricots when | frosh are in market!’' i et smiled wearily and at- lukewarm scrambled egg | with small appetite. A good cup of tea would have been refreshing, but the black, acrid brew that Biddy placed beside her was nauseating. It was! really remarkable how Mrs. Beeks | could take perfectly good tea and| make it taste exactly like bitter medi- eine! The boarders all discussed this talent of Mrs. Beeks' and Miss Finne- gan, the milliner, sald that Biddy had told her that Mrs. Beeks put the dry let it come to a boll to draw out all the strength, and no one doubted ! Biddy's word, for Mrs. Beeks was capable of any experiment in the di- rection of economy. Mr Denjamin Dickson looked across the table at Miss Brown and Miss | be entirely absorbed in the creases of |+ | red car and o Cricket. He was a quiet, middle-aged man, with a handsome face and kind prown eves. Mr. Dickson was always immaculately clothed and on one fin- l ger of his left hand he wore an nld! fashioned ring that had belonged to nother \Ir. Dickson noted that while Miss Relle Drown eomplained of her food ghe ate heartily of everything Mthinw her long-armed reach, while Miss | Cricket said nothing, but pecked | ily at her food like some tired | Sparrow who tries to make a 1 from bit of string in lieu of | ut basement of Mies started upstairs to her| g0 many things to| herself comfortable 1other day's drudgery at the and her weary body cried out| wthered rreom. with the execention icket, who There were ¥ needle for sleep | It was a very surprising thing to| find Mr. Dickson standing in the frent hall at the foot of the stalrs and ap | parently waiting for her. I — said Benjamin Dickson heartily, “but | we are going to be married very soon } and then we will need your help— how y. tomorrow?" | and then 19, 1914, “Good evening, Miss Cricket,” he saild rather diffidently; “I was won- dering if a breath of fresh air wouldn’t be good for you this even- ing.” Nancy Cricket caught her breath. Never before had Mr. Dickson invited her to ride in the little red car, al- though once, several years before, he had taken her to a lecture. How de- lightful it would be to join that pro- cession of motorists in the park and know that one was out simply for pleasure! To feel the soft, sweet wind against her tired face—Nancy be- lieved it would actually smooth out the lines that gathered there. “Oh, thank you, but—" she was saying when Mr. Dickson stopped her with a frown. “No ‘buts,’ Miss Cricket! for you down here.” Nancy darted upstairs to her little room, quite unconscious that she had been looking pretty as a picture in the eyes of Benjamin Dickson. Un- known to Nancy. Belle Brown had dressed the luxurfant, gray-brown hair in another fashion and her skill- ful fingers had transformed the ap- pearance of the little over-worked seamstress. Without a glance in the mifrror, Nancy pinned on her Sunday Mat and brought forth with trembling fingers an automobile veil of pink chiffon which she tied over her hat and about her throat in a great fluffy, rosy bow that lent color to her pale cheeks. It was a secret of her own that Nancy had bought that veil at the same time Mr. Dickson had purchased the red car—one never knew when one would I'll walt | be invited to ride—and although she had waited many weeks for the invi- tation it had come at last! How Kkind Mr. Dickson was—how masterful his way with a woman! Naney Cricket was a very womanly little woman and she dearly loved to be bossed around by a big man. “Ready? Ah!” Mr Dickson, looking very vouthful in his linen duster and gauntlets with a cap in his hand, handed Nancy into the car while his admiring rested on the trans- formed little,woman. The street light made it very bright in front of the Reeks house so that when they rode away all the women hoarders who had peeked from behind the basement cur- tains when the red car had honked its departure, knew that Mr. Dickson had taken Miss Cricket out for a ride. The red car glided down the street and into the pleasand avenue that led to the park. Naney leancd back in her seat and sighed blisstully. It was a never-to-be-forgotten ride for seversd reasons. First, Mr. Dick- son had been silent for a very long time when he suddenly asked in a queer voice: “Are you a suffragette, Miss Crickett?” And Miss Crickott, had ¢ , h("’” “So many women are nowadays,” he murmured in a relieved tone. Miss Cricket was silent again-—she did not want to spoil this wonderful drive by talking— besides, there was a note in Mr. Dickson’s voice that dis- turbed her strangely; it caused her heart to Leat in @ most unaccustomed manner. Around and around the park they glided in the procession of automo- biles that wound in and out along the perfeet roads. They listened to the band concert and at last.-when it was over they stopped at a pavilion and Mr. Dickson brought her out a plate of ice cream. They sat in the little te ice cream and listened to another hand At last they left the turned back to the city eyes much surprised, sped s “Merey no. why should and little park The red car went around a corner, chuckled along a quiet side street and with a derisive snort #topped in front of an old «tone church with its vine-clad rectory close hy, “What is the matter?”’ eried Nancy Cricket, shaken out of her dreamy | abstraction Mr. Dickson was on the ground looking under the car. Presently he aroge, brushed his knees and leaning against the car looked up at Miss Nancy perched on the seat. ! “This has happened” he said de liberately, and the masterful tone sent :]lllgh!ful thrills through Nancy Crick- “l came out to ask vou to marry me, Miss Cricket, and I couldn’t sum- mon courage to do it —but this blessed ! I little car of mine has paved the way. It stopped right In front of the church and the minister's—and that's the question, Naney? What {8 your an- swer?”’ In one blinding flash the future was revealed to Nancy Cricket—to marry Benjamin Dickson whom she secretly loved, to have a cosy little home where she would have nothing to do save to make it comfortable for him, to ride in the little red car whenever she liked. It was too much! Nancy bowed her head and quite regardless of the fluffy pink chiffon bows she eried softly Mr. Dickson was holding both her hands in his when the door of the rectory opened and the rector’s rotund form came down the path of the gate. “Good evening” he said pleasantly “Have yon had a breakdown? Can I be of assistance?” “No thank you—not this evening,” Naney | month from now with that decision Mr be content The rector bade them goodnight and the little red car, chuckled again, buzzed home just as if it had not contributed to make this a wonderful evening for two people. 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