Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 23, 1914, Page 2

) ‘. 1 THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKE 4 $ QOGO DOB IO POPODE | At this Period use all Safe- | <= guards for Comfort ANOTHER FOOL GIRL and ch Beln By DONALD ALLEN. “Did you know it?” “Have you seen it?” 8 The best and most practicable of these is ice"OUR ICE. It preserves “Isn't it great?” 3 your food, conserves your health, increases your pleasure, does you ah‘;r;’"" say the town will jump right . . . ad now. good in ways too numerous to mention—and all for a very little Mise Cynthia. Basdet. ‘the. old. maid; money. had opened a millinery store in the| . A i i § R village of Hinkley with the §800 left i Instead of decreasing your taking of ice on the cool days which her by the will of an uncle. will be occasionally sandwiched between the warm ones, 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, \ e Company Ehone ‘D MONEY for You | It vou come and be fitted at OQur Great Shoe Sale We have decided to continue the sa'e another thirty days. (L ¥e have the Shoes; they are yours at just what they cost. Watch frr our Handbills Bargain Prices, with some of our great Thankinyg vou for your valuible pa ronage Very truly y we are yours, Kimbrough & Rutherford riord | MAYES GROCERY Co. /> “Reduce the cost of living,” our ‘ < .\ < ,, v ———— ——————— S_— —————————————————————————————————— motto for ninsteen fourteen Will szl staple groceries, hay, feed,; Wilson-Toomer eruhzers, all kind- of sh roing crates and baskets, and ¢d per2ooes, etc., at reduced Bk Maves Grocery (o. LAKELAND, FLORIDA = L2t et Tl 2alBal Suy 2un gue g pu pmotal el Suloul Sus ons out tug Sul Sullul dnd 2utnl tut tul nl T SO0 .0 JUBIOR DA I NY BPFD mazw 00 OPOH RO QNI O B OO OB D C et S e i d DG LS SIS IO L HOROBOBO S it T RO BOROROFOROFOR ,zumo#mmoommwwo«h bl R T ARG o bbbl b 4 B p YHI\\\\}H\\I&\I\" Now is your time To Buy an Automobile We have in stock twenty touring cars, with six more touring and six roadsters on side tracks. Ford Touring cars, $610.50; Road- ¥ sters, $560. delivered anywhere in Polk | LAKELAND AUTOMOBILE AND SUPPLY CO. county. Lakeland, Fla. S o A | jaunty hats | house LAND, FLA., FEB. 23, 1914. There were two dry goods stores, a grocery, a drug store and a wheat ele- vator at the depot, and while the 700 inhabitants boasted of the enterprise | of their own town all felt that there Hinkly had nearest one was something lacking. no millinery store. The | was over at Browngville, twelve mileg away. But the lopng-felt want had been filled at last, and there was a rush to the new millinery store to pat Miss DBas set on the back. “I'm a-asking j house and lot tl exclaimed Deacon Snyder as he sioo at the door in; and hal hour later real estate was on the bours from the red schoolhouse to the white bridge. Miss Basset had to have an $200 more for my vesterday and peer assist | ant, and she had engaged Minnie Long, the belle of the village. She was not only the belle, but she had a natural knack of hat-trimming. She could take a bow, a rooster feather and a buckle of some sort, and out of an old hat create such a dream of a headpiece that the minister would stop in his ser- mon to gaze at it and wonder if it 1 wasn't his duty to warn her against Satan's wiles. He could prove that had led more women into the downward path than any other one influence. Miss Minnie had been engaged to Roscoe Dayton for three mouths be fore the great millinery event. e was a young man and had just started ou! as a builder. They were to be married at the end of three more months, Hinkl « only a quiet village, and yet it was seldom without its stran ger, most of them being agents for one thing another. A good-looking or man, who claimed to represent a lamp in the city, but who was just then taking a brief vacation, was one of those milliner mporium, smile over the: “unlvrprisu"wof the thing. That was his first sight of Minnie Long, and he made a vow with- in a minute, Roscoe Dayton was not a “plug” of a young man. He was ambitious and a hustler, but he wasn't up to date with a young man from the city. No one, not even Minnie, expected him to be. He didn't have the clothes, the cane, the two watch chains, the smile, the bow nor the glib tongue. He had had no rival thus far, and there had been no jealousy on either side. Mr. Claude Barrie, as the lamp house agent gave his name, tarried in the millinery store a long ten minutes, and when he had departed a woman voiced the opinion of a dozen others when she whispered: “If that young fellow stays in town a week there's going to be trouble for somebody!” There was the beginning of trouble within an hour. A busy-body met Ros- coe Dayton on the street and called out to him: “You'd better have your eyes peeled, young man!"” “I'm always looking,” ing reply. “You know that Lump house agent from the city?” “Saw him on the street yesterday.” “He's a ¢harmer, ain’t he?” “Maybe.” “He was charming Minnie Long down at the millinery store. Say, they are sure stuck on each other!” “Nonsense!” Minnie, too, would have laughed at the idea but a week later Roscoe felt it his dutv to say to her: “I hear that young Barrie is a caller at your house.” “Why, yes, he has called,” was the reply. “Haven't you become very rapidly? “So you are jealous, eh?” I don’t like him. He is a stranger to us all. He may be what he claims to be, but no one knows. Is it a flirta tion or what?” “Can’t [ even look at another man across the street because I am en- gaged to you?” “You can't have a flirtation with a stranger without the whole village talking about it.” “The whole village had better talk about some one else. Mr. Barrie has not only told me all about himself, but given me the highest references.” “But why has he?” “Because he has. That’s all I have to say about it!” A day or two later the He was there to was the laugh acquainted Joung man disappeared and did not return for| five days. The lover was Minnie received a letter—supposedly from him—every day, and also she mailed a reply. young man had returned and paid an evening call that Mr. Dayton sought | an interview. “It is gossiped that you intend to break the engagement with me. s it true or only gossip?” “I have made up my mind to one thing sure,” was the reply of the girl. “I was born and reared here. [ have' never been fifteen miles from the vil- lage. [ have never seen the real, world. I have been a clodhopper all my days.” “And you have made up your mind ' to—1" “To go to the city and see things and be somedody.” i : | at the grand opening of the told that | that | It was after the | “It's this lamp house fellow that has rut the idea into your.head," quietly ' said tae lover. “What will you do in the city?” “ shall be a stenographer at $15 per week. Miss Basset pays me $3, ¢ ind what is life here?” ‘Your father and mother— willing?" | “I—I haven't talked it It is none of your bu the are they over ! them yet. to question vay you me am not going to marry anyone peky old village.” “Very well! Good-ni Mr. Dayton could :eriminated and d walked c could have and moth and had his f didn't approach them. He m'm] have gone to Miss Basset and begged her ‘ln advise the girl but he did not g0 near her Minnie had expected a row over {h(fl1 parting. There had always been a row | in every love story she had ever rc ad, | nd in her and disap; tr the quiet ending she o the 201 e | out ] s, b ( ni ng ing himselt to a sour apple tree, he ‘(Imp]n'll into the inn and had a look at and a talk with young Barrie. He was | a poke of a man, Roscoe was, but not- | withstanding that drawback he man aged to size up his rival as closely as if he had been a lawyer from the city. | Miss Basset wouldn't know that Min- | nie Long contemplated going away. Her parents wouldn't know it. No one in the village would know it. It would be an elopement. The couple would not take a night train from the village for fear of be seen. Young Barrie ! would get a livery rig and drive across the cout « distance of ten miles to another road { Minnie could not get a trunk out of the house, but would take what cloth- | ing she could in suitcase. Young | Barric ild have to settle his bill at | the inn befor i and there was only the one livery stable in the village | to get a rvig at. Thercfore, taking it all ! round, it not a difficult case to handle, though the jilted lover had a constuble side him in the buggy | vhen he tinally took up the trail of the cloja od two miles the village when they were overtaken | The first act of the girl w to faint b I‘l\.w“. 1 The first act of young Barrie was to jump trom the ‘le and take to his | heels d He was overtaken and brought back, and he then discovered that a warrant and a pair of handeuffs awaited him. The girl recovered trom her faint to hear him laugh and say: “Oh, I'm caught right enough! She ves tool enough to elope with me, but i suppose they will call it abduction.” ‘And it probably isn’'t the first case,” said the constable “Not by five or six! There are more fools among the girls than in idiot asy- lums!"” “You were g« in the cit per week?" *She didn't have ing to get her a place a stenographer at $15 any inore sense than to believe so! You see, she want. ed to geyout of the poky village of Hinkly and see the world. She'd have seen it, too, if you hadn't overtaken us!” The girl heard every word, and she sobbed in her throat. The man she had jilted climbed into the side her village. “You must get into vour house and your room without awakening your parents,” he said. “You must get up at the usual hour and go to your place You must say no word ¢f this to any- buggy be- and drove slowly back to the one. You have been foolish, but it was not too late.” It was long weeks after this when she saw Roscoe again Then it was in response to note in which she asked: n NEW THEATER WAIST | | i | | i i This pretty waist is of black tulle and black lace. The upper part of the . waist and the sleeves are black tulle { ornamented with jet buttons. The | lower part of the waist and the long basque are of the lace, The collar is of white Venetian lace, | the girdle is of bright red silk prettily knotud at the left gide. | — “Can a poke of a man find 1( in his heart to fogy:ive a fool of u girl? “Of course he can—that's what a B ks poke of a man is for!” was the prompt e Room 17 Kentucky Bldg. Phone: Office, 102; Residence, ! And the gossips of Hinkly never heard a word of the incident! W N {Copyright, 3. by the McClure News . 4 per Syndicate ) FAROE PRI IBOEOB DB DS O eD w. K. ‘lackson-;\ssecmfl"w. K. 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