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@ DIy insisted that I should keep it! Try £ HELP FROM A FRIEND § . o ° b4 By JANE HALL. :..........l....'....l.. “I vow and declare,” exclaimed the little stenographer, belligerently, “I'll never let a friend do anything for me again!" “What!"” cried the “Surely my many invaluable services are not to be refused henceforth!" “These people who have no regard for the rights of others ought to be just good and squelched!” declared the little stenograhper, ignoring his words. “They make me weary! They think your time isn't to be considered, but their time is invaluable!” She glow- ered out the window. “Mercy!"” exclaimed the bookkeeper. Then, shaking his head with deep con- bookkeeper. | natives. | that I had never before been thrust | style of beauty. I thought that per- | heps 1 should now be popular and | | much sought after.” “That doesn't sound so -sad,” re- | marked the bookkeeper. “Huh! But wait till T tell you!" re- | torted the little stenographer. “There we had only an hour at noon, and luncheon took a good part of it. I suppose we wasted ten minutes on my coat; then my friend said she guessed since we were looking at coats she'd try on a few. Well, she tried them on and tried them on, until we had a reg- ular wholesale house spread out around us. Then I expostulated, for it was getting time for me to be here in the office. But she looked at me as cern, he arose and stood in front of her, intercepting her view. “Don’t look like that,” he pleaded. ‘“Some one passing will see you! That would ruin the reputation of the office. They'll think we're mean to you here.” The little stenographer sighed. The bookkeeper’s remarks were in vain it he expected to provoke a retort. “What's the matter, anyway?” he in- quired. “Why, I wanted to get a coat,” re- lated the little stenographer, bitterly. “I invited a friend to luncheon with we, 80 she'd come and help me choose the coat. Now I wish I hadn't.” ‘Go on; I am strong and can bear {t,” said the bookkeeper. “I took her to a good restaurant and was just as nice to her as I could be. I thought from the way she talked that she'd be the best sort of person to help me choose the coat. We start. ed out all right, and were soon seated in chairs, with a saleswoman to show us coats. “She brought one ortwoand I tried them on, but they were quite impossi- ble. I couldn’t take them. Then the woman brought one that looked like Queen Victoria's gardening frock—I saw a picture of it once—and I gasped with horror when she even suggested that I try it on. Why, I wouldn't be seen in u!\ My friend said it was charming and that I should try it on, anyway. I could see plainly that it was anything but becoming to me. The collar drooped over the shoulder, and while it was artistically sloppy it didn’t possess the style that makes it possible to wear those things. i “Well, between them they made me try that thing on, and then they sim- as I would, I couldn't get it off! First the saleswoman would tell me how wondertylly Jovely I looked in it, and what a Joy it was to see the coat on some one who fitted into it. Then my friend would take up the strain and then they'd declaim in chorus, until in sheer desperation I said that I'd keep if to say that she'd helped me pick out a coat, and now I was a queer sort if I'd run 'away and leave her! “Finally the saleswoman brought out a coat that made me jump. It was Just the very thing I'd been looking for. My friend sprung up in front of me. “‘That's the coat I want,’ she said, smoothly and smilingly, just as though she was not depriving me of my rights —and she tried it on. Of course, she kept it—knowing I was just aching for it. That was just like her! “But what makes me mad is that I bought her a good luncheon so that I could have the pleasure of getting her to force an old dressing sack of a coat on me! And to think that the hour I'd been planning to use in selecting a coat was spent wholly in digging out my ideal garment for her to wear all summer! It makes me furious!" “Well, I don’t see that I can do any- ¢hing about it,” said the bookkeeper. Feminism. Mrs. Mabel Southwood Cotton, the venerable “antl,” said in an anti-suf-| frage argument at a luncheon in New York: e “Suffrage means feminism, and fem- inism would destrdy the home. “I overheard a typical suffrage dia- logue in the smoking-room of the Col- ' ony club the other day, “Two girls were sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes through long tubes of gold and amber. “The first girl said pensively, sway- ! ing her pretty foot in and out of her ; slashed skirt: “‘Do you believe, dear, that we should work for our husbands?’ “‘You bet I do!’ the second girl an- swered. ‘You just bet I do!’ 'l mean after we're married,’ said the first girl. “‘Oh, said the other, ‘after we're married—certainly not.’” offered such Suits Reduced to Suits Reduced to .. Suits Reduced to .. Suits Suits Reduced to Suits Reduced to .. Suits Reduced to .. Suits Reduced to .. 30.00 §4.00 Values now ... 35.00 Values now ... §0.00 Values now e $7.50 Values now ... ... $8.50 Values now \ll \ll All 50c Shirts now S1.0Q Shirts now .. $1.50 Shirts now \ll $2.00 Shirts now ... .. A1l $2.50 Shirts now ... All §3.00 Shirts now &% at greatly Reduced Prices. Saaa s <1l 8 Ll D8 L L oo B oo B ol Do B B B / Reduced tc ... MEN’S FINE PANTS MEN’S SHIRTS Srere g RETT BT R REEE R LEATHER GOODS All Suits Cases, Hand Bags and Trunks Price. I reasoned that perhaps the trouble with me here‘ofore had been | into & coat that was created for my ! e ————— ) it -4 “If it was so beautiful and I was o | simply made for it I felt that perhaps & | for once I had a chance to stun the L] ° | | We are det;rmined to make June the bij we are making efforts in this line which will \ 1914. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JUNE 18, i | | 000000000060002080255 3¢ i «Think how you'd feel after you'd BU ¢! gone to school with a girl a 8| che didn’t know any more than you o :‘ did and you had swiped all her beaus By AMELIA COHEN. 2 in those days without any effort at all ® | —think how it would make you feel 22200008000 000009008900000 if vour name was Mary Smith and hers Miss Pearlie Fattershall dabbed at| sounded like the whole alphabet set to her forehead with a wadded handker | ragtime. chief and ran her finger around the | “I don't say that it's a brainy form collar of her blouse in an irritated | of amusement, but Genevieve appears nax | to find it worth while! At least sl'w “Gee!” she breathed to the stenog-| endures Giuseppe for the sake of it. rapher from across the hall who had | I saw him at the wedding and—well, 1 brought her lunch over to Miss Fat-| wouldn't change places with .Genv-\*‘ tershall's office, where there was a| leve, not even with all this hot i cannot pay his new gambling debts. | tershall. , over there just to pass four months in | breeze. “This weathcr is fierce! hate to work for a living. I want to put dynamite bombs under all the hammocks wherein swing languid ladies in lace frocks reading the latest thriller and getting away with bon- bons while father or husband does the toiling down town! Yes, I do!"” “Why, I never heard you talk so!” cried the stenographer ‘rom across the hall. “You've always been per- fectly contented!” “The best of us have our off days," said Miss Fattershall gloomily. “When it gets to be 110 in the shade I general- ly abandon my noble theories and be- This | is the sort of thing that makes me | come & lady anarchist! Just as soon as it gets cool you will find me back at the old stand preaching patience, con- tentment and contempt for the idle rich! “Even now,” went on Miss Fatter- shall, “with the perspiration trickling down my complexion in little ditches I can still remember that the idle rich have their troubles. Why, it was just because she had nothing else to do that my boss’ daughter, Genevieve Pye, picked up her foreign count—and belleve me, she has been busy ever since! Her daily program has been something like this: Seven a. m, cable papa for funds. Eight a. m., see Giuseppe's creditors and stave them off. Nine a. m., cable to see If papa has got the first cable and urge haste. Ten a. m., explain to Giuseppe why I Eleven a. m., cable to papa for addi- tlonal funds. Noon, see more of Giuseppe's creditors. After lunch pawn my diamond earrings and pay | the grocery bill. Two p. m., cable papa for wore—" 4 “Goodness!” gasped the stenograph- er from across the hall, “if it's as bad as that I should think she would pack up and come home!"” ) “Oh, dear no!” explained Miss Fat- “She likes too well to be spoken of and to as ‘countess.’ She can stand eight months of horrors i Chicago each year and have all her old girl friends turn green with envy and rage at her note paper with Giuseppe's gorgeous coat of arms on it and at the way the butlers announce, ‘The Coupt- ,| on your list and that Christmas was ess dl Flippa Flazazza!' whenever ghe enters a room! MEN’S WASH PANTS ........ $8.98 5100 Values, now o R e ; ....... $10.98 $r50 Values, now ......... $18§l¢) ....... $12 .98 % i """ $1149% UNDERWEAR ...... $15.98 25 cents Garment ....... $18.98 50 cents Garments ....... $20.48 t\UX) Garments ....... $22.48 S1.50 Garments $2.00 Garments .., ... ........ $3.00 BELTS ........ $3.48 28 CONLS, HOW: 4o +een i . ........ $3.98 50 cents, now ... % {lfigg ..... °... 5498 $1.00 now . ey :79(‘ ....... $598 SHBOANDWE Tk el .$1.19 PROOIROWEGL ahon g S b $1.39 BOY'S WAISTS AND SHIRTS . 5 dgente Nl e A 19¢ g}ig s0FcentesOUAlEy Sl .39¢ 8169 Joraents Unglity e L 48¢ ........ $2.29 §1.00 Quality LE 3oty siaisiisls s RN NECKWEAR In great Profusion and all Reduced in weather! “And again,” went on Miss Fatter-| shall meditatively, “there's Mrs. Pye herseli! She's got the house on the, boulevard and the summer place at Lake Geneva and the hunting Iodge} up in the mountains and the yacht to look after and, come to think of it, that must take some time! Gee! Wouldn’t you like to feel that lwlcsI every year you had to see that nine| hundred and forty-eleven rooms were | all cleaned and that there were enough | sheets and pillowcases for a young| hotel with the monograms just right | and the refrigerator on the boat was stocked for instant sailing to any spot | and that buttons were all on Papa Pye's 60 suits of pajamas and that you hadn't forgotten any of the hun-; dreds of birthdays and anniversaries | looming up ahead with another list| and all the winter's program of swell dinner parties to make! Besides get-l ting your wardrobe of 50 dresses in| between! “Mercy goodness!” Miss Fatter shall gasped and surveyed the stenog- rapher from across the hall with round eyes. “Doesn’t it make you ache all over to think about it? And every blessed thing 1 have to do after working all day is to hustle home and get Into fresh clothes and hang up my other dress and walk to the ice cream parlor with Jimmy in the cool of the evening! Sa-a-a-y! 1 guess we don’t have it so bad after all!™ “No,” agreed the stenographer from across the hall quite cheerfully, “it looks as though we had a soft snap!” | Secret 1s Out. While roaming around the second- hand bookshop we ran into a young [ woman who aspired to be a leading literary light and possibly the author- ess of next season’s best seller. And to further that end she was hunting | for books that had outrun their copy- right. She was going to take ideas | from them, change them about and ' improve the plots and people. This, | she had been told by some one “who knows all about it,” was the way | every one succeeded! And then, in-| genuously, “How ever did those peo- ' ple manage who had to make up their own stories?” Staggering thought, that is! Every typeface strikes the exact printing center everytime L. C. Smith & Bros. 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