Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 20, 1914, Page 8

THE UNIVERSAL CAR Put the difference in the bank. The saving between Ford cost and heavy car cost is “velvet” for the prudent buyer. 1Te knows the Ford not only saves him dollars but serves him best. It's a better car sold at a lower price and backed with I'ord service and guarantee. 8300 for a runabaout; $550 for the touring car and $750 for the town car—f. ob. De- troit, complete with equipment. log and particulars from Get cata- Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, SEDAIIIDGEBDPIIOG DODISIEPIPPORIBIFPEE DDdag Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A BUSINESS WITHOUT BOOKS™ _ We find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand, and on May Ist we will instal our new system of low prites for Strictly Cash. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County thiousands of doflars in the past, and our new system will still ] HON THEY HADEUP By CLAUDINE SISSON. Could she cook? She didn't know | enough about it to fry an egg. Could she sew? She had once al- most sewed on a button. Had she ever made a purchase in the {line of provisions? She simply knew {that breakfast foods were ten cents a package. | How about sweeping, dusting, bed- making and window and dish washing? {Oh, mother had always done those | things. She had started out once to beat a | rug, but after the third whack with a stick she had seen a girl friend pass- ing and had run over to the fence to talk with her. And had he ever hought groceries? bought three pounds of sugar and a bar of soap for his mother. Had he ever split wood or lugged coal? Never. | Had he ever sat down to a meal where the meat was burned, the pota- toes underdone, the coffee slops, and ’the pudding tasting like a mixture or‘ sawdust and molasses? His mother had taken good care that he hadn't. | Had he ever replaced a broken win- | dow pane, repalred a lock on a door, | made use of a pot of glue, handled a | hammer or saw? Never, but he had handled a billlard cue. Did he know the water rates his father paid, or the amount of his gas bills? No. Had anyone asked him the price of a ton of coal he could not have ; given it correctly! He had a place in the office of his father's factory at a salary of $25 per week, and was really worth about five dollars of it. And DBenson Chivers passed his twenty-first year, fell in love with Con- stance Jewett, and she with him, and they had matrimony on the brain within three months! “Benson, you are an idiot!” said the young man's father. “Constance, you are an idiot!” peated the girl's father. “But I love Benson.” “Perfect idiocy!” “And he loves me.” “More idiocy!"” re- his hat and marched out of the house. This is a husband’s privilege, and he always makes the most of it, “'hl!e‘ k“““.i“: at the same time that he is making a fool of himself. In such cases a wife also has a spe- cial privilege. She can put on her hat | and go home to mother and be »sulre of a sympathetic reception. In this in- ce it was a mile to mother’s. The young wife would go home. The | idea m; a husband finding fault whhg his wife because she couldn’t cook was | something so outrageous that she knew her mother would advise imme- diate divorce. She might not be award- ed alimony, but there was the stage to turn to. With her face and figure, and the way she could sing “Coming Thro' the Rye," it would be as easy as grease to make $200 per week. It was high noon when she was ready to set out, and she didn’t even take Benson’s photo with her. As a matter of fact, she gave it a disdainful look as she passed out. Arriving at the proper spot, she | | | Xea; whon lowag a:boyihe fiad oneo | climbed the fence, and hadn’t pro- | gressed ten rods when she walked into an old uncovered well. It was six feet deep, with a foot of mud and water at the bottom, and when she had man- aged to get out, she was covered with a good deal of real estate and had lost a good share of her resentment Some one that knew the young wife was passing and saw her, and further on he met her husband and told him about it. “(ioing home to mother to tell what a brute I am!” exclaimed Benson to himself. “‘Well, 1 will follow on and relate my cide of things.” He started off, took the short cut, and as had planned it for two weeks ahead, he, too, went into the old well. He, too, got a large and liberal dose of free- . dom's soil. Behold husband and wife a quarter of a mile from each other, each under a bush, scraping off the mud and think- . ing of beefsteak and fried onions. Hearken to a low and ominous bel- lowing, such as preceded the Johns- town tragedy! Behold that bull who had scented and got his eyes on the trespassers! ile paws the earth. He throws clods over his back. His tail switches the bushes. Mrs. Benson Chivers knew nothing about cooking, but she did know an angry bull from a placid cow. She knew that he was coming for her, and that her salvation was to climb up the tree behind her. She climbed. #l IN ICED BOTTLES ;ifil ANYWHERE — Look for the ©heiw BOTTLED B CHERQ-COLA BOTTLY LAKELAND, FLORI), o o f 8 U =] ] 3h & =0 | 'Round Trip| “And we are going to get married!"” i ahead. There may be a law to prevent two idiots from marrying, but I never heard of it.” “David,” said Mrs. Jewett, when the daughter had run away to her room, “we were young once ourselves.” “And we met and fell in love.” reduce the cost of living. and also reduce our expenses and enable us ty put the knife in still deeper. We carry a full line groceries, feed. grain. hay. crate material, and Wilson & Toomers’ Ideal Fertilizersalways on hand [ L w ‘ FROM JACKSONVILLE St.Lovis « - $37.75 Chicago = = « $43.50 Denver - « - 5860 St Paul « « o 56.75 Colorado Springs - 58.60 Dulath - - « 6150 Salt Lake City - 71.60 Wionipeg = o « 76.75 Yellowstone - - 78.00 Toronto « « « 48.90 Portland « - - 106.00 Montreal = « o 5545 Seattle - « - 106.00 Petoskey » « « 5158 Los Angeles - - 89.50 Mackinac « 53.00 SanFrancisco - - 89,50 Buffalo - - - 4740 When the bull arrived where the woman had been she was there no longer. He figured over the mystery for about ten seconds, and then went looking for the man. The man was no boob to sit there scraping off mud while a bull as big as a freight car was looking up his record. He arose Cincinu Lovisrie 2. Foofr 3 $12.80 now. Mayes Grocery Company 211 West Main St., Lakeland, Fla. B HBPDBBDD GG POPH SO E B ‘g,.g;‘3,(g,‘g)(gwg,.m,M,q»mag..mug,@‘sug@xxa%g; JUST LOOK AT | THIS Hart, Schaffner & Mary Suits Selling as Low as $16.00, $18.00 & $20.00 The Home of Hart Schgflncr& Marx Clothing that were originally $20.00, $25.00 and $27.50. Mohair Suits as low as $9.60 to All our Im- ported Straw Hats cut way down in price. this Suit and Pants Sale as it is your only chance to get a good thing for a song. Thie Hub Don’t miss JOS. LeVAY 5 O “Yes?" “And got married.” “Well?" “We were perhaps too young, and no doubt folks said we were idiotic, but we pulled through all right.” “Good Lord, wife, you could run a house bang-up, and I had a trade that was bringing me in five dollars a day! Our Constance don't even know how to use a feather duster, and as for the young man, he couldn't earn ten dol- lars a week outside his father's office.” “But they will pull through some- how.” | “Well, T have had my say.” There was a marriage and a brief bridal tour, and then came the cottage | and housekeeping. It was fun settling that cottage. They did it all them- selves. Nothing fitted. There were wobbles and wrinkles and puckers even in the dishes. It took a whole week to get the window shades to hang straight. It took another to get the ache out of their wounded thumbs and the carpet tacks out of their heels. | It was great fun, though, and while settling was going on there was no attempt at cooking. Crackers, cheese and sardines were good enough for them. ) On the first morning of their real ! housekeeping they were to have a breakfast of beefsteak, fried onions and delicious coffee, with graham gems hot from the oven. The ycung | husband was walking in the back yard to sharpen his appetite up when called in to the meal. He sat down at the head of the table and began to carve the steak. “By George!"” ‘ “What is it, Benson?" 1 He tasted of the onions. | “By thunder!” | “Is anything wrong?' asked the wife. He took a sip of coffee and spat it out with: “The devil!” “Benson, I ask you what is wrong?" “I don't believe any human husband was ever called in to such a meal be fore!" “Is—isn't it cooked right?" “There isn't g about it You spoiled evervthing Why didn't tell that you cculdn't cook?" “You never asked me.” “But 1 any cookir have you supposed vou course.” to drive a nail!™ “You may give dog."” “And you m The and the tearful ing to cook the meal 1 she that it all. Had she wou head een over in five was 0o uous, ud of She deserved dit for was def try- knew must be » but that is and sobs ved a pat on the 1 all would have utes. But burst- ing into tears w t T She felt that she 1 picked on, and that she wc rather fight than weep. The husband arose and clapped om and a kiss, way i found a woman beside him. !ture, but she had not welcomed him | chute, but not until it had been spit and looked for a tree. He saw one. The clutech was released and away sped Mr, Chivers The bull got a fair sight of him with both eyes and bounded after him with bellows that made the bushes sway as | in a gale When the man was fairly seated on a limb five feet from the ground he It took him only a few minutes for him to rec- ognize her as his wife—the wife who couldn’t cook for shucks. She had recognized him as his coat tails flew and flopped across the pas- with glad words. They looked each other in the face | for a moment and then turned away. | | bull Five minutes and the stopped his snorting to wonder what sort of people they were Another five minutes, and then a snicker from the wife, followed by what might be called a giggle from the husband. Another giggle. Anothe® snicker, and then, as the disgusted bull walked away: "I ain’t mad, Constance!” “Nor I, Benson!"” “Let's go home and be good!" And he has eaten of her cooking ever since. passed, (Copyright, 19 McClure Newspa- Tuberculosis in Packing Rooms. No pains are too great for managers of some large corporations to take to help eradicate disease from the ranks of their workers. As an instance of this might be mentioned the experi- ence of a corporation in Chicago which employs thousands of men and women. 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