Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 8, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JULY 8, 1914. Parasols at the Polo Game jA GREAT throng of smartly dressed people, New Yorkers, English and people from the “outside” world, gath- jered to watch the international polo matches, arrayed in clothes that need not fear any comparison. In the games the English literally galloped away with the trophy, and the Ameri- ocans took their defeat with a good na- ture altogether admirable. But if the oceupants of the boxes and grand- stands might have been matched against any other such concourse, any where, as to the excellence of their appareling, it is safe to say the New Yorkers would have more than held their own. | The fleld was a cheerful spectacle, ‘with the stands packed with men in light suits and straw hats, making a suitable background for the gay tints worn by the women in their summer finery. The colors were soft, with many white and a considerable num- ber of black and white costumes in evidence. Except for turquoise-blue and bright green, nearly all colors were so toned down in shade or so lightened to tint that hardly a trace of the former liking for the strong or garish remained. There was a liberal display of col- ored parasols, and these provided the declded color notes. They were of ooy g g Jo B cerise, or green or gold or (in greater numbers than any other) black and white combinations. There were para- sols with wide black and white stripes, running around or up and down, and there were those of narrower stripes. There were checks and bars in black and white, and many of these had narrow borders of ribbon in vivid col- ors shirred to the edge. Perhaps the best-liked model 18 the stripe pictured in the {llustration. This style is often shown with a wide black or colored border about the edge and often with a flowered border of roses against a colored ground. A black and white parasol is the best substitute for the all-black (which seems to be not in high favor just now). In this particular combination, either in stripes or cltecks, one may add a border of narrow shirred rib- bon in any of the bright colors, and change this border to suit. Next to the black and white and the all-white parasols, green has found the greatest number of admirers. Cerise may be conceded the third place, and after that gold or orange color. The black parasol, except in the gsmall hand shades or “carriage” parasols, 18 rather conspicuously absent from the fashion parade. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. QR T T T T e T e N STREATER Contractor and Builder Having had twenty-one years’ experience in building and con: tracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I feel competent to render the best service in this line, If contemplating building, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all information, All work guaranteed. Phone 169 J.B STREATER BB BB BB B BB SRR b G BD DB DB DR DR $12.80 now. ported Straw this Suit and down in price. JUST LOOK AT| THIS fart, Schaffner & Mary Suits Selling as Low as $16.00, $18.00 & $20.00 that were originally $20.00, $25.00 and $27.50. Suits as low as $9.60 to Mohair All our Im- Hats cut way Don’t miss it is your only chance to get a good thing for a song. Thie Hub 2., The Home of ‘ Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing | Pants Sale as ' f 00D T PLATE By JOHN GREGG. A dusty piece of tin plate, one side of which bore the legend, “Tompkins Avenue!” Carol Marston, the young lawyer, looked at it idly. It was lying in a dry ditch beside the roadway, on the outskirts of the town. Some prowling dog had probably unearthed it from the six inches of soil in which it had lain for years. The discovery seemed not of the | smallest importance. Marston had long since dismissed it from his mind | when he had a call from Pretty Elsie } Vincent. “Sit down, Miss Vincent,” he said, offering her a chair. He knew her by . sight, although they had never spoken to each other. “What can I do for you?” “I want to bring a suit against the Richards company,” answered Miss Vincent. “They engaged me by the month as telephone operator in their new apartment house at New avenue and Seventh street, and dismissed me on the seventh with a week's pay be- cause they are cutting out the serv- fce.” “Well, you seem to have a clear case, Miss Vincent,” said the young lawyer, after he had learned some fur- ther particulars. The flagrant mean- ness of the action stung him. Old Sol Richards had the reputation of being the meanest man in town; but this was worse than anything he had done, for Lewis Vincent had started him in business, twenty years hefore. Lewis Vincent had died when Elsle wag a baby. He had once been wealthy, but had backed a note for Richards, and when he dled it was found that all the property had toc go to meet it, Richards being insolvent. The man had become wealthy since then, but he “What D'You Mean?” had never repaid the money, and there was no legal claim on him, “And I just mean to get this forty- five dollars out of the old skinflint,” said Elsie to Carol Marston. “Just to show him what I think of him. Now,| why is it, if T have a clear case, no other lawyer will take it?" “You have tried? inquired Carol. “Yes,” the girl admitted. “You see, Mr. Marston—" here she blushed pret- tily—"you seemed so young.” Carol smiled rather grimly. “I guess they are all afraid of Richards,” he said. "“That's why. He is a man of considerable influence, you know. But I will take your case—and win it, too.” “And I have a lot at the corner of Tompkins avenue and Seventh street,” the girl confided, “so I can pay you by selling that. It {s all father had to leave me, and it {sn't worth more than | & couple of hundred dollars, because the town didn't grow the way he thought it would, but—" Well, being a practical lawyer, Carol did not refuse her offer and assure her that he would take her case for noth- ing, even though he was conscious of certain flutterings in the region of the heart when he looked at her across his pr— Richards would make good his threat. turning over the situation in his mind, , there flashed across it the remem- trance of that old tin plate. It was a flash from the subconscious, | and for a long time Carol Marston | could not imagine why the thought of | I\ it recurred so incessantly. And then,!”, suddenly, a dim remembrance came to him which made him start up with a cry of joy. The next morning he paid a visit to the town hall and spent the whole forenoon burrowing among old maps and charts of the village. Although it was an ancient settlement, the popu- lation, as with many small towns ad- joining cities, was largely a floating one, and hardly anyone in the place had lived there more than a few years. Hence the surprise of the discovery was somewhat mitigated; neverthe- less, it assumed enough importance to inspire the young man to write an urgent letter to Richards, inviting him to come to his office. Meanwhile he had had a talk with Elsie which made the young woman’s | eyes sparkle with gladness. And, em- boldened by the very kind look that she bestowed upon him, Carol Marston ventured to make a singular request | of her which, while it threw her into | confusion, did not produce any decided rebuff. When Richards stamped into the lawyer’s office, anticipating a plea for mercy, he was considerably astonished to see Miss Vincent there, and Marston seated at his desk and bearing no traces of spiritual humility. “Well, young man, 8o you've come round, eh?” growled Richards. ‘Sit down,” said Carol. “Mr. Rich- ards, when you attempted to deprive Miss Vineent of three weeks' salary I did not realize that you were actually in possession of stolen property of hers.” “What d'you mean?”’ growled Rich:! ards, turning pale, nevertheless. “The records of our towi were de- stroyed by fire fifteen years ago,” Marston went on; “but fortunately certain deeds were saved—among them that to your apartment house at the corner of New Avenue and Seventh street.” “This is a conspiracy!” yelled Rich: ards, rising. “Miss Vincent,” continued the young man, ‘“possesses one of those deeds, 3G B PR OARBPE BB PR PP R giving her possession of a vacant lot at ; Seventh street and Tompkins ave- nue.” He rose and, shaking his finger with that dramatic air that was well known in the courts afterward, continued: “You infernal scoundrel, Tompkins avenue used to run where New ave- nue runs today, and Miss Vincent’s lot is that on which your apartment house now stands!” : Five minutes later Richards got up from the floor and wiped his knees, which were very dusty. “I'll send that check for ninety thou- sand as soon as I can fix the mortgage, Mr. Marston,” he whimpered. “And you'll let it go at that?” “Yes,” nodded Elsie, and Marston said “yes” obediently. before Miss Elsie was saying ‘“yes” al:o—in obedience to the singular stipulation above mentioned. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) DO REALLY'WONDERFUL WORK Spiders in Paraguay Spin Webs That Might Almost Be Referred to as Cables The roads of Paraguay are about five yards wide throughout, and the trees meet overhead at a height of some 18 feet, thus forming a tunnel of very uniform dimensions. In the clear parts of this tunnel, that is, where it is not choked up with the glant nettle—it is full, from roof to ground, of enormous spiders’ webs, stretching clear across the road, the big trees usually being chosen as anchorages and the total clear span being thus more like eight yards than five. The main cables or framework of the nets are composed of five or six strands of thick yellow web, and are almost as strong as cotton thread, says the Wide World. The rest of the net is made up of single and double |#&&® strands of -the same stout material, which is as sticky as it is strong. Ev- ery yard or so one of these nets ex- tends across one's path, making it necessary to hold a cutlass or a fairly stout stick at arm’'s length in front as one walks. The makers of these troublesome but picturesque obstructions are large, table. And so the case was filed Richards had two reputations One ! was that of being the meanest man ln: town: the other of being the most vin- | dictive. Carol expected to receive a | visit from him, and he was not d sap- | pointed. Three days later Richards | came stamping into his cffice | “What's tt a claim Vincent woman? I hear about vour filing St me on behialt ¢f h I don't know what you have ! | Mr. Richards, but it is t: | Carol “Do you know I can ruir I cried i Say, are you j Can't say,” ue, ans Fx I ar turbably, “but that claim is going to We'll see grunted Rich and stamped out 1 T'hat was inning of the trou- ble On¢ by o Carol's clients dropped away m him. The case never cam 1to court, for Richards paid; and the prived even ol ceforward Carol was de- the solace of Miss El- 1 s. The young man lhad little capital, and it seemed that sie’s occasior | very highly colored, gaudy-looking spiders, with bodies that look as if they were about to explode, they are so blown ocut and glossy. At intervals in some more open space where the sky is visible, one will notice a different kind of web, far more irregular in shape, but far th Not content with the space available in the tun- larger than the others stretched in com- plicated mazes from the ground to the tops of the surrounding trees, with clear sg s frequentl or 30 20 I ¥ s from one tree to ar TOm main ones extend to the groun these smaller | dirop of in be- ass of | 15 or 20 yards—ar the spaces with a m tween Of No Use to Him. 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