Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 3, 1914, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT e i —_—— aims and ambitions + Miscellaneous Shower For Miss Summerlin - (Continued from Page 5.) Stephens, Angell, Sullivan, C. Clay-| ton, Jeffcott, Holcomb, O. Eaton, H. E. Memminger; Misses Summerlin, Williams of Alabama, Streater, | Southard, Drane, Groover, Rigging [, Marshall, B, Whtte, R. Conibear, F. C(onibear, Robinson, Wheeler, (‘ardwell; Dr. Whitfield, Mr. H. Mendenhall . Ooooooooooooonooooooooooo: | A DASH FOR FREEDOM By JANE CASHION, “I'm 8o glad you've come,” said Mrs. Milburn, thrusting a weeping baby into her husband’s arms the moment his overcoat was off. “She's a little fretful, but she’ll be all right with you. It's wonderful how she crows and sings when you dance around with her.” Milburn looked into the face of his grandchild with a mock severity that did not appear to frighten her, for the little frowning crinkles smoothed into a smile. When he threw her up to his shoulder with a tender semblance of roughness she cooed with delight. “Isn't she just the sweetest thing you ever saw ?” cried the grandmother. “Oh, I don’t know, Alice. There have been others. I do have a fellow feel- ing for her, though, because she’s bald.” Milburn pulled the infant down from his shoulder and kissed the spot where the soft fuzzy curls had worn off on the pillow. “But why am I elected nurse girl? Iintended to write a brief tonight” He proffered the baby to his wife. “I can’t take her now. I've got some- thing to do in the kitchen.” “What have you got to do in the kitchen? I thought Manda was capable of getting up a dinner unassisted.” “Well, Manda isn't here. I let her &0 over to Ethel's,” “You don't mean to say that Ethel s without a girl again?” “No, but she's having a little dinner tonight, and her maid is so Incompe- tent that I sent Manda out to manage things. She'll be a great help to Ethel.” “Sometimes I wonder if Ethel will ever learn to manage her own house- keeping,” growled Ethel'’s father. “How did we happen to be honored by a visit from Laura’s baby? Is Laura giv- ing a party, too?” “No. Anyone would think you were cross who didn’t know that you simply adore that baby.” “Even that grant: 1 have yet other ‘OUR BIG FALL STOCK We must close out what we have leftin Clothing, Shoes, Shirts and Straw Hats there- fore, we disregard cost, and offer them to you for almost nothing. Now, isn’t $5 1) $ saved on a suit that much in your pocket? Well, if it is, come and let us 'fit you up be- fore they are all gone, for we will not carry them over. (L s === girling. I think I remarked that { had a brief to write this evening.” “Well, you can do it after dinner. Tom wanted Laura to dine with him downtown, so she brought baby here and went down early to do some shop- ping. Poor Laura doesn’t get out very often.” “No, that's so. This is only the third i | time this week that her baby has been quartered on us.” “Well, this is the end of the week, and anyway I think it's a joy to have such a perfect little darling come to visit us. You know you think so, too.” “Maybe I do, but as I tried to ex- plain, I have a little matter of my own on hand.” Mrs, Milburn, however, had gone to the kitchen and there was nothing for Milburn to do but establish the baby among the pillows on the couch while he made his tollet in as entertaining a manner a8 he could invent. He brushed his hair with free flourishes that won gurgles from the small on- looker, and he was rewarded by ap- plause when he removed his shoes with kicks that sent them flying across the floor. When Mrs. Milburn came to say that dinner was ready she lound' the baby in a state of hilarity. “You manage her better than any- one else,” she declared. “In other words, I'm the biggest ! monkey in the family.” Milburn en- deavored not to look proud. “I'll take her now while you go down and look at the furnace. I think the fire needs a little coal before din- ner.” “Where’s Dagget? What do we keep a houseman for? Stoking {sn’t my—" “Now, you know you don’t mind fix- ing the fire once in a while. I let Dag- get go out to Nell's, 8he telephoned me this morning that the paper hang- | their “You needn't be so sarcastic. That won't be any bother at all. I ehall have it on the radiator keeping warm and—" “Even if {t should be a bother, we won't mind, for it will be a kind of farewell celebration. Tomorrow we move to a hotel.” “Move to a hotel! Why, what can we do with the house?” “Rent it, I suppose. Anyway we won't run it any longer as a help-sup- plying depot and emergency station.” “Why?” “l meant it, my dear. Tomorrow | we'll make a dash for freedom.” Don’t shout your virtues from the housetop—somebody might happen to look in the cellar—Florida Times Union. PATCHWORK NOT QUITE DEAD Hae Lost Much of Its Old-Time Popu. larity, But Can Count on Perlodic Revivals. There is nothing like the old-fash- foned patchwork quilt for use with a four post bed. Even though the bed be a copy only of the antique, the quilt needs to be of the same era, especially if the room is furnished with rag rugs. Now and then at fairs and among private customs one finds a woman who knows how to make rag carpets and mats, and there is nothing more appropriate for the | bedroom floors of the summer cottage. Patchwork has periodical revivals, but even then it 18 never entirely out of fashion. Many women today hoard scraps of silk for this purpose, as mothers, grandmothers and ers had left her house {n a fearful | great-grandmothers did before them. state and it's so hard to get anyone in the suburbs to do cleaning that I just sent Dagget out, I knew that he would be a great comfort to Nell.” “Oh, no doubt,” remarked Milburn. After dinner when Milburn, with the baby in his arms, was dancing his own version of the tango in the kitch- en while his wife washed the dishes, the telephone rang. “I'll keep her while you answer,” sald Mrs, Milburn. When he returned, his peculiar expression made her ask: “Who was it?” “Laura called up to know if the baby was good. She said Tom had asked her to go to the theater, and would we mind keeping the baby. Of course I sald the pleasure was all ours, and then she sald she wouldn't like to take the baby out in the middle of the night, and the only thing the baby would need was a bottle at three o'clock in the morning. Just a little bottle at 8 a. m., my dear. T)}at'sll_ll.” —_———— —— I It 1s possible to keep pieces of cer- taln colors for certain quilts, thus useing blue and white for one room or pink and white for another. Appliques cut from flowered cretonnes are charming on dimity bedspreads. In the time of our grandmothers the flowers and leaves had to be laboriously cut of colored patches, then be fitted to- gether with infinitesimal stitches. The writer possessed a wonderful bed- spread of red poppies and green leaves and stems, worked into a border all the way around the spread. Squares of patchwork were the first sewing put iInto the hands of tiny dally “stint” for years to come. To Keep Clothing Whife. To prevent white clothing or mate- rials from becoming yellow wrap each plece carefully in blue paper or old . muslin well covered with household i laundry blue. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA, AUG. 3, | maldens in those days and served as a CONVENTION OF RE. 1914. | FORD Buyers to Share in Profits Lower Prices on Ford Cars Ffective from August 1st, 1914, to August Ist, 1915, and guaranteea against any reduction during that time : Touring Car - - Runabout Town Car - - - $490 440 690 F. O. B. Detroit, all cars fu]ly_equipped\. cost in our purchasing and sales departments if we canreach an output of 300,000 cars between the above dates. And should we reach thisproduction.we agree to pav as the buyer’s share fr.m $40 to $60 per car on or about Aug. 1. 1915, to every retail buyer who pur- chases a new Ford car between Aug. I 1914, and Aug. 1 1015. For further particulars regarding these low prices and profit sharing plan, see the nearest Ford Branch or Dealer. Ford Motor Company Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. (In the United States of America only.) | Further we wiil be able to obtain the maximum ef- ficiency in our factory production, and the minimum this city. One of the best business troubles to the conven TAIL GROCERS |programs which has ever been placed putting them before before the delegates, including a few [members, probably recei New York, Aug. 3 New .—The annual |set speeches by prominent men in ones. Attention will be has been prepared. Dele- York State the trade, the problems which con convention of the Retail opened Growers' Association today 'cates and alternates were particu- its four days' meetings in larly invited to bring their trade 'State. 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