Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 17, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO WHY HE CAME BACK one day she kneeled down and prayed that he might live. THP EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND ALONG SIMPLE LINES There seemed no chance of that.l The doctors all agreed his case was hopeless. It seemed the height of frony that the man who huad ruined ORNATE DROPPED FROM MODERN | DECORATIONS. I his wife’s life should have come back | By H. M. EGBERT. —_ Anna Foulkes was thirty-nine, and her boy, Charlie, the apple of her eye, was twelve. Her worthless husband had abandoned her seven years be- fore. Anna's friends and acquaint- ances had congratulated her when six years of married life ended in her freedom. She would not get a divorce, | but then she did not want to marry again. Curtin, having run through all her money, had departed. At first Anna dared only hope his decision mnot to return was true; then she dared to believe; finally conviction became cer- tainty. She left the neighborhood and took up her residence in a different city, [ Anna's folks had been gentle. The boy was to go to an expensive pre- paratory school. For this she had toiled and scraped in the office where ghe was employed as a stenographer. The hard-carned money had been gath- | ered together. In three months Char- | e was to enter Grantwich. And then—Curtin came back. Anna found him leaning against the | gate of her little cottage on the out- skirts of the town. He was In rags, but sober. He was thin and wasted | and deadly pale. Instinctively the woman shrank away from him as she saw and recognized her husband. “Curtin!” she whispered. “Why | have you come back?” “1'l tell you, Anna,” he answered. “May I come in?"” “Yes, it's your right,” she answered. “But—" “Oh, you needn't be afraid that 10 do any harm to the boy,” he answered. | “You needn't say—" “That {s his right, Curtin,” she an- swered, She called Charlie from the | He Was In Rags, but Sober. garden. “This {8 your father,” ehe said. The frank-eyed boy gazed with nat- ural repugnance at the wretched tramp before him. “You didn't know that he was liv- ing, my dear,” she said to her son. “But—" “I knew all about him, mother,” the | boy answered. “Now I'll tell you why I've come back, Anna,” sald Curtin Foulkes. “I'm dylng. I've got just two months to llve. It's something that can't be cured. You needn’t be afraid of me any more. I've been a bad lot, but even a dog comes home to die, and I want to die here, Anna.” She took him in and the next day ! gave up her position to take care of him. There was money enough for the boy’'s first term at Grantwich, and at the end of the two months she hoped to be able to go back to the | office. The sick man grew neither better nor worse. The doctor confirmed his statement, but he extended the period of suffering to three months. Before the first month was ended there was no more money in the bank. Anna was confronted with the alternative of sacrificing her boy's school career or sacrificing her husband. She sac- rificed the boy. At least, she meant to. Dut Curtin Foulkes made a move which was even more dramatic than his rc 1”\« arance. “Anna,” he said, the evening before she was to write that letter to the head master of Grantwich, “1 want to tell you something. They say the worst man has a streak of good in him. Do you remember that insur- ance policy for a took out when we were married? kept it up—for you. I've borrowed to the limit on it, but there will still be seven hundred for you and Charlie, after—I'm gone.,” The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the physician, and, of all, the undertaker looked forward, each and all, to the death of Curtin Foulkes, that they might get their money. And the future of Charlie Foulkes depend- ed upon his f or's death llkewisa. If ever a man uld be Curtin would last the world that he had been 1 woman, her knees. . eurtains, thousand dollars I I've | well out of | blackgugrd | ] to ruin his son's career. If ever wishes fought, Anna's wish ' was fighting the determination of the tradesmen, of the sick man himself. | It was will agalnst will, pitted in deadly struggle—a dozen to one, if | will counts for anything in the affairs of men. And the boy's future, against the hushand's life, with no possibility of any compromise! Anna had reckoned that if her hus- band lived the three months there !wou]d be just two hundred dollars re- maining, with which to face the world anew. If he lived the total debt would be hideous. It was at the beginning of the third month that the physician came to the house with a youngish, keen-eyed man, in an automobile. “Mrs. Foulkes, this 13 Doctor Ste- vens,” he said. “He is the greatest authority in the world on such cases as your husband’s. I was speaking of it to him last week, and he wishes to make an examination.” Half an hour after the doctors came out of the sick man's room to the who had risen hastily from She had been praying that Curtin might live. The prayer was to be heard, “Doctor Stevens thinks that there is a chance to cure your husband,” said the physician. “It will necessitate an operation.” He hemmed a little, “Of course Doctor Stevens’ fees are high, much higher than those of an ordi- nary practitioner,” he continued. “Never mind the cost,” sald Anna Foulkes. “Give me back my husband.” “Excuse me, doctor,” said the phy- sician, and the great man withdrew a little way across the room. "It is nec- essary to be businesslike, Mrs. Foulkes,” her doctor continued. *“He will operate for two hundred dollars.” Two hundred dollars! If Curtin died | that would be the last of the insur- ance money. But if he lived—what years of toil! And the idea of Grant. wich would have become ludicrously absurd. Anna did not waver. “Well, it must be done, of course,” she said. operate?” “Now,” answered the physiclan, “In fact, the sooner the better. To be him here for that purpose.” If he had been franker he would have added that Doctor Stevens would have been glad to have operated for nothing. It was an unusual case, and much was to be learned from it. As a matter of fact, he would have paid two hundred dollars for the experi- ence. But of coursa Anna could not know anything about that, “(Get tho table scrubbed,” continued the physician. “And take down the I have telephoned to the hospltal for a nurse.” An hour later the fumes of Degan to permeate the cottage. white-robed doctor and nurse working busily inside the parlor. side Anna prayed. She thought of her life with Curtin, of those miserable years, his drunken- ether Out- their happiness that they had made, It was partly her fault; Curtin had been an average sort of man. But gazo on them she had forgotten to be | tolerant of human failings. As she kneeled there it seomed to her as though her single will were fighting a lost battle against the will of all these men, cian and surgeon, phys even, And there was depended on. That was Charlie. one thing His will, ation, there was no hope. about his father, and never told her! stand,” she sald. Grantwich and give you an education. and the doctors, too, and the funeral expenses. But it he lives—why, dear boy, there will be no more school for you. dreadful battle Hves. hard as we can work. want to happen, Charlie?” The boy's lips quivered. . my father,” he answered. dear?” “Yes, mother,” he answered. Then, in that { felt a sudden uj The will tad She felt it; leglons of tro the rablle rou of her heart. urned the sc e knew the esmen, L were boy s beaten should b day forward | the on the table. as he lay there humbled, re- And, strange to say through those weeks pentant, a shadow of her former love | began to grow in Anna’'s heart. And! | Foulkes | that swam with tears | was | (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) | “When can Doctor Stevens | frank with you, Mrs. Foulkes, I brought ! The | were | ness, his dishonesty, the total wreck of | sho had high ideals and in fixing her the united wills of | tradesmen, of the undertaker, of the As in| o vision she saw the terrific battle. that all added to either side, would change the situ-| 1f he were against her, then A shadow fell across the floor. She Jooked up, to see the white face of the boy. An agonizing love rushed {nto her heart. How like a little man he was! And he had always known “Charlie, dear, I want you to under “If your father dies, his insurance money will take you to It will pay the bills of the tradesmen my It will be just one long and for the rest of our You and I will have to work as What do you | “I want | “In spite of all you must give up, | stant, Anna Foulkes devil's doctors and all Her hcart went out to Curtin with all the love of old time. She would make a man of him yct. Thelr lives again together, from that ked after him with eyes Her praver It Has Been Found That the Best Re- sults Can Be Obtained by Sim- plicity—Furniture Set as Example. ; There 1s a certain decorator in New York who employs children, preferably under ten years of age, to design and apply the painted decorations on his the Washington Star. Children older than that, or adults, know too much, he says, to obtain just the simple, crude, but effective results which he desires. There is also a designer in Paris who resorts to the public schools for the | The children here, he | . Same reason. finds, produce the simple but strong designs, which he cannot procure from | the average professional worker. One of these men I8 the decorator of ‘ QRO OO Our o —_— houses. The other Is a designer of clothes. The decorator 18 the produet |~ 'of the era; the spirt of the era, and embodies it in his creations. We admire and adopt his styles for our apparel, and we ad- mire the same modern influence in house furnishings, which we find mani- | tested on every side. But do we stop to think about it and analyze why this i{s 80, and how can we best make use of this modern feeling without abusing it? For, not ounly is it possible to en- tirely overdo fit, it is also quite likely ‘(hnt timid ones will be afraid to at- tempt it at all. Occastonally I have spoken to you of the daring use of black and white; of the strong effect to be got from the use of supposedly uninteresting checks, stripes and dots; of an effective note of orange, or a turkey-red bowl. But this is, when summed up, simply the result of the new movement. Some call it Futurist, some Cubist, some rank Impressionism, but I believe it may be termed simply “modernism.” Let who will deride the movement, and | point the finger of scorn; but who can say that we ridicule the simple art of | the Egyptians, where effect was often obtained in the simplest, crudest way; or the more perfect art of the ireeks, where simple line decorations Pretty Furniture Set. were largely responsible for the charm ; of some of thelr famous frets and bor ! ders? In this connectfon, for the breakfast room, boudoir or an {nclosed porch, a pretty group was recently shown. The screen I8 of cream llnen, effectively stenciled with which are embroidered yellow apples with black leaves. The lamp has a cream and black base, with a green shade. The table and chair are green, decorated with black, and the pillow is black and white. Combining black and brocade moire with amethyst clasp There was a stir within the operat- {ng roon I'he surgeon came to the | door i will lve, Mrs. | Foulk “There i{s no doubt of it."” The nurse and th:e physician were Waists and '\m-c Waists, Georgette crep he most { T appear f tubs beauti y and wears sple —From Vogue. the designer has selzed |© and unpretentious geometrical forms : blocks of green, on | champagne | Phone No. 340 WORDS OF INTELLIGENT MEN According to 0. W. Holmes a Lecture | Should Be Something Interesting and Understood by All. A lecture ought to be something which all can understand, about gomething which interests everybody. A lecture doesn't begin to be old un- til it has passed its 100th delivery, and some, I think, have doubled, if not quadrupled, that number. These old lectures are a man's best, com-. monly; they improve by age, also. One learns to make the most of their strong points, and to carry on their weak ones, to take out the really good things which don't tell on an audi- ence, and put in the cheaper things that do. All this degrades him, of course, but it improves the lecture | for general delivery. A thoroughly popular lecture ought to have some- thing in it which 500 people can all take in a flash, just as it i3 uttered. —0. W. Holmes. Under this gycamore tree, with the sound of the clear river Dove in our | ears, with the odor of the May flowers freshly around us after this gentle shower, and in the sight of these' meadows, gold and silver, the over- flowing of nature for the delectation of all quict and contemplative anglers, we do well sigh that our life is so much in walls and so little hr»rr\.—-* Tzaak Walton. Good laws make it easier to do rlght and harder to do wrong.—Gladstone. 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