Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 14, 1914, Page 8

POLITICS ON THE 7:35 By JOSEPH BARNHARDT. The members of the Commuters’ Crochet club were comfortably settled in the facing seats on the 7:55 and were at work on centerpieces or hat crowns, for, as Mary insisted, the finished article might be used in either capacity. | “My aunt used to have a frame for a lingerie hat,” she said, “and it was the{ nicest thing, because whenever it got soiled she would just take a crocheted 5 centerpiece and cover the whole thlng‘ over and it looked as good as new again.” ! The other members decided that it | added greatly to the interest of their work to have the result so varied in its uses. If you liked to think you were | making a centerpiece you might, or if | you préferred a hat crown, you could think of it as that—it varied the mo- notony in any case. Mabel was tha; only one of the group who was not al- together absorbed in the work at hand. Hidden behind a newspaper in a cor- ner by the window, she had not taken out her crocheting. “What's the news?”’ asked Sadle,' looking up from her fifth row. Mabel sighed and lowered the paper, | showing a flushed face in which lines of worry were apparent. ‘“It's more than I can do to follow these summer politics,” she explained. ‘“They are getting so involved that even the or- dinarily intelligent woman who wants to have a working knowledge of what is going on in New York state can hardly make head or tail of them.” “I know it,” sald Sadie. “I've only read the headlines lately and I don’t! belleve I'll ever get the situation straight in my mind. Won't you teil us about it as far as you understand it “Well,” sald Mabel, sitting on the edge of her seat and speaking with great deliberation. “It's this way: Sulzer and Whitman and Hennessy and Rooseveit and Hinman all want to, be governor of New York. I think N prm— j F__J several new ones every day,” said M&I bel, “as it is to keep the parties straight. It must have been simple when there were just the Republicans and Democrats, or even when the Progressives started, but now there are the Progressive Democrats and Progressive Republicans and ever so THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK X! MARLEY,THECLOWN By ELIZABETH SCHOEN COBB. | trouble, when two men came through | the main entrance and approached the manager. “You have a man here named Mar-, ley,” spoke one of them. | “Yes, what of it?” snapped the man-i ager, ruffiled at the intrusion. | “We are officers of the law, and we have a warrant for his arrest as NEATEST OF HAIR RECEIVERS Washable Article Is a Boon, Especlally to the Woman Who Is Making a Jouraey. | style Has Much to Recommeng Especially for Wear 5 the \ Warm Months, \ A hair receiver that is washable is i a boon. Of course, the china ones are also sanitary, but the receiver in ques- The sleeveless coat i3 an adapy of the military coat. The grg many combinations it seems to me. I' can’t quite make out how they are From a distance Marley, circus different from each other.” clown, worshiped the daring female “Isn’t there something they call ‘Fu-| equestrienne, Gloria. It was no won- sion,’ too?” asked the round-faced girl| ger, She was unlike any dainty-toed, timidly. sylph-fashioned girl who had ever “Oh, no,” said Mabel, “that’s only in| gwayed trippingly across the plat- city politics and they don't count this, formed back of a trained ring steed. year. It's only state” There was none of the simpering “Wouldn't it be awful if they both{ prajse secker in her smile or of flam- came at the same time some year?”|gng audacity in her pose. She was said Sadle. simply a lively, delighted girl, full of “Perfectly terrible,” said Mabel. vivacity and loving the sawdust at- The train stopped and the 8irls mosphere because she had been rolled up their work. brought up in it, her father having_ “I hope they don't nominate &Y heen a ringmaster for over a quarter | more candidates or make up any new | of 5 century. i parties before night,” said Sadie, With| Gioria’s father watched his mother-/ @ sigh. “It’s such strenuous work t0 Jess child as the apple of his eye. He keep well informed.” was jealous of any attention bestowed | upon her by her fellow actors. When ' This Matter of Love Letters, her part was ovér, her chaperone took Any man may be pardoned for ask- | charge of her. ing to be saved from his love letters. “A new clown, eh?” he remarked to And feminine love letters, if a shade ' the manager the day Marley appeared : less incongruous, are equally distress-| ¢o succeed the one invalided. ing when exposed to the public gaze. “Yes, and a good one,” was the re-| Several batches are just now being: gponse. “He will have to learn the read out in court to eager judges and | antics, but as to the face and voice, he ; juries, and we think the protest §5 5 genius.” b es Page.” | tion is reafly for the traveler's bag or (hé‘r;fisfl fi-‘(ged her startled eyes upon grip. She can take it with her on a her companion. Marley had paled. He journey and save the combings, it ;ba shrank back slightly. so wishes, or dispose of them when “He is a criminal, an embezeler,” opportunity offers. It does seem that continued the officer. | that is one thing that the average “I shall go with him,” spoke Marley, hostess will forget .to provide, a hair quickly. “I am neither Charles Page receiver; and one's hair, somehow, nor an embezzler, but duty demands will hop out of the wastepaper basket that I should be the scapegoat for and float about the room, in spite of both.” | all we can do. When the traveler has “Oh, 1 knew you were innocent!” a little lingerie receiver, she simply cried Gloria, her hands clasping his | takes it from her grip and hangs it arm fervently. “No, you shall not sac- on the side of her dresser and de- rifice yourself. Quick—this way!” | posits all her combings therein. The It was with considerable wonder | receiver is really nothing more than a ment that a search for Marley began, ; tiny bit of lawn or washable silk, the manager noting that he had disap- | ehirred into a ball-like bag. There is & peared. It was with irascible defeat ghirring at the top of the material and that the officers realized that their at the bottom. The beginning of the prey had escaped them. | bag is but a rather narrow strip of Gloria’s heart fluttered for hours af- silk, and then the shirring at either ter that. More than once her eyes, edge is done. It is best to hem the glanced toward the cage where her top in the form of a casing and then performing tiger, Hudah, was con- to run a ribbon through it, so that it fined. She learned that a guard of | can be drawn up at will. To this top officers hung around the outside of casing is zttached a long ribbon loop, the tent. | one on either side of the bag, to hold And there within, in the cage, hid- it in position to receive the hair and den by the great canvas cover of the to act as a hanger, so that it may be | lines of this cloak design, wip , long slant over the shoulder, 4, sponsible for a very charming i, of coat and skirt that has jys its appearance among the ne; wherein somewhat the ic cape is suggested witho length or weight, neither of wy;; needed when merely a walilpg, tume is required. One of these coats and skirts s, how exceedingly graceful the g can be—the coat being entirely g less, a fact that for summer we, obviously a great advantage, The completed model was egy, out in navy blue suiting of s fins ity, the eoat being made with 3, shaped basque, and a round cap fect over the /‘shoulders. The was very original, having g ¢ slanting hip yoke of the same p rial, into which the drapery we and firmly sewn along with a gy row of machine stitching. The coat fastened across the # with a number of small painted ¢ buttons, while beneath it was wo| blouse of navy chiffon, with tramsparent sleeves, completed wi: that's right, but I'm not quite sure whether Roosevelt wants to be as much as the others. He'd rather be president in 1916, I guess.” “Five of them,” said Sadle, counting them off on her fingers. “I shouldn’t; think Mr. Sulzer would want to be gov- ernor again. He didn’t have a very good time when he was governor be- fore, did he?” “Mercy, no,” said Mabel, “but he says the people call him and he can't refuse to run.” “That shows a fine spirit, anyway,” sald Maude. “It 1sn’t so hard for me to get the candidates in mind even if there uel against this placing of intimate emo- tions in the pillory will be universal. | The Browning letters established a respectable precedent for this sort of publicity, and recently Mrs..Parnell has chosen to follow this example. ' Some defense can be made for this | baring of a great mind and heart, al- | ready, in large degree, the possession : of the public. Yet a feeling of dis- taste is aroused in many readers even | in such cases. When we come to the reading in court of lave letters written by unob- trusive private citizens, the feeling of distaste comes amazingly close to hor- ror. Such a procedure may seem nec- essary in the course of a litigation. 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One L ) A | ‘ “y'):f(zp T o4 \5: l b@f\ffi; | \/ “Now, Vher, | Want Your Storyl” night, just as Gloria was rounding the ring with tip-toe elegance, a gasoline chandelier fell across the head of the steed she rode. The horse screamed, reared and backed. Gloria sprang lightly to the sawdust floor of the arena. A whirl of the scattering flames, however, had caught her light gauzy dress. f A shriek of alarm rang from the au- dience at this vivid picture of impend- ing destruction, | “She is doomed!” “Save her—oh, quick!” The ringmaster stood petrified with helpless dread. Others in the ring moved forward, but stupidly gazed, | with no plan of aid or rescue. A quick flgure suddenly flew past dressing- It was Marley. \ His face.was white as death, his eyes glowed eager fire. He had torn down a drapery in his mad rush. How he did it, he himself ‘could not tell afterwards, but in a flash he had en- veloped that beloved form, extin- guished the flames and Gloria, her hair barely singed, bowed and smiled to the audience, while Marley tottered back out of view, face and hands seared and blistered. | But the audience would not have it that way. They yelled and clapped their hands and shouted until the man- ager forced Marley into the ring. Gloria, radiant, had caught his hand, and both stood bowing amid the deaf- ening plaudits. The thrill of that sweet contact re- warded Marley for all he suffered. Then after that, whenever she came to the tent, Gloria lingered always a ' few moments by the side of her hero. This it was that the ringmastef re- sented, fearing a growing attachment between the two. He need not have worried, however. Marley held Gloria as high above him as the stars. Be- | sides that, a certain secret in his life | oppressed him, crushed him, shut him | away from appearing as the true man that he really was. [ It was one morning, about a week after this episode, that a few of the actors met to rehearse a new act. The ringmaster, for a wonder, was ab- sent, but his daughter and Marley were both on hand. They had drawn aside in the dress- ing-rcom entrance to await their call in the act being rehearsed, and were conversing casually, she with interest as always in her companion, he with glowing eyes, for her presence was a | sweet balm to his loneliness and | dense, man! | know you to be a man of honor, and cage wagon, Marley lurked. He was at the mercy of the ferocious Hudah, but he held a talisman that made the animal gentle as a kitten towards | him—the scarf Gloria always wore when in the cage. When the grentl circus caravan wended its slow, gaudy way from the city the next day, the watching officers again missed it ln‘ finding a clew to the man who had! vanished. The show made a long trip across four states. That evening they settled at their fixed stand, Rice called Marley into his room at the hotel. “Now, then, I want your story,” he sald, mandatorily. “Why?” challenged Marley. “For Gloria’s sake.” That was enough. If Gloria was in- terested! Ah! was it friendship, grat- itude only? But Marley recited all the | detalls of an event, where, to save a sorrowing mother, he had assumed the blame of the crime of another. “I have an offer for a long tour in Europe,” said Rice. “There you would be safe.” “But why should I trouble youl thus—" began Marley, and the old | ringmaster answered: | “I think Gloria will wish to go where | you go. She believes in you. Are you She loves you, and I s0—"" And so the circus romance ended in a quiet, happy wedding, and peace, and security and love. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) | LIKES TO ENCOURAGE BORES: Formerly Man Shunned Them, But Now He Listens and Smiles Graciously. “A friend of mine,” said Maj. Jasper Bulwinkle, according to the Indianap- olis News, “has taken on a new fad, of which he is likely for some time to come to have a monopoly. For some time it has been in my mind that he was in some fashion making a study of me. He was not long since a per- | son of somewhat irascible temper and ! listened but badly to some, I may say | to nearly all of my best stories. Now i he smiles encouragingly and listens ) as a lamb meekly to any narrative, no | matter how ancient, how long or how dreary it may be. “No matter how anacoluthic an anecdote, in the telling he remains smiling to the end. I have recently found out that I am not the only per- son to whom he is so gracious, that half a dozen persons whom you and I know to be out and out bores are be- ing assiduously fostered and encour- aged by my strange friend, and I no longer enjoy the monopoly I supposed was mine, “‘It is a whim, a fad,’ he admitted to me the other day, ‘that I have taken up and out of it I get not only amuse- ment—and some little instruction— but a discipline in patience that I have long needed. It is teaching me to be kind, gentle and considerate of certain of my fellow creatures whom heretofore I have shunned as a pesti- lence and to whom has been given the unlovely designation of bores. | Thus far in this new cult I believe I am without competition. I have en- tered a neglected field, a field from Which other students of mankind have been too willlng to escape. I am only | sorry that the greatest commonwealth positively shunned by me so long. 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