Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 21, 1914, Page 7

. R Y COULD TAKE OUT THE KNOT| Boy 8cout Had Done His Duily Goodl i l i r Turn and Reminder Was No Longer Necessary. The man with a shiny new motor car gtood beside it with a perplexed look on his face. His hat and hair, anq epparently his temper, were slightly rufled. “Can I help you in any way?” It was a boy scout who spoke, and not a large one at that, but he looked eager and he spoke confidently. “Do you know anything about that thing?” asked the man, shoving his foot out at the car. “I have & motor car merit badge,” sald the scout, with quiet assurance. “Well, it you can make it go yoy are & good one,” snorted the owner. Together they went at the problem end in a few minutes the scout had discovered the trouble and the engine purred again as sweetly as ever, “I certalnly am obliged to you, sonny,” said the owner as he fished a half dollar out of his pocket. “Oh, no, I can’t take anything for doing that,” the boy explained, “that was my dally good turn.” “Well, it certainly was a good turn, but I wish you would accept some- thing for doing it. Jump in and I will take you wherever you want to go.” “Thank you, but I was just going across the street there.” “You are bound not to let me do you a good turn, aren’t you?” laughed the man, “but I will get the start of you yet. Your tie has a knot in the end of it.” “Oh, yes, now I can take it out,” the scout replied. “You see, every morn- Ing I tie a knot in it to remind me to do a good turn that day, and when I bave done it I take the knot out. That |s what the manual tells us to do.” Mismated. “How on earth did they happen to got married?” “Tm sure I can’t imagine. She reads Msen while he browses in the pages of a sporting extra.” WHY ¥ Why not get one of those large Cement Urns to beautify your yard? Why not get the oldest reliable cement man to put in your Walk ? Why not get your Brick and Blocks of them ? PRICES ARE RIGHT. SO ARE THE GOODS FLORIDA NATIONAL VAULT G0. H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Manager 508 W. MAIN ST. % You Gan Talk to Practically All the People in the Town THROUGH THIS PAPER L. W.YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY HORSES AND MULES ¥0OR HIRE Phones: Office 109 3 Res,, 57 Green 2 4 SSPSGBET IF YOU WANT YOUR SHIR LAUNDERED The VERY BEST Lakeland Steam We are better equipped than ever for giving you high grade Laundry Work. Send Them To the Laundry Office Phone 348 Black T T T R R s Lakeland Paving and Construction Company 207 to 216 Main St. SEPPPPPEREGIOEIPRI FEEEBIFOSE ———— Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. Attractive Street Gown. » Model of black satin covered with tulle and trimmed with fine lace ruf- fles. The full tunic is edged with satin. LIPS WELL REPAY ATTENTION In Perfect Condition They Add Much to Appearance of Even a Face That Is Plain, Healthy, rosy lips are a very impor tant part of one's appearance. When young lips become pale and colorless look into the general health at once. If outdoor exercise does not stir the blood to action and bring healthy color to the cheeks and lips, 8 judicious tonic should be taken. Too much vinegar will not onmly make the lips pale, but will thin out the blood until all color disappears from the face as well. A dangerous habit is biting the lipe | to make them red. Not only do the | lips become shapeless, but they mwi thick and coarse. Delicate lips become blistered through being exposed to sun and wind. In such cases a lip salve should be used before going out of doors, and & solution of borax and distilled water should be used to bathe the lips night and morning, | | ! | REALLY TO LEARN LANGUAGE Expert Says All Grammars Should Be Discarded and Only Oral Method Employed. Languages can be acquired only through the ear, says C. P. Erskine, who believes that all school children in America could easily be trained| | to speak German and French almost ! as fluently as English, if grammars | were discarded and the oral method | employed. He adds: “None but native teachers should be employed in our schools, since only { they can, have the proper pronuncia- I tion; and children should begin to be ! taught languages in their very first year of echooling, since it is only in their earliest years that they can ac- quire the desired pronunciation. ForBabies. For prickly heat. Aftershaving. After the bath. As aface powder. As a foot powder. Really indispensa- ble. In sifter top cans. At drug- gists, 15 cents. - For Sale in L% iand by HENLEY & BENLEY Db TS AND COLLARS & told him. % | pose, Mr. Eversleigh?’ g SF PHONE 130 Cat i bt o L L] Qb OO ¢ ] | SOSO B Lriaxd 0 & o 0 LAKELAND, FLA. SO0 PSSO OSSN NSO OPNF0SSEISIETOTOIOF0INTOIORISUROND ‘? ' like. EVENING TELEGRAM LAAELAND, FLA. SEPT. 21, 1914. ONOLDMAN'S HEAD By H. M. EGBERT. “Changes!” repeated my friend the fisherman thoughttully. “Yes, I reckon there has been some changes since you was here last year. Folks come and go. Maybe they'll skip a year and come back the year after next. You remember young Mr. Eversleigh and that Miss Sadie Beauchamp? Well, there’s a story in that. “You remember how thick they was last year. Folks said that they'd get married for sure. But you went away ! before the fun started. Nope, I don't know what started it, but by the time i the fall leaves began to fall, as the poets puts it, they wasn’t no longer on speaking terms. And so they went away when the hotel closed, one at a time, and still not speaking. “Well, that's the last I thought to see of them. But no! Up pops Miss Sadie this spring, quite early, and whet do you think she wanted? To camp out on Old Man’s Head. I told her the camp on the island hadn't been occupied for five year and more, and was falling into pieces, but she would have it that that was just the place for her. “‘I'm studying nature,’ she says to me, ‘and next month one of the girls of our sketching club is coming to stay with me. So we want a nice lone- 1y place where there aren’t no men.’ “From the way Miss Sadie shot out that word ‘men,’ you'd have thought she might have been speaking of crabs or mice, or any of them crea- tures that the ladies find so objec- tionable in general. However, I fixed up the shack somehow, and put on a new plece of tin here and there, to make it water-tight. Then I rowed her over with her box of provisions, and I looked to see her signaling for me to come and take her off next day. Said signal was to be a white handkerchief tied to the top of a pole, in token that Miss Sadie had had enough of loneli- ness. j “Had enough? Not mnch, sir. She fairly reveled in it. When she did holst the handkerchief, five days later, and I went over, I found all she wanted was some more flour. She'd fixed up the place as comfortable as you can believe. She'd chopped about “I'm Studying Nature,” She Says to Me. two cords of firewood, and done a couple of canvases besides, and when 1 pulled ashore she was sitting over the fire, making toast. “‘Yes, I think I shall spend the whole summer here,’ she says to me. ‘And maybe Miss Jones will join me later. I can't tell you how obliged ta you I am for sending me here. Fine views, fine sunsets, good fishing, plen- ty to paint, and no insects or men.’ Yes, that’s the way she put it to me. It kind of bowled me over, and I rowed back feeling sort of melaneholy, to think a little quarrel between two young people should have driven the girl to become a hermit. “When I got back you could have knocked me down with a feather, for the very first person I set eyes on was young Mr. Eversleigh. 1 didn't »| know what to make of it at all. “‘Glad to see you back again,’ 1 ‘Staying at the hotel, I sup- “‘Well—yes,” he answers, dubious there very long. The fact is, I've come down to spend the whole summer. I'm writing a book of poems about melan- choly—now I'm not sure he said mel- ancholy, or whether I took the idea ! from his manner, but that was the impression he gave. ‘Do you happen to know a nice lenely place where a man can enjoy himself? A place where there aren’t any women to come both- ering one, you know,’ he asked. “] gasped, as you can imagine. ‘No, Mr. Eversleigh, 1 don't I answered him. ‘The fact is,’ I continued, ‘there’s apt to be women almost anywhere, these days. They keeps pretty close to where the men are, you know. “‘Don’t I know!’ says young Mr. Eversleigh. ‘However, 1 suppose I'll just have to stay on at the hotel.’ “I told my missis about it when I % | got home, and she guv me the worst | language I ever heard from her. ‘Si, you're a perfect fool!’ she says, which was hard, you’ll admit. Besides, it ain't true. “‘Prove that, Marian!" says L peeved like. ‘But I ain't thinking of staying , ? THE \N—..__._—-——_.____——_——_____————_ i I “1 will, she says. i that that young sense! come back in the sneuking hope of seeing that young imbecile again this year? And don’t you see that that young imbecile has come back in the hopes of meeting that young fool of a Zemale person?’ *‘No, Marian, I don't see as I do,’ 1 answered. ‘Because, you see, each of ‘em told me he and she wanted to be i in a nice, lonely place, where there wasn't any of the opposite sects | around.’ “‘Well, Si, when I said you was a fool I was speaking only from nine and thirty years’ experience,’ she says. ‘But now I'm speaking out of the ex- perience of just about a hundred mil- lions of women. I guess you won't un- derstand that, Si. But anyhow, this is what you're agoing to do.’ | “She told me what I was agoing to do, and, having had experience of what comes from not doing it, I went and did it. I stopped young Mr. Evers- leigh the next morning, as he was walking up and down in front of Ned Granger’s cow-shed, thinking over a poem. “*Why, Mr. Eversleigh,' 1 said, ‘if I didn't go and forget about Old Man's Head. There's a nice lonely place if you like. And there's a camp there, too. Only, you see, once you're there, you can't get off unless you send me a signal to come over with the boat.’ *‘The very place,’ says he, jumping at the idea. ‘When can you take me l over there? “‘This afternoon, I suppose,’ I an- swers. “‘And if I should have reasons to want to run ashore, you'll come over the minute I put up the signal? he asks me. And I thinks to myself that he means to keep his eyes peeled for Miss Sadie after all. “‘Surely,’ I answers. ‘Just hoist a white rag or something on the flag- pole. I'll be over in about half an hour.’ “‘It's a bargain,’ says young Mr. Eversleigh. And with that he didn't give me no peace till I'd got out the boat and filled it with stuff from Jim Littlefield’s store, and started to row him across to Old Man’s Head. “I knew Miss Sadie would be sketch- ing on the south rocks that time of the day, so I rowed him round to the north end on pretense of the tide be- ing strong, and I showed him where the camp was in the distance. Then I e pulled back as hard as I could and waited. “The day wore on toward afternoon, and I reckoned that them two ought to have found each other, and 1 was looking to see the signal hoisted in a frantic sort of way. But there didn’t come no signal. I asked my missis about it, but she didn't seem to en- courage me, and so I started out about 4 o'clock, rather in a panic and won- dering what I ought to do. “First man I met was the Rev. Stod- gers—you remember him, don’t you? Sort of humorous chap, with a gray beard and a twinklb when he looked at you. He'd come down by the after- noon train. “‘The very man 1 wanted to see,’ he says, catching holt of me. ‘Can you tell me—' “‘Of a nice lonely place where you can write a few sermons without be- ing disturbed,’ I says. “‘Now how in thunder did you know?' he inquired, letting go of me and gapping at me. “‘Never mind,’ I answers him. ‘What you want is Old Man's Head, over yonder. I can get you a box of pro- visions and row you over afore sun- down. Only there ain’t no way of getting back unless you hoist the sig- nal—which the same is a white rag on a pole. “‘Take me there,’ says the rever- end. ‘I want to breathe the balmy sea air this night, arter being cooped up in—' “‘Not a word,’ I answers. ‘I know Just how you feel. But I'll be watch. ing till it grows dark, an’ if you've forgot anything, or want me, just hoist the signal and I'll be over in a jiffy.’ “Well, sir, I calculated that by that time young Mr. Eversleigh and Miss Sadie would have decided that it was signaling time, and I didn’t want to see the flag just then. So I got the | Rev, and the provision box into the ! boat and pulled round to the north end. I showed him where the camp was, and I pulled for the shore again, | reaching it just about sundown. And ,thera I sat and waited. “It was nearly too dark to see when | the signal went up. | “Off I goes, and the three of them was on the beach, waiting for me. 1 hadn’t hardly got out of the boat than young Mr. Eversleigh catches holt of me like a madman. “‘What do you mean by this in- fernal trick you've played me? he shouted. “*Trick? I asks, but I hadn’'t time | to go no further, | *‘Trick, I said he shouted. ‘Do iyou mean to maroon my wife and me {in this confounded place all night? , Pull your hardest, Si, for it you don’t | make record time we’ll never catch the night train for Boston.’ ‘‘And, as for me,’ says the reverend, | ‘T shall seize the opportunity to com- ! pose a sermon. “They caught the train all right, I | guess, for they didn't show again. | But Joe Sikes, up to the hotel, hul had a letter from him asking if he’ll ; | reserve a room for them. They ought | |to be along some time this mcnth.l | | sir.” | (Copyright, 194, by W. G. Chapman.) H A Character Part. | “You eay he used to be an actor?”’ “Yes.” | “What's he doing now?” | “He's secretary of the uplift league.” | "Umph! 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