Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 23, 1914, Page 7

broadoloth made long with bolero ef- fect. 8kirt and revers of Jacket are THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAMAELAND, FLA,, SEPT. 23, 1914..... PAGE SEVEN | GOWNS FOR EVENING WEAR Are 0;:::??; 0(2‘:::":)9“!'\! Selection. l Many of the | | l It we lived in a fairy tale and were | allowed the usual three wishes, in- 1 stantly to be fulfilled by the inevitable fairy god-mother, I'm sure that in :ost cases one of the three would be T a new fall ev vD—1 b i ening gown—i915 They are positively irresistible, although that is the usual verdxc't.:: garding each season’s evening gowns, it seems just ag impossible this year, as it did in all preceding years, to be- lieve that the designs could ever be | lovelier. Materials are wondrously fine, and in many cases very costly, giving the impression again that they tales nor be produced by any other than that same indulgent fairy god- mother of the three wishes. Metal fabrics and muca silver em- broidery will be used. The latter is known as “lame" in French. Chi%ons, and made transparently over each other. Tafeta is still to be the leading gown fabric, but made in a new weave known as “faille giralda,” that rather resembles grosgrain, only thejms trousers-pocket, and the porter's twilling is finer. It has been especial- ly designed as a materlal with suffi- cient “body" to conform with the re- quirements of our outstanding gowns. There are just a few general rules to follow in planning the new evening | gowns. | scant, and tunics are very full and | leng reaching always below the knee and in many cases, right to the feet —Pittsburgh Dispatch. STYLE THAT IS INDIVIDUAL Distinctive Taste in Dress Marks Those Who Are Undeniably ‘“of the Elect.” There are many women who slavish- ly follow the dictates of fashion, but even among them individuality will creep out. Three sisters may dress alike, as far as the make and materials {of their clothes are concerned, but could hardly exist outside of fairy| 25R525252552535353525252525¢5a525 | AT N COPPER By EPES WINTHROP SARGENT. | [OOO TOZOTOTOTOTOTOTOTTOIOIOIONT | (Copyright.) H s “Now you come!"” cried Griscom, as | the porter appeared in the doorway‘ of the smoking compartment of the | sleeper with a whisk-broom and an expectant smile. “Yassir. Mos’ in now, sir,” with a glance out of the window where the strings of cattle-cars proclaimed the railroad environs of Chicago. “You ought to be all in,” grunted Griscom, and the porter laughed as he gave me a perfunctory brush-off for the quarter he had seen in my ) hand. I had come on the train at Omaha that morning, but Griscom told me he bad come from the coast. Ccast pas- ' sengers should be good for a dollar, laces and nets are to be fur-trimmed * Waists are scant, skirts are | ;out of the compartment. at least. As tipping time approaches a porter would regard even the query of the street-crossing chicken as rare humor. Griscom was standing with a hand- ful of money he had just taken from eyes gleamed, for there were gold pieces in the mass of quarters and halves, and Griscom selected one of these. Quietly Griscom sorted out the gold and put it in his waistcoat pocket while he regarded a silver dollar re- flectively. The grin on the porter's face was less expansive, but he still smiled. Griscom eyed the dollar for a mo- ment and dropped it back upon the pile of change, then he picked out a copper cent. “Don’t throw that away and don't make any remark, or I'll have you set down for a week. Towles {8 a friend of mine.” Apparently there was magic in the name of Towles, for the porter pocket- ed the coin without a word, and brushed Griscom’s coat with three sweeping strokes before he backed of shaded rose and black checked taf- fota. there will be ere long a decided dlfler-‘ “What had the boy done to deserve ence in the aspect of the three. Very |the copper?”’ I asked. *“He looks like certainly each nation of Europe can be a pretty clever boy, and a copper is detected by the manner in which the | worse than nothing at all.” 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 vour Brick and Blocks of them ? PRICES ARE RIGHT, SO ARE THE GOODS FLORIDA NATIONALVAULT GO. H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Manager 508 W. MAIN ST. You Gan Talk to Practically All the People in the Town THROUGH THIS PAPER L. WYARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY HORSES AND MULES ¥OR HIRE Phones: Office 109; Res., 57 Green women put on their garments and se- “I know it—but I hate port rs. Look lect them. Parisians own that present here, you think better of that dinner fashions are an expression of the fem- inist movement of today. A prevail- ing style seen on most of the manne- quins is a draped overskirt and a very narrow underskirt, indeed, a short coatee, and a sash about the hips. Dark blue is more in favor than almost any other color, but it is relieved by trimmings of colored stripes or checks. Tulle is the prevailing fabric for danc- ing frocks, and nothing is more appro- priate or prettier for young peaple. Sometimes it is garlanded with an em- broidery of naturally colored tiny roses and leaves. A useful addition to the wardrobe is the mew shaped jacket, which is far more like a sack, follow- ing the lines of the figure without con- fining it in any way, and is mostly made to slip on with almost any dress, and not part and parcel of one. It re- quires to be carefully worn, and, like most of the modes of the day, is suited to slender figures. Hip sashes get low- er and lower, and are an important feature in the modes, Though we have | not got back to the long waist, these 1 sashes are helping to prevent us miss- ing them. Sometimes the hip sashes are replaced by rows of narrow ribbon or cord brought down over the hips, the cord holding any fullness down. ForBabies. For prickly heat. Aftershaving. After the bath. Asaface powder. As a foot powder. Really indispensa- ble. In sifter top cans. At drug- gists, 15 cents, ¥ For Sale In Lakeland by HENLEY & HENLEY G P " g Send Them 3 § To the |} Laundry o K- e 5 FEEEPPPPPPBSINIESED PEOIEEIIITE {F YOU WANT YOUR SHIRTS AND COLLARS " LAUNDERED The VERY BEST Lakeland Steam We are better equipped thsn ever for giving you high grade Laundry Work, #@#0#0e0e0’ P SPELGEEBSPIE PHONE 130 gW%G@G@MMW& Office Phone 348 Black T Ty Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. - Lakeland Paving and Coastruction Company 3 Res. Phone 153 Blue SOTRER 8w Tl e el D m e 0w P 207 to 216 Main St. LAKELAND, FLA. g invitation tonight, and I'll tell you why 1 do. Is it a go? I nodded, though only a few min- utes before I had evaded an earnest invitation to dinner. @riscom smiled contentedly. “About six, then. I've got to beat it as soon as we land. So long' umtil then. Here's the shed.” We were just pulling up to the plat- form, and by the time I was pos- sessed of my grips Griscom had dis- appeared. That night, as he came into the un- pretentious lobby of the little family hotel that was home to him when he was in Chicago, no one would have taken him to be one of the most ex- pert card-sharks on the continent. He was not more thar five feet six, but broad-shouldered and suggesting an enormous strength. His complex- fon was that of a rosy baby, but the thinning hair suggested the middle thirties. He dressed quietly—no one ever could remember just how he was dressed, for hn was far removed from the gambler of fictlon with dyed mus- tache and flashy clothes. He suggested rather—well, that was like his clothes. He looked all right. I did considerable traveling, and Griscom had taken a llking to me. Later he rescued me from some card- sharpers, though to do so he had to admit it as his own profession, and later, in his room in the hotel, he had told me some things and had shown me some tricks of the trade that had cured me of card-playing. Griscom was an artist, eschewing the ald of “shiners,” “hold-outs,” and the rest of the clumsy mechanism. His clever fingers could do wonderful things in a shuffle, and he trusted to a wonderfully developed memory and, on occasion, to some markings on the back of a deck that had not been printed on by the manufacturers. | It had been very decent of him, and l I appreciated it. We were not inti- mate, but 1 saw him now and then, and enjoyed his company, for he was a wonderful talker. With an apology for a minute's tar- diness, he led the way to the dining- room, where he had ordered an excel- lent dinner, and it was not until we were up in his rooms with the per- fectos glowing that he alluded to the incident of the train. “I saw Towles this afternoon,” he began, as he surveyed the tip of his cigar with a grin on his usually im- mobile face. “He says the porter cursed me and the copper for one solid hour. | “He could appreciate that joke. He [ knows my reason for hating the por- ters. This boy is a new one on the western run. Most of the porters know I don’t like them and they leave me alone. “It dates back about three years. I was working with Don Eastman on the western trains. Don was not a good all-around man, but he was a ! clever player and an artist at the rip- shufle and paes. He claimed he had invented that, but you can search me. “I showed you the trick, a shuffle where one-half the cards is passed through the rest of the deck and the pack comes back just as it was hand- ed out. It was new then, and with Don sitting next me, we made a lot of money out of it. “One trip Towles was on the train. I guess he had us snc start, but he w2: a | never let on. He iet u man out of a tho “It was hard wor chaperon was foxy and he did not want to play with our cards. He bought a pack from the porter and it Irow the it and s til.a a sheep for tie sheep- } was straight playing, but we were two to one and we got it. “Towles got us in the smoker and suggested that if the porters carried marked decks it would be pretty soft for anybody who didn’t like to bet on a full house against fours. That's all he said, but he explained that he had charge of all the cars on that road— put up all the supplies. “We looked interested in the details, but we didn’t bite until we got back to Cilcago and found out he was what |° he said he was and not a railroad de- tective. Then we flopped and Towles | was reasonable. “He could put marked decks on every car that carried them, and all he wanted was ten per cent. He didn’t even ask us to wear cash reg- isters. “Well, Don had a friend who made beautiful ink. It wasn't the sort they sell suckers and come-ons who answer |« ads, but the real goods. It cost us ten dollars for about a teaspoonful, but it blended perfectly with the print- ing. a stock, and then we had to wait until the cars were stocked. That was another couple of weeks, and then— Just as though luck was made to or- der—I got a tip from Pickering, the chap in New York I told you of once —that Bob Brown was headed for home. “You've heard of Bob Brown. He fell down a sump hole and came out with a broken leg and a bonanza mine. He was going back to Califor nia, and he had a chap with him who owned three or four counties in Texas, and had so many cows it took three men flve weeks to count them. “Three days on the train with them, and them liking poker and being will- ing to be murdered if it was done nice! “Pickering wised us that the old fingerwork wouldn't go. They knew the tricks—Bob had lost about three millions, and you're bound to get some wisdom for that—but Pickering knew 1 could mark ‘angel’ backs to fool even a professional. “Pickering got fooled himself once, and he wrote that he thought we could get to them with some good marked papers. Y “Don and me were on the train that carried Brown and his pal, and after breakfast the next morning we broke in. Don landed them first and dragged me in last, pretending he didn’'t know me. “1 suggested that T had a couple of new decks in my grip, but Don couldn’t see that. He thought the train-cards were good enough, and the wink he handed Brown and his pal made them sure that Don was wise and on the level. “The porter brought the cards in, and if the train had run off the track just then I'd have given the engineer a cigar. 1 paid the porter the dollar he asked, but T wanted to ram it down his thront and make him choke over it. “They were the rame sort Don and me had almost ruined our eyesight on, but they weren't our work! “There we sat with men who'd drop a couple of hundred thousand befors the train got down out of the Sierras and never bat an eye-winker, if they thought the game was on the level! A couple of hundred thousand, mind 5 you, and me and Don with our hands SPPPPPPPOPREOHPPPPFPPPRPEDOPPILO TP EEOPOPBHEDEPPD P ted! “Those fellows could play poker, too, and we dropped most of our big bank-roll before the porter called din- ner. When lamps were lighted Don and me were playing five-cent ante with a whisky drummer, and those easy-marks were playing with a pat- ent-medicine manufacturer and the cards I'd paid for.” Griscom stopped speaking and puffed savagely at his cigar. “But was the porter to blame?” I asked. “Was he to blame? “Man, he was a rotten thief, that’s all—a black-hearted son of a pirate king. What do you think of that dinge? Here he was, getting from fifty dollars to seventy-five dollar a round trip in tips and a thief! In- stead of getting the cards we had marked from the dining-car conductor, as he should have, he was carrying his own cards as a side line and cheating the company out of the profit. “That’s why I've hated the whole race of porters ever since. “A clean chanece at a couple of hun- dred thousand, and to be burned out by a thief of a porter stealing fifty | cents Legal Tautology. The circumlocution of legal docu- ments i{s the penalty of having a bi- lingual language, and descends to us from those centuries when the Eng- ish and the Normans were slowly amalgamating into one people. So the two races, in the market place or in social converse, to make their mean- ing clearer, joined a French word to an English, or vice versa. That is why, in the praver-book, words so often run in couples: “Humble and lowly,” “acknowledge and cunfsu,"% “assemble and meet together.” The, English was for the English; the, Norman-French for the French. ' Chaucer is a great user of such bilin- gual phrases: “Hunting and venerye,” | “wright and carpenter,” “care and heed.” And that is whence lawyers get such talk as “ald and abet,” “will and testament,” and “use and woat.” —London Chronicle. | | Ny WHOLESALE GFROCES: “A Business Without Books” E find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand, and on May 1st we installed vur NEW SYSTEM OF LOW PRICES FOR STRICTLY CASH. 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