Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 9, 1914, Page 7

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LARELAND, FLA, OCT. 8, 1914. PR T aB 3 DON'T LET THAT COUGH|— “HANG ON" Stop it now before it gets a hold, Use GE-RAR-DY LUNG BALSAM It’s a speedy remedy for all eolds, bronchitis, ete. Price only 25 cts. If your druggist does not keep it write to us for sample. - The Phil P. Cresap Co., Ltd., New Orleans,0y For sale in Lakeland by Henley & Henley. irror Hotel COWLES, Prop. Managgment. MAGIC OF NINA HILLER By MAX STERNER. dand thoroughly , and everything pmfortable and st-class. It is not to be written whether Mrs. Huggins was more surprised at the apparition which appeared in her shab- by sitting room or whether Nina Hiller, personifying the apparition, was more % surprised at the prevailing slovenli- fronage Cordially ness of the place. Certain it was that nvited. the dingy room which served as an 1 office for Mrs. Huggins' fifth-class e . lodging house had never been graced by so neat and smart and altogether Fresh Norfolk 60 Oysters, quart C charming a person as Miss Hiller. Cer- Thirty Cents » Tint @ B PR NN N H | B Service Unexcelled. 3 Reasonable. R Rrglb B g B B g R P B dd G 3 dreamed there were so many unutter- able kinds of dirt as she saw about her. Mrs. Huggins was inclined at first to be a bit belligerent, but Nina's per- fect frankness and gentleness dis- armed her. As for Nina, her lips trem- bled just for the fraction of a moment b A as she contrasted the cheerless place H with the neat and comfortable country b 2 :: home she had left, West Side Murn Park “Do you have furniehed rooms to 99 N rent?” she inquired, Phone 226. Pmmpb Del. “I do,” replied Mrs. Huggins shortly. “May I see one?” persisted Nina. “What for?” rejoined Mrs. Huggins. “I am looking for a room,” replied the girl. Mrs. Huggins gasped in surprise. “There’s plenty vacant, the Lord knows,” she said, “but they ain't hardly your kind.” “I am not very particular so long as the place is respectable and the rent is not high,” said the girl, “Respectable,” snorted Mrs. Hug- gins; “I never ran no place that wan't respectable.” “I'm sure of that,” the girl hastened to say. “I—I only meant that was why | T came here.” | “Well, it's cfienp enough,” went on | the landlady. “Goodness knows, it has ;to be. There don't seem to be no money any more. I have to take what folks can afford to pay.” The place to get harness is at Then she looked shyly at the girl harness headquarters. We have ev-|and sald with rough Kkindness: “I erything needed to ride or drive a|Teally think you might find. a place horse and of good quality at reason- gollll: wa:xl:l llkte betl:er. "lu only poor able prices. From the heaviest team o,,’ S5 Du% b "ere. i harness to the lightest buggy har-| l.'l‘ntlxe‘;x“xomor'm::pll-l‘;xd ::nl;'.l::: ness this is headquarters. Special | %Y i L s lances at h t and tasty clothes, attention to repair work of all kinds, P SUSET MRS NI LAy ot 5 #D MULES FOR HIRE and more especially at her gloves and 109; Res., 57 Green rather stylish hat, she smiled and added: “I am from the country. My 3 e & 4 tain it also was that Nina never had 'Pe_anut Brittle - 20c. 1b. Chcelate Fudge 25¢. 1b. e e R R L ey 2 .get one of those ment Urns to our yard? get the oldest r Walk? HARNESS HEADQUARTERS \ get vou Brick s of th THIS PAPER ARNELL HEAVY HAULING I OLD MOVING A parents died very recently and left me alone, and there was not much left after the bills were paid.” “The city 18 a poor place to come,” replied Mrs, Huggius grimly, but not unkindly. “Goodness knows there's a plenty here now tryin’ to keep eoul and body together. If you've got any friends in the country you'd better go back and get any kind of work to do to keep an honest roof over your head. There’s an army of 'em here walkin’ the*streets, lookin’ for work— and it's a bad business for a young girl and a purty one like you, a-gettin’ discouraged and hungry and lonesome and all that.” ¥ The girl blushed and smiled a brave, confident little smile, “lI had a good mother and a good father,” she said with quiet dignity, “and 1 am sure I will do nothing to disgrace them. I have no doubt at all but I will find work to do and that I will get on famously.” The upshot of it all was that Nina became established in a dingy room O&Cue40% | on the second floor with two dingy windows. There was a dingy carpet on the floor and a meager quantity of dingy furniture. There was also a neglected fireplace in the corner. It was all so hopeless and squalid that it required all Nina’'s courage to face it. While waiting for her trunk the new- comer went out and returned with an armful of packages which filled the person of Mrs, Huggins with burning curioeity. A boy followed her with a good-sized box. Mysterious sounds came from the room of the new lodger. Presently a coal man carried several sacks of coal to the room. This was the straw that broke the landlady’s piand Paving and Construction Company 16 Main St. LAKELAND, FLA. §| 0", tud see what was sotng onr . If curiosity filled her before ehe opened the door astonishment pre- vailed when she gazed at the trans- formed apartment. The windows were washed inside and out, the carpet brightened up, all the furniture wiped and cleaned, a dainty coverlet was on the bed and a score of pretty and ar- tistic things were tastefully placed about the room. And in the grate a fire was burning smartly. The entire effect was most homelike and cheer- ful. Mrs. Huggins could scarcely be- lieve it was her own house. She never had seen anything like it—certainly nothing even suggesting it there, “Are you goin’ to have a fire all the time?” demanded Mrs, Huggins. “Coal does cost a lot.” “I'm going to try to be comfortable,” replied the girl. “I think I can earn enough to keep warm and have enough to eat.” The miracle was duly announced to various of the lodgers, as they came in that evening, principally in the form of admonitions given with more or less vehemence by Mrs. Huggins. “No more rough house in No. 12" ! she sald sharply to Rose and Madge, two bindery girls, who occupied the next room to the new lodger. “Of course I know there ain't been no harm in it, but there's been a lot of noise. Let the fellers take you to a dance if you want to make a racket. As long as we've got a real leddy we won't scare her out.” CIALTY = Bl OU WANT YOUR sms AND COLLARS A\AUNDERED The VERY BEST e Liakeland Steam 'o the Z undry We are better equipped than & A" ever for giving you high grade Laundry Work. 2osdensnec ; LTI LT TRE PR, 4 | §3 PHONE 130 Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. Effective August 1Ist, 1914 to Augustist, Jo15 and guaranteed against any reduction juring that time. All cars fully equipped 0. b. Detroit. Buyers to Share in Profits Il retail buyers of new Ford cars from ugust Ist, 1914 to August 1st, 1915 will Bhare in the profits of the company to the gxtent of $40 to $60 per car, on each car they ‘buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- ver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- iod. Ask us for particulars | FORD MOTOR COMPANY akeland Auto and Supply Co 4 POLK COUNTY AGENTS. p— - — “Cut out rushin’ the growler to No. 16,” she commanded Tib Ragan and Ed Root. “Either drink your beer at the saloon or move up on the third floor. Second floor’s respectable now.” All this was alarming, but the very first evening Nina invited the bindery girls In to see her. “I do so want to know you,” she, said. “You see I have always lived in the country and been friends with all my neighbors.” Awestruck with the comfort and beauty of the room, the girls went in very silent and very ill at ease. Under the friendly chatter of the new lodger they thawed out and remained a long time, telling the little stories of their narrow lives. One by one all of the lodgers were invited into the transformed room and went forth with great friendliness and respect for the gentle girl who was so different from them all. And one by one the rooms of all the lodgers began to take on a new atmosphere Even Mrs. Huggins swept the halls twice a week and once was seen to actually scrub them. Nina helped all with suggestions and with the work of her hands. The two bindery girls spent much of their spare time mak- ing things for their room after they were shown how it coutd be done with practically no expense for material. In the meantime the new lodger had gone out only two days looking for work before she announced joyously that she had secured a position in a newspaper clipping bureau. To be sure the pay was very small and the work hard and the color faded from her cheeks, but she made enough to pay her room rent and live frugally and add a little all the time to the comfort of her own room and of those about her, And there came to be little gather- ings of the lodgers in the various rooms, but generally in Miss Hiller's, where there were famous little sup- pers cooked over the grate fire, and to which all contributed their mite. And there came to be talk of books which led to the reading of books. And the girls learned to sew and to make clothes and hats for themselves, and —in short, Mrs. Huggins’ boarding house came to be the abiding place of a crowd of well-dressed, well-in- formed and self-respecting people. And all this happened without essen- tial increase in the wages of the people—excepting that aroused ambi- tion led to better work and Ed Root became foreman in the shop where he worked and Rose became the fore- woman of her bindery, and there were other advancements which quite sur- prised those concerned and delighted the little home community. Also was there marrying and giving in marriage when Ed Root married Madge and set up a home in a little flat around the corner. Then came one sad day when the princess who wrought all this magic was carried away. A tall, sunburned stranger came and clasped her in his arms before all the company and chided her sternly for hiding herself from her friends and from him. It was quite a romance as the story came out, but the stern parent now was dead and the prince had come into his own. “I would not have missed my expe- rience here for anything in the world,” she sald, with tears in her eyes as she kissed Mrs. Huggins good-by. The spirit she injected into the Huggins lodging house still abides, and many there are who called her blessed. (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) HELPS THE IVORY WORKER Rat in Its Search for Toothsome Mor- ~ sel Unwittingly Gives Aid to the Carver, There is a curious but little known fact that well illustrates the ravages that rats can inflict on the hardest substances with their sharp little teeth. Many of the elephants’ tusks import- ed into London for the use of ivory- ornament makers have their surfaces grooved into small furrows of unequal depth, as if cut by a very sharp-edged instrument. Surely no man can have taken the trouble to do that, for what would be the profit of his labor? The rats are at the bottom of the mischief. They have found out the tusks that contain the most gelatin or animal glue, a sweet and delictous morsel for the rat’s dainty palate; and having gnawed away as much as suited their purpose, have left the rest for the ivory-cutter. He, for his part, is able and willing to profit by the fact that the rats have made clear. The ivory that contains a large amount of gelatin is softer and more elastic than that which does not; and as elasticity is the thing most needed for billiard balls, the ivory-worker chooses this rat-marked {ivory, and turns it int® beautiful, elastic billiard balls. The elasticity of some of the balls is so great that if thrown down forcibly on a hard pavement they will rebound into the hand to the height of three or four feet.—Youta's Com- panfon. Good Advertising. “Who gets your divorce for you this time?” “He's a new one. Gouge.” “Is he working it up all right?” “I should say he was! Why, he used : to be the publicity man of Barnum's | circus!” ' His name s Nothing Too Good for Law Breakers. l “What a lot of shabby old school- houses your town seems to have.” “Well, yes. But you ought to see our new jail—there ain’t a hotel in the state that's half as comfortable’— Cleveland Plain Dealer. { QEOPUPAP TSP SAPOPOPI OS TS UF VT IS QTS QIO PAGE SEVEN R —————————————————————————— Engllfi eyelet embroidery is revived for lingerie dripsses. Usually they have colored silk slips below, There is a great difference between the old and the new style of high-bust corsets. To preserve the large waist, which s still fashionable, these new corsets are made with a full back. Some also have small gussets under- neath each shoulder blade, while oth- ers have sufficient fullness to form a ripple at the top. The skirt of these ccrsets i3 long over the thighs in the back, with a slightly shortened line in front, the flat hack and the large waist with a slight curve at the side- fronts. 7The materials are soft and pliable and the boning light. The roason for the change of cut of corsets is the semi-fitting character of the fashionable dresses and waists, which makes necessary corsets which hold the bust in a slightly higher posi- tion. These dresses are not tight, but the: are semi-fitted, with a dart over the bust to accentuate the curve, whether the garment fits snusly or otherwise. These bodices are in several styles Some are buttoned straight in front, WHOLESALE GROCERS with plain front sections which are darted and have underarm gores. Others are in surplice effects, the crossover pieces being drawn tightly over the bust. High girdles are also in fashion, which are of the same height all around, reaching a point even with the base of the bust. Some- times the girdle is drawn in at the front. Again it may have buttons from the top of the lower edge. Over these fitted girdles the bust would fall loosely if it were not supported by the corset. There are also low-bust corsets for| the slender and compact figures, which will wear garments suitable for them. There are also models designed es- pecially for dancing, which have a) shorter skirt in front and elastic in- serts in the back. The tops of these) are low, and there i3 an elastic band| around the top edge from side to side. For the schoolgirl there are low and medium-sized corset waists with long corset skirts and front steel fasten- ing. These corset waists so closely resemble the regular corset that young girls feel quite satisfied with them, “A Business Without Books” E find that low prices ard long time will not go haud in hand, and on May 1st we installed our NEW SYSTEM OF LOW PRICES FOR STRICTLY CASH. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Folk County thousands of dollars in the past, and our new system will still reduce the cost of living, and also reduce our expenses, and enable us to put the knife in still deeper. 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