Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 12, 1914, Page 8

S ——————" ¢ (— JUDGE MISTRESS BY HOUSE Visitors WIill Generally Do It, 8o a Good Impression Is Worth the Taking of Pains. Whether she wishes it or not, the house will have something to tell about its mistress, so it seems worth while to pause a moment and consider how best to make it say the things we would like spoken. Shall we think of a few houses we know, and see if they haven’t some rather helpful lessons to teach us? You see, it we just manage to identify our mistakes, given the will to do our level best with the home, it's quite a simple matter to achieve success in this direction. There is the house where tables and chairs seem riveted into position, where the little book in its delicate binding laid aslant on the side table in the drawing room rests always exactly at the same angle, and one is afraid to lower a blind for fear of disar- ranging the window curtains. A pretty room, certainly, but I am scarcely surprised when I notice that the visitors on at home afternoons sit rather near their chair edges and don’t look altogether at ease. Orderliness is an excellent thing, but don’t aim at a formal and lifeless i symmetry. Choose cushion covers i that will wash, or of an artistic tap- | estry. Then, if you want to keep your case- ment curtains fresh and immaculately A novel little frock in a rather | creaseless have long side curtains heavyweight crepe in the new and | which may be drawn across the win- beautiful peach color is shown here. ! dow without disturbing the short In this the blouse of the plain crepe ' blinds. They look so pretty, whether is gathered into a bib of black satin | in light fabric with a richly colored which is a continuation of the girdle. ! applique insertion, or in a darker The opening above this is filled with shade with a strip of light trimming & white lawn and a band of embroidery little way from the edge. Fix a brass in oriental shade. The cuffs and roll- | rod across your flat window or round ing collar are of the black satin. This | your bay, and then these curtains, gown has the long tunic combined | drawn well to the side at other times, with the panier draping of the mate- | may be brought over the windows at rial hung over a plain underskirt of | night or when the sun is too strong. the crepe. The tunic is trimmed in - bands of heavy cream lace. With this is worn a hat of peach-colored straw trimmed with black wings. Peach-Colored, Crepe. New Cross Stitch Work. There is a new sort of cross stitch work which is used for bed spreads, table covers, cushions and other big articles of household decoration. It is made on heavy ecru linen, with threads of gay-colored cotton. The design has Japanese heads worked in big frames of color and a floral design here and there as well. Mutual Curiosity. Figsherman—I wonger when that bricklayer'll lay that brick! Bricklayer—I wonder when that fish- erman’ll catch a fish!—Humoristicke Listy (Prague® Woodrow Wilson WOOCD be PLEASED at WOO0DS’, The New Drug Store New FRESH Shipment of that Kustom Katching Kern’s KANDY Justreceived. Phone 408 The New Drug Store JUST OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL. G B deifondodbobind bR —naions 2 & EHBBBITDE § KELLEY'S BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS | Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at reasonable prices. Fggs from high class pens for hatching. Write me before ordering else- where, H. L. KELLTY, Griffin. Fla. QPOERIRIVEOTOIRIUPVSOIIPVFRA SO HO OO TOCOTOB O Od Phone 46 3 : E THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 Ef Main St. DO YOU KNOW What you get without Charge when you buy Electric Irons. Toaster Stoves, Percolators, Heaters, from Us. Advice of experts as to desirability of eiach device for the work intended. You won't have to speud your money for sometimng that won't meet your «Xpectations. Facility of quick repair, as we carry Repair Parts for our own line of guaranteed goods. Flerida flectric and Mach:nery Co. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA,, OCT. 12, 1¢14. ORORORIRORORIRORONOGNOROLIOL A FORTUNATE THING ———— By GEORGE MUNSON. “There she is! ‘The Girl in Green,’” ' said John Latham, unveiling his newly completed painting. Mies Agnes Manton uttered a little Irrepressible scream. “Why, John, dear, that is—that is perfect!” she exclaimed. “Only—I am sure you have grossly flattered me, John.” “Not a bit of it, my dear,” protested her flance. “You are prettier far than my poor efforts have shown you on the canvas. And this picture is going to make my reputation.” Heavgn knew he needed that it e managed to get it open. Then she pulled from the interior—not a pair of glasses, but a very serviceable meat- ' chopper. s:p:}m Rip! Rip! Rip! The can- vas was torn into shreds and long strips hung from the frame before John, aided by half a dozen men in the vicinity, could rush forward and stay the work of devastation. “There!” screamed the lady, trans- ' formed all at once into a virago. ! “That's what you get for letting dear | Mrs. Pankhurst starve to death!” “A suffragette!” screamed an offi- cial, maneuvering cautiously around ! her. “Have you got her? Then let me ' get at her!” | For about three minutes longer the ! academy room was filled with a strug- 'gling crowd, each member of which seemed supremely anxious to lay hands upon a struggling old lady who, bon- netless, and with disheveled clothing, | | wis giving as good an account of her- | self as was possible under the circum- [l should. John was a etruggling artist, 'gtances. At last she was placed in the Just rising out of the ruck. He was 'charge of & policeman and conveyed twenty-nine; Agnes was only two or ' gqway. 3 three years younger, and they had | John stood looking ruefully at her been engaged for several years. A i handiwork. The painting wae injured struggling artist has little chance of { beyond all possibility of repair. There making enough to support & wife In | were half a dozen vertical and three ot London. four horizontal slashes in it, each ex- However, though it had not been !tending nearly the whole extent of the . sold, one of John's pictures had been tplc!ure, which had been cut literally accepted for exhibition by the Royal into ribbons. academy the summer before, and he | «“John, dear!” whispered Agnes, slip- g had little doubt that this would be | ping her hand into his. She knew the % [ “hung.” Perhaps it would attract the . pitterness in his heart. He had spent | notice of a rich purchaser. Then they ' so many weeks trying to create her, could be married. ! plain little Agnes Manton, ae she knew “How much is it we sald we wanted, herself to be, into the reproduction of dear?” asked John. “A thousand the image that lay enshrined in his pounds, wasn't it, to begin?” | heart. And this was the end! “We could do it on five hundred, | glowly they went out of the academy, l¢ John,” answered the girl. followed by a small sympathetic | 'J “But we agreed that we wanted a throng, which had guessed the tragedy lg thousand pounds to fit out our house | from the likeness between Agnes and nicely with antique furniture”—like 'the woman in the plcture. most poor people John had extrava- | «I']] paint you again, Agnes,” he gant aspirations—"and really start in ggid. “Do you know, somehow I was B | comfortably and defy the wolf?” “That would be nice,” Agnes an- swered. “Very well, dear. I shall insure this for a thousand, and I shall place that price upon it,” said John. “And I won't take a penny less, either.” A month later, to his delight, John received an intimation from the Royal academy to the effect that his picture was to be placed on exhibition. On varnishing day he and Miss Manton went to look at it. Both feared that it had been “skied.” But it had not been skied. On the contrary, it occupied a very prominent position, low down, not quite satisfied with that. It wasn't nearly as pretty as you are.” “0, John!” protested Agnes. Suddenly he brightened up. He stopped still in the street. “Agnes, what a fortunate thing!” he exclaimed. ! to have painted you as I intend to now, in our nmew house, with the antique furniture. Agnes, isn't it lucky I in- sured the picture for a thousand pounds!” (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) THOUGHT IT STILL DUTCH 3 PO BRI B “I know what the trouble was. I ought |} next to the door leading from the first to the second salon. “Just the place where it will attract attention!” exclaimed Agnes joyfully. , ‘f&!:ljj&!fi'&‘.‘””‘i*’ ( Englishwoman Decidedly Behind the Times In Her Knowledge of Things of the United States. LSRR CHEORECkS ! Some one, at luncheon, had told a story about an Englishwoman who said she had been shocked to learn how slow the trains were in America, and on being told that they were nothing of the sort, insisted: “But they must be. I saw in a paper that it took 24 hours to go from New York to Chicago!” And the company had laughed. “?nt- kins had laughed with the others. Then Watkins said: “That's a pretty good story. But I know one that's better. It's a remark that was made to me.” “Go on,” offered the man who had told the story about the trains. “You glve us your word it's true?” “I give you my word it’s true,” Wat- kine echoed. “It was at a hotel in Switzerland, where I, being alone, chanced to be put at a table with sev- eral Englishwomen at dinner. We fell to talking, as one always does, about traveling ‘abroad’ and about languages, and hotel-and-train vocabularies, and all that. They knew that I was an American, of course. “I happened to say that I could not ,;; (I W s B R G S Smash! Rip! Rip! Rip! the moment they come in at the door.” | tence in the Dutch language, and that The day of the opening of the exhl-[ I felt decidedly helpless whenever I bition was one of fine weather, and | Went to Holland, vast crowds of fashionable and would-' The remark followed. The tallest be fashionable people attended, to- Englishwoman leaned across the table gether with a sprinkling who were e€agerly, genuinely interested in art. John and| “‘'Oh,’ ehe said. ‘But don’t people Agnes, inconspicuoue among the Speak Dutch in New York? ” crowds, watched thelr picture from a.i near place, while pretending to display The Lonesome Man. interest in others, | “That old saying about being lone- “Hum! ‘Girl in Green,’ is she!” Some in New York is all right,” said snorted a stout old gentleman. “‘Girl A 8 Pittsburgher. “There are plenty of Looks Green,’ would be a better title men who are lonesome by nature; to my mind. I never saw a healthy they'd be lonesome in the place of young woman with that sort of com- thelr birth as well as in a strange plexion.” lclt.y; they simply don’t know how to “How deliclous!” whiepered Agnes make friends, or how to keep them it in John's ear, squeezing his hand. That : they make them. But if you want to | sort of criticism was too ignorant to ' see the most lonesome thing on earth, sting. 'you will find it in the man who sits Still, when a gentleman with a'A&lone in a hotel cafe at night, taking square beard, looking for all the world | his solitary drink because he is so- like a successful banker, stopped and | ¢lable by nature, and longing for sald to his companion, “That ‘Girl in ! some one to talk with, but fearful of Green’ is one of the best things hero‘ ‘butting in' where he isn't wanted. | Bt BB BBDHE D thie year,” they were breathless with | Last night I sat down deliberately by happiness. For the stout, square-beard- | & Stranger marooned that way, and I | . ¢ Unusual Novelties in g:?i i Fine Jewelry = % T BB i » This season’s Designs are the acme% of good taste, artistic merit and 'y, - R BOPPBPEDDPPSDPLEPDD DD @ 2 @ PER RS ¢ & e LS T-Leed ST LR L LT L LR L g ‘Mayes Grocery Compar Why suffer iy, he: Nervousss, pain in g, the eyes when 4 . bles can be rej special ground lens, % We make a specig. such work. 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We have saved the people of Lakeland andf County thousands of dollars in the past our new system will still reduce the c® living, and also reduce our expenscs. ¥ enable us to put the knife in still deeper We carry a full line of Groceries, Feed, 6% Hay, Crate Material, and Wilson & 700z IDEAL EERTILIZERS always on band Ay, Mayes Grocery Compar ed gentleman was none other than Sir | Dever saw a man so grateful In my | $2 Valentine Sparks, one of the greatest | g:: u:Hen was so lonesome he nearly | ;¢ of English painters. e horrors.” & @ H A mild, inoffensivelooking elderly —_— §3 211 West Main Street. LAKELAND, Fl! woman in gray, overhearing the re- In the Style of the City. # v G BB SO mark that had been made, stopped in | A certaln small boy had lived all & SPP & front of the painting and surveyed it ' his life in hotels. Presently, soon critically. Then she turned to John, | &fter the family moved to a suburban “Is that a really good palntln‘?"lh"m& Harold came into the house|® asked the elderly lady. “A truly val- looking amused and puzzled. ) uable painting?” “What pleases you, my son, and “That picture, madam, while not the | What have you been doing?” asked his finest thing in the academy, is undoubt- | mother. edly a very fair specimen of the mod-| “Ob, I was just sitting on the front ern Englieh school” said John. *|Porch listening to a man with a wagon happen to know that the author is | Paging blackberries,” was the inno. placing a valuation of a thousand | cent reply. | pounds upon it.” e ———— “Dear me!” said the elderly lady. Happiness. “‘Girl in Green!" How interesting! | “What is your idea of true happl- I must really have a better look at it. | Dess?” he asked. Where are my glasses?” “To have a husband who could af. She pulled an absurdly large bag |ford to buy all the hair I wanted with. from her muff and fumbled nervously | Out making it necessary for elither of with it for quite a minute before she 'US to deny ourselves anything else.” 995 04 PSPPI LESTPPVPT P PRPP 'F YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. 5B MARSHALL & SANDERS The OId Rellable Contractors Who have been buildi i ! e ng houses in Lakeland for yearh who never “FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfactio™ All classes of buildings contracted for, The mat! l'::i‘:em.bum by this firm are evidgnees of their st MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Bilue