Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 21, 1914, Page 2

§ ) A | PAGE TWO 0000000000000000000000 MOUSIE THE MANIGURIST: [ 3 [ [ H By C. L. CULLEN. . :............!D...l....... (Copyright.) | Mousie Mildred broke into a merry | little muffled laugh. She had been‘ ‘l‘,,-,.?:‘?’ ‘(Tfi silently intent up- | AR Dk ‘\.u‘l The sudden out- burst of subdued yet bubbling mirth surprised me. I asked her about it. “Oh, nuthin’,” she replied. 1 insisted. “Well,” said she, pausing for a mo- nere, I made one o’ them 36-cent mind bets with myself that you was one o’ them oh-you-babesky-doll kind, that'd hardly pass your mitts over to be made human lookin’ before you'd be- gin to slip me that ‘Do you like the theater, Aspasia?’ line o’ Castilian con, and then get busy guessin’ whether I liked the way they dish up spaghet’ at Dufanti's, or would I prefer to tool out to Foodmanston Inn in a chug- chaise, and poke provender into my on my nails for map al freshco, with the birdies twit- ; quite some time. Iterln' tweet-tweetie in the trees, and | ! all nature smilin’ like a front-row gell on the end of the line slantin’ a Pitts- burgh steel magnet in box A. “That’s the way I have you tucked away in the back of my bean when you squat in front of my bench, and that's the bet I made. Y’ ain't mad over my tellin’ yuh, are yuh? You ast me, and I had to unreel it.” Again I reassured her, and she pro- ceded: £ e oz iiis TH® EVENING TELEGRAM I.AKELAND, FLA. OCT. 21, - " — B R S5 VST SRRy oo o Sl O T e Bome. Donald was quite silent on the ' homeward journey, but just as soon . as he stepped inside of the door of his { home he exclaimed excitedly to his : gisters: “O, kids! What do you think? ' I got invited to the whooping cough : today.” 'FOR AFTERNOON FROCK DESIGN THAT WILL LOOK BEST IN GRAY. ITS . Taffeta and Chiffon Should Be the Ma- terials Employed—Shoulder Col- lar Also Should Be Made of the Taffeta. 1 panying design for an afternoon frock ! should strike your fancy and work I think if you are fond of gray—a nice silvery shade—that the accom- ' ment to poise her auburn - haired “Yuh can’t always tell about a zob | out splendidly in taffeta and chiffon, —I mean a gent—that's there with | with a' contrasting note of color in ' head sidewise, and O to glance up at me with artless archness from that angle, “I lose, that's all!” There was nothing elucidatory about that cryptic phrase. So I inquired’ again. “Lose what?” I asked her. “Oh, nuthin’ to get the gurgly goiter aboit,” replied Mousie Mildred, jab- bing at the refractory cuticle with the orange stick. “I drop a little bet that I make with myself about you when you limp in, that’s all; but seein’ that it was on’y one o' them mind bets, I don't have to ease any hard-gouged kale to the hand-book, and so it's all right; there's no harm did.” “But what was the nature of the bet?” “I hate to tell yuh,” she replied, going after an imaginary hang-nail with the cuticle scissors, “because you're one o' them zigs—I mean gents ~—that’s a hull lot more dignified than | they look. “It I tried to tell yuh about the bet I tried to put over with myself you might get sore as a stockyards sweeper and start in to raze the plant to the groun’ and fire a volley over the remains.” I reassured her as to that, and again urged her to unfold the character of her wager with herself. “Well,” said she, bestowing another dazzling upward glance upon me out of the corner of her wood-violet eyes, “it's this way, seein’ that you're pin- nin’ me to the stick and nickin’ me for l what's inside my think-dish. “When you come in, a while ago, and lamped around the tables, and | piped me takin’ a peak at you, and | then come browsin' over to my table 7 Qak Chairs, Cane Oak Arm Rockers. Best National Spring........._._ - S All Feather Pillows, pair that town-tease, hamlet-hoiden, oh-, such-larks look about him when he | first breezes into a mitt-maison and does the hurry pipe aroun’ the tables to sort over the lookers. “You ain't the first gamble I lose with myself tryin’ to pick ’em right on i the blow-in, nor the twentieth, when it comes to that. “I'm just as often Little Lucy the Loser when I try to pull that read-'em- ; quick numbah as any o’ the rest o’ the ! claw-polishin’ dolls scattered aroun’ these works. “We all get in German just as often as we dope 'em right. As I was sayin’, ! I handicapped you for one o' them stout—just stout enough—cut-ups | that'd be purlin’ the old numbah nine | bunk into my pinkie-winkie listeners | long before you lifted your paws out' of the soakin’ pan. Says I to myself,l | ‘This keg—I mean gent—will be dang- lin’ one o’ them cochineal-red-ink feeds ; at the Cafe de Noah’s Ark at me before | I have time to find out whether he bites his nails. | “I'm Jerry to it now that you wouldn’t kite a claw-trimmin’ doll to a wop or any other kind of a tahb-dote for the hull lower half o' the island on account o’ bein’ 'fraid o’ what might come off later when the family was hepped to it.” Unwelcome Invitation. Donald, aged four, had been kept at home for some time for fear of catch- ing the whooping cough, so one after- noon, after much pleading with his mamma, he was permitted to take a little outing. While sitting on a bench in the park a child sat down beside him, who at once began to cough violently. 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