Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 5, 1914, Page 2

Oak Rockers As Above $1.98 Quantity Purchase Makes these Prices Possib’e All Oak Chair 85c. Kitchen Cabinet Of Standard Make for only $7.7 2-inch Post Iron Bed $5.28 Just received another big lot of those All Cotton Mattresses $3.99 Watch our Windows Everything in Hardware LAKELAND Furniture —_— THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, ‘FLA.. NOV. 5, 1914, HIS MASTERPIECE By W. E. PRICKETT. (Copyright by Dally Story Pub. Co.) In :m Parls, in the heart of the crumbling, begrimed Quartier Latin, lived Louis Diable, artist. He was tall and very slender, with narrow shoulders, sunken chest, long arms and legs. His sallow face, with its ocomplement of beady eyes and sharp features offset by black mustache and goates, marked a striking resem- blance to the being whose name he bo;.““. of an extremely limited wardrobe, Diable wore upon all occa: sions & broadcloth suit of ancient pat- tern which, though dilapidated, - fitting and faded, was in keeping with the other articles of apparel he af- i fected. Loufs worked only when the crav- ing of the inner man demanded sus- tenance, and during his leisure hours he frequented the cafes of the Quar- ter or ‘the studios of his bohemian ! acquaintances. The productions of his brush were weird and fantastic. Some sald he copled Dore; others claimed that such productions could only be concelved by the devil himself. “The face, the name—mon dieu; he 1s the devil himself.” The appellation had clung to him through lite and had rankled his brain till he dreamed devils and was haunted, during wakeful moments in the silent hours of the night, by grim specters that rose out of dark corners in his room. Perhaps absinthe, to which he was rapidly enslaving himself, could ac- count for the mad fantasies of his im- agination; howbeit, this torture of mind and soul increased with the quantity of wormwood he consumed. The chaft of his associates became in- tolerable, so he began to seek unfre- quented cafes and deserted streets that he might encounter no one who knew him or his peculiar cognomen. At length Diable resoived to por- tray upon canvas & being so gro- tesque, horrible and inhuman that it would indeed be the devil of all dev- fls. It should be his masterpiece! no longer confined to the canvas, but was spreading around him! The mon- ster was moving and stretching & bony arm toward him. He heard the bones crack and the muscles creak as the arm became released from its captivity. He sprang from his chair, horrorstricken, but was seized rough- ly by the claw-like hand and hurled to the floor, where he lay, dazed and helpless. He tried to cry out, but the smoke and flames which ernvel.mwtli him choked the cry in his throat. | The devil leaped from the canvas and danced before him, while its mouth widened into & ghastly grin. | The crimson which Louis had dashed | across it now began to trickle down the chin to the massive chest, adding a tinge of blood to the spectacle. Louls gased at the monster vm;‘ confiicting . emotions of rage, fright and disgust, until suffocation roused bim to action. Then, with almost insane fury, he jumped to his feet| and grappled with his tormentor. He fought him with desperation, as back and forth in the inferno they swayed and struggled together. The char-! acteristics Louis had so cunningly wrought in the demon now came forth in terrible reality. The crush- ing embrace of the gorilla arms nauseated him and caused his eye- balls to start from their sockets. He made superhuman efforts to extricate himself, but found that he was power- less to do so, pitted against such herculean strength. The heat of the fire was becoming g0 intense that Louis felt his flesh singe and crack, but the flend only screeched and yelled exultantly at him in his agony. Oh, God! Why had he invented this monster to wreak its dastardly work upon its creator! He could endure the pain no longer—it was consum- ing him—then came a lucid moment. The truth flashed across his brain! The struggle with the demon had been a cruel hallucination. His room was burning and he was perishing in the fire. He had realized it too late! A yawning abyss opened beneath him. All_was darkness. He suffered no longer. He was sinking—sinking. In the Figaro next day appeared the following news item: “An apartment building in the Rue St. M—— was partially-burned early last evening. The fire originated in the studio of Louis Diable, an artist, who, it is feared, lost his life in the PSP S PP SN $U T3aniy) PLOWS [BRINEY Just received, a con!plele line of 10 ard 12 inch 10 to 14 inch Regular Turning Plow, The Brinley Plow is built especially for Florida soils, Each one is sold with a guarantee of satisfaction er your mong back. Orange Plow; MODEL HARDWARE (x Phone No. 340 C. E. TODD, WWQW?WM 50 HATS IN MANY SHAPES SHOULD BE EASY TO FIND ONE THAT I8 SUITABLE. Colors Are Usually Employed for Sporting Wear—Notable Bergere Effects Have Caught the Fancy of the Parisienne. For sporting wear colored hats are lovely. One was in pale raspberry pink felt, and the ribbon around the crown was in exactly the same shade. Then there was a large buckle.in dull blue horn. Such a hat as this seems to call for a floating vell in white washing lace. { The Parisiennes, at last accounts, Paris would ring with his name! His|fames The firemen are diligently | Were quite enthusiastic over the small- , acquaintances would taunt him 10| gearching among the ruins and debris , er sailor shapes in white, pale blde more; indeed, with fame and fortune | for his body. The caretaker of the Or pale pink felt. in his grasp he would forsake the lQulner and its distasteful assocla- |tlone. and remove to a more preten- i tlous domicile, there to live in ease, happiness and luxury. He would blot the past forever from his memory. Inspired by these ambitions he set to work. ! Never had he toiled so nslduouuly.l He scarcely took the requisite time for eating and sleeping. He admitted no one to his studio; was deserted by the few friends who remained loyal to him, and was therefore isolated from the world about him with the ' picture which slowly crept from his , brain to the canvas. The color seemed to eke from his i soul through fingers and brush, every | touch of which was an atom of life to , the painting that was converting the , coarse, white surface into a colossal monster, rising from the depths of an inferno of fire and torture. Sev- | eral weeks of unceasing application ;bro\lght his work near completion, and the afternoon of June 3, 188—, { found Louis Diable putting the finish- ’lng touches on his great “master- plece.” The figure that towered above him | Was an uneanny, composite blending of man and the supernatural, though itho long, hairy limbs suggested a gorilla and the body a monstrous ; .. o01 the itoad. The leering eyes possessed a | §. 9708 DO\ | strained in golng about the serlous a dainty little wreath of dull gold | snakellke fascination. The molding and treatment of the figure were per- : fect, and the flesh quiver in the flames its surface. He was now working on the crea- ture’s face. He had painted out and repainted it a doszen times, for each ,time it strangely resembled his own, though in which particular feature he | :'u unable to determine. It bothered m. | He paused a moment and, stepping ,back a few paces, studied the face at- ; tentively through half-closed eyes, ,titing his head first to one side and then to the other. Was his imagina- tion tricking him? No; the resem- blance was undisputably there. But | Where. His countenance lighted with a revelation. It was the mouth! Like & spider pouncing upon an enmeshed Ivmlm. he seized a brush and petu- lantly dashed a wide daub of crimson across the offending feature. He was amused at the alteration and, with a grunt of satisfaction, drained a gen- erous draught of absinthe—the sev- enth he had imbibed that day. l Physical and mental excesses had reduced Diable to a wreck of his for- ‘ner self, and this slight relaxation forced him to a realization of his condition; so he drew up an easy chair before the picture and dropped languidly into its cushioned depths to rest a moment and smoke a cigar ette before resuming his work. The tired mind and body soon sue- cumbed to the influences of the ab- sinthe and tobacco, and drowsiness { overcame him. As the shadows dark- | ened he sank into a deep sleep. The ' half-burned cigarette dropped from {:l:ly seemed m! t were licking | building says,” etc., etc., etc. PROPER FREEDOM OF CHILD Writer In the Atlantic Finds Some Fault With the Modern System of Training Him. An exceedingly complex subject, this question of the freedom of the child, writgs Simeon Strunsky in the: Atlantic. I am not sure that I un- derstand it. Neither am I sure that the militant advocates of the freedom of the child understand it. At any rate, in so many arguments about the rights of the child, I find a lurking argument for the rights of the par-| ents as against the child. The great ' implication seems to be that the mod- ern way for a mother to love her chil-| dren {8 to have the teacher love them for her. The modern way to train the child is to deny him the indul- gences which the child, as the victim of several tens of thousands of years of foolish practice, has learned to ex-- pect from his parents. The freedom of the child seems to demand that he ' | These smart shapes fit down on the head after the manner of & man’s hat, and they can be trimmed with a band of wide ribbon or with a single rose placed flat on the brim, near the front. Some milliners, and very many of our photographic beauties, have exag- gerated the bergere outline. We have had models which were raised at the back over dozens of roses or vol- uminous loops of ribbon. These hats made the head look grotesque and ex- | aggerated, and so they came to be re- garded with suspicion. | But one of the most important and ! influential milliners in the Rue de la | Paix was an enthusiastic admirer oti the Louis XVI period, and she hn' created some notable bergere hats : which were received with rapture by the more exclusive Parisiennes. One of these models is of blnck‘ velvet, with satin ribbons, in sapphire blue, combined with dull red roses. This gives excellent results, or fit! might show black velvet ribbon with | a single pastel-pink rose. These hats ' demand that the hair should be drmm“ed high and rather loose at the sides. i shall be restrained in his desire for_ geveral smart hats are distinctly personal communion with his parents which may interfere with the latter’s freedom to realize themselves in their own adult interests, whereas at child must not be re- business of his life. There must be method and discipline in the matter of a child's sitting up after supper’ to wait for father from the office. But he must be allowed the utmost freedom in learning to read numbers up to 1,000 and Roman numerals to XX. No fetters must be imposed upon Harold's personality when he is study- ing the date of the discovery of Amer- fca, but there are rigorous limita- { tions on the number of minutes he is to frolic with me in bed or to inter ' - rupt me at the typewriter when I am engaged in rapping out copy which the world could spare much more easily than Harold’s soul can spare & balthour of communion with me. | She Didn’t Underetand. A Philadelphia employer of a tem- ' peramental stenographer is a man of practical sense and real kindness, who | wants the girl to succeed at her busl- ' ness. The other day he called her in- to his private office and had a fatherly talk with her. Later one of her col- , leagues in the same building met her in the elevator. © “Say, Gladys,” she sald, “what's this about your boss having a heart-to- heart talk with you this morning?” “Heart, nothing,” responded the temperamental creature tossing her blond locks like an oriflamme of 'War, “what he handed to me hadn't no more heart in it than there is in a slab of liver at a ten-cent beanery. Bee?” Which is one reason why girl ste- nographers can be hired at $6 a week. Deserved His Fate. lampshade in design. | These hats have domed cro-vns cov- ered with velvet or satin, and trans- parent brims made of tulle, chiffon or shadow lace. One model chosen had roses, framed in silk leaves, circling the crown, and the wide brim turned back very slightly from the face. | In the same ateller a similar shape was carried out in midnight-blue chif- fon velvet and shot gausze, which shows seams of deep blue, silver and ' very dark purple. The crown of the ' het was circled by a narrow band of skunk, and at one side there was a large black satin iris which had its Petals lined with silver gause. The charm and popularity of flat- brimmed sailor hats covered with black velvet are unquestioned. These may be said to be the clou of the sea- son. Many of these models are un- trimmed save for a folded band round the crown or a fancy feather; others have a length of black taffeta ribbon, with a picot edge, twisted round the crown and tied loosely at one side. STORTHAT COOGH Don’t let ' that eough l BREEBERLSDREROBEIBHII E Toilet Articles ,2 28 My T, GO 10 THE WOODS & DRUG STORE! When you want the | best in Pure Drugs and =% e 22 ] The Thought of Quality remains g long afier the price is forgotteny Phone 408 Phone City Hall just across the street from US 4454400800000 0 00000000000 who never "FELL DO make good. \ ! PH. § e e ——e— ———— e And be convinced that better Shoe Repair- ing is impossible. 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