Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 10, 1914, Page 2

Oak Rockers As Above | $1.98 Quantity Purchase Makes these Prices Possible All Oak Chair 85c. Kitchen Cabinet Of Standard Make for only $7.79 y ] 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 W UE Hardware Company THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAK MARY, THE FAITHFUL By CORA CARSON. “There! Doesn't it sound a thou- sand times better than before it was tuned?” demanded Dorothy as she let her fingers glide nimbly over the keys in exhibition of the improved condi- tion of the piano. “At least two thousand times bet- ' ter,” assented her father, with an as- | sumption of gravity. “I suppose you'll ' never practice on it again for fear of swung 'around on the piano stool, which, since it had had no ministration to its ' voice, squeaked an excruciating ac- companiment to her words. “And then, that old plano tuner would come back and take a week to fix it.” | “Daughter, you exaggerate too much. . Do try to be more literal,” lectured her father as he settled himself com- fortably in his leather chair for the evening. | “Well, this time it took his just ‘'zactly five days,” insisted Dorothy, with an aggrieved air of one who has spoken the truth vainly, “Five what?” asked her father, amasement in his voice. ! “Five days” reiterated the little girl, emphatically. | “Five days to tune a plano? do you mean, Dolly?” ! “I thought he was awfully slow, but he said it was awfully, awfully out of tune.” | “But even so, whatever did he do all that time?” ‘What “Well, he came Monday. First of o all he played a long time—to find out which keys were wrong, I s’pose. He plays just grand, marches, and waltzes, and variations of ‘The Star- Spangled Banner’ and such pleces, you know.” “Fine!” agreed her father, mock exthusiasm. “Then he stopped and tried each note separately.” “That wasn’t so grand, was it? Well, how long did the concert last?” “Most all day. I got awfully tired of the noise and went over to Kath- ryn’s. of him.” “Mary is a faithful maid and took with such good care of him that he came . again next day, didn't he?” Dorothy missed the sarcasm in her father's words and continued her ex- planation placidly. “Oh, yes, he seem- ed to like her. Well, on Tuesday he took the piano all apart and raised such a dust it kept Mary busy clean- ing up around him.” “I see.” Her father's intonation was ominous. “Well, on Wednesday?” “He put it together again—but something was loose, or tight. Any- way, he didn't llke the way it sound- er and he tried it a long time, so that Mary and I could tell it wasn't quite right.” “So he had to come on Thursday in order to take the poor old piano apart again?” guessed her father. | “Yes, and as it was Mary's day out, 1 was glad he was here only in the morning, so I could go over to Kath- ryn's after he went. Then Friday morning he put in what he called the finishing touches. You see, that does make five days. But I didn’t ask him to stay to luncheon again, so he final- | . ly left at noon. You don’t care if I ,didn’t, do you, father? I did so hate ' to eat with him; he gobbled so0.” And i Dorothy looked both disgusted and apologetic. Byt her father's patience gave way . and he asked gternly, “Whatever made ‘,vou ask hjm te luncheor with you at inl; time | “Why, you told me to be nleb” .him.” Dorothy burst into ""5 “So '] gave Mary ordm_whu b | luggheons anA-_gng» ‘Dut, my dear, I was joking,” the ex- asperated father explained. “You're always telling me to be literal,” the little girl declared i her own defense. “Once before, when Mr. Jenkins, you remember, came for a visit and you told mother to be nice to him she—" “But Mr. Jenkins fs an old friend and a good customer,” began her fa- ther patiently, but his daughter fin- ished her sentence desperately: “—sghe had wine for him and made afternoon coffee. And so I thought I'd better—" “You didn't do that all for the piano tuner?” cried her father. “Yes. You told me to be nice to him,” walled Dorothy. Her father fell limply back in his chair. “Wine,” he murmured. ‘Wine for the plano tuner!” Then he laugh- ed. “Oh, Dolly, Dolly, I'll be glad when your mother gets tired of travel- ing and comes home to take care of you again. Then the maid will dance to the tune of ‘So Long, Mary’ But just let that piano tuner send in his bill—just let him dare! I'll send him one for board and entertainment and ‘extras’!’ "—Chicago Daily News. 5o Foolish Celebrant. E. L. H. Hohenthal, associate of the National Sons of Temperance, was talking in Manchester about Christ- mas. “The wise,” he sald, “celebrate Christmas temperately. Their Christ- mas drink is tea or coffee, milk or lemonade. “The wise are not like Blanc, who was asked, the morning after Christ- mas: “‘Well, Blanc, bow was Hi Roller's Christmas dinner?” ““The best I ever drank,’ was the reply.” 1 'NOT A LOVE LETTER BY GEORGE MUNSON. | John Benson rose hurriedly from the breakfast table and plunged for his hat; then he plunged for his wife. “Good-by, dearest,” he said, clasping her as tightly as he could, considering that he was holding a derby and a bag full of office papers. “I must catch that 8:27.” “Good-by, John,” said Mary Benton, kissing him fondly. “I do wish you didn’t have to hurry away to that old office,” she added, pouting. “It won’t be for long,” said her hus- band. “If our great new advertising scheme goes through we'll flood the oountry with notices of our new pat- ent. Everybody will read them. It's my own idea. Can't stop to tell you ' and hastening toward the station. Mary sighed a little—then smiled. She and John had been married only six months and they were very fond of ! each other. She put away the breakfast things; then, still smiling at the thought of her husband’s haste, she went into the lit- , tle room in which he worked at nights upon the new advertising plan. A plece of paper lay in one corner; it ‘had evidently fluttered out of his desk and fallen there, unnoticed. She ' picked it up and, glancing at it, Telt ,her heart throb painfully. She could hardly read the words that danced before her eyes. | , It was a love letter, and it began: “My dearest, sweetest Jack.” It was typewritten—evidently that the writer might remain immune against discov- Ty. Worst of all, it was headed 2247 An- dover street—her husband’s business address. | Mary Benton had the quick temper which accompanies many lovable na- tures. She flung the letter into a cor- | ner and packed her bag. She was de- ' termined to go home to her mother. Then at last she composed herself, | dabbed some cologne upon her eyes, put the letter in her bag and started down town. She would be very quiet and very calm and give the woman no occasion to trlumph over her. She But I told Mary to take care 8he Was Determined to Go Home tol Her Mother. i would request a few moments of John’s time, would walk in, lay down the let- ter, ask him if he had anything to say, and then go home. It was nearly eleven o'clock before the slow-moving car reached Andover i strget, She p_l;hié hava taken the . Bul she WaD! m gpmt;‘ the : Journey 33 ng as possible, i £ got dowh froth the car and en-' tered the dreary office building, high up on the seventh floor of which John had his business quarters. She had never been there since their mar- riage. Bhe knew that he had a book- keeper, a stenographer and an office boy. When she went in she saw the same office boy and bookkeeper; but there was a new stenographer. | “Why, Mary!” John was at the door, looking at her with a puzzled expres- sion. He was holding her hands. “Mary! What is wrang, dear?” | She could not help her tears. “Send that—woman away,” she said in a fal- tering voice, and the stenographer withdrew softly, smiling a little. She had seen men’'s wives go to their hus- bands’ offices before. Mary Benton entered, put down her bag and, stand- ing like a recording angel, flung down the letter silently. John Benton read it and suddenly began to laugh uproar- fously. “John, what do you mean? Can you offer any excuse at all? What is it?” John Benton read solemnly: “My dearest, sweetest Jack—When are you going to take me out to din- ner again, as you did on the 29th, sweetheart? I miss you every hour ot the day—more than I miss Halroft, the new patent scissors for cutting your own hair. When I see my brother’s Hafroff I think of your own dark, lus- ; trous locks. I—" “Oh, pshaw!” said John, throwing the letter down. “That's a mimeo- graphed”circular, Mary; we're flooding the country with them. Everybody will read them and want a pair. Look at those stacks of letters up there, ' dearest—they're all the same letter, all those thousands of them. And yoa thought—you really thought—" But Mary was past thinking now; she was in his arms, and her tears! were those of relief, happiness and hu- milfation. (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapmaa.) ‘ZLAND, FLA., NOV. 10, 1914, W@M*MQWWWM%WWMWWWC | line of 10 ard 12 one is fold with a back. MODEL Phone No. 340 | | a7 FANCIES OF FASHION STYLE THAT HAS FOUND FAVOR 1S TO REMAIN. Organdie Collar With Attached Vest One of the Features of the Mode —Dainty and Attractive Neck- wear Being Shown. With so much approval has fashion stamped the sheer and flaring or- gandie collar, with the attached vest, that it is reappearing this season, re- assured of ite success. Many adaptations, how- ever, are intro- duced in the new | models. That by simply adding a' collar and vest of this sort a new lease on life can " be given to any garment that has once lost its first freshness has be- come such an as- sured fact with; the woman of practical mind that she is loath to set aside a fashion that has become of so much importance to her. Never has daintier or more attrac- tive neckwear been designed than ntl the present time, and whether it be domestic or imported, we care not, 80 long as it is modish and becoming. The models are clever versions of the new ideas in neckwear, and the mag- ple suggestion carried out in vivid stripes marks one of the new and in- expensive variety. This vest, with collar attached, ready to baste on lnyl frock, sells for a comparatively small ! sum, Another pretty suggestion is a de- cided novelty of the seasonm, a lightweight lin. en, the edges and revers being scalloped in a col- ored floss. The vest fastens down the front with large pear] but- tons. These vests YT T T TR VPP PPPR PR PP YR S P [ ¥ » . o » i ! are rather expen- sive, but can be made very imex- pensively by the woman with nim- ble fingers, Among the neckwear we also come across a nov- elty in the way of neck ruffs, if by| such name this little collarette can be styled. In reality it is merely a little choker collar of ribbon covered with plaited chiffon, while the top. is fin- ished with a narrow edging of ostrich plumes. This collar, which {8 car- ried out in the prescribed colors of the season, fastens on one side with a coquettish little bow. Gay Roman stripes still play a prominent part in the season’s fan- cies, as illustrated by one of the new belts, which show a combination of leather and brightly colored striped silk. The belt and buckle are of silk, while tabs of the leath- er are suggested for ornamenting the front. The new belts con- tinue to be ex- treme in width, but are soft and pliable, crushing into graceful folds. For novelty in footwear we must hark back to the sixteenth century, when the soft, high-heeled shoes worn by the women were finished with a blunt, square toe. The few import- ed shoes that have arrived here have the appearance of the end of the shoe being cut entirely off. They are neith- er pretty nor becoming to the foot, and it will be a wrench for milady to \ ! discard her dainty pointed slippers for this substitute. 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