Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 12, 1914, Page 6

i .i The Professions fl CERFFEPEPSIPPEFTEEEEPIPIES THE EGYPTIAN SANITARIUM OF CHRONIC DISEASES Smith-Hardin Bldg., Cor. Main and Florida Ave, Phone 391 Electricity, X-Ray, Light, Heat, Hydrotherapy, Turkish Batbs, Phys jcal Culture, Massage, Dietetics, £te. You can get here what you get in Battle Creek and Hot Springs and save time and expense. . D. & H. D. MEND GCgNS&UL’I'ING ENGINEERS Suite 212-215 Drane Buillding Lakeland, Fla. Phosphate Land Examlnations and Plant Designs, Karthwork Specialists, Surveys. Residence Phone 240 Black DR. J. Q. SCARBOROUGH, CHIROPRACTOR * Lady in Attendance Consultation Free Office in Dyches Building Between Park and Auditerium Residence phone, 278 Black. Ofce phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH E. WHEELER 0STEOPATH Munn Annex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida J. D. TRAMMELL Attorney-at-Law Van Huss Bldg. Lakeland, Fla DR. W. R. GROOVER a4, Aenricky Bullaima Lakeland, Florida DR. C. C. WILSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attention Given To DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILD®EN Deen-Bryant Bldg. oms 8, 9, 10. Office Yhone 357 Residence Phone 367 Blue A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNBY-AT-LAW Real Estate Questions Drane Building DR. R. B. FAUDOCK DEN'TIST Room No. 1, Di-kson Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. Office Phone 138; Residence 91 Black D. 0. Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jr. ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Bullding Lakeland, Florida EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER Raymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Building Lakeland Florida W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER Office Upstairs East of Court Houre BARTOW, FLA. Examination of Titles and Real Rx tate Law a Speclalty #.#'#Ob.&.#.fl.#.#.&.#.@.g TWIST OF THE MIND By FRANK FILSON. &« aoRORerOTOTOTONOTONONOTOTO At half-past twelve® Littlefield stepped out of the teller's cage with| his bag in his hand. Inside the bag were eight thousand dollars in bills. The loss would not be discovered un- til half-past one, for certain reasons which Littlefield knew intimately, and | by that time Littlefield would be on: his way south. He had made all his calculations and had no regrets. He had slaved for the Eighth National for seven ' years, and he was now drawing a ! beggarly fifteen hundred, with no pros-' pect of a raise. Johnson, the manager, | did not like him. Sleigh, the paying | teller, had been with the bank since' boyhood; he was an old stick-in-the- ! mud and would die in harness there.' The road to promotion was blocked, | and, if it were not, there was no chance for Littlefield, with Johnson's | enmity. Littlefleld had studied the man and ! wondered why he hated him so. He: could not even speak civilly to him. | Littlefleld had been expecting his dis- missal since the first of the year; how- ever, he had stuck it out for Lucy’s sake. But when Lucy Merritt went back on him— ! It was a foolish quarrel, but she had given him back his ring and told him ' she never weznted to see him again. ' He could not even remember what they had quarreled about. At first | Littlefield had been overwhelmed; but | then he began to accept it as part of the grudge fate seemed to have against him. i And, once he had begun to believe himself a victim of destiny, he lost all moral sense. He was alone in the world, and now that he had lost Lucy he meant to make amends to himself at the bank's expense. He had reached the door when the porter came up to him. ° “Mr. Johnson wants to see you, Mr. Littlefleld,” he said. There was a significant look upon the man's face. Littlefleld had a wild impulse to bolt for the door. Instead of that he stood looking speechlessly | at Jacks. Jacks' face grew sterner. “At once, sir, he said,” he continued. Johnson looked up. “Well, Mr. Lit- tlefleld, you don't look very happy,” he sald. “You seem to go about your, work with a perpetual glower—at least when I meet you.” : Was he playing with him? Or was this the preliminary to his discharge? Littlefleld’s hopes grew. “Put your bag on the table, Mr. Lit. tlefleld,” continued Johnson. “You look as though you were afraid I was going to open it. Come, set it down beside me—never mind these papers.” Littlefield flung the bag down de-| flantly and stood facing his tormentor. ' Johnson arose slowly, and suddenly clapped his hand hard on the other’s shoulder. | “We've been looking over your reec- ord since you came here, Mr. Little- fleld,” said Johnson, “and it makes a very creditable showing. Mr, Slelxh.| you know, is leaving to accept the| cashier’s position with Brown & Sea- gull. We are going to promote you to his place at the salary which always goes with it—two thousand to start and an annual increase of a hundred up to twenty-five hundred.” Littlefield siill stared at him; he had not yet vndnoretend “So you see,” continued John:on.i “we have not failed to recognize the zeal that you have shown in our in- terests. I may tell ycu in confidence that there was much difficulty in de- ciding between you and another mem- ber of our force, and that you were selected cn my insistence for the reg- opeesese. & [ ] & [ J & ® & [ ] - | son that I have given you.” DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Rooms 5 and 6, Elliston Bldg Lakeland, Florida Phones: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Office phone 402. Res. 312 Red Special attention to drafting lega' papers. Marriage licenses and abstracts turnished W. HERMAN WATSON, M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids NORTHROP SCHOOL OF MUSIC KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY MRS. ENSIGN NORTHROP, Lakeland, Florida PETERSON & OWENS 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW Dickson Building Established in July, 1900 DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida B. H. HARNLY Real Estate, Live Stock and General AUCTIONEER Sales Manager : NATIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot Sales a Speclalty 21 Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla Littlefield understood at last, and | he swung round impulsively and | looked into Johnson's face, “I have thought someiimes that you had taken a dislike to me,” continued the man.gor. “No, sir; no,” blurted out Littlefield. | “I must have given a false impres- | sion. I—" “I am indeed glad to hear it,” an- swered Johnson, wringing the other man’s hand warmaly. “And now permit me to offer you my best and sinceres congratulations.” Littlefie'd found himself outside the office again. He walked idly toward the door. He did not quite know where he was going. He was recalled to him- self by Jacks, who thrust a letter into his hand. “Just come, sir,” said Jacks, smil- ing. Littleficld looked hard at tho porter. \Why, he was the acme of friendliness. What had been the mat- ter with him? Had he, Littlefield, been seeing ever ng through the mirror of his morbid and perverted mind? He tore open the envelope with trembling fingers. The letter was from Lucy. “My dearest,” it ran, “forgive me a thousand times for my unkindness to you. I was so hurt by what you said” —here Littlefield remembered the cause of their quarrel—“but I see now how wrong I was when you have al- ways been so kind and good. I trust you as every one trusts you. You are the soul of honor—" A rush of tears blinded the man's eyes. He could not read the letter further, then. So it was all in his own mind, everything, the sense of injus- tice, the quarrel with Lucy, Johnson's assumed unfriendliness, Jacks' an- tipathy—all his fears and wrongs and injuries! He took his bag and crept back into the cashier's cage. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) | | ness for solitary rowing bouts on the | would agree that his precious health Honeymooners “What are you doing here?” de- manded the girl who had just bought six initial handkerchiefs. ‘“One short week ago you bade us all farewell and went away to stay a month in the | country!” “That's all right,” said the girl who was looking at lavender bordered hand- kerchiefs. “1 was there a month all | in one week! I came home because I had to do so0 to retain my sanity! Yet when the Horans and the Worleys ask- [ me over to visit them at the cottage they had taken together for ; the season, I thought I was going to have the time of my life!” “Well, didn’t you?” “l daid!” emphatically said the girl who was buying lavender bordered handkerchiefs. “And may the fates preserve me from having it again! It was all my own fault and I should have known better! Any person bright enough to be let run at lurgei should have more sense than to tackle | one bride and groom—and to think ot; any human being having the lron-‘ plated nerve and reckless daring to; attempt to breathe the same atmos- | phere with two pairs of newly married | people makes me absolutely dis- gusted! “I resolved not to make a nuisance of myself when I descended on the dovecote,” explained the girl with her | eye on the lavender colored handker- | chiefs. “I planned to slip off for long walks by myself and to develop a fond- | lake and to discover dozens of letters that I simply had to go away by myself to write. I was going to give those people plenty of time to coo without the dark cloud of my presence embar- rassing them! [ needn’t have wor- ried, for they did not pay any more attention to me than they would if I had been composed of mist. “What I found that I simply could not endure was not any excess senti- mentality but excess solicitude on the part of the brides. Now, I've known Art Worley all my life, ever since we used to pull each other’s hair and steal cookies together, and of all the dare- devil, reckless boys I ever knew, he | was the worst. He was always get- ting drenched in rainstorms, upset in lakes, sunstruck and mangled in acci- dents, and as his mother was one of those comfortable, placid women with & divine faith in the nine lives of cats and boys she never paild any atten- tion to his mishaps. He grew up as tough as a hickory and able to thrive on a diet of nalls. “That 18 why Grace’s conduct first took away my breath and then in- furiated me. ‘Darling,’ she would say anxiously to Art at the breakfast ta- ble, pausing suddenly as the awful ; thought smote her. ‘I forgot to lay out your heavier underwear for you, and there's quite a chill wind today! I Just know you'll take your death of cold! Promise me that you'll change at once—I should never forgive myself if you got cold in your head through my horrid carelessness!’ “And Art Worley, before my very eyes, would gaze at her fatuously and frown a trifie with worry and then demanded the next heaviest welght. He would shiver a trifle, too, and say that the wind did feel cold. “That would start Helen. ‘Harry, | she would murmur to her husband, ‘do you feel the cold, too? Now, don't be foolishly brave and say no when you're | really suffering! You know you said last night that you had a pain in your shoulder! 1 just knew you shouldn’t have brought in those great heavy armfuls of stovewood! You tax your strength too much!' “Yet this same Harry Horan took all the athletic honors at college. He re- sembles a giant of prehistoric days in | slze. Yet Harry, instead of howling in derision, would look seriously and | would tell Helen that he supposed he was foolish and that he must be more careful! “Then Grace would capture me as I started for a walk and would pour her | troubles into my ear. It seemed that | Art had not eaten more than two ! spoonfuls of his breakfast food that | morning, and did I think he was going | to be ill? | “Then I would brutally say that Art | Worley looked as solid and tough and lasting as the big oak tree out in front she would indjgnantly retort that I had no heart and didn't appreciate the real delicacy of his constitution. “When I escaped from her Helen would approach and weer on my shoul- H der and demand to be told 1f I thought | Harry would stop loving her because | the coffee had been so weak at break- fast, due to her criminal neglect. She felt that she had falled as a wife and . she could not bear to think of her | own frightful shortcomings a moment ! longer. “After I had endured this sort of thing for one whole week I threw all my clothes helter-skelter into my trunk and caught the next train back to town. I really felt that immediate eg. cape was the only thing that coulg save my mind from giving away ut. terly. “That's why I'm buying lavender handkerchiefs that will fade in the first wash—I want to do foollsh myself to counteract the fool- ishoess of others during that long week!” | tions, because they may be working to | the point where they will be presi- PERSUADING CHILDREN By LILLIAN YOUNG. 2000000000 “You can’t imagine,” said the earnest little woman, “how I wish I bm_i had that book years ago when the_ children were mere babies! What I might have accomplished! It makes me \\'aut_ to cry now when I consider the ‘ume wasted! Still, I am going _lo be;gm at once and make up for lost time! «I don't take much stock in it,” com- | mented the lady who bad brought up six children, all of whom had escaped the penitentiary. i | “Mercy!” cried the earnest little, woman. “How can you feel that way! i What particularly impressed me was the part which sald not to hamper. their individual development, to give: them mental freedom, to allow thelr' minds to work out problems their own way, and always to answer their ques- dents or something famous some day! As for corporal punishment—it made me feel 1 deserved to be shot at dawn because I used to spank them once in a while! Iam going hereafter to treat them like human—" “Mother!” interrupted seven-year- old Henry, “kin I go over to Oscar's?”’ The earnest little woman smiled at him beamingly. “No, darling,” she said. “I told you yesterday you could not go ; to Oscar’s at all!” “Why 2 “Why, I explained to you very care- fully,” eaid the earnest little woman in | some surprise. “Oscar is not the sort : of boy I want you to be with, He is not the right kind!” “Susanna! Come Down at Once!” “I wanna go to Oscar's!” roared her son loudly. “I wanna go! 1 wan—" Rising hurriedly, the earnest little woman clutched her recalcitrant son’s arm and turning him over her knee ad- winistered the old time discipline, Aft- er which he departed growling. “Of course,” said the earnest little woman, somewhat flushed, “that was unavoidable. In special cases I guess you have to spank them. Argument seems to make ne- - “It's been my wiperience,” said the Wwoman who had trought up six, “that argument hasn't ny effect on anyone this side of the giave! Of course, it's good for the lumys, sort of exercises them, if you care for that, but for chil- _dren especially srgument i nothing but an annoying noise!” “The book sald you should always | explain to them when you refused | them anything,” xaid the earnest little woman, somewbat mournfully, “And then their quicl little intellects would 8rasp your meaning and see that you knew best—whal 2" “I just choked." said the woman who had brought un six. “f never knew even a grownuh who would abandon | something he wanted to do and thank you for your wisdom if you tried to ..‘top him! I suppose you are follow- ing the few rules with Susanna, and in | that case it is all right to let her climb | that tree out there—when that limb ; breaks she's nw on it wil 1 develop—" “My goodness!” gasped the earnest little woman dropping her work: “Su- sanna! Cone down at once!” | “But you must let her work out her | Oown proble ns!” reminded the woman | who had brought up six, “She’ll leaml 2 lot abou! gravitation before she gets } torough-—-" | “Susanna!” cried her mother under- | wn!"” | neath. “Come right do | “I don't wanta!” brotested Susanna, | climbing higher. i “Susanha!” shrieked her i “Itll break—and you'll hurt yfl::::lti badly—' i “I don t wanta!" Crack! Crash! 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