Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 17, 1914, Page 7

B. STREATER TRACTOR AND BUILDER ¢ had t?vei,gk-o;edyem:’ experience tacting in eland and vicinity, 1 feel compet. the best services in tl.us line. If comten?;)l::tie:; will be pleased to furnish estimates and all infor- All work guaranteed. in building P PPORdd o DbRd- B PP P J. B. STREATER. “““‘““Oum“.m ShgPd L} Us Be Your Grocers?| CTVIVED handle only fresh, clean Is and we keep a full line resh Meats, Including eaks, Roasts, Chops, Breakfast Bacon, Brains, Chickens, etc, Vegetables are pecialty. We Keep Fresh Fruit, also 0 injCan Goods that you may suggest g Vegetables, Soups, etc. y your goods where You can get the most for the money. lace is the grocery of . TWEEDEL PHONE 59 et Us Supply Your Needs Orange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders Cement Coated Box Nails ’s Orange Plows American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence Everything usually carried in an up-to-date Hardware Store ILSON RDWARE CO. frevenesenesenenenenenencs HER SUBTLE STRATESY £ By GENE MACK, ofiotofiofioaoaofiotofiuofiofig “It's got to stop!” insisted Pil Mrs. Pilking maintained her pl::c.l: lty“ and continued sewing, "Hun't 1t?” he added, more mildly. No, it hasn't” said Mrs. Pilkins, and when Pilkins showed signs of ex: :l::'ltn# sho finished, “because it “I fail to comprehend you,” her hus- Eand said, with great indignation. You are an unnatural mother! Here your daughter is on the point of elop- ing at the age of seventeen and you refuse to raise a hand to stop her! Yo‘rx 8ay you won't stop it!” Not at all,” sald Mrs, Pilkins, IA::etly.m;'I said I couldn’t stop it} neither can byt you nor anybody “Elmira,” said Mr. Pilkins, “you are 8n unusually exasperating woman sometimes! This is one of the times! It you haven't lost your tongue or for- gotten the English language, do you mean to say you can't tell Guinevere not to see that young whiffet of a Thompkins seven nights a week?” “Oh, dear no!” said his wife. “And I could tell her the earth was a rub- ber ball and that we had interited $10,- 000,000,000, any of which remarks would make not the slightest impres- sion. “If you want to exercise your vocal cords you might try it, William!” amplified Mrs. Pilkins. “Just take Guinevere aside and say, ‘Daughter, I want to point out to you that you are making a very grave mistake in act- 3 H H 3 # i Ing as though young Thompkins was the only male creature on earth! you will take your time and look around a bit you'll find dozens that can give him cards and spades! More- over, you are far too idiotically young to be considering matrimony and will probably ruin your life and have to get a divorce. I know men, and this Thompkins never will earn over eight dollars a week.” “This Is One of the Times.” “Well, that would be something like t!” murmured Pilkins, with {inter est. Mrs. Pilkins kept on sewing. “I suppose you fancy Guinevere would at once be smitten to the soul with the conviction that papa knows best! ‘Yes,’ she would say, ‘I can see the truth in your wise remarks, father! How can I thank you? When Tommy comes this evening please assist him down the steps quickly!’ “Not at all, my poor deluded hus- band! Your child would set her teeth grimly, turn pale and vow heroically that wild horses would not drag her from Tommy. She will be true to him forever! And then she'd write him a tear-stained note telling of your cruelty and her heroism and ever- lasting devotion! And if you forbade him the house that would merely make it all the more romantic and sghe’d be sliding down the porch pil- lars from an upstairs window to meet him on the corner!” Pilkins groaned and clutched his head. he admitted. now that I consider the matter! How do parents stop their oftspring from making everlasting fools of them- selves, anyhow?”’ “They don't,” said Mrs. Pilkins. “Did you ever hear of a parent's circum- venting & love affair by force? You know you never did! The only hope or chance is that our child will be smitten with an attack of common gense. It does break out occasionally, in fact, for 17 years I've been train- ing Guinevere for just this occasion. “I never told you, did I, how I came near running away with the grocery delivery boy when I was fifteen? It gounded lovely, and I lived in a dream outside of which the fears and moans of protests of my protesting parents gounded faintly and made a pleasant substantial background. Then some- thing inside my head reached out cold, clammy fingers and smached all tho romance and I didn't take the fate- tul step. I hope that’s what =will hop- pen in Guinevere’s cace!” «But what if it doesn't?” asked Pil- kins, somewhat tremulovsly. “I thought of that,” admitted Mrs. Pllkins. “So last week I wrote that school down East and got Guinevere | accepted. I heard from there today. She leaves next week! over the girls she may meet, and al- ready planning to whose geashore home she'll be invited next summer, 8o that she is now forgetting Thompkins at the rate of a mile a minute!” «Thank heavens!” groaned Pilkins. “Why wvnder creation didn’t you tell e s¢ before?” m“o?, 1 love to hear you talk!" sald Mrs. pflm-.—chlmo Dally News “You may be right, Elmlra,"i “They are that way, ! She’s excited | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, iLAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 17, 1914. “At any rate, I've learned one thing,” | declared Mrs. Avery to the assembled : class in Irish crochet. “Pass it on,” said the girl who was ! struggling over some tiny crocheted roses. “Never buy more than one pound of coffee at a time.” And the hostess rolled down the sun screen with a flurry and settled her filmy skirts into the west end of the hammock swing. “Talking of Irish crochet—" began the girl in pink linen, while a smile scattered throughout the group. “Buying in quantities is always cheaper,” declared the girl in the big wicker chair. “We use three pounds : every month and that is never too long to keep coffee on hand.” “We were taught at the school of domestic science to buy in quantities and grind it ourselves,” sald the en- gaged girl, timidly. “For economy, purity and convenience.” “Did they tell you to get a coffee mill?” agked the hostess. “They told me; 80 after two years of married life ' I decided to look into the matter.” “What kind did you get?” asked the engaged girl. “I got the best—‘'Grinder's Glory, or some such name." I went to the root of things and consulted everybody ! I could find. Ned almost stopped eat- i ing meals at home because I insisted jon telling him all that 1 found -out | about coffee mills. one and forget 1t? he finally asked. 1 So I told him that we had two pounds | of coffee—ground—and I had to wait i tl it was used up. ‘Why do you get + 80 much at once?” he asked. And then [ told him that it was the only | way to buy—that mother always got a lot at one time. | “But at last all that coffee was used up, o | went downtown and ordered a coffee mill. And, of course, I told ! my coffee man to deliver my coffee { whole, “The mill has a cylinder that holds one pound. It screws into the wall #0F0IOIQILINPOIVCUIUPOTOFOILOE 0D New Arrivals Hecker’'s Old Homtstéaa Flap- Jack, Prepared Buckwheat, Cream frarina, and Cream Oatmeal. Roxane Graham, Whole-Whear, Cake Flour, and Selfrising Flour, Richelieu Pancake and Buckwheat Flours and Oatmea’. = A e e —— My Line is as Fine as any in Town. My Store Clean, San- itary, Free from Rats and Roaches. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES DAILY Yours to Serve in Groceries, Feed, Seed and Fertilizer. Pobbbaes SPHPSGEFEESDBEDOS GOBDE DI DBGDOUPHIH S ‘Why don’t you get | ¢ “Don’t fzil to see us” before having your Electrical work done. We can save you money.and give you better ‘ stuff’’ than you have been getting, and for a litt'e less money. T. L. CARDWELL, Electrical Contractor 3 EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL PHONE 233 West Main Street and New York Avenue pryrrrerprreerrrrer vy T I ERE LT LR R et and grinds the coffee into a glass that | sits on a tiny shelf underneath. It is very unobtrusive and [ was excited till it came. It was two days late and since we had whole coffee we had be- gun using the meat grinder for it tem- l porarily. Did you ever try a meat | grinder for coffee? It is as hard to grind as nalils, “Finally the coffee mill came. We didn’t unpack it until Ned had passed a harassing hour trying to find his screw- driver. Then we found that the cylin- der had been broken. I almost cried. At once | sent an order for another and a call for the broken one. The boy came for it, but didn't bring the other. And every morning Ned would say: ‘Why don't you get a pound of ground coffee and stop this laborer's job? 1 would reply that I didn’t buy coffee that way, for it wasn't the way to buy coffee. “Then I went downtown to see about that coffee mill and found they werol all out of ‘Grinder’s Glory,’ but ex- pected them hourly, and they prom- fsed that I should recelve mine when they came. That was two weeks ago. “Yesterday Ned came home early and ground up all that coffee. He saild he couldn't sleep nights thinking of what he had to do before breakfass ‘Next time remember we are running no hotel,’ he said. ‘Three pounds of coffee in a family of two lasts a life- time." “So, of course, the coffee mill came out today, and as my coffee man came, too, 1 told him to senda three pounds of coffee—whole. He thought it over and decided that I had made a mis- take, I suppose. The coffee came five minutes before you arrived. There are three pounds of it and it 1s ground. And the stuff that Ned ground in the meat grinder last night added to the other makes four pounds of ground coffee in the house! And my pretty little mill is just aching to show off.” “But you can send back the ground coffee,” sald the girl in the blue linen. ; “My coffee man calls but once a| week. Next week I shall send it back. {1 had called Ned up when the mill | came and he seemed relleved, but he ; sald again something. about not get- ting so much coffee. So, after due ! consideration, I have phoned the cor- | of coffee—unground, whole berries— | adding, ‘I have my own mill. [ want to grind it myself’ So the grocer un- derstood. “Ned will be pleased by my capitula- tion and he needn't know the real why, nor about the three pounds of ground coffee. Mother always bought three pounds at a time, but that is really o —— . . o B no reason why I should, when my mill | calls for only one pound.” i ——————— lner grocery to send over one pound The Knock Answered. Opportunity knocked once at the man's door. To the surprise of Opportunity, the | man appeared and sald: «] don't want any mining stock, and I don’t want to invest in any bamboo plantations, and I don't want to buy a gand plant in Arizona, and I don't | want any Belgian hares or squab farms, or mushroom cellars, or—" “But, my dear sir,” Opportunity in- terrupted, “I do not bring you any such offers. 1 am only here to show the way to rivet yourself to the good ! job you are now holding.” Whereupon the man invited Oppor tunity in. KELLEY'S BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at reasonable prices. Fgge from highclass pens for hatching. Write me before ordering else where, H. L. KELLEY, Griffin, Fla® Don’t Talk War, But Talk Business, and Boost Your Town HE HUB is still selling Hart Schaffner & Marx good Clothing, and it is the best clothing ever brought to your city. Now, Old Men and Young Men, come around and see what you can buy for $15 and $18 to $25 Have just received a new shipment of Arrow Shirts, Neckwear and Onyx Hose Will appreciate showing them to everybody JOS. The Hub = This Store is the Home of ] Hart Schaffner and Marx Good Clothing