Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 23, 1914, Page 7

FISCHER & SON _Equipped with Modern Electrical Ma. L chinery we are able to do your Repairing > at Short Notice. We use Best Material ntee all Work at Satisfactory Prices. é ne line of RATTLESNAKE and ALL( G . POCKETBOOKS. Shocs, Hang o ok Work Called for and Delivered arcel Post charges one way, on amounting to $1.00 or over PH. FISCHER & SON A. AVE, S any Work PHONE 401 s e ————— | - ant Fresh Clean {OCERIES? are at your service for anything ed by an Up-to-date Grocery ne orders glven prompt attention fail to see us” fore having your Electrical work done. e can save you money and give you better gtuff’’ than you have been getting, and for itt'e less money. ARDWELL, Electrical Contractor ERYTHING ELECTRICAL PHONE 233 st Main Street and New York Avenue First Class Work Guaranteed se Laundry ork Called for and Delivered been a resident of Florida for 20 years, and am n to many prominent gentlemen, all of whom hmend me as doing First Class Work at Reason- JIM SING Phone 257 e Street KéLL EYS B ARRED | Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at reasonable prices. Fggs from high class pens for hatching. Write me before ordering else where, % H L. KELLEY,Griffin Fla. Just received a Shipment of Heinz Dill Pickles In Bulk, 20c per doz. Give us your Orders for ressed Turkeys dmonson & Mills BIG PURE FOOD STORE AND MARKET PHONE 93-279 i in from her ow i usual these last days at the resort, | 0 B B P2 0151 D TN YN s B0 P R B Ly e o o D1 1 | | | at the beach—" THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAKE §uoao uvo#wovwog : : INTHE UNDERTOW % By LOUISE MERRIFIELD. & e s fi.fi.fi'fi.fi.fi.fi.#lfi.fi.fi.fi' “I think you're very na ¢ 3 rrow in boint of view, Bella. He's really a' wogxdertul boy, pertectly wonderful. €8 saved eight lives this summer | | “A professional life 8 have done as well, I do::?te l’lllxuec“ull‘: these college boys who sweep down on a place like Tonowa and gobble up the best positions for the season.” Tsabelle tied & red and black silk ' c.np over her close braids firmly. It Wwas warm in the pine dressing room of the bath house, She had stepped D next door to help two kiddies, and as your Celia with the n e : of Ralph Marduy g her treatment Theysy Jow't do it for fun, Belle., orking their way through, ' :}“d I think it's dandy of them, and eorge thinks it is, too.” “ot course, if George says so, you'd agree,” laughed Isabelle. “You dear old easy.g'oing thing. They work hard, don't they. A few hours a day waiting on the table, or here on | the beach flirting with every pretty ' girl in sight, and twanging mando- lins and guitars to the moon after | dark. No, thanks. Perhaps if I were a real summer girl myself I'd feel different, but I'm not.” “I never saw a teacher in my life with a throb of real sentiment in her.” Celia said. i Along the shore line the last rush ' of visitors dotted water and beach. | Isabelle stood for a minute on the sand. ' “You're not going far out, are you, Miss Chadwick?” The voice came from just behind her. “Why not?” “The undertow is heavy this morn- ing. It caught even Tod Glossing a while ago, and we pulled him out.” “He wasn’t—it wasn’t serious?” She looked back at him now, her dark blue ! eyes filled with quick concern. Mar- den met them stolidly. “No, he's all right. don't you?” - Isabelle flushed slightly. It wasn't that she liked Tod at all. He was simply a young teacher of social sci- ence at a western college, and they , had found a great deal in common to talk over, but some spirit of con- trariness led her on. “He seems to have found his way in life. I like the worker rather than the dilettante.” It was a typical feminine bit of spite. She knew well that while Tod had been sitting around the hotel piazza for a month reading books and magazines, Marden had been pacing a hot beach day after day doing real work. { Just how it all happened she could never quite remember afterward. De- liberately she had made her way out to the second life raft, past all lines, to show him she was not afraid. Celia was clinging to the life rope, chatting with some of the women from the hotel. Georgie and Dot had ram- bled along the beach, squealing and kicking in the surf with a lot of other children, when there came a high pitched scream. Suddenly Isabelle saw something, just a swirl of tangled yellow hair, and the flash of an upturned face borne outward by the sea, and she slipped from the raft after it. Oh, but she was glad she was strong! She had never feared the water, and now she felt she could battle with it, and make it give her back what she loved. It was coming toward. her, and she went under to find it with reaching arms. : “Not my neck, boy,” she gasped, as they gained the surface, the fright- ened boy clinging about her desperate- ly. “Ill hold you all right. Oh, let g0, Georgie!” She tried to reach and unclasp his grip, but he was half unconscious, and she felt her strength going. She held the limp little body to her with one arm and tried to keep afloat with : the other, but it grew harder every minute, and a great weariness was stealing over her. ' It was Marden who reached her first. Behind him were a few others of the strongest swimmers, and back , on the beach they were launching a boat, but Marden was the one who beld her with Georgle fast in her arms, and turned to beat his way back to shore with his double burden. That night she sat out on the ver- anda at Celia’s cottage. Indoors she could hear Celia singing softly over her drowsy boy. She had hardly let | him out of her arms since Marden had given him back to her. ]sabclle' caught the crush of gravel on thei walk as he came through the break in the hedge toward her, and closed ! her eyves with a smile of content. 1 It .eemed the most natural thing in the world that he should come to her so, without one word, and reach- ing down, hold her fast in his arms as he had done when death had near- ly claimed her. She leaned her head back on his shoulder with a sigh of relief until Dot's voice roused her.l Standing in the light from the hall, in her little pink pajamas, she watched them seriously. ‘ “Does she belong all to you now?” she asked softly. “’'Cause you took her away from the water?” “All to me, forevermore, answered. right, 1914, by the McClure, Newspa- g per Syndicate.) 0 You like Tod, ” Ralph ' | i{in town Madge became entirely occu- LAND, FLA,, NOV. 23, 1914. LAURELS AND SUNBONNET By DOROTHY DOUGLCS. Madge Lester had won her crown of 1aurels with comparative ease. TR e e ‘ I country girl, play- ol EXes ‘lf dramatic art. i When Sir John ' Giltroy was pre- sented to her at ¢ the home of Lord .Danvers, at whose home a house party was given in her hon- or, he knew that the one woman, had entered his life. | During the fortnight following he courted Madge with British determi- ! nation. Before accepting Lord Dan-! ver’s invitation Madge had asked the privilege of solitude for an hour or | two a day that she might study up | her part for the forthcoming produc- tion of her new play. “You see—I am a slave to my dear | public—even when on a holiday,” she ! had told Lord Giltroy. “I must work | when you are all shooting grouse and | landing salmon. And you know 80 little of me. I am deeply honored by your love, but I feel that our paths are so different; they are so widely separated that it would be difficult to get the best out of life under those conditions.” Without knowing it, Madge swayed | slightly toward him. His arms went | swiftly about her and his lips covered her own before she could stir. “I will give you another fortnight to think it over,” he said. “You will know then if you love me.” He let her go then, and Madge went quickly to her room. Having returned to her apartment pled with her new production. She had decided when she first saw her part that the little trunk full of clothes with which she had come to Broadway from the country would costume the role as no other clothes would. The trunk was always with her. It was the closest link with the past and a treasured possession. ‘When Madge opened it to look over its contents she had not realized that ! a tumult of emotion would sweepl over her. The longing to get back to the old farm brought tears to her eyes, and when she picked up the old pink sunbonnet that had clung to her curly head through rain and through shine Madge wept softly into its faded depths. “No, No!” she told herself vehe- mently, “I could not marry a titled personage and tie myself down to con- ventional city life.” She gazed fondly at her ginghams and quaint little frilled petticoats and her Sunday hat with the pond lilies on it. They were admirably suited to her part in the new play and Madge decided that it the play was a success she would play her season in London and a fare- well in New York, then retire from the stage. She pulled down her masses of auburn hair, dressed it in ringlets, put the pink sunbonnet on and her Sunday gingham and viewed herself in the mirror. Madge laughed with delight. Assuredly she had gone back to nature and she drew in a deep breath in imagination scenting the ap- ple blossoms. So engrossed was she that she had not heard the bell ring nor did she know that her maid had admitted Sir John Giltroy. She turned suddenly and looked into his laughing eyes. He took both of her hands in his own and surveyed her from head to foot. | “Well. If 1 had known you when ! you were a wee girl like that you would never have been crowned by theatrical laurels and I would never have been a baronet. I would have married you and kept you out on the farm with me."” “You—not a baronet? How could ; you help 1t?" Madge questioned the | while she realized that she must give this man his way whether that way | led through town mansions or coun- try lanes. “l won my titie,” he said, simply. “It 18 a degree of honor and not he- reditary. At heart I long for the vastness of country life. I am a’ farmer by birth and a baronet by ; endeavor.” He drew Madge nearer to him and looked fondly beneath the sunbonnet. “I have come for my answer, dear,” he said. “My answer,” whispered Madge, softly, “is—yes.” i (Copyright, 1814, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) i u i | | An Important Implement, ! The engine had gone to pleces, tho' screw revolved no more, and the yacht | of the millionaire rolled helplessly in | the trough of the sea. ! Anxiously signaling for help was the wireless operator. He was approached by the owner of the craft. “I wish,” said the latter, “that you would ad- vige my wife in Brooklyn of our accl dent.” 1 “Shall I tell her the engine is broken, sir? 'asked the wireless man. “By no means!” exclaimed the mil- lionaire. “Those bald words would be discomforting to the sensitive woman. Send her a message which, while not transgressing the truth, will make her think our accident is only a trivial one. Tell her our screw driver is broken.” | | | 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 e Hub JOS. LeVAY This Store is the Home of Hart Schaffner and Marx Geod Clothing -l tatteesiissesnestsssd i Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A Business Without Books” | E find that low prices and long time will not go haud in hand, and on May 1st we installed our NEW SYSTEM OF LOW (PRICES FOR STRICTLY CASH. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County thousands of dollars in the past, and our new system will still reduce the cost of living, and also reduce our expenses, and enable us to put the knife in still deeper. We carry a full line of Groceries, Feed,”Grain, Hay, Crate Material, and Wilson & Toomer’s IDEAL EERTILIZERS always on hand. ayes Grocery Company L e D FRRPRPS PR 4§ PGP B B P Bl S SEDHH ST 2P PIIIEEEIEIDLSEIE 3 2 L il FEPEFREE —— i i 211 West Main Street. LAKELAND, FLA. * & b oo SRR P BB EDPBDDEPDD B ODEE S SBDHGPTODGE B EFFERE L CHEER R R EEEERETEIEE R AR AR RS RS04 Lower Prices on] Ford Cars liffective August Ist, 1914 to Augustist, 1915 and guaranteed against any reduction during that time. All cars tully equipped ‘ i o. h. Detroit. ‘ Runabout... ... ... $440 ’ Touring Car ...... ..490 Town Car. .. 690 Buyers to Share in Profits All retail buyers of new Ford cars from August 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will share in the profits of the company to the extent of $40 to $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- liver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- riod. Ask u= for particulars FORD MOTOR COMPANY Lakeland Auto and Supply Co. a »OLK COUNTY AGENTS.