Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 4, 1914, Page 3

JMA AND BILLY mhy — q Wavu HOWARD. glma,” sighed the Brunette, does seem to have bad luck.” “What is the, matter now?” | asked the Blonde, | giving half her at tention to the Brunette's remark : up that Iberty for a miliion Joiiars. If she hacen't shown him the game she was playing he might have been clam- oring for her to make him a prisoner, but, alas, she was too candid, and tha liberty-loving Billy decided that tc run away was the only safe thing to do. So he ran and he has been so ousy with engagements with other girls and has flitted and fluttered about like a dizzy whirlng dervish just to show to himself and others that he is still in full possession of that liberty which ] had been seriously threatened.” The Blonde sighed, as the Girl With the Auburn Hair paused to give some attention to her chicken salad “It is a pity that women can never, never be candid and show their true and half to the I 2| queation whether | eelings,” she remarked it would be safe to eat oysters so early in the sear son. “She has lost her latest,” alliter atively replied the 3 Brunette. “Billy and she is now alone.” {pity,” remarked the Girl @burn Hair. a pity,” agreed .the Bru- e had marked Billy for don’t understand it.” | With the Auburn Hair | did,” she announced. d what?” questioned the a Jemima had marked him for ¢ 0 “yeplied the Girl With the urn . “That is the reason he ted 3 was devoted to Jemima,” m Brunette. “I would have scied Him a willing victim.” % age, too,” almost sneered Nith the Auburn Hair. “Don't P that a man is never a will- p—he always likes to vic- if he can't do that he just ok ble about poor Jemima was ok it for granted that Billy , not to marry her, but that marry him, for a girl of ’temperament always mare body—and there's both a )b and a difference. Now she d that Billy was an eligible is handsome and clever and and is, in fact, everything fesirable in a husband. He ima very much, and if she Bt him see that she intended im from the world of men honor and obey her for the i heir days, she might have | ing a solitaire now—instead | Mg solitaire. But she assumed | fetary manner, gave Billy the aion that she depended upon | #'didn’'t have another admirer | World and took him to task did not do just what pleased the sort of a man who likes ; j that he is taking the initia- | M the glory of winning instead ' won, appeals to him. But ma didn't realize that and the siege that she inaugu-' his heart and hand too ap- ' an idea that Billy woke up morning with the realization ma had designs upon his life and that he wouldn't zive O B SR BBr B ‘“stuff’’ than you have a litt'e less money. ,. 'LP.;*L. CARDWELL, % EVERYTHING JIM SING E Chinese Laundry Ny, —_—— %0 1 have been a resident of {1 el | we Prices Pine Street Work Called for and Delivered known to many prominent gentlemen, all of whom recommend me as doing First Class Work at Reason- “Isn’t it?” agreed the Brunette. “We are blamed for being deceitful, yet 1t we are not always acting we never suc- ceed.” “Yes, subterfuge becomes our sec- ond nature,” said the Girl With the Auburn Hair, “but, after all, if it pleases a man to think that he is the great arbiter of fate, it doesn't really do us any harm. In fact, if to fulfill the mission laid down for us by one (‘eorge Bernard Shaw, of being the pursuers instead of the pursued, re- Guires a little art and finesse we should enjoy it more. After all, we don't re- spect the man who is captured by ob- i vious methods; we call him gullible, ! and simple, and pass along to the diffi- cult man.” “But this doesn’t make it any easier for Jemima,” said the Blonde, “and she really feels very sorry because she has lost Billy."” “But she'll get over it,” cheeringly prophesied the Brunette. “She will grieve for Billy a little while and then she will realize that there are other Biilies in the world and perhaps this v uce will teach her to be more “Let us hope so,” said the Girl With the Auburn Hair, and she prepared to pay the check and the Lunch club ad journed. 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What 1! am interested in is seeing how Hen- | i THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAK 'ELAND, FLA, DEC. 4, 1914, CEFGICEGGIF O I GG TIEGFED TONY'S SWEETHEART By HAROLD CARTER. “You see, mees,” explained Tony, “I cannot come to night school for two, t'ree weeks, because I going to be married.” Miss Eversham, who counted Tony " as one of her most promising pupils, was decidedly surprised. Tony was a sculptor of those little terra cotta and clay figures which are sold by ped- dlers on city streets; but he had a genuine artistic ability which Miss Eversham prided herselfon having discovered. She had even projected a brilliant future for him, beginning with a course at the Cooper Union and ending with commissions from state governments and crowned heads. “But, Tony, you didn't tell me any- thing about this,” objected Miss Ever- sham, a little petulant. “But I did not know till las’ week, mees,” responded the young fellow. “I got a letter from my cousin Mari- no, in Palermo. He save my father's lite in the time of the revolution. Now he write he is an old man and to die, and have no money. So I must marry his daughter, Marta, whom I never see. He say she is nineteen and ver' beautiful, and she meet me on boat tomorrow.” “Well, Tony, I wish you happiness,” answered Miss Eversham, dubiously. “But after you are married, come to see me. I want to talk to you about —about your studies.” Three days later Tony appeared, smiling. “It is all ri’, Mees Eversham,” he said. “I no marry till Christmas.” “How is that, Tony?” inquired the teacher. “Well, mees, I go to the boat,” Tony explained, “and there is no Marta. But instead, a fashionable young wom- an ask for me by name. Tony Satelli?” she ask. ‘Are you ‘I am friend “That Bes Marta,” S8aid Tony. of Marta. My father have beeg es- tate near Palemo. Marta she cannot come. She say you mus’' send money, then she come.’ So I send money at lchrlltmu, and then Marta come to | me.” | Miss Eversham was still more du- ! blous, and her anxiety on behalf of| ' her protege was not lessened when, ! as the weeks passed by, Tony's face | became more and more downcast. | Miss Bversham rallied him on his de- | . spondency in view of his approaching ' marriage, but it was not until late | in the year that Tony vouchsafed an | explanation. | “It is all gone, all my hope gone,” | he saild, pulling a photograph out ot| | his pocket. “Look, Mees Eversham!” Miss Eversham studied the photo- extremely plain young woman, |lnt-’ ternly and gaudily attired, and the shoulders were those of a hunchback. i “That ees Marta,” said Tony. “She s a cripple and can never stand on | her feet. All her life she go 80.” | | “But, Tony,” sald Miss Eversham, ' “surely it is not necessary for you to marry a girl whom you have never seen, if she is to be an invalid all her | lite.” ‘ “I have sent the money,” sald Tony, ' hopelessly. “She arrive in tree ; weeks.” “But why, Tony?”" “Her father save my father during the revolution,” said Tony. Then sud- denly he clasped his hands and wept unrestainedly. “Oh, it ees hard, Mees ! Eversham,” he sald. “I love Jullanl]‘ I Legardi.” Miss Eversham drew the story from him then. Juliana was the young . woman who had brought him news of Marta. She had come to America to ' display some paintings, and had achieved great success. Already she | had become something of a vogue in . the world of art. Only twenty-two, slie bade fair to be one of those wom- | 24 painters whom modern Italy is pro- ducinz in numbers. She had taken' an interest in Tony, and he had fall- | en madly in love with her. Poor Tony! | He felt that he was not worthy to kiss | the ground she walked upon. “An honest man may aspire to tha; hand of any woman,” said Miss Ever- sham, in a pardonable aphorism. “Tony, there is no reason why you should consider yourself bound to marry your cousin.” “I have sent her the money,” ex- | lplllned Tony, hopelessly. “But, Tony—" “Her father save my father in the time of the revolution,” Tony contin- ued, and there was such finality in his tone that Miss Eversham ventured ' time of the revolution.” |pleased with himself and all | an Irishman takes a sip of whisky he street into his confidence.” ier cur ty did, Low.ver to attend the art ricet Juliana Legardi was ann of the attractions. She a est and singularly attractive yc woman, but obviously far above Tcny. She went away sighing. Poor Tony! ¢ There was no use attempting tc do , anything. And what could she do?:' It was not Juliana's fault if Tony had ! fallen in love with her. | Juliana Legardi departed for Italy!-‘ suddenly a couple of days later. Miss |/ Eversham read of her sailing in tbe |, newspapers, and looked anxiously for ; s Tony the following evening. But he 'y did not appear at night school, then }: or at any future date. And as the | days went by and no word came of him, she gradually came to abandon all expectation of ever hearing of him ( again. He remained in her mlnd.l however, as the type of fidelity; his faithful brown eyes often came before | her, and she would glance at her class of ignorant immigrants and sigh, thinking how nearly she had succeed- ed in creating one genfus out of the heap of raw material that passed through her hands. And then, about a year later, when she had ceased to think of Tony, ex- cept as an incident of the past, she saw him at the door of the night school as she was leaving, waiting for her. “Tony!" exclaimed Miiss Eversham. “Why, where have you been all this | time?” y: “In Italy, Miss Eversham,” he an- swered, and Miss Eversham looked at him in astonishment. Gone were the gaucheries of the young man whom | she had taught; he spoke like a gen- tleman and looked like one. Uncon- sclously she found herself accepting his ofter of the inner side of the street. And she found, too, that she was regarding him as one of her own class, and no longer as “raw mate- rial.” “And did you marry Marta?" she wanted to ask, as he escorted her through the streets toward her home; but she could not bring herself to do 80. The young man at her side looked so radiant, so evidently prosperous. “You see, Miss Eversham,” he ex- plained, “when I got home I had a chance of a commission for : some statuary in the town hall which at- tracted the attention of art critics, and | —well, I am welltodo now, and al- most famous, in Italy. And so my wife and I are on our wedding trip here, and you must meet her.” i “Marta?” flashed out Miss Ever- sham. Tony nodded. “We are staying at the Continental,” he sald. “I wonder | if it is too late? She wanted me to ! bring you back tonight.” Five minutes later Miss Eversham found herself in the presence of— Juliana! “Tony!” she exclaimed in bewilder- TSR SRR ERM ST, GRETIN TR . | R SR N A S R S VSO o = e b v o ment, turning from one smiling face '3" to the other. chuckling like .a schoolboy. | “You see, Miss Eversham,” he ex- i plained, “this is Marta. Juliana Le- < gardl was—how do you say ?—her nom | :5 de plume. And the photograph was & | « You see, | ;; deception—very wicked! Marta did not want me any more than | « I wanted her, and so she came here | to test me; and when she saw I was & faithful she told me before she sailed, and so we sailed together, being mar- rled the day before. And now is our honeymoon and—ah, Miss Eversham, ; you would understand better if your sweetheart had been the son of the man who saved your father in thol (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) LONG LIFE OF LONELINESS self Apart From the World for Seventy-Five Years. The death has just taken place ltl Ww s i Mayes Grocery Company B8 oozt 3 " 3 ‘ x4 : b B | graph with dismay. It was that of an | Stockholm of Miss Christina Witlund, :.i,é, an eccentric and wealthy woman. | Seventy-five years ago Miss Witlund, then a handeome young girl of eighteen, was engaged to be marrled‘ to a dashing officer of the Royal| QGuards, and everything was ready for the wedding, when the bridegroom | suddenly broke off the engagement, and eventually married another. Miss Witlund, it is said, nearly lost | her reason from the effects of the, shock, and when she finally recovered ! made a solemn vow never to look upon treacherous man again. Her parents dead, she had sole con- trol of her own affairs, and she shut herself up in the house, where she re- mained for the whole of her life with- out ever going out. For 75 years she saw no other human beings than her servant girls. | Living as one dead in the midst of the bustle of modern civilization, she had never seen trains, steamships, | tramcars, taxicabs, airships or aero- planes. Even daylight was strictly tabooed in her house, all the blinds being carefully drawn. Something of an Explanation. “In some mysterious way,” says Mr. MacManus, “Ireland has got the name of being a hard-drinking nation. This reputation is most undeserved.' he Irishman may appear to drink more because when a Scotchman drinks it sinks to his heels and steadies him. When an Englishman takes a drink it goes to his stomach and he sits down in an easy chair, the | world, and dreams of carrying the blessings of civilization—the Bible and the bottle—to the heathen in re- mote corners of the world. But when thinks himself selfish if he doesn’t instantly go out and take the whole G & La s Boost Your City and Buy Hart Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes &2 YOU ought to be thankful 1hat you are a citizen of a nation that is rot at war. You ought to get some comfort, in such times as these, by contrasting your good fortune in this respect with the sorrows of our fellowmen across the sea. * ok X % We must go en doing our own wash; the duty of this store ts to :upply the men of this community with Hart Schaffner and Marx Fine Clothes. We’re doirg it. * % %8 The Hub THE HOME OF Hart Schaffner and Marx{Good Clothes JOS. LeVAY 4 WHOLESALE GROCERS “A Business Without Books” E find that low prices ard long time will not go baud in band, and on May 1st we installed our STRICTLY CASH. We have saved the people of; Lakeland and Polk County thousands of dollars in thelpast, and our new system will still, reduce the 'cost of living, and also reduce our expenses, and enable us to put the knife in stillldeeper. We carry a full line ot Groceries, Feed, Grain, Hay, Crate Material, and Wilson &_Toomer’s IDEAL EERTILIZERS always’on’hand. Mayes Grocery Company 211 West Main Street, LAKELAND, FLA. 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