Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 15, 1914, Page 3

A Cold Wave Is Liable to Come ' Any Day | e THE EVENING TALBGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 15, 1914, r———————————— { ..............Q...........l ——————————————————— BOYD'S SPLENDID IDEA By MARGARET M IDDLETON. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) “I wouldn’t dream of accepting your 5 half-price offer,” said Mrs. Marvin, ] told him of his gratitude towards Mrs. Marvin, his anxiety to be of service to her. “You can’t break into a family row, you know,” he was advised. “You'd get no thanks if you did. It's just this way: if Marvin could be made to know and see the ridiculous figure he makes when he gets full of cham- | pagne, he would probably be shocked into behaving himself.” the oysters. It was so hot that he “I've got an idea!” mused Boyd ' could scarcely raise a flicker of in- slowly and hopefully, and he proceed- | terest by relating how Albert Mac- GRIMMICK'S OYSTERS By JULIA CHANDLER. Grimmick began away back in Sep- tember to boast to his friends about NEUTRAL TONES FOR SPRING This Is Not War Ncws, But Refers to the Colors in Woraen's Costumes. From a fashion standpoint, neutral tones bid fair to have adepton as the novelty shades for spring. As a matter of fact, this use of neu- tral shades began long before the out- break of the war. It was exemplified in Paris through the great use of mas-; tie, or putty, shades in gaberdine and ! with all the liberal ingenuousness of | ed to carry it out. He was an expert | | | CRETET E ssss Toadin i a6 How about your supply of uel? Are you ready for old weather? ' If you wait too long to let us have your c1.c. you may regret it "~ We sell Tennessee Jellico LUMP - COAL fof'~Gyages, Cooking, and Heating Stoves &t prices that will interest you Place order now with me so you will know Alsofor Pound Cake / = Fruit Cake and 4 Raisin Cake ry Richelieu Can Goods ! They are the best money can buy. and Truckers will please remember I am head. for SEED POTATOES and all other Seeds. . s N SOFOER O #OPOFOHOFOEOPOP JOIN THE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF USELESS GIVING infifig G_. ALSO THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION = OF USEFUL GIVING ric Irons, Toaster Stovcs, Percula- Flashlights, and Table Lamps, are ng the most desirable and useful m you can select for CHRISTMAS ents. RLORICH ELECTRIC WD MAGHINERY G0 THE ELECTRIC STORE 46 307 E. Main St. SOSNSDIIPOSRENSIHFOFIFOFIFOHO HOSDS V604 DEOSD % _graph of the house—yes, and another a new and happy bride. | “] need work so sorely,” explained | Roslyn Boyd, “that I am willing to! take anything I can get.” ! He was a gentleman, she saw that. His face showed cultured intelligence. “You seem to be very anxious,” she ! suggested, in a sympathetic, womanly way, and more than anxious was the reply. “We are hard pressed, my sick wife and two little children. About all I know is photography. Until recently | 1 had quite a lucrative position, pho-i tographing scenery for a railroad com- | pany. My work for them was eom- | leted some time ago and I have had ( P! 8 i and was civil enough, but evidently l They listened and they heard so much | about those glorified bivalves that most { of them would have recognized the ! to pick up what business I can in this | way.” “Very well, you can take a photb-l | of the garden and print up half a dozen of each.” Two daye later, when Boyd deliv-| ered his order, he departed from his generous almoner well paid and with the promise of more work. Within the week Mrs. Marvin sent him to half a dozen wealthy friends. Then she called at the humble home of the photographer in her limousine, brought dainties for his invalid wife, provided for the children and scat- tered sunshine generally in the Boyd household. | Ot course, Boyd was deeply grate- ful. Whenever he met pirs. Marvin she had a pleasant, encouraging word “ Suppose That You Wish to Sell Me These Photographs?” for him. Her friends helped her to send work to Boyd. He found him- self hopeful, prosperous, happy. One morning as he chanced to pass the elegant home of the Marvins, he viewed a scene that at once troubled him. Mr. Marvin was just leaving the house. He came down the steps with an angry face, evidently greatly disturbed. He was a handsome mean, but his features seemed to show traces of dissipation. Pretty Mrs. Marvin stood within the vestibule, one hand extended as if appealing to him to return. Then as her husband swung away she crouched back, cov- ering her face with her hands as if in dire distress. “Trouble! Oh, I hope not, though it seems so,” reflected Boyd, sorely dis- turbed on account of his gocd, kind triend. Then his thoughts were ab- ruptly disturbed as & friendly hand touched his shoulder. “Hello, Boyd, what you doing in this aristocratic quarter?” hailed his challenger, whom he recognized as an old-time friend. “I am having a good deal of work in the neighborhood,” explained Boyd. “Know the Marvins?” “Oh, yes, Mrs. Marvin has taken a special interest in influencing commis- sions for me in her soclety circle.” “A sweet little lady, that,” com- mented his friend. “Wasn't that her husband who just walked away? A fine fellow, but spoiled. Money, so- cial standing, a charming wife, but fast on the downward path, 1 fear.” “I had not heard of that” mur- mured Boyd, very greatly troubled. “She don't know the worst and he don’t realize it,” went on the other. «So far his weakness is onl7? getting with a lively crowd of old college chums and drinking champagne. You | can infer what that will lead to in | time. He has a bout, gay once a week, 1s brought home jolly but bois- terous, is all savage and disgruntled the next morning. It's breaking that poor little woman's heart.” All this was a revelation to loyal Roslyn Boyd and he was deeply grieved. Mrs. Marvin called him in | a day or two later to see about en-| larging some family pictures. e | fancied he could trace a reprflssed'} sorrow in her manner, the lines of | care about her finely-chiseled Hps.'& However, he dared not broach the gubject resting weightily on his mind, nor proffer the earnest, helpful sym- pathy that stirred his honest soul. “Poor woman! If I could only as- gist her,” was the constant burden of his thoughts. He saw the friend who bad advised him of the situation and photographer, as has been said.! There came to him an inspiration to | use his art to produce a salutary im- pression upon the reckless Marvin. After that for nearly two weeks Marvin had a shadow without sus- | big, fat ones, the size of a saucer. | . pecting it. reckless “bouts with the boys.” It! was the morning after the last of these escapades that Boyd appeared in his private office. “Mr. Marvin,” he said, as they were alone, “I have called to show you some photographs.” Marvin had met him several times | bored. The effects of his previous night's debauch had unnerved him. He was unhinged, probably ashamed, possibly repentant. “The pictures comprise a series,” went on Boyd. “Theéy cover the do- ings of a man I deeply esteem, but who has fallen upon evil ways. I hope you will be patient while I ex- hibit them, and then tell you how and why they were taken.” Marvin regarded his visitor with slight suspicion. He gave a violent start and flushed deeply as he glanced at the first of the pictures Boyd hand- | ed him. Then he forgot rancor and resent- ment at this overt invasion of his strictly personal affairs. He was the center of all the pho- tographs shown. In the first he was depicted standing at a bar, drinking with men, some of whom he would not even have recognized in his sober senses. The second showed him leaning from an automobile, a senselessly sil- Iy expression on his face, throwing coins to a hideous, jeering mob fol- lowing the machine. In a third he was being held up by two others while he made a speech to a grinning crowd at a street cor- ner. Another showed him clinging to a lamppost, helpless. So down the line, a truthful delineation of a tip- et A S S SRR e R “I suppose,” he observed, looking up finally in a chagrined, shamefaced way, “that you wish to sell me these photographs to get them out of the way?” plainly intimating a suspicion of blackmail. For reply Boyd seized the package, tore the cards to fragments and threw them into a waste basket. “No, Mr. Marvin,” he said, “I only wished to bring home to you what the dear, loyal wife who loves you so truly might feel, if she ever saw you as you have been. Oh! sir—" “You need not go on!” cried Marvin poignantly, springing to his feet. He had seized the hand of his visitor fer- vently. His eyes were fllled with tears. “Never again!” he sald. “First shame, remorse, then confession. I am going home to tell my wife that she need sit up no more fearing the? unsteady step that has terrified her in the past. Heaven bless you for a | true, honest friend!” It was a happy-faced Mrs. Marvin who called at the Boyd home the next | day, a hopeful-hearted, fervently grateful woman. Tearfully she told | Mrs. Boyd of what her husband had: done. Then, facing the noble, em- barrassed fellow, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him—as might a dear, dear sister. Making Artificial Furs. Away up in the frozen regions of the North, where some of the finest t\lrn; are found, the work of manufacturing artificial furs is carried on as well as in more southern places to which the natural skins are shipped. The skins with the fur are frozen, shaved off and thawed and immedi- ately put through the neceseary tan- ning process to make leather. The frozen furs are thawed slightly, | permitting the points of the fur shaved from the skin to protrude from ! the ice. A solution of rubber is then applied, : and when it is thoroughly set it is so well held together that it is pro- nounced even better than the real ! gkins, as they are stronger and are immune from moth. The process enables some kinds of fur to be sold at a lower price than if the skin was tanned with the fur. I Breaks Only the Best. They were preparing to move and the mistress herself was packing the china. She had reached a set of bread and butter plates in which she par- ticularly delighted—a simple white and gold pattern of exquisite fineness —and one was missing. She hunted through the kitchen and half empty | pantry, and as a last resort unpacked a neatly closed box she had just fin- ished. She thought of asking Del- phine, the faithful old deaf maid, but the effort required to make her hear seemed too great. Delphine, however, whose keen eyes missed nothing, when she saw her mis- tress on the point of losing her pa- tience came over to her and explained: ! “I'll have to tell you now. I broke one of them things t'other day. Idon’t break anything very often, but when 1 do it's something of some conse- quence.” Shane, who had moved to Texas, was going to ship him some gulf oysters during the winter. “They're oysters that are oysters!” Grimmick always added. “None of your measly little eastern things, but what you're talking about! They—" “Let's go and get something cold to drink,” the person to whom Grimmick was talking would interject about here, taking off his Panama hat to mop his steaming forehead. Later in the fall people began to be- tray an interest in Grimmick's oysters. barrel on sight. No matter how dis- guised, it would have been impossible for that barrel to deceive the eyes of Grimmick's friends. Persons of deep design< hrought Grimmick new recipes for cooking oysters and artfully showed him. iheir wholehearted disin- terestedness. Not that they expected to get any of the oysters, but natural- 1y they took a neighborly interest. It might be a big barrel. Even Grimmick when he first gazed upon it was a trifle appalled at the. size of the barrel. MacShane must have misunderstood and sent him a young hogshead. Or else the crop of gulf oysters was unusually large. “Beauties!” cried Grimmick when he got the barrel open. “I can scarce- 1y wait to get at them!” The Grimmick family had raw oys- ters and oysters grilled that night for dinner and all next day Grimmick made a nuisance of himself telling every one how good they were. He {ssued no general inyitations, how- ever, for people to run in and take home a pailful of the gulf treasures. Consequently, comments were bitter on his trail. “Selfish brute!"” was the universal opinion. any one out for a ride!” It really is amazing how far oysters ; will go. After the Grimmicks had en- joyed oysters stewed, scalloped, panned and fried to their hearts’ con- tent they saw no appreciable shrink- ing of the barrel’s contents. There were just about as many oysters as before. Grimmick said he thought he'd take some down to the office for his part- ner. Mrs. Grimmick said that as she was going over to Sister Nells' that day she might as well take some along. The next day she carried some across to the neighbors on either side of them. That evening Grimmick sur- veyed the scalloped oysters set before him and frowned slightly. He said they looked fine, but he belleved if Mary would fry him some of the breakfast bacon he'd rather have it. The following morning he sald he thought it was a mistake not to share their good fortune with their friends and that he would speak to Beekman and Dundle and Buckle on the train and tell them to stop by that night on their way home and get some. The weather turned warm just then. “It's a shame to waste those oysters,” Grimmick said when he saw the mer- cury in the outside thermometer standing at 48 degrees. think you would remember some of your friends to whom gulf oysters would be a real treat!” “Why, T have been giving them around,” confessed Mrs. Grimmick. “Somehow, that barrel's terrible hard to empty!” i In another week Grimmick was ped- dling oysters frantically. The neigh- Lors' dogs feasted on them and all the cats for blocks about congregated dafly on Grimmick's back steps be- cause the cook fed them freely on oysters. Presently whenever Grim- mick hove in sight the men would raise protesting hands and say they were obliged, but they did not want any oysters. Mrs. Grimmick, five minutes after taking a quart or so over to the next door neighbor, saw the mald march out to the garbage can and empty out the gift. It then dawned on her that it was the fifth time in a week she had bestowed oysters on that family. Still, she felt irritated. Further, the mere sight of the barrel irritated her, for a good many oysters remained. Rather fearfully, she served oysters that night at dinner. It was the third time that week. Grimmick exploded and arose from his chair and beat his fist upon the table. He gave orders that if he lived to be one hundred and ten she was never under any conditions to place oysters upon his table again. Then, calling for the spade and an ax, he proceeded to the back yard. After excavating a large hole he buried the rest of the oysters and chopped up the barrel for kindling. “There!” Grimmick said exultingly as he stalked into the house. “Get on your things and we'll go downtown and get an honest beefsteak!™ Expected Too Much. A South Georgia fiancee broke her engagement because her best fellow swore in her presence when kicked by a mule. We presume he should have sald: “Oh, fie!"—Florida Times- Union. “It'’s as bad as though he’ owned an automobile and never took “I should fine serge, materials which were at the height of popularity when the war | started. Putty had proved the big new: | favorite at the end-of-June races, and July found it the high style color note for all Paris. The war, too, has added to the: Secretly but diligently | And flavor! Say, if you haven't ever feasibilit i ! 5 y of creating such a fashion,: Boyd followed him through two of his | eaten a gulf oyster you don't know emphasizing as it has i “invisible” | colors in field uniforms. These colors} show a good range of earth, air, sea, sky and withered foliage tones.*® Austria has a sort of atmospheric gray with bluish tinge. Germany uses .a sturdy stubble color, neither tan nor i green nor gray, but of a character which melts into the landscape. Hol- land's uniform is the color of muddy canal water. The Russian uniform is earth color. 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