Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 16, 1914, Page 2

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There was, however, suf- ficlent of masculine superiority in his expression to irritate Letitia. “Men always make such -absurd ' comparisons,” she retorted quickly. “Just because you cannot preside at s mothers’ meeting is no reason to suppose 1 eannot lecture successfully on better bables.” “The idea is absurd,” Norman said, more hotly than he realized. “A girl of your age can’t know anything about either better or worse babies, and as for lecturing on the subject to wom- en who have brought up children as old as you are—well, your own com- mon sense should teach you the folly of such an idea.” “And your own common senseé should tell you that I would not con- sider lecturing on a subject I had not mastered. Just because women have brought up children is no sign they | have brought them up properly.” “And you are going to teach these ! mothers what their children might ! have been had they heard your lec- ture first.” Norman laughed long and heartily. Letitia’s eyes were fixed wrathfully upon him. She was very serious over ; her proposed geries of lectures before the club and she did not like being She was sorry Norman It was difficult to give him up, but { perhaps when she had succeeded in . showing him and her world that she |was an efficient speaker he would | come back to her and bow in acknowl- $ $5 Styles $3 Quality ENGLISH WOOLEN MILLS Hatters and Tailors Futch & Gentry Bldg, LAKELAND, FLA. R. A. BLUMBERG SAM B. SCHER SEE LSS SPLIEF LSS b 11D First Class Work Guaranteed JIM SING Chinese Laundry Work Called for and Delivered I have been a resident of Florida for 20 years, and am well known to many prominent gentlemen, all of whom wilLrecommend me as doing First Class Work at Reason- able Prices JIM SING 218 Pine Street Phone 257 33 SPPPPPM P GPPIPITHE G SR B DO HHBPLSEHSY $ Christmas Candy We will make you attractive prices on Christmas Candy in plain boxes, or in fancy baskets or holiday boxes. 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In additior to your purchase you will be given a calendar with our best wishes for a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” : 3 3 $ Lake Pharmacy PHONE 42 lution. “Letitia, I am sorry to have hurt ) think you are right. | reason why we should sever our edgement of her gift. Before she could speak the flery : worlds that would terminate their en- gagement Norman himself gave ex- pression to his quickly matured reso- you, but I think T understand you better than you do yourself. I also realize that you are going to give me back my ring and tell me never to darken your door again. Isn’t that right?” “Yes!” retorted Letitia defiantly. “Well, under the circumstances, I But I see no friendship. I have always been your best friend and always want to be.” He looked earnestly into Letitia’s sur- prised eyes. “Can’t you manage to promise me that?"” “Y.yes,” agreed Letitia, trying not to seem amazed at his readiness to sever the closer tle. “But I will be very busy during the next week or two preparing my lecture,” she added, by way of introducing the new Le- titla. She more or less reluctantly pulled off the beautiful ring from her plump little finger and gave it to Nor- man. “Oh, thanks,” he said, with a merry smile, “we almost forgot to end things properly.” He put the ring in his pocket with the casual remark. “I suppose it is up to me to find another girl before this solitaire burns a hole in my pocket.” Letitia’s head went up into the air, but she made no comment. She was frightfully hurt, but deflant. “I want to help you all I can,” Nor man told her, with his usual gentle manner toward her. “If you just study up your lecture and practice it on me it will help you wondertully. You've no idea how difficult it is to speak the things out that you have concelved in your mind, especially be- fore a seething mass of people. Your voice sounds like a lost soul when you first speak and you get positively ghastly weak in the knees.” He laughed in recollection of his own first attempt. “So if you just practice up- on me a bit you'll find it will help & lot when it comes to the nerve-rack- ing ordeal.” Letitia essayed a smile, but she felt rather weak in anticipation of her first speech. “You are eertainly cheerful and en-1 couraging,” she said finally. “How- ever, I think your suggestion is & ! good one. I will be very glad to speak my lines over before you. It is good of you to think of it.” In her grati- tude Letitia would have offered him the habitual lover's kiss, but she re- membered just in time that they were no longer lovers but only friends. Norman smiled but made no com- ment. He had seen her swiftly with- held caress and in his heart rejoiced. He did not press the advantage, but shook hands in most friendly fashion and left her. After that Letitia threw herself heart and soul into the preparation of her lecture to be delivered before | the club women of the town. She felt very important and very much in earnest. Norman seemed to have suddenly realized that she was a wom- an of some purpose, and was helping her in every way. He listened pa- tiently to her speech sometimes twice during an evening, until Letitia felt that she could stand before a thou- sand people and say it without a tremor or mistake. “I don't know what T would have done without you,” she told him on the night before the meeting. “You | are going to stand in the wings and prompt me if I need it, aren’t you?” “Sure—you can't lose me,” laughed Norman. He had tried, and with re- markable success, to stifle entirely any loverlike feeling he had for Le- titla. If the girl missed the comfort following morning Letitia awoke with a sense of pr'o- monition. She felt strangely weak in the knees, and without apparent rea- son all the nerves in her body weur: twitching so that she had no dell to eat. She tried desperately to fi h:: off the sickening dread that - gripped her. During the day she : succeed and toward evening her qualms had so far left her that IlI:O could laugh at her early morning [ .!] weakness. She dressed with habitu care and the result, a mass of soft pinks, was a joy to behold. Even Norman, who thought her nw:::e': fully beautiful, had never seel nlto’;ether adorable. He had dificulty in restraining the desire of his lrma:l. but ho smiled joytully and gripp her hands in a friendly clasp before Letitia went forward to the platform to deliver her lecture on “Better Bables.” The hall was crowded. When Le- titla stood out and faced her audi- ence she would have smiled in friend- ly greeting save that her lips were parched. Also her sight was blurred and she seemed swaying on 8 bottom- less platform. Every line of her lec- ture had escaped her dazed brain. She stood, it seemed to her for an endless time, tortured with dumb fright, then turned and went lwml_y behind the curtain and into Normans | waiting arms. Never in all her lfle‘; did his arms seem 80 wondertuli a haven of refuge. i With masterly gentleness he put; her into a chair, then went out to the platform. Once there, he told the friendly audience who had come to hear Letitia’s lecture, all that she would have told them. Norman knew | The it practically word for word. The | club women were amused nndl charmed. When he had finished long and loud applause was given him. ‘ Norman then turned back into the ! wings. Letitia was smiling and there was a world of relief in her eyes. She flung herself happily into Nor-} man’s arms and felt in his pocket for the ring she had given him. “I will be engaged to you again,” she said, “if you still love me and will never make me step on a plat- ‘orm again.” Since Norman’s answer was most satisfactory, she added: “I might have known I could never succeed in anything well except in loving you. I suppose all the women will be want- ing you to lead the mothers’ meetings now.” Norman only smiled. ROOFS TOO MUCH NEGLECTED Valuable Space in City That Is Seldom Put to Any Kind of Use Today. At a convention of owners and man- agers ot “skyscrapers,” held recently in Duluth, one of the speakers made an interesting prophecy as to the fu- ture uses of the tall building, empha- sizing in particular the neglected roof. “Bungalows built on top of tall build- ings,” he predicted, “will house the owners in summer. A permit for such a bungalow has already been taken out in Chicago.” The rather odd suggestion brings up the whole problem of wasted opportu- nities which the roof of the average tall building presents. Long ago the hotels realized what an asset a roof is, and developed the roof garden. In a number of the middle western cities ' the upper floors and roofs of commer cial buildings are leased by the | prominent city clubs, which thus se- | cure airy and quiet quarters with fine ! restaurant location, in the very heart | of the city. | But a roof could mean so much ! more. Not one in ten of our own tall | buildings puts its roof space to any good or profitable use. Yet a sky- scraper roof is almost ideal as a place for summer sleeping compartments, or sleeping tents; for a tennis court—a possibility recognized by one Philadel- phia school; for an open-air theater ! or “movie” hall; for an employees’ rec- | reation headquarters; not to mention | its desirability as a place of residence | for the owner of the building.—Phila. , delphia Press. LEFT TO INDIVIDUAL CHOICE' Trifles to Ornament the Corea, Ma, Be Pretty Much as the P:l: y Wearer Desires. Epaulette and corsage bouquets are worn on almost all smart street cos- tumes, being tucked away up under the collar, attached to the shoulder, or at the corsage. Party dresses of every description are decorated with a bou- quet placed either at the waist, on the shoulder, at the waist in the back, or in some fold of the skirt. For the street costume the single rose is pre- | ferred, but there is also a host of floral clusters in dull, soft French shades, harmoniously blended Sometimes a few berries or other small fruits are mingled with the flow- €rs. Among the more elaborate ef- fects are those with an occasional fur petal or ostrich flue cleverly worked into the flower. The fur effects are es- pecially desirable for wear with fur- trfmmed suits or coats while the os- ' trich and flower combination is best when worn with a costume completed | by an ostrich-trimmed hat. For eve- | ning, handsome designs in lrldescentl spangles in jet and tinsel are worn. e i " Patch Pockets. n some of the new skirts th full at the hips patch pockets a:et :: ployed to control this fullness, On a gray velvet frock with a plaited pep- lum big pockets of satin are used on the hips. Sometimes these pockets @re embroidered, J | stick. . asked : French physician whom I met in Nor- , mandy. I have eaten watercress to , made my meals of it. { & very close competitor. THE OTHER HEASUIA By ROSE WALLACE. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) Winona sat on the edge of & stream shaking over crisp green branches of wa- tercress the first time George Mad-, ison saw her. He had come there to paint and to get away from his sister's many chattering girl triends, who seemed always to . be occupying porch and lawn salt and pergola ati home. He was trying to ‘ get his picture in his vision, and was squinting and oth- erwise distorting his face when he saw her drop into his canvas, as it were. He was making bjts of scenery to frame for a frieze in his study. Some how or other, as young Mad- ! ison began to sketch in the contour of the landscape and to work in bits . here and there, the girl seemed a necessary touch, and he let her take ! her place on his canvas almost with- out meaning to. A pouring rain prevented the artist from going to paint on the next day, ' | but bright and early on the third % morning he wended his way to the ! | hilltop with palette and easel and all necessary paraphernalia. } He had hardly begun to mix his colors when the same girl in the ' same dress and with the same salt- shaker in her hand took her seat on pick and eat watercress. Madison laughed to himself. It was almost weird to think that she should have returned, and he was sure she had not seen him. “It she's there again I'll say she’s nutty,” he said inelegantly to him- | self as he folded his easel. ! But she was there, and she conm- | sumed quantities of watercress and ! hummed and seemed content to be alive. The artist began to wish she would notice him, and yet he could not move nearer and get the same picture on his canvas. He belleved as he | looked at his nearly completed picture that it was the best thing he had done yet, and the girl in her colorful frock and golden masses of hair' sitting gracefully on the edge of the stream was not the least of it. There was hardly an excuse left for the young man to go again to paint on his canvas—it was finished. But he could not resist the desire to seek his place again and see if perhaps |. something might not draw the girl's attention away from the stream. l : When he arrived he looked down and there, complacently munching the fresh grass at the stream’s edge, stood an old cow. The girl stood near by, evidently afraid to sit down. She looked about her as if for help and her eye fell on George Madison well up on the hillside beyond. As if she had summoned him, he ran down the bank and picked up a “Shall I chase her away?’ he Winona smiled gratefully. 1 wish you would,” she sald. The cow moved on with a little per- suasion and the artist assured Winona that she was perfectly harmless. “Nevertheless, I wouldn’t have the courage to sit down peacefully while a cow stood near me,” the girl ad- mitted. “And I must have water cress.” “Are you—do you like it s0o much?” George asked. “Yes—it is a French cure for bron- chial or pulmonary weakness, and I was not sure that I had not one of them, 80 I am taking the precaution of not letting anything get a hold on me. I must have health,” she de- clared earnestly. “You look as it you enjoyed it— now,” the artist could not help say- ing as his eyes dwelt on the wonder ful fairness of her skin. “lI am pertectly well now, I think,” the girl went on, “but it is due, I am sure, to the fact that I have dili- gently followed the advice of this old “Oh— the exclusion of everything else, and in order to have it fresh and to be out of doors as much as possible, I have come here for it every day and I live only a mile from the stream,” she added. “And—does it satisfy you?” George asked with wonder. “Perfectly; as long as I do not see the family at home sitting down to tempting meals That's another reason why I come here to have solitary feasts of this.” “And another reason 1 think—is | Fate,” the young artist dared to say. ! What the girl thought of his re- mark she did not betray, but George '| Madison knew that it was Fate, nev- . ertheless, that had sent Winona across his path. And so it proved to be. Third Largest City. : The third largest city on earth is' pot -Chicago, but Paris. Chicago comes in fourth, with Tokyo, Japan, as The fi are: London, 7,252,000; New Yorgk‘.“::‘ 114,000; Paris, 2,900,000; Chicago, 2, 200,000; Tokyo, 2,186,000. Peking, China, which was for a long time the largest city in the world, has a popula- tion of only 700,000. ! the edge of the stream and began to | of other things. |§ 5 £ xS I 1) H 4 A s fi 14 A 8 b IR TR R ek Hard Toy; El¢ctric Tr Friction Tr Mechanici§ - we alsc g compiig