Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 17, 1914, Page 6

THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 17, 1914, I u | I for her he could say that she apprec ADAPTED FOR SEWING-ROOM he ; honor implied, but that s :::g, th:ec“ne further _ acquaintance- | ugsisch-in-Time” Board Will Be Found “Save Ten Dollars” By having your Fall Clothes made to your INDIVIDUA Measure by us Suits or Overcoats No More No Less Soft Hats and Derbies Large variety of Shapes and Shad- ings, Trimmed with Contrast Bands — the Season’s latest Conceptions $5 Styles $3 Quality ENGLISH WOOLEN MILLS Hatters and Tailors Futch & Gentry Bldg, LAKELAND, FLA. R. A. BLUMBERG SAM B. 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Toiler Goods Our imported Face Powder, Colognes, Toilet-Water, and Sachet Perfumes is of the freshest and most infinite varie- ty. Any of these articles are always welcome gifts for Christmas. B0 BOSOIC FOPOPOEGIOLOPIHIBE 0 gL 2=t lel We extend a cordial invitation to all Christmas shoppers to call and see our extensive line of Holiday Goods. Our clerks are courteous, and you will be served with pleasure and dis- patch. In additior to your purchase you will be given a calendar with our best wishes for a “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” Lake Pharmacy PHONE 42 HOBOPIPOBE DD DOEBBDDBBHEHD S ISOHODOFGHO O & 3 l 54 H | | { GBRALTAR AGEL By HELEN AMY HUDSON. | ! | “‘Gib Ridgely,’” read Charles Ross, manufacturer, from the list of em- ployees in his hand. “Acoepts the reduction,” Farson, the manager. “He understands that it carries no guaranty of a permanent position?” “Perfectly. Says he’ll stick till the last biscuit in the locker is gone and the ship goes down.” “‘Gib Ridgely,’” Mr. Ross repeated to himself musingly. “Gabriel—Gib- eon? Gilbert, I suppose.” “Don’t know,” said Farson. “Just ‘Gib.’ He gives it ‘Jib.’ He has the right cut to his jib, I should say! It made no difference to him when I told him about our difficulties. ‘Tell Mr. Ross I'm not the kind that takes a big favor and then forgets,’ he said.” “Ah, I recall, now,” spoke the over- burdened employer with sudden pleased lightness of tone. “I got the bank to renew a mortgage on a strip of land young Ridgely’s father owned just beyond the town. It was worth- less, but the old fellow was attached to it, made a big plea and I helped hifa. Then later he asked me to place the son. I had almost forgotten this Gib.” “Jib,” corrected Farson with a smile. | “Well, he's one of just ten who are I‘ willing to take the reduction in wages and stick to you and hope for better times.” “The ‘better times’ can come only with an entire abandonment of the old plant,” sighed Mr. Ross. “This railroad complication has put every- thing at odds. We can’t compete with our principal business rival at River- ton when the line connects with that town.” “There is no chance of the new rail- road branch changing its route?” in- quired Farson. “I fear not. The original survey took in Blandon here, but the company were refused a right of way by a lot of stubborn old farmers to the north of us. So they have adopted the south- ern route. Well, it's the fortune of replied ' Are You Asking Me to Sell My Daughter! bueiness. We shall have to find a new site and practically begin all over again.” It was a serious hardship to Mr. Ross. He had equipped a valuable plant at Blandon for the manufacture of tile. The place was ideal, for the mineral deposits surrounding gave him the basic material directly at his door. Ten miles away, at Riverton, was the Swithin plant. Both had been off the line of railroad travel and their wares were transported by wagon to the nearest shipping point. With the rail- road tapping Riverton now, and not Blandon, the favoring rates for the Swithin plant practically put the Roes factory out of business. There was only one thing for Ross to do, and this was to remove to a rail- road point and seek a new site. This meant a heavy loss on his plant. Mean- time, output would necessarily be re- stricted. Most of the employees were let out. The selected ones could count only on half time work, hence the dis- cussion now going on, For a week after that Mr. Ross no- ticed Gib Ridgely more particularly than he had previously. He observed that he was busy all of the time, dili- gent, accommodating, energetic. He spoke to his employee pleasantly when ever they met. In the absence of his regular messenger, he several times sent Gib up to the house on personal errands. One day, when Gib returned from such a mission, he carefully re. moved a rose from his buttonhole and placed it between the leaves of his memorandum book. Miss Ina Ross had given it to him. One Albion Knapp came into the pri- vate office of Mr. Ross one day while Gib was going over some account books in the vault near by. Knapp was slightly known to the manufac- turer and to Ina. He seemed to have had the direction of the surveying ; party working for the right of way. | Blandly and bluntly he asked the permission of Mr. Ross to pay his ad. | dresses to his daughter. In a cold, | formal manner the manufacturer in- formed him that he was not impressed with the proposal. Pressed more ' closely, he stated that he knew his daughter's mind intimately and that hip. ) i ll) will say, Mr. Ross/’ observed Knapp, “that I might use some infl;:- ] ence to get the route of the new rail- | road changed—" “Are you asking me to sell my, | daughter!” interrupted the manufw:'i- turer quite angrily, and that'”settlelb the conference. “That man! G overheard him say to Farson a little ] “His insulting proposition 16 "1ater. like his past record of knavery, which I well know. If Ina chose the poor- of Practical Use and a Pretty Decoration. | — inty and decorative “stitch-in- | ! leAe"‘hboar):l is a thing that should find ' a place in every home, and it is also | a useful article to give as a smnll! present. Boards of this kind can be made in a great number of different | shapes and forms, and in our eketch | ! may be seen a particularly neat and i | ornamental board for hanging upon | | the wall at some convenient spot onest man in my employ, | where the articles it contains may be fgs § \l:\;;l?i“ llbe preferable to that| o4y to hand whenever they are re- schemer,” at which Gib flushed quick- ' quired. ly and took heart of hope. ! For making it, cut out a diamond- He had reason for this. Those ful- | gyapeq piece of stiff cardboard, meas- tive roses he had treasured could tell uring six and a half inches each way. a tale. Gib was handsome, intelligent, of an earnest and ingenuous nature.: Ne wonder he had attracted Ina's at- tention. She welcomed the occasional visits with genuine girlish pleasure. For a week Gib had spent half the night going to and coming from the great sprawling tract of land his fa- ther called a farm. The old man had inherited it and valued it from long assoclation. It comprised a narrow This card is smoothly covered on both gides with pale gray watered silk, the material being cut out in two pleces, | stretched tightly across and sewn to- gether at the edges, which are after- wards finished off with a pale pink silk cord, arranged in three little i loops on either side and again at the strip along the river, the counterpart | of another adjoining, was mnot culti-| vated, but had some value on account of its gravel beds. One especial evening, after a long | ! obtrusive sign that bears | confab with his father, Gib shook hands with him in an excited and grateful way. “You've made me a mighty happy son, father,” he said, humbly but earn- estly, “and your getting the owner of the next strip to join in with you clears the way. I shall go to the city tomorrow and make my offer of the free right of way.” “Absent yesterday, wasn't you?” re- marked Farson as Gib put in an ap- pearauce two mornings later. “Yes,” smiled Gib buoyantly. “Tired of your job here?” “Not I!” “Nor looking for another one?” “What! last?” “Oh, sure of that, are you?” “I am. Come with me to Mr. Ros¢ | and you'll know the secret of my con- fidence. I have some important news for you, sir,” announced Gib to Mr. Ross, as they entered his office. “You won't have to move your plant.” The manufacturer stared at his faithful ally in a puzzled way and asked incredulously: “How is that?” “Because the railroad is going to tap Blandon and not Riverton. My fa- ther and a neighbor have given the company a two-mile right of way. It shortens the route and I have the as- surance that the line will be put right through.” “You're a wizard!” pronounced Far- son enthusiastically as Gib recited the details of his visit to the city. “I don't know what I can do for you after this vast benefit you have wrought,” sald the manufacturer, “I would like to be the first to com- municate the joyful news to Miss Ina,” eaid Gib modestly and flushing up. “In fact, she has discussed this plan of mine and—" “Oho! fellow conspirators, eh?” ob- served Mr. Ross, but he said it tol- erantly, with an admiring glance at the young fellow who had shown Terve, pluck and business capacity. “All right, Gib—" ““Jib, sir, it you please,” corrected his loyal employee. “I was named ‘Gibraltar’ by an old soldier uncle.” “And you have been a veritable Gibraltar to the friends you stick to!” declared Farson with effusion. And, happily hopeful, Gib Ridgely went to disclose the joyful news to Ina. (Copyright, 1914, by W, G. Chapman.) e WANTED THE SHOES TO FIT Married Man Had Had Some Expe- rience and Needed No Advice From the Clerk. He entered the shop of a fashion- able shoemaker, a look of determina- tion on his face. It was such a look as one sees on the face of a man who is firmly resolved to carry out, at all hazards, a decision which will | change the whole course of his life. “H'm!” he began, as the assistant stepped forward and politely ques- tioned him as to his requirements in feet-beautifiers. “I want a pair of shoes for my wife, Mrs. Brown.” “Yes, certainly,” said the young man, briskly, “Same style and size as last week?” “Same style. Size, fives—wide fives,” replied Brown, decidedly. “But—er—excuse me, Mrs. Brown oniy takes—that is, she usually has three and a half,” exclaimed the as- sistant, who knew the lady well. “Are you married, young man?” ried Brown, sternly, the look of termination dee features, “Er—not yet, sir,” shopman, blushing. “I thought not,” returneq Brown. “1 am! I am not going to suffer half an hour's purgatory every morning watch- ing a woman trying to squeeze a bush- el of feet into a peck of boots. I've stood it long enough, and I'm going to take her a pair that wil fit."—Reho- both Sunday HeraM. e L L Advice to Vandals, : The Lake District Tourists’ associa- tion of England has placed on the foot- bridge over Green Ghyll Beck an un- que- de- pening on his careworn answered the “Do not cut your friend.” vice to those unthinking pe! delight in carving their lic places. When this one is going t.o' | | | N - | i ! I top and bottom. A flat oblong cushion, covered with pale pink silk and edged with a fine claret-colored silk cord car- | ried into three little loops at each cor- ner is made separately and sewn on in the center of the board. The up- per edge of the cushion is left free 80 that a small pair of scissors can be slipped behind it in the manner il lustrated. : On either side of this cushion, two | reels of cotton, one blgck, the other white, are suspended with loops of narrow pale pink ribbon. At the low- er point a small pocket is sewn into a little frill at the edge, in which a thimble may find a place, and a long loop of pale pink ribbon, with a bow at the top, is attached to either side of the board by which it may be sus- pended from a nail in the wall. NEW VOGUE IN NECKWEAR More Severe and Unornamental Style Seems Likely to Replace Dainty Collars. Becoming as the dainty lingerie col: lar doubtless is, it is just about time that we had a change in nmeckwear. The change may be of a kind regret- ted by many, for it will possibly be toward a much more severe and unor namental neck line. Many of the new evening frocks have a line singularly hard, and so have afternoon frocks. And not long ago Madame Cheruit Wwore a gown of gabardine, with a lit- tle vest of chiffon of the same color. The bodice of the frock was cut away at the back of the neck and on the shoulders two or three inches from the lower line of the throat and the chiffon vest extended around the back, filling in this space left bare by the bodice with a perfectly straight piece of the chiffon. Some faces and figures can stand this flat, straight line at the neck, but most look far better in the high, rolling collar that has been so popular. Machir Games DICTATES OF FASHION Sgme of the new Jackets are made | with belts showing in front, but hid- | den at the back. { Buttons generally sew on from be i hind. They are large and flat, convex or ball-shaped, Trimmings gre Braiding is reserved | tation of the belt and straps. ! Wine-colored velvet suits are trimmed with cords of the velvet and buttons embroidered with steel beads. Most evening coiffures show the hair dressed so closely to the head 'as to give a certain severi ‘ line, erity of out: Long-haireq used for eve with b Sparingly used. for the ornamen- If thereis i thing wan" Hardv? ,lcreamcolored plush {is Ding wraps and is lined Tocaded crepe in vivig colors. O A - Selvages in Fashion. ' elvages are more fashionab, than ever, it seems, The Pmnc:“ coutune_rs and their American lmitl-; tors delight in using breadths of rich! silk and handsome eloth with un-| heu?med edges, and the selvageat x;ake.a Very graceful finish ag a rule, . lending more soitly with the lines of the costume, A Parisian dinner frock has a width of superh lace which covers the bodice ang forms