Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 26, 1914, Page 6

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC. 26, 1914. CARS FOR HIRE PHONE 274-RE D Vulcanizing Doneat 711 E.Q'tt SR HSBBPIDPPEPEIDHESHHHI0 The Ideal Christmas ‘Remembrance The personal thought — spirit of the giving, de- termines the value of the = gift. What then, could be more fitting than your ~portrait for the Christ- mas_remembrance —t o TPearrv your simple mes- =<sage of friendship? A dozen portraits sélves, at once, a dozen perplexing gift problems. < igHinke Photographer Tampa 513 1-2 Franklin Street '_Lakeland Pender;s Old Studio +.Studio now open every day Make an appointment today e ————————— DO YOU WANT PURE TOILET . PREPARA. - : TIONS? We insure that our Marinello reparations contain no harmful ngredients. You will find the best always the most economical and beneficial. arinello toilet preparations can only be purchased here. MARINELLO SHOPS OUR SHIELD & S IS 2JMOTTO Which is proven by our six years success in Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel reinforced concrete Burial Vault .Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. Red Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement. FLORTONINATIONATVAOLT C0 LuTo Our Patrons: PLEASE PHONE Us to get your Work not later than 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, in order to give you the best service during the Season's rush. Lakeland Dry Cleaning ——PLIANT—— PHONE 405 Cor. N. Tenn. and Pice St. wasted my life. —— FLIDK, THE JRVEL By JESSIE ETHEL SHERGOLD. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) “Stop, oh, stop!” Dick Wetherell scwmmms, ' Chuckled. Higher and higher he sent the swing. It was suspended from a | tree branch, and every time he sent it whirling with its precious freight, elf- i ish sparkling Elida Mason, it took her way out beyond the bank, directly over the purling brook fifteen feet below. “Promise me a kiss and I'll let up,” bargained Dick. “A Kkiss,” flared forth the spoiled beauty. “Impudent! It will be a good hard box on the ears, if I ever get down to earth again.” “Which you won’t until you prom- ise,” declared rollicking, mischief-lov- ing Dick. *“One more!” and he sent the dainty passenger with wildly kick- ing feet and expostulating voice off on a venturesome parabola curve that was fairly terrifying. “Oh, you tease—I wouldn’t kiss you if you were the last man in the world!” breathed Elida furiously. “Say, I'll just catch and stop the swing next time, and take my pay highwayman fashion,” insisted Dick. “Will you! There—smarty!” “Gracious!” gasped Dick, and stood appalled. Elida had let go of the ropes. There was a fleeting vision of waving hair and flying skirts. Splash! She went out and down like an expert diver. Then twenty feet from shore she landed on the soft bottom of the stream, waist deep in water, but glorious in her wild way- ward beauty, defiant and daring. “Oh, say!” cried the enraptured Dick, sliding down the bank and mak- ing recklessly for the heroic figure in mid-stream. “That was grand! Why, I love you ten times more than ever for such grit. You're a famous one. Why, I'd wade through fire to get you now, and here goes!” With a mocking half smile on her lips Elida stood almost inviting | Musingly Stringing a Chain of Daisies. him on to his fate. He waded ahead confidently, anticipating no trap. Sud- denly those quick hands of the little sprite went out paddle fashion. Eyes, mouth, face—he received a deluge of . water slap-dash; half blinded, ut- terly taken off his balance, he noted | that she had sprung at him. With a deft whirl she sent him off his feet, de- livered a resounding box on one ear, and he went flat into an aqueous bed, struggling, spluttering, baffled. “Goody!” rang out a silvery hail of lofty disdain and triumph, and shore- wards sped Elida to vanish among the wildwood verdure before the discom- fited Dick couldrecover his wits. “She's a jewel!” voted Dick, en- thusiastic for all the dampness and discomfort as he waded ashore bedrag- gled. He did some serious thinking as he proceeded homewards. They had been friends, chums since early boy- hood and girlhood. They had shared youthful hopes, fears and mutual mis- chief scrapes. Never had that bright spirit appealed to Dick as upon this bright June morning. Two evenings later, with mournful mien and laggard gait, Dick appeared in the Mason grounds looking for Elida. He found her at last gathering some apple blossoms. “Well, did you get wet?” she hailed as he approached. “My handkerchief has — all long,” replied Dick, “Elida, I'm going away.” “Good! Then I'll have some peace in my life,” retorted Elida, but a quick darkening shadow of the lustrous eyes told that she was aroused. “Yes,” said Dick, “Uncle says I've | He tried me in his) bank. I made a muddle of it. The law—I rebelled. You know all I can do is to write. He's discouraged that. day. lugubriously. ‘| But finally he’s given in, and I'm to SEND YOUR FRIEND A Christmas Box !Oranges yr Grapefruit Packed by the FLORIDA CITRUS EXCHANGE I will be at the Exchange ev- ery week day between 9 a. m. and 12 m. to take orders. F. C. MURRAY. P. O. Box 191. become a sort of reader or editor with a city publishing house he's interested in.” “Poetry!” sniffed Elida in affected contempt. “Fine living that will bring you!” “Oh, no, novels, essays, they print everything. If I make it go, Uncle Drake will start me out big. Then I'm going to marry—you.” “Hoity — toity!” screamed Elida. “Who told you that?” “My longing heart!™ declared Dick. “Yes, I'm coming.back to claim you.” “Why, that will be years and years! You'll be quite gray and decrepit.” She had hurt him, but her tender soul was hurt at his news of going away more than he thought. ‘ “You see,” she went on perversely, “by the time you're rich and famous and a real man I'll be married. Good- by, Dick. I hope you won't torment the city girls the way you have me,” and she turned towards the house. “Elida!” gasped Dick, sick at heart. And then he saw it all as she turned and ran towards him. Tears were raining down her cheeks. She was sobbing. Around his neck went two clinging arms, for a moment only. A pair of quivering lips met his own, She flashed from him then and sped for the house, with the ringing wail, “And you stayed here just long enough to break my heart!” A veritable beacon light was the |3 memory of that last meeting with |¥ Elida. He had been a harum-scarum, happy-go-lucky fellow before. Now, beaded for congenial employment, be- lieving that Elida loved him, Dick re- solved to make his uncle and all the rest of his friends proud of him, And he succeeded. Only one or two merely friendly letters came to him In the city from Elida. Then almost 8 year to a day, his heart filled with triumph and hope, he returned to his home town, His first thought was of Elida. He leaped the fence of the Mason place when he reached it. There was Elida. She was seated on the ground end of the big teeter upon which both had engaged in many a past and gone youthful frolic. She was musingly stringing a chain of daisies. There was a slight scream as deftly Dick leaped up, gently pulled the other end of the teeter down, sat on it and blandly smiled up at his lady love, perched way aloft. “It’s me,” announced Dick joyously. Elida, clinging to the board, breath- less, abashed, hastily arranged her skirts. “Oh, just let me get at you once!” she panted. “I've come back for that kiss you promised,” remarked Dick coolly. “I promised!” cried Elida, aflame. “Well, I've earned it,” declared Dick. “It was just-the memory of our last parting that has helped me to make my way towards riches—" Elida sniffed contemptuously. Love with Dick and only a crust of dry bread would be contentment ineffable, although she would not tell Dick so. 5 SBPSPEHQDODCBOBCHECHECHD : & “And fame,” added Dick, rather proudly. “How, fame?” was the dubious . query. ‘“Let me down and tell me.” “I'm gong to keep you up there— ! you near to the stars, me a suppli- ant—until I've had my say,” insisted Dick. “Yes, I wrote a book. It's a | big go. Uncle is delighted and has bought me a half interest in the busi. ness. I'm able to keep a wife, Elida, | won't you have me?” She looked down at that earnest, appealing face searchingly. There wae no guile there. g “Shut your eyes, you torment!” she directed, “and I'l see. I'm a woman now, you know, and mustn't be hoy- denish, but—" He closed his eyes dutifully. He opened them ecstatically. For Elida had slid down the teeter-totter, straight into his waiting arms, MANY TROUBLES AT ONCE They Seem to Be Most Plentiful When You Take Your Girl Riding. He started to take his girl to ride in an auto the other evening. Drove up to the house just before dusk, and she tripped down the steps and Into & : the front seat beside him and they set Is oFe of t.he BEST | Come ts see us when m:do“bt' oft. They meandered through this and Equipped in the | that street until they had traversed a State and will be glad . half-mile and then all of a sudden the AL ek st We will take care of your Shd engine died. Tinkering with the bat- y : Large or Small. tery, repeated cranking and gazing at . the engine did no good. Then he hap- Superior Work :):ned to think of his “gas” and found Quick Service We rse Expert Methods and K :tm w::s o:lo;“: quarter of a mile to Reasonable Prices the garage, and he knew of another Is Our Slogan machine they could getgto “haul the . St.ndard Make Shoes that L thing in.” So while she waited he trudged to the garage and getting into Phone 37 You S'Yle and Sel'Vice another machine started for the scene . ~ Evening Telegram ’Buildin of the stalled auto. He had not got 5 gt I100 teet r;:m t‘::e sarage belo‘;:n:fll Fenc o BAEOUN] oo 9 We also have a modern Electric Shoa atest machine died on him. 3 | PSP PEEEE P IO FFI SR PSS DD i o view of starting at the other end of Wher? we do ex'pert Sh'oe Repairing things he tried the “gas” tank first machinery that is used in the largest nng t'ound ’itth lernptzi. e St today All work done in an expert m 'wice within a half-hour w WO | #EEPEESEIEEO0F PR ERedd £ ¥ machthes came near getilng his goat icol delays. We call for and deliver work. He began to think there surely was a Fresh Apala(:hlco 8'2 5 hoodoo on the ride with his girl that . evening. But he toted gas from the OySters 500 qt’ pt" c DU] TON - HARRIS C ‘ garage to machine No. 2 and then hiked back to machine No. 1 and the girl, and finally got the latter to the garage, where it was “gassed” up and ran all right after that.—Brockton En- terprise. “Back” ls the Only Way She Talks. “When yo' has a quah'l wid yo' wife, do she pout and sulk or do she talk back, Brudder Rumpus?® “She talks back, sah! And she not on'y talks back, but she talks front'ards and side- ways and acrost and endways and diag'nal and round and round, and den she comes all de way back and re- peats herse’f. Aw, yassah; she sho' talks back!"” To Mend Celluloid. Any article made of celluloid may be mended with collodion. Scratch the broken edges to be mended with a sharp knife until a smooth surface HOUSEHOLD MOVING A secured. ly th llod ‘:f::. tshis t::"..:t:. &;:;:;.3::‘. SPECIALTY Lakeland Paving and Coastruct four hours. 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