Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 2

HS EUGENIC WEDDING By CAPRON PARKER. Ye remember the day 1 was mar- Yied? 1t was the day before that I went up %o see Father Flannigan, to rehearse a bit, so as to be in trim for the big event. “By the way,” says Father Flanni- gan says he, “have ye your marriage license yet?" *Licen: says I; “what’s that for? I never knew one had to have a license for gettin’ married.” The idea didn't suit me at all, any- how. “Do they thinks I. taink I'm dangerous,” e needin' a license? I'd know this for ten dol- vor take me at all if she Xknew 1 had to be licensed. I kept thought Father Flannigun's a mild, decent man, an’ 1 didn't want to worry him. “It's all right, Tim,” he says, seeing what 1 was thinking about. “All ye have to do is to go down to the city hall to Mr. Schmid's office, and he'll fix it out for ye in a minute.” Larrin' the idea of it, that secmed easy, so 1 huttoned up me coat and started off, ot lookin® for any trouble, vell know, if ye know me at all. ked into the big door of the i, and I spied a boy with but- tons that looked like he belonged to the place, an' I says to him ‘Where's Schmid's office “It's right before your the pointin® to the hurryin’ off before any one come in an’ bother him I walked the there v t} or four clerks sitt as ve I city 1 eyes,” boy next do ) else could into doorway, e mart-lnokin round, deing nothing and Tuast Because Christinas THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA,, JAN. 7, 1915. unless wishin' it Was Tioon. 1 Walked up to one and said: “I'm lookin’ for Schmid. 1Is he in The clerk stared at me out of his goggles and was goin’ to say something when he could think of it, when a stout man came out of the next room ‘nnd, seeing me waitin’, he says, point- in’ to a chair: “Come over here and sit down.” I sat down an’ he sat down by a came an’ sat down at the other end of the desk, with a piece of paper in his hand a yard long. “Yer name?” says the stout man. “O'Toole,” says I. | “l want your full name,” says | Schmid. “Yer name's Timothy, isn't fiae “It is,” says I. on the paper. “How old are ye?" “None of yer busi but I said: “Twenty-seven. Then he wanted to know where 1 was born and all about it, the clerk Goggles put it down thinks I, | takin® down me answers every time. to myself, for | Then he asked me had 1 ever had the measles an' the mumps and the { scarlet fever and the rickets, an’ had I ever had any trcuble of any kind I answered all his questions as fast as I could, and all the time Goggles was taking thein down. “Now,” says Schmid, “We'd like to know somecthing about rourself.” The clerk turned over the pa an’ got me more ink in his dish “Better ¢ I, lookin® at the clerk d work W’ ye're not used to it. 1 hope you'll last till the end of the job.” | “All right,” says I; “Do ye drink? thinks away.” tion asked in that tone of voic didn’t know how to take it. | was nothin’ in sight, & “1 can't exactly riskin' that much, but not quite me way ahead SOB0E Is Over Is no sign good Things to Eat are not in style, especially during the remainder of the Holi We have Turkeys, day seasen. 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WIL SON HARDWARE CO. desk, an’ the clerk with the goggles | | “ve mean by that,” says Schmid, “that ye do use liquors somewhat now and again.” ! | “You've hit it exactly,” says I | “Now and a-ain I do in the way of | sociability, but not regular like some . I know.” | ‘““That goes agaist you, I suppose | ye know,” says he. “You'll have loi | knock that off entirely,” says he. { 1 was askin’ him where he got hisl | information, but thinkin' of Katie again made me hold me tongue. “Do you chew tobacco?’ says Schmid | “Very little.” says I, “and smppingi | mow and again for a v or two to ! show me strength.” | | “It would be better if you didn't use it at all s Schmid | “Kn ng kind of critter,” thinks I There w no end to hi uestion and some of them was very imperti- nent. Some of them 1 answered with | the truth, and some of them 1 an- gwered the best T could, not knowing what he was at ‘That will for today Tomor- | row afternoon ye can come in for the | reading and the writing examination.” | “Tomorrow!” says 1 Tomorr:w | afternoon! The weddin's to be the irst thing in the morning, and I must « have that marriage liccase tonight if I'm to be havin® it at all, which [ don't | believe you're in | “Marriage licens | i have 1 got to do with yer marriage li-‘ cense?”’ | | "1 should say ye had a great deal to | do with it,” ¢ I, “by the way ye've | been goin' on the last two hour: And | if it wasn't for Katie I'd never stood your insolence.” “Look here,” says Schmid, * in here to get examined for the foree, didn't yet? and ye'll have to tauke the same examination we put all the men througn.” | ‘What force is that?” says 1, trying to speak easy and makin' a bad fist of it. ! ‘Police force, of course,” says he, ‘or don't you know what youn're about at all?” “Whoever id anything about po- lice force? 2B “And if ye'll have it straizht from me I'll tell you I don't know any meaner lot of crooks than them, uniess it be the doctors, and, as near as I can make out, you arc on both jobs.” We stood looking at each other like a couple of cats on a fence, for neither of us could get a word more to the tongue. I was the f to get my pres- ence of mind, 1§ £ SThuia will remember it if y k him You hope I didn't harm the man, do ye? ITdon't know as you'd call it harm at all. IU's likely it was the best thing in the world for him. Anyhow, ve can judge about the harm for yourself. L hit him twice, good ones, and very hearty. A man's no business to be the stupid that man was. It's bad for the public safety Secing Schmid was finished with his questions about my health, T took the liberty to get me hat and come out the way I went in.; 1 had @ mind to take a rap at the clerk with the gog- #'es, and maybe it's as well for the kid | Le was out o phit. | Anyhow, I got out without doing any inore harm, excepting for breaking the | luss in the door, more by my huaste an by intention. \\'h} didn’t they arrest me? - Well, T think they would if it wasn't for Father Flannigan. He's a great wan and a good one as well : do I had to o back and tell him, of course, I hadn’t got me license, and I | !wished he would repeat the directions 10 me once more “Ye had trouble in finding place?” says Father Flannigan. ! “Well, not exactly troubl » “but 'm wishing I'd remembered the I name of that man a bit better. It would saved me bothering some that b it that was g vith the difiiculiy, short, and me o the ¢ tell Fatln the snys say ting no further i the being 't daring to go back o, 1 had to up and and by and by back red in the face, but f I'd come back ould have my marriage Vs nt down with Father Flan- id got me without any trhanece iny Kind It was tor fear of Father Flannigan or they'd | never let me had it at all. Copyright) 'KILLS ALL GERMS IN MILK ! ‘Alternatinq Current of Electricity, It Has Reen Found, Will Do the Work. Flectrocution for milk germs is the - latest method of providing safe milk. | Mueh. of the milk supplied from the large public stations in Liverpool is | now treated by electricity. The harm- ful bacteria are mearly all killed, so | that a capped bottle of the electro- | cuted milk will keep sweet for eight ! days | Various methods were tried in the | effort to find one that would kill the | germs without altering the chemical | composition of tho milk. A coutinuous | current of electricity would not do it, | but a rapidly alternating current at a pressure of about four thousand v¢ succeeded. Apparently th i- ! tion of the milk is not changed at fall and the city puts it out as raw lmilk The operation The milk 1s g a long gla | near the ev d copper rods ric supply connected with the two copper rods. simple enough to flow thr and in this ugh tube, two short is | The milk flows through the tube so | rapidly that it passes the two rods |in a few seconds, getting by before | it casional € which would burn the milk. must be looked out for.—Saturday Evening Post. is heated h, il ve though oc- curn o LONG and atin, lined trasting color, tional warmth, & treatment of the nec i uff, like the hod an attractive for the throat at the plaiting for the 1 width, win " n sides toward th it ti ciently wide to cr.old 1 head, the (h the cape is | 1 A leng sill about the b in two cabq one at each natir n he ik ta 8 the center of cach of these si ments. A narrow ruchine that in the linin on the inside of It is a dainty fin elegant This is one of the longest of capes and one of the few intended solely for evening or other dressy wear. The cape, which occupied the ter of the staze most chic of wr of the son, popular faney imple cape of tin in ¢ nd interlined f idea in 10 new of the cape, make and a p ime timge fini ction The u Wt i ears o throat wi rmina 1k orna made of satin like outlines the s eape all arol I, handmade ind con- 5 the newest and at the hesigning did not ecapture the but was admired by a Dainty Dress Accessories o woman likes to pos uty ories of dress rt-lived be, ce le and s! their glory and ireshness Here are three of the new th have considerable durability to their credit and are indisputably attractive, and therefore popular. At the left is a corset cover of pale pink crepe de chine and shadow lace with shoulder flowers of satin ribbon. The same mod- el may be t in any of the light shades and in white, at so mode price that almost anyone ma a taste for “just pretty tl buying it. A little can be making it at home, when the price will be something less than a dollar for the material, In making there is a sa two at one The width of th silk and lace icient when the length required is purchased to make two corset covers like that shown here A straight chine is dec of tir h along one ed Low such small garments time. strip of the crepe de ated with three groups tucks and hemmed up The other edge is tched—by hand, if possible—to a strip of shadow lace of the same length as the silk. The upper edge of the lace is bound with satin ribbon, and shoulder straps of the same rib- bon are sewed to place. Three small ribbon daisies or flat roses with pale yellow centers are sewed to the front, and baby ribbon is run through the hinding at the top just the garment to the figure At the right is a neckband of velvet ribbon bordered with knife-plaited lace and fastened with hook and eye un- 1 1-ru hem | L unevenly s that ! \ps and decorative | red by | ving usually in making | When You Think of Gents’ Furnishings You instinctively turn to the house with the reputation of high class goods JuvSpe—— hown as a ricl vrap JULIA EOTTOMLEY. Velvet Cresses With Tu Althongh many dress skirts cireular this is rarel with velvet dres pecially good in v oods cut, as the 1 o Eeonomis kirts, as they may be called quire ight the cloth to them hang gracefully, and are, there. 3 attractive style for velvet skirts are very apt to hang in velvet, as the weight of oth drags down the skirt at the re we in make fore, an Circular the cl sides. Spring Colors. Among the colors for spring putty, ,yreenish md g tap h: ally are old 1¥s, try blues and dark goner- 1 worn with the and is a very simple le of wire covered ribbon that is a neckband of velvet which fastens at the back These hed to the band re worn over standing ruches to sup- port the lace or maline of which they are made 5 nirrow velvet wound over it, finish JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Lace Novelties. Wide flouncing, with a v sign al the edge, peculiaritios of this ve is new a can be in the gowns 1 Kirt is a series of over £ and lace flounces. Amor such design Boule de ne T'he narrc order which outl deep scallop is a vize dotted by little round balls of the thread. Another , fur lace, has so thick a che ille design that it locks like fur. A deep flouncing with a double row o allops with this extremely na v border is for the foundation skirt, that is unlined and covered to just about the aniles with satin or velvet over tunic. The ankles show through this lace flouncing. e SR Mats for the Table, Very useful, inexpensive table mats may be made from thick brown cor- rugated packing paper. Cut out size and shape required, and use two thicknesses, placing the smooth eny to bac y together at the edges, and cover them | with muslin or any other washing fabrie. The covers miy be removed and washed when they become sofled v narrow is one of the This aces, is the s the D T Y Y XX faces back Sew them frn AR a2 SR X S RIS WS Our Hart Schaifrer and Marx Suits g selling better this Fall than last. Now your time to get one. Also, our oy Suits are extra good in Quality and Lo in prices. 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