Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 11, 1915, Page 7

TWO PEGGIES CONSTANCE MORTON, Raycroft came down the the clubhouse and unrolleq ! his umbrella. 4 ! light shower was slanting down on the hurryin g crowds who had | been caught by the capricious | April weather. “By jove, there's Peggy!” he ex- claimed, as a blue umbrella bobbed past him. “Iq at umbrella anywhere by the pot on it where I dropped the t day. Well, little sister, Il | b with you and we'll have | ether!™ | ittle sister” managed to keep | ock ahead of her big brother. by Raycroft, if ever I catch up ,1'li bring you down to a sane panted as he hastened in her | ‘I'll have to call a taxi if I n her.” t, in the shadow of a mll' the blue umbrella swmwdl Charlie leaped forward and | one of the points thereof. ’eggy!” he gasped. | dare you?’ rasped a shrill | d the blue umbrella was lifted the grim-jawed countenance unprepossessing female of years. your pardon!” cried Charlie, jsion. e lady was obdurate. With a ler finger she had summoned nted officer and requested rlie be arrested. as followed me for blocks,” rted, angrily. “He is trying ith me.” icers looked from Ra}‘crofl‘s] 0d-looking countenance to the one of the offended lady. He ympathetic look at Charlie. tried to explain. ught it was my sister's um- | said with what composure | ster in the face of the em. situation. “And I followed | can testify that 1 ad- | as ‘Peggy. e.” pens to be my own nnmo,"‘ lady, frostily. “Oflicer, do wanter enter a complaint cets. A respectible wom: | sufe from their odious atten- | § as he should be (lri\‘onl | | moment another wa The 1 tty girl. she said to no | articular, “but 1 happened to the incident—and I'm quite | the man meant no harm Ile } so surprised when he fo uml\ lady under the umbreila \\..q‘ r and—" uun-rllnent!" interrupted 'Im; ed Peggy. mean to be,” went on the kly; “but you see, 1. too, recognized the umbrella as priging to my friend, I'l‘m:.\‘\ and I was about to call out hen—when this happencd!™ Rayeroft?” repeated Peggy brella. “This unibrella was me by Margaret Raycroft—I : lier governess—and—"' | you have heard of me!” fn-! Charlie in h#s turn, as he lis card. “I remember Peg al governesses while | was perhaps you are Miss Free- was devoted to her.’ Margaret Freeman,” ad- e lady, with a melting ;mile ther of her old pupil. *Of- lieve we can get along with- ces today!” will forgive me, Miss Free- can best show it by having h me,” cried Charlie, gayly.| replaced his hat and, ope iorella, he accompanied Miss to 2 nearby fashionable hotel, Bt victim of genteel poverty pi-to-be-remembered hour of | group. dingly your pa 1914, by the MeClure Newspas | per Syndicate.) A el Henesty in war, h marshal Turenne sreat general, bu B honesty of ch s whi ow his mode red him v if he would is march, lested surprised in more wa by his answer. “Gentle- | d he, “my conscience will me to accept vour mo never intended to lead igh your town.” —— nd rn War Correspondent. O vou send Sowersby as & | spondent? He can't even | Bight of blood.” that got to do with his alnl- | iter? The only time a war €ut sees blood nowadays himself while shaving. Fortune” a Flatiron. -out ehoes and a flatiron hat Arayone Glovonn! of bund in a tin deposit box bened it at Portland, Ore., awing it from a bank had deposited it under the that it contained $3,000 of mey ard 5079 belonging to 0 man who had won his con- the police say, was the h old bunko game whereby ning the victim's money is for another. The $2000 Giovouny's lifelong sav- a te That is my | " utive and across t‘w back. each side of. Following the turn-over coll ing collar the rately @ pe extends THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK | OF ELAND, FLA,, JAN. 11, 1915. i | \ | i ! to be in service here. SHE WAS A PEAGH By SETH MONROE. ! “Anthony? You mean Jim Anthony { who used to cover this territory for | i King & Co.? Why, he has anolher( route now, and he ain't traveling for ! King & Co. any more, neither. And Letty—you remember Letty, who used | Well—say, I'd | best start right at the beginning. “Letty was the housemaid at this ' hotel when Anthony was King & Co.'s The hair is parted off about the face 104 and combed forward, where it is to be iled and pinned to keep it out of the ¥, while the back hair is dressed. It there is a suflicient quantity of this Usworn | to braid into two soft full plaits it rely i Land o Elapes |y the middie e the It terminates al the front in the jacket. of the line of the cape a flat, lies below the stand- rangement front of the| be managed as shown in the pic- The plaits are pinned flat across © back of the head below the crown the hair is scanty it will look better ted into light coils and pinned wn The front hair is to he parted cither or a dittle to one side and 1 back from the fa e twisted and con d under the With the toilet comb of the hair about the face are 1 furward into looso waves ned with ble pins into A dibe keep t hair inv al coiffure neat are hardly practical tyle, the pir e a JULIA BOTTOMLEY nd the merest sides. tter or more » fashion- fabric-furs h a iic bordered rt coat of it rtest of cloth gowns iirt with long narrow fat fur let in, one of the front, one at each back and one at the center he shert coat of cloth is v a skirt sewed to it and ut the bottom. It ex- s, but not across the ire, as it hangs from nd back of the short jacket. iere is a band of Pomoire, which r about the skirt of the d long revers are also made of it. For wear in mild climates the cos- tume trimmed with fur-cloth or using furcloth with plain cloth in its com- posse t asing of the JULIA BOTTOMLEY. best salesman. Her mother had brought her up very strict, and when she died Letty was only eighteen and knew about as much of the world as a child does, The house was worth about two thousand, for property had been going up for a long time; but Letty couldn’t live on nothing while it was on the market, so she came to the | ‘tavern’ as second housemaid. In those | days service of that kind wasn't con- sldered anyways lowering in Wake- field. | “Anthony was staying over night. It | was a small town on his route, and he hadn’'t made many sales that year, and ' he was naturally a bit depressed. But | when he saw Letty sweeping down the hall he brightened up a bit. Anthony always liked a pretty face. So he comes up to her. “*Hello, kid, you sure are a peach,’ he says, and s her. That done, he goes into his room, thinking no ' more about it. | “Letty was flabbergasted. She had always been taught that to kiss a girl meant you wanted to marry her, aud’ here was a perfect stranger who had | kissed her the minute he set eyes on her. The little fool put down her , broom and began to cry with happi- ness. Anthony was about forty and rather fat and flasl dressed, but he was all gold in Letty's eyes. “Next morning Anthony, having re- newed his grouch, went out of his room carryiug his suit case. He met Letty, who had been waiting on the stairs. ‘Morning, mis 1id Anthony, and passed on, leaving Letty still more flabbergasted “I & she cried all that day, but when n slie had made up her mind. Of course » gentleman like Anthony wouldn't want to marry a girl in serviee, tlor little head was (ull of romances. She had read about men The cnds | and use of the hairpins | looking, | rof ' today the ¢ inforced by utilitarian argumonts, His Grouch Began to Clear Away. being true to death, and all that, and she made up her mind to make herself worthy of Anthony. “She took her savings and went to night school with them. By the end of the year Letty was a fair stenog- rapher and bookkecper, and, as the young woman who kept books for the ‘tavern’ was leaving to get married, Letty stepped into her shoes. The salary was a dollar less than her wages had been when she held the broom, but she was mighty glad. “At the end of the year Anthony comes on his route again, and when Letty looked up from her books and gaw him standing, waiting to register, her heart beat eo that she couldn’t speak. “Anthony looked at her, grouch began to clear away. waya liked pretty girls, “*You sure are a peach, kiddo,’ he and chucked Ler under the chin. about the movics tonigh “With that he poor Letty in a he eod had notice g0 and his Ho al- gone, enofl ¢ ving . Her ; he was it. That flashy chap 1 Letty's eye to take dn’t the had ever met «1l in with some y 1ot t, he we e ke had gotten Letty, who had been primped up since cight o'clock, “Letty cricd herself to sleep, and next m A ony was gone be- anted zh he ha t he all r htest notion tl 1 t er ou Lim into £Ot omt, wbout wa g all ing A re sk as down in the office. She gave up hope then, but she stayed on at the ‘tavern,’ keeping the too She wouldn't have anything to do with the young fellows of Wake- field, but che was always nice to trav- eling men A‘vm( the time when An- thony gain she began to ask timid questions about him. But no- body told her much; you see, they sed something had happened be- en them. But at last Letty got the truth from a young saleswan who was maxing the rounds. *‘Anthony?" he asked. ‘Why, he won't be here any more. I'm covertng | his territory now for King & Co. You see, they caught him with the goods, miss.’ 'Goods ?' inquired Letty, puzzled. “‘Yes. Two thousand dollars he had | taken to gamble with. His case comes up for trial pretty soon, and he'll likely | get about four years as a first offend- er. Poor old Arnt When he comes out he’ll have hard work get- ting on his feet again.’ “Next day Letty accepted two thou- sand dollars for her house, which had gone up to a good deal more than that in wvelue, rsigned her geeltion, anl went to ' y! » with the most stirring events in the started for New York. She King & Co. ‘I want to see Mr. King on lmpor tant business,’ she said. “The clerk took her in and Mr. | I\Ing stared at her, and she stared back at him. There was something tragical about Letty in little things. People didn't like the way she looked | into their minds. “Mr. King was growing uncomfort- able when Letty burst out: ‘If I pay | you will you let him out, Mr. King?’ “‘I beg your pardon. Whom are you talking about?' asked the head of the firm. “‘Mr. Anthony, sir,’ saild Letty, de- positing her two thousand dollars upon the table, and Mr. King stared harder than ever. 'Who are you? he asked, eyeing first her and then the money. ‘You ain't his wife, because he wasn’t mar- ried last time I heard.’ “‘I'm going to be, sald Letty qui- etly. “Well, King was glad enough to drop | the proceedings, and he took Letty round to the jail to see him. Anthony didn’t feel too good to see King, but when he learned that he was to be free he saw the point. “‘You can thank this young wom- an instead of me,’ says Mr. King. *‘And let me tell you I wouldn't have taken her money if it hadn’t been for the fact that she was engaged to you. In my opinion she is a good deal too good | for you." With which he turned on his heel, leaving Letty and Anthony | looking at each other. To the best of his knowledee Anthony had never seen her before in all his lfe. He thought it was a game put up by some of his frienis. “*Whose money was it, my dear? he asked. “*Mine," answered Letty proudly. ‘I know you don't care for me any more, but when 1 heard you were in trouble it seemed—scemed only right for me to'—guip dive you my money. “‘But you told Mr. I\lng you were going to be married to me,” said An- thony in bewilderment, “*I wouldn't marry you for all the wealth of Wakefield,' Letty flashed out, and meant it, too. Somchow that word Waketield recalled to Anthony the broken eungagement, and then he understood and, remembered hery His hand shot out and grasped hor under the chin, SERIds & peac I| I Ay GIOFTOIDIAIOD he eaid, ‘you certainly are v have been married three years now d he travels for Constabla, Letty i roud as a queen of Aathony. 1 guess there is the woman for the right man ev- erywhere, but, Lord, what luck An thony had finding her!™ (Cops w RICH FIOPOROLOFORQFOE o0l %Mw%mmmomm 1014, be W. G. Chapman.) BH STJFiu INTEREST Exccllent Reasons \Vhy Misslssippi's Old Capitol Sheuld Be Preserved by Pcople of State. A bill for renovating Missiseippl's old statehouse calls for the legislature the te to consider a question more or less continuously discussed by Mississippi cver gince the comple- tion of the present eapitol in 1908, For a comparatively medest sum the old capitol may be restored and put to ex- cellent and appropriate use. So that sentimental pl for tho building's preservation is strongly re- N Mississippi's old etatchouse should be as dear to Mi ippiang who take pride in their etute’s history as tho Cabildo is to Louisianians. Duilt in 1839 the old capitol at Jackson is identified most stirring period of Misslssippi's history. In 1849 it housed the convention that formally asserted the pinciplo of secession as a state right. In its hall the convention of 1561 was assembled and the ordinance of secession passed. During the storiny yeare just followlng the war it witnessed the dispossession of two governors by federal troops, and staged the notorious “black and tan” convention. It was the scene of ' the impeachment trial of Governor ; Ames. In 1890 it sheltered the consti- ! tutional convention which framed and enacted the franchise plan that solved the south’s most |mrh~n(1mm problem. Andrew Jack , Henry Clay, Pren- tiss, Lan \'.nlllmll. George and other makers of history have ad- dressed Mississippt audiences in the historic structure. It witn d the election of Jefferson Davis as major general of Mississippl troops the beginning of the etrugele hetween the states. From its rostrum the Confed- erate president in 1884 delivered his farewell address to the people of Mis- sissippi. 's Problem. Woman's Tn- | Housewi’s' At the openin dustrial exposition in New York, City Chamberlain Henry Bruere said that gett food to the 1y is the great problem. The market will not de it, he sa In order to find out what i he they sent rid found the to market, of the It way says stil th an L vew York vives NECKWEAR OF THE MOMENT Styles Are as Pretty as Those of the Summer, Though Materials Are Different. Just as last summer the lovely touch of white neckwear was organdie | and lawn, €0 now it is of cream net! and lace in the finer costumes, and of pique in those dresses that smack of the tailormade. H There is less wirlng of the collars to make them stand up, as the necks are higher as far as decollete is con- cerned; they can, however, be lightly wired if they are more becoming.| Fine venise, applique and point laces are noted in the collars of the new | dress models, and there s always .’ enough net added to the neck decora- | ¢ tion to keep the lace from looklng too \ & hard against the skin. 2 Some of the lace guimpes are of embroidered net of the applique type % of lace, and they finish at the top with a round neck that does not come quite up to the base of the throat. SPEPEEPSPPFPOTRITGI PRI EES | TOTHBDHHHTOBODO O DS DICEOPNEEOEFDFODO DO B DO BOHO- $ 0" The Lakeland Steam Laundry Is prepared to give you in laundry work, what experienced workmen and modern equipment will produce—SUPERIOR SERVICE. Ifyouare notalready one of our customers, we invite you to hecome one ard enjoy this service. Visitors are always welcome at our laundry—we are glad to have our custom- ers call and inspect our method of laun- dering, We have a large- number of 12-inch rules for the school children, and will be pleased to give one to every child whe will call at the Laundry oftice. 201 0SOTOEOFIFOSOPEO BOLETBPOFTHOHO OO 2O 04 R. W. WEAVER, Prop. PHONE 130 ODLOIOTOTOF IS0 SEOOIDIOIDIOTOIVSOIGL ———— Begin the New Year RIGHT 30 Wear Our Stylish and Correct Fitting Shoes If it is STYLE and COMFOR'L* you want COME to US. SO OFOFOROROEOROSOFOFEPESIES Introduce your Feet to CORRIFCT Fitting Shoes Our SHOE MENT work done REPARIRING DEPART- EXPERT. All PROMPTLY. ¢ of an LY is in char and POEORO QUICK SERVICE our specialty. 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