Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 27, 1915, Page 3

| Must Little Homeless | Children Suffer In Florida? 3 WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- ida reolize that there are right now in our State Hundreds of littde children in real need—some absolutely homeless— that just must be cared for. We feel sure—that they do not know that there are hun- dreds of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep their little ones alive—and at home. We just cannot believe—that with these facts true—and every orphanage in Florida crowded to the doors—that the people of Florida will let our great work which has cared for 850 of these little ones this year alone—go down for lack of funds to keep it up. Your immediate help—is greatly needed—right now—Please send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Society of Florida Florida's Greatest Charity 361 St. James Bldg. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. it B g e ———— | R ————— "THROUGH A STORY By WALTER A. FROST. s (Copyright.) She knew that she had acted for i the best, though feeling none of the elation at a hard duty done. She knew, too, that the renunciation ~—for it had been that—had left her lit- tle strength of courage, not enough for & repetition, if he had come back agaln. o But that did not matter now; he had gone away, and—it may have been weakness that made her flush faintly a8 she remembered the pain in his ©yes when she had said that she could not marry him. How strangely things happen, now and then! If his sister had not told her, in that letter, that he would ruin career if he married pow, for he & young lawyer and needed all strength and thought for his uphill t; If that letter had not come just before he came— But there was less than no -use of thinking of it now. She would have been a drag on him; there would have come anxieties and responsibilities; she would have done her best to help him, spent herself so gladly, but—well, she was only seventeen, and he needed all his strength and thought for his career! To stay in the house meant to think, thoush she had said she would not, and, in order to find rest in physical weariness, she went out, to walk in the fast-falling snow. The sidewalks were unbroken, for it was a little town, and she found the effort greater than she had counted on. Yet she kept on, out the deserted street under the heavily laden trees, would be. 8 half- blinded, she struggled on. — She lost account of time or distance after the first quarter of the way. The city seemed strange to her, even as if she might never have been in it | before, and she wondered, in odd per- plexity, how she could walk so long. Cars, some of them quite empty, passed her; once she had to stop to let one go by, and before it faded ahead, she realized that she had known | all the time that it would have taken | her to the very door. At last she reached it; and she was surprised when the door opened, for she could not remember having pushed the bell. The maid, who had known her since and through her childhood, stepped back from her in surprise. But Miss Dimmis did not attempt to resist her mute inquiry—her soft brown hair was snow-shrouded, her deep eyes, bigger than ever and more pleading, cried out for sympathy, her last shred of stamina was going in trying to hold her slim young form erect. “Have they brought him back? 1Is' he—" Unable to finish it, she smiled pa- thetically, the faint smile of a tired, heart-sick and baffled child. \ “Poor dear!’ Miss Dimmis did not hear it, nor ; feel the arm which supported her, -l-' most bore her, into the big living room, before the fire. “Miss Travis,” said the maid, “will see you very soon.’ In the deep silence, broken only by the crackling glow, she looked about | | her; his room, his chair, pushed back | | where he had left it, only such a few | | hours ago, to come to her! | On a table at the end were his pa- pers, an envelope addressed in his | strong, firm hand! She rose and walked weakly to the desk. She had his letters, but she wanted this too, | another thing which should freshly re- ' A WIGIN . WARTIME By DONALD CHAMBERLIN In the spring of 191 | ju } ropean mvasivn of A and wade Germany ground. Before leaving home | sent to Washington for a passport, for. thouzh at the time there was not much prospect of using oue, | preferred to be provided. The document descrilied me as Edward Boyer. aged thirty-one. five feet elght Inches high. eyes, hair and complexion dark. 1o Berlin | contructed typhoid fever, and when | recovered my bair fell out. leaving my skull as polished us u plece of ivory On the 28th of July the bomb of the European war exploded aud 1 was ad- | wonished that if | wanted to get out | of the war zone and back home | must bestir myself. 1| had not yet recov- ered my strength, but | was due Il:t America on the 18th of August and resolved to start at once. ! The first thing ueeded was a wig. 1! sallied forth to get onme, having just an hour before the train on which | was to leave would start. This gave me about twenty minutes to procure a hair bead covering. 1 found a place where such things were sold, but un- fortunately the only wig they had that would it my head was of an auburn bue. There was no other place to procure one within a dozen blocks. I looked at my watch and saw that | had just ten minutes to get the train 1 paid for the auburn wig, clapped it on my head and started for the sta tion. I was on the last passenger train to leave Berlin - The war was brand new ied the En tourists stamping | There’s No Plac Lie Home Especially if it's your own home built after your own ideas and just to suit you. 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As she turned up the street down which she had come, she passed a news stand, buying a paper which the boy proprietor held out to her, then went on, walking with increasing diffi- culty in the deepening snow. The wind again pervaded her, and she stopped for a moment at an apothecary shop. She opened the paper and idly glanced down the columan, then she sat quite still, staring vaeantly at the sheet: there had been a serious wreck on the railroad connecting the neigh- boring city with the town, and first on the list of those who had passed into eternity was—“John Travis, Boston.” She read dully—“identified by a business letter in his overcoat.” “I beg your pardon, Miss Dimmis,” said the clerk, as he kept her nerve- less body from slipping from the chair, “Is there anything—Can I—?" And almost impersonally, she allowed him to pour between her lips what seemed like liquid fire. Yet it restored her, and after a mo- ment, agelong it seemed, her brain was again alive. “No,” she said in a voice not her own and coming as from a great way off, “there is nothing else. Can y when,” she asked suddenly, “does the next train leave for town?” For an instant the clerk looked at her blankly. “When does it leave?” she cried again. “Don't keep me waiting. It may be leaving now!” “In ten minutes,” was the answer. It she said more, it was drowned in the rush of the storm, as she passed from the door. She was exhausted, when the con- ductor swung her on the last platform of the already moving train, and she hardly saw and certainly did not feel the looks which soon changed to frank scrutiny from mild surprise. There, in the corner of the seat into which she had thrown herself, she had but one thought, to go to him, dead though he was, and try to tell him of her love. Yes, tell him, for obligation to his career required no silence now. Now, she could do no harm. Only—if only she could have known in time. If she could have married him at once, as he had asked her to do- that afternoon, gone with him to the death which, though her body lived, had, she knew, no less surely come to her! It was not until she stepped out at the station that there came the full realization that she was quite alone, and then it came from the crowds whose self-absorption seemed deliber- ate obstruction to her weary feet. Urnused to being there at that hour and unaccompanied, the great city seemed to her limitless, the streets a maze, the lights a dazzling luminance hostile in itself. The street cars were crowded, and, confused, she waited for another and another, still waited, turned to take a carriage only to find that in her haste, she had not brought money enough to pay the fee swelled by the raging storm. But the time was sweeping past her, and, reckless now, she turned her face against the stinging flakes and walked in the direction where she B ——— incentive to Better Work, erson says: “Every day is a ‘dof:ndly." It we realized this, we | would take each day and try its | worth as it came to us. Then we Iwould do better work tomorrow.— | Maltbie D. Babeock. O%ock Definition. Léttle Jobnny, on being asked by teacher / he knew what meant by “at par,” replied that was always at pa when he came late."—Ezehange. was there before her, had sprung to | noticing my red wig, his exl"‘t‘fl-*lufll her and was holding her to him in his ‘ arms; holding her, yes, he had even raised her from the floor. “My child, | my Dimmis, my poor, tired, frightened, shaken dear—" And then, because it as too much, she fainted quietly away. She awoke unwillingly, for what the | stood German announced to me the un- awakening must bring, and before she could speak, her hands were busy with his hands, his face, his hair. What was it? What did it mean? Then for she thought that she too was dead, she smiled. It was then with no negative force and passion that John Travis spoke, not questioning, for he knew her in his love; but soothing her, in the way he had always longed to, until strength should come back and let her tell her story as she would. €he told it, told of the paper, the headlines, the story of the wreck, of his name there in the list of those found dead, told of her daring then to come to him to tell all that, in his life, she had fought back for the sake of the career, told even of the letter which had come just before he came. As he listened, Travis passed through it with her, with a face which broke with love and glowed with fire. “I thought you were dead,” said | Dimmis. “And I came to tell you—" and er face went back on his wide shoulder, as she finished—"of my love.” It was very short, his story. An ac- cidental exchange of overcoats with | another at the hotel, and his taking a later train, after a vain effort to find | the other man. “So it was not you,” she sald, for, on his strength, she had let hers go utterly. “No,” saild John Travis, “no, dear- est, for I have just begun to live!"” Humor in Ancient Documents. Domestic troubles in the fifth cen- | tury are illustrated in recently foundl lightful letter of the second century, B. C,, sent from headquarters to offi- clals in the Falum, ordering them to have everything ready for the visit of a Roman senator who wanted to see the sights and was to be conducted over the labyrinth and provided with & bun to throw to the sacred croco- diles; another, from a traveler in the upper country, who says he had carved his friends’ names on the temple walls. illustrations of this kind might be in- definitely multiplied. They supply, as it were, a series of small historical snapshots, by the aid of which we may construct a realistic picture of Graeco-Roman provincial life in Egypt. Pat an Easy Winner. An Irishman, an Englishman and a Scotchman were out of work. They traveled together In search of em- ployment, and came to a farmer's house and applied for the work of plowman. The farmer said whoever told the biggest lie could have the Job. The Englishman sald he went to the north pole in a tub. The Scotch- man said he swam to the south pole. The farmer then asked Pat: “Well, Pat, what's your lie?” “Begorra, sir,” said Pat, “I believe these lads.” Pat got the job. To Wash Windows. To wash windows quickly: Take & chamois skin, dipped in warm water, to wash windows. Then wring the same chamois skin dry as possible, and after wiping the wi will have a finely :::hout the use of numercus cloths to do the work. Look Ahead! e The present moment is the lesient hand of Time and hourly either lighteaing den, or making us insensible ‘welight.—Robert Burns. i port and, looking at my wig, sald what changed at once to one of fierceness. He sald something to us in German that 1 did not understand :nd, calling some soldiers, turned me over to them for safe keeping, then went his way through the train. An American gentleman who under There is also class to our Shirt Work. Send us your Shirts next weak and you § i will always send them. pleasant information that | had been arrested as a [rench spy. He had { heard the officer say that the passport 1 traveled on belonged to one baving a French name and that it described & black headed man, while I was a red beaded man. Never had there been a more barefaced attempt to carry infor- mation out of Germany for the use of an enemy. Here was a pretty pass. In my hur £y to get away | bad forgotten my passport, or, rather, 1 had thus far not been_required. to show it, and It bad Dot occurred to me that the document | would be now required. s When we reached a city—l didn't know what city—1 was taken from the traln and conducted to the headquar- ters of an oficer who, 1 judged by the respect pald bim, was of high rank. He received me with a lowering brow, read the description in my pass- by his expression | judged to mean, “Take him out and shoot him.” The soldiers advanced to take me. In a fit of desperation I selzed wmy red wig and, throwing it on the floor, trampled on It and cried out, “I am not a red headed man; I am an Amer- lean citizen.” There must have been something ridiculons In the act, for the officer burst into a laugh. Then au inter- preter was called, who translated my story. As soon as it was understood that | was an American aud the pass- port belonged to me | was set at lib- erty, with an apology. Realizsing thnl | my train had gone on, | asked for a permit to travel on a troop train, and one was given me. possibly | might bave use for the or, 50 I accepted 1t EE?’;? jaditinn. fell on my neck and, grasping beld it up amid shouts fro; ers, crying: “A spy! 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