Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 20, 1915, Page 2

Nida of ~ the Sea Ry Molly MacMaster mmwm Danvers first caught sight of her when she was going up the gang- boarding the ocean liner. was willowy—the kind Danvers membered having read of, but had seldom seen except among famous however, that the big the western world was not remained unoccupied in the dining saloon, and that the place must be | bers. It was at dinner that he looked up from a desultory study of the menu eard. Bhe was sitting opposite him. Banvers knew with sudden conviction that if he ever loved a woman it would be one who could enter a dining room in just that way. There had been no rastling of draperies, no patter of Pranch heels. But to be frank with himself Dan- vers had not thought of loving any- onme. Perhaps he was a little afraid of women; perhaps it was that he had feund them wanting. And now, because the beautiful woman opposite him was not in the least interested in him or in anything olse as far as he could see, Danvers wanted to know her. She, whether through feminine wiles or mere per- wersity responded but faintly to all ad- vances made in her direction. Dan- wers felt his fighting blood rise. What right had & woman to suggest mystery and thus lure masculine interest? He watched her covertly and once or| twice their eyes met. There was | weiled challenge in hers, determina- #lon in his, and the something in each that admitted attraction, one for the otber. E And under the current of passing (houghts Danvers knew that the oval | “You WIII Go Back.” before. For four days and four nights your face has danced before me in maddening persistency, and 1 cannot recall where I—what is it?” he broke in abruptly. “Are you i She had gone a trifie white and her eyes had darkened. She smiled, but it ‘was & far away smile. “No—I am only unbappy,” she said. “If you do not mind I will go below. Good night.” Danvers could only frown his dis- within her sbell. was still unbhappy. Her were brooding, and her proud h and I do not even know your name.’ His eyes held her gase and she col- ored. “It is scarcely worth while learning & name merely for one day,” she an- | swered quickly. “But it is not for one day,” Danvers told her. “I want to know where you are going—so that I may follow.” The girl caught a swift breath, then laughed unsteadily. She had never | before been wooed in so masterful a | way. “But I am the follower.” A sparkle of fire had kindled in her eyes. “A career is just ahead of me, and I am | running after it.” She arose from the table with a laugh and left him. Danvers’ teeth came together with & jerk. A moment later he, t00, left the dining saloon. His shoulders were braced and his step firm. He would not look again at the woman who had refused him her name. At least, he ‘would try not to. ‘When he went up to the writing room to get his mail off for Queens- town she was there writing. Danvers | seated himself to wait for a desk. She ‘was the first to finish writing, and he took the seat she had vacated. He did not look at her, but he knew that she was surprised and—yes, hurt. It was not easy to write letters when his whole mind was rushing aft- er the girl. He glanced down at the | desk and began absently to trace the name left backward on the blotter. “Nida,” he read, and with the name his memory shot back some months. Danvers did not at first realize that the name he had traced was that of the woman whose identity troubled him. Her face floated before him and coupled itself with that name. Sud- denly the story came to him. She ‘was the famous dancer who had been the innocent cause of a great soclety scandal. Danvers remembered now having seen her picture in the western papers. ‘Without apparent reason he scratche went in search of her. She was far up toward the bow of the boat standing in the full sweep of wind. Danvers went to her and stood close beside her so that she could not escape. that I would care any the less for you because of that?’ he asked without preface.” months,” she said with a catch in her volce. “It follows me everywhere. I am never golng back to New York,” she added, “because I cannot stand it.” She looked far back where, acros$ face of the woman had once before | country beckoned her. Danvers saw gone before his vision. Where he had seen her and when, he could not re- member. He recalled it only as a spir- 1t face without the crimson of the lips or the flush that lingered beneath her eyes. After dinner when all of the passen- gers came up on deck for the usual badinage and glimpse of the setting sun Danvers paced slowly back and forth, back and forth. He was con- sclous only of the fact that as each person stepped out from the compan- the sorrow in her eyes. seemed to turn the great ship about by the force of its appeal, “you will 80 back.” CHANGE WESTERN STYLES Chinesse Women Now Dressing Thelr. Halr Like Their Sisters of the Occident i I;Leg Year' ed the name from the blotter nndl “Do you imagine for one instant| “I have been trying to escape it for | the great expanse of water, her own | “Yes,” he said in a low voice that | overybody, those who had fetched their own friends got the best of their own choice edibles. Also that the poorer folk, and especially the county By Martha McCulloch-Willioms Speer and his spinster aunts were not singular in their determination that God’s poor should be considered when they had come to the services in God's house Waiting upon them, looking out for the small boys, with side efforts for Aunt Martha and Aunt Mary, kept John so occupied he could do no more than smile at Morna, until, everybody fed to repletion, the crowd began to scatter and clot for intimate gossip. Lenox Gordon had momentarily left her—John almost ran to her, caught Morna’s eyes were troubled. There- fore her Falthful Heart lost some- thing of his joy in the joyous summer day. He knew every change of the eyes--beautiful brown eyes, dark and liquid, set under arched brows and curtained with long, soft, straight lashes. Most lashes 50 long and thick have a trick of curling upward. Mor na's rather lay in soft dusk fringe over the splendors underneath, or made & fairy shadow against the healthy pal- hushedly: lor of her oval cheeks. dear!” Faithful Heart, of course, had an- I can't! I—I mustn't—but oh! I do other name—indifferent folk called Wish I ocould,” Morna answered him John Speer—"“Honest John” more breathlessly. commonly. He was as honest as he was sturdy and ugly. It was an en- gaging ugliness, that made children hold out imploring arms to him, and dogs follow him, wagging the tail in Joy. ' He had grown up knowing Morna and loving her. He could not recall the day since he was ten and she a fairy of four that he had not been consclous of somehow having her in charge. Affer a sort she belonged to his people, being orphan step- daughter to the aunt who mothered him most. He did not live with the motherer, but with two of her spin- ster sisters. Both adored him, but being stift and shy, never dared show him the open tenderness he got from Mrs. Ware, Morna was rising twenty now— in another six months she would come into her property, a small com- petence inherited from her mother, and kept sacredly intact by her step- mother. Mrs. Ware was eager to have John press for marriage—no tell- ing what a girl might do when she had ready money and absolute freedom in other way.” the spending of it. “The cur!” John snapped through John was not afrald either would shut teeth. “S8o0 he would beggar 80 to Morna's head. Also he had a 'you to save himself—" certailn man’s pride in showing his| “No! I—there would be something world and hers that if she came to left—quite half my money,” Morna him it would be open-eyed and free ‘htormptad breathlessly. “I can’t from choice, without a trace of com- | stand by and see shame fall on my pulsive family influence. blood—my mother’'s name. He says He was, indeed, a Faithful Heart— |if I will only save him, he will give foolishly faithful, foolishly fond it | me back my freedom—after a little— might be. Even as he loved Morna he | and work the rest of his lite—work trusted her. In reward she had al- | honestly, to pay me.” ways been open as the day toward | “I have a better plan,” John inter- bhim. That made her present state at rupted, his brow clearing. “I see his once puzzling and unpleasant. If any- 'polnt-—marrled you come straight llnto your fortune, no matter who your husband may be. To save your pride, !l.nd also to save a man who may not be wholly bad, I'm quite willing to sacrifice myself. Marry me—and I engage to sce Lenox through.” “Oh! If only you will take me—I— 1 wanted so to ask you" Morna panted, her eyes shining star-wise. John had much ado to keep from kissing her on the spot. “You are & coward,” he sald gravely, though his eyes danced. “You know it is leap year—" “So 1t {s—but I had Morna flashed at him. “Now you mention it, everything is easy. Mr. John Speer, when will you marry me?” | “As soon as we can find the pre- siding elder,” John said, catching her hand quite openly and leading her away. ! And this is how it happened that ' the basket meeting had a sensation— ! John and Morna stood up in the face of it, anq were married before after- noon service. [ i | True Herolsm. | “Who Is He?” | ‘The bravest man in New York made | , his appearance in a Broadway store | thing really troubled her, John felt one day last week. 11t at once his right and his privilege to He carried an enormous bandbox know it and seek a remedy. which contained an enormous hat, on + It was tantalizing that he could not which the man wanted what he con- g0 straight to her—he had Aunt Mar- sidered an enormous amount of money tha's Sunday school boys in charge, refunded. The man was pretty mad, “Tell me the trouble, John smiled at her. “I am sure you will tell me—whether or no you can,” he said. “Out with it! At once.” “J—I—don’t know—how to begin,” Morna said flushing a little. “It's about your cousin,” John said with decision, not interrogation. She started. “How do you know?” she asked. “Never mind,” John retorted. “Tell me what he wants.” “He—wants me to—to—marry him tle shudder, half closing her eyes. John frowned. “Very maturally he dces,” he sald. “But why such sud- denness and haste?” “lI ought not to tell you,” Morna sald wistfully. “But, oh—I am so un- happy—yet—there seems no other way out.” “Out of what?” his breathing short. “Trouble!” Morna whispered. “Trouble of the worst. Lenox has used money—not his own—speculated and lost it. Not so very much money —but more than he can get any John demanded, forgotten,” Tl them made a point of seeing that charges, were mnot slighted.: John - ber arm and drew her apart, saying —right away,” Morna said with a lit- to say nothing of the old folk from the poorhouse whom Aunt Mary had insisted must be brought to the bas- Since the men of China have come ket meeting. Since it came off upon a and, while looking for some one who had the authority to negotiate the transaction, he talked loud enough for everybody to hear. (S LUGKY NUMBER By MARY GARLAND KNIGHT. . pyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) (V?imn t.h: nncl::t Willie Templeton died leaving ten thousand dollars “to | his beloved nephew,” the latter felt like the richest man in the world. | He did nmot start out on s mad, spendthrift riot. That was not his natural pace. He had missed real home life since his parents died two months previously, Young Templeton | quietly set out to find a wife. He was not after style, money or position. | Some sweet humble little woman Who | could appreciate a comfortable bome | was his ideal. } “There seems to be nome such in Elsdene,” he decided, after every for- tune-hunting girl in the county hld‘ set her cap at him. i “Business is what you want to think ' of, old boy,” declared his lawyer, & | young man who was really loyal to his interests. Willis considered many business propositions. Then came a wonderful ce to increase his few thousands to & million, according to Vance Traf- ton. This latter was a cousin. He had | been & scapegrace in his youth. Later Willis had heard he had figured as promoter and speculator. He had ap- peared at Elsdene about a month after : his succession to the fortune. Willis had been pestered to death with mean, indigent and really deserving rela- tives. He had more or less got rid of most of them according to their de- gerts. When Trafton appeared, it was an enjoyable relief to Willis to find someone who was not scheming to beg or borrow of him. “I'm north closing a big deal,” re- ported the fashionably dressed rela- tive who bore all the earmarks of permanent prosperity. “Went to Flor- ida ten years ago, bought one thou- sand acres of swamp land at two dol- lars an acre. We've sold it all out at twenty and I'm trying to buy a tract from a man in the city. You'd ought to see how we've made the wilderness blossom as the rose. Think of it— ninety thousand pineapples this year's crop, some of them weighing as much as nine pounds. Juicy, mellow— 1 want you to come back with me and see a real climate, Willis.” By degrees the wily, specious Traf- ton worked on Willis until the latter was actually anxious to buy an inter- est in the wonderful proposition. It was finally agreed that he shovd in- vest eight thousand dollars for a one- fourth share in the new land about | to be opened up. | “I'll go to the city and arrange to | get the deeds for the land,” announced Trafton. “In the meantime I'll have | a choice half dozen of our pineapples shipped to you, just to show you what | magnificent fruit we raise.” In a day or two along came a crate | directed to Willis. As he opened it, wrapped in tissue paper were half a | dozen pineapples. Certainly they were | superior and standard More than ever | in love with the proposition, the elated | Willis was about to hasten to distrib- | ute the luscious fruit among his friends and possibly influence other investors to go into the enterprise, when he noticed a neat-looking card in the bottom of the crate. | Beside it lay an unstamped letter. It was simply directed to “Miss Landon.” "The card read: ‘“Acme Fruit Co.” and gave an address in the city. At one end was the writ- ten notation: ‘“Packed by No. 42" “It doesn't square up right,” decided ‘Willis, and straightway started for the city. He found out where the fruit com- pany named had its warehouse. It was a busy place devoted to the spe- cialty of packing fine tropical fruits. Willis saw the manager. He was soon convinced that the crate of pine- apples had been shipped to him on a casual order two days before. “They came from Florida?” inquired &>, £ 2 @ ot § Uncanbassed at 18 Cents - This Week Only e s S S @ elrads e i o PHPOB Gl Bl [. 6. TWEEDELL PHONE 59 S EEERERRERATREERERS SR ERED A A PPEFFBE AP IRIF R0, Causes of Unhappiness. The worst kinds of unhappiness, as well as the greatest amount of it, come from our conduct to each other. It our conduct, therefore, were under the control of kindness, it would be nearly the opposite of what it is, and 80 the state of the world would be almost reversed. We are for the most part unhappy, because the world is an unkind world. But the world is only unkind for the lack of kindness in us units who compose it—Frederick Wil- liam Faber. Bubonic Plague Ravages Bubonic plague appeared in Ex in 1302 It had started in Asla, more than 200,000,000 of huma ings perished. 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Our Modern Equipment and years of practical exper ¢ insures you Best Work at Reasonable Prices. *t s us ienc Set of Teeth $8.00 Up it Fillings soc Up Wd Crown and Bridge $4.00 Up Ten Years Willis. fonway he was disappointed. Then she generally to accept the new order of | Saturday rather than Sunday it owned | “My wife bought this hat,” he said came and Danvers knew that he had |things in the celestial kingdom by re- | been waiting for her. moving the traditional queue and ar- She cast a swift glance at him, then | ranging their hair in a fashion as turned in the opposite direction and 'near the European style of parting it paced slowly down the great length of | as its coarseness will permit, it is nat- dock. ural that the women should follow. Danvers waited until she would have | Shanghai advices tell of a general ten- 40 pass him on the narrowest part of |dency on the part of Chinese belles the deck. As she came toward him |of the present day, the “new women,” he knew that she was going to at- |to appear not only in the garb of fash- tempt to pass him without raising her |lonable Europe but to adopt the west- \ ayes. Y ern mode of dressing their hair, “You are a most unsociable person, The old manner of parting the hair | and do not take advantage of ship- [close to the head is rapidly giving doard unconventionality,” he said, and | way to the modern European method swung into step with her, of parting and arranging it in fluffy A smile came swiftly into her eyes. |style. Having dispensed with that “Am I? Ihave no intention of being | sticky substance known as “bowfull,” 80.” which is necessary when they dress “I think it is deliberate,” Danvers |the hair in the old Chinese style in sald. “When you came out of the door |order to form the rather hard lines, a moment ago your veil blew across |the hair of these Oriental women is a holiday aspect in which there was “She doesn't need it. She has already nothing of sacrilege. ‘bought three hats. The countryside for ten miles| “She paid $35 for this one. She has round about, and almost the whole of | never worn it. It just came home-last two villages, had come together in the , night. I can’t afford to throw all that 1ig shady grove rimming Asbury meet- | money away, and I want you to take ing house, to sit under & brush arbor | the hat back. She wouldn’t bring it fanned by winds from heaven, hear | down, so I undertook the job myself.” glad tidings of great joy, then between | “By the side of that man Napoleon sermons eat the fat and drink the | Bonaparte was a cringing coward, sweet and hear the news of a whole | sald the young woman who had made year. the nlel;‘ "h‘nngln?“P‘hpoleo: floul;c':ng Morna was looking out for the |into a Parisian millinery shop with a Ware dinner baskets, helped by a slim | hat that he didn’t want Josephine to darkish young fellow wholly strange. | buy! He could not have done it. John wondered, raging inly, if the ' dark fellow could be her perplexity. | He was lithe and light on his feet, moviug as if on springs. Yet there| was something tense in his face, an edged timbre In his volce wl-u he flung gay banter right and let. Tan of Coal. We have heard so much about coal during the last few months that there seems nothing fresh to say about it. | But how many people know what an immense number of things can be pro- | duced from a ton of black diamonds? my face, and you did not even say you were sorry.” “Perhaps I was not,” she glanced Deneath her lashes, “and besides—I did not know that my vell had been taking liberties.” Danvers waited a long time before e spoke again. He noticed, with some irritation that she had tucked the chiffon vell well within her coat. “They were prettier floating in the breeze,” he sald somewhat testily. “I did not want to annoy you,” she laughed back at him. Danvers turned and looked straight at her. “You are annoying me more and mmore every moment I am with you,” he toid her with a half laugh. “Four found to be surprisingly soft and wavy. It is open for argument wheth- er or not the “new woman” of China Is an improvement in appearance over | ber former self when she followed the |more rigid style. Hints About Steel. To clean articles made of steel, rub with a piece of raw potato, un- elaked lime or powdered pumice. £ es, sled runners, etc.,, may be pre- | veuted from rusting, when they are { stored away for the summer, by coat- ing them with a mixture of lard, pul | verized black lead and camphor. | To remove rust from steel, rub with salt wet with hot vinegar; scour and rinse with bolling water. As Mrs. Ware sailed past, Jobhn caught her a under breath with the faint ward the stranger: “Who is “Wky! Hasn't Morna t Her cousin Len—all the rex cousin she's got in the worl Ware szid in half whisper. £ A o b Mrs on her mother’s brother—you know si »' was & Gordon. This Lenox is awful friendly and bright spoken, but some way—well, I wish he hadn’t come.” “Don’t worry — he shan’t make trouble for anybody,” John sald stout- ly, though in heart not quite as ease. His aunt passed on with a sigh of relief. The morning service was over —the Intermission was fairly a-buzs with hospitality. Yearly the basket days ago I saw you come up the gang- Dry with a clean flanne! cloth and | dinner was a sort of housewifely com- ®lank and I knew t I had seen you Dally Thought. Gentleness and cheerfulness, there eome before all morality; they are the perfect duties—R. L. 8 Marvelous Astivities. A diner in a restaurant thought be wsboon, & chimney sweep, a chain link, & nose gay, a camera slide, a garden 2 sword fish and a wall flower.” Imlh-u with sweet ol | ! Dally Thought. ' Let us wipe out the past, trust In the ful ,Now. Now, Jasper! “There is one thing that has ab ways refused to oose through my noodle,” remarked Jasper Knox, the sage of Piketown-on-the-Blink, “and that ie this: 1If, as the newspapers would have us believe, all brides are beautiful, where in Sam Hill do all the homely married women come from "—Judge. Thoush all baskets were aread wpon cewmmon tubles free ture—and rejoice in the glorious l .l It man's clent land to support him is empt from selzure. You can get 1,500 pounds of coke, 20 gallons of ammonia water and 140 | pounds of coal tar. If you distill the ° ; coal tar it will yield 69 pounds of pitch, 17 pounds of creosote, 14 pounds of " | heavy oils, 9 pounds of naphtha yel- 4l flow, 6 pounds of naphthaline, pounds of naphthol, 2 pounds of alaza- rin, 2 pounds of solvent naphtha, over a pound each of aurine, benzine, ana- line, toludine, nearly half a pound of anthracine and 9-10 of a pound of toulene. From the last named we obtain the valuable substance known as saccha- rine, which is 230 times as sweet as the best cane sugar, one part of it giv- in this way you get more profit out of it than by selling it for burging. “Oh, no. We get all our primes from Central America,” was the amazing declaration. And who was No. 42? Ah, yes—one of their frult packers, Miss Landon by name. Could she be seen?—for Willis had opened the letter to find that it contained an offer of marriage from one “Richard Martin.” Mies Landon was not at work. Ad- dress—yes, such and such a number on & certain street. Thither Willls pro- ceeded. A good-natured old lady was 1n charge. She invited Willis in, say- ing that Miss Landon would soon be home. Certainly the refined homelike air | | of the delightful little flat was sooth- || ing. Willis lingered. Miss Landon ar- rived. Bluntly he told her the whole story. He handed her the letter. A sorry, as her bright gentle face grew upon him, that she had a lover, “Oh, dear!” she cried, as she re. ceived the missive. “I've wondered where I ever lost it. It must have fallen from my pocket imto the crate. I am glad to get it. A friend of my sister, a gentleman friend, asked me to give it to her. Now I can straight- en up a tangle.” | Then she, Lucia Landon, as Willis :::‘f::::' out her name to be, was ! Somehow the Tl R, discovery “She 18 the girl I have for,” he told the old | Luecia one day. “Why don't you tell her that? “T will,” resolved Willis. He diq, and the result was that he gained the | dearest little wife mn the worla, He was | been looking lady friend of Practical g ) Experience op Riggs disease, Loose Teeth treated and cured. Teel extracted without pain. Come and let me examine yo! teeth and make you estimate, OFFICE UPSTAIRS FUTCH AND GENTRY BLDG Offie Hours 8 to 6. Suite 10-12-14 By. 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