The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-27
Excitement
for Two

dow Mrs. Winklespoon gazed down
into her neighbours back yard with mel
needle in the air
my goodness!" she remarked. n
should think Mrs. Tilletts would sim.
ply ruin her oriental rugs! The girl
Ia beating them! Still. maybe its al
right"
u guess she got 'em At . bargain
sale" commented Mn. Speecher,
peerins out shrswdly. They look Il
! do believe II that woman ran across
q bargain sale Of codlns she'd OUTFIT
the family! Well. must be going"
Out on the street Mrs. speecher 70
membered that she wanted q cake
recipe from Mrs. Tilletts. 20 she
turned In at the gate.
i know you're cleaning house." she
apologized. but thought you wouldn't
mind me! Oh. your girl 10 Just bring.
Ing In the rugs! How nice they look!
Ha! Ha! Excuse me. but Just
thought Of something FUNNY"
What was IT." demanded Mrs. TIL.
let's. sitting down on q stepladder and
shaking out q dustcloth.
oh. II wasn't anything much" said
Mrs. Speecher. only 1t made me
laugh. was over next door this aft.
ernoon. at Mrs. Winkelspoon's and
she looked down into your back yard
and said 1t was too bad you didn't
know enough to know you couldn't
beat oriental rugs and that you were
simply spelling them!"
Mrs. Tilletts dropped the dustcloth
and gave her hair an angry pat. She
surveyed her caller with indignant
eyes. Did she say that" she demand.
ed in the repressed tone that stage
herOines employ when making known
the fact that there are immense areas
of bottled emotion within them. well,
If don't know as much about oriental
rugs In two miutes as Gertrude Win.
kiespOOn does in two months In
cut EN- up into scraps and make rag
carpets of EN-! The idea! Id thank
her TO stop prying into my affairs!
guess il We haven't a touring car that
is mortgaged like some peoples we
aren't precisely benighted heather!
Oriental rugs. indeed! Why. was
brought up on oriental rugs!"
Now. you mustn't let It worry YOU"
said Mrs. Speecher. soothingly. Il
wouldn't pay bit OF attention to any.
thing she said!"
We'll. guess mott" said Mrs. Til.
let's emphatically.
The day after that Mrsr. Speecher
dropped into Mrs. Winklespoon's again.
you really don't know how to take
some women" she mourned. Il al.
ways thought Mrs. Tilletts such nice.
sensible person and yet when happen
to tell her in the kindest possible way
that we had seen her beating her rugs
and were afraid she would spoil them
she actually lost her temper! You
ought to have heard the things she
said! You couldn't bride me to re-
peat them!"
you tell me this minute!" com.
handed Mrs. Winklespoon, excitedly.
What on earth was there for her to
get mad about?"
mot single solitary thing" -.
Ierted Mrs. Speecher, aggrievedly.
She certainly has an awful temper
She said you couldn't tell an oriental
rom homemade rag carpet and that
very one was talking about your au.
omobile being mortgaged."
Mrs. Winklespoon sat down and
'reathed hard. I'D never have b.
|eved 1t Of her." she got out. Il never
bought she had such tongue! Just !
ct her say again that our car 10 mort.
aged and I'm sue her! The idea!
he IL green with Jealousy because
hey haven't one. and goodness knows
We taken her out in ours often :
nough! This Is my thanks! And !
'asnt on the committee to buy rugs
Or the parsonage and doesn't that
rove that my judgment is considered I
ocd? | don't want anything more t.
, do with her!"
I'm glad you have some spirit"
Mrs. Speecher. Il
ouldn't stand II, either!"
On her way down the street Mrs.
peecber met Mrs. Tilletts. Its just
shame" she said. that Mrs. Wrinkle I
,oon is SO touchy! just happened
say that ! was In your house and
le burst right out and said you were
envious of her car 1t made her sick
I'd she'd never take you riding again
ter hearing somewhere that you'd
i'd her car was mortgaged. She K
en threatened to sue you'll"
Sue me-" echoed Mrs. Tilletts :
utching the fence "Why-why that's il
andalous. I'll tell my husband"
Mrs. Tilletts is going to sue you!"
sped Mrs. Speecher. bursting into
rs. Winklespoon' house ten minutes -
Ter. You'd better do something
ick! thought I'd give you warn
g."
Fifteen minutes later Tilletts and Ia
each summoned by a :
sterical telephone message, rushed
their stricken homes. Half IN hour