The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-02-18
ALAS FOR ROMANCE
OF With the Mistress and On
With the Cook, Said the
Soldier Hero.
Ey JOHN PHILIP ORTIZ.


The roses were blooming. the birds
! singing. and the brook at the ba,
end of the Travers property was bah
bling away like child just beginning
TO talk
1t was just the day for a young girl
who hadn't anything particular to do
and who wanted 10 wonder what flu
ture years would bring her. to walk
down to the brook and dump hersel.
down 10 a heap in shady spot.
Further mp the brook, on other land
there had been children's picnic the
day before. and they had left the us
ual scatterings behind them A part
Of newspaper was slowly making its
way over the grass under the motive
power OF the light breeze. Its course
vas erratic, and II had many resting
spell, but il was finally blown almost
into the girls lap
Miss Iole's careless glance r..s, ed
on the fragment for moment. and
then she gave start Of surprise ard
reached for il She had read in bold.
faced letters:
Greatest knock down sale Of cor
sets ever held in North America since
Columbus discovered IT,"
There was nothing romantic about
that. Put that fragment OF a yellow
Journal wasn't blown at a maiden $
feet for bluff Miss lone read furth.
er:
Owing to the sudden deaths NJ the
six partners OF this firm fall died hap
py), the elopement OF the bookkpepor
md the mysterious disappearance o.
the forelady and the shipping clerk
who may have died for love. we find
II necessary to dispose Of our large
and mellow stock Of corsets
"Corsets from s. to 5000. according
to the settings We propose 10 dunn
them into one grand heap as large as
barn and give you your pick Of the
lot for just 81 Sale begins Monday
morning. There will be a fierce rush
Come early"
No romance yet, but Miss Iona
needed a corset, and she would be M
that sale If alive She would also cap.
ture a 5000 one and defend II against
other women with her life She
breathed hard rs she thought Of the
struggle to get through the mob Of
factory girls and wives OF millionaires,
and while so doing she unconsciously
turned the paper over in her hands
All the romance at last:
Correspondent Wanted A soldier
at lonesome post in the far west
wishes to correspond with some
bright educated young lady in the
east A sympathetic one preferred
] have neither mother nor sister. and
long for cheering words Am In hos.
rltal Just AT present after fight with
The Indians"
Tho sympathetic Girl was told to
addre SIS Claude VI DuPrey al a Ger.
tain western fort. and there were
tears In Miss zones eyes as she I'm.
ished reading.
The advertiser was an officer. OF
course--perhaps colonel lie had
gone bravely forth 10 do battle with
the savage redskins. and had been
wounded. He didn't say he had, but
why In the hospital. II mott
And there he VAS lying and suffer.
Ing untold agonies. and there was no
mother-no sister--'o write him how
sorry she was and hope he would
soon be around again
II was positively shameful OF the
government not to furnish It's brave
heroes In blue with mothers and sis
tcrs, and she would ask her father.
who had political pull. to see about
It.
Write to the lonesome, wounded.
suffering colonel. OF course she
would Next month or week No.
sir-rieht away within the hour. He
wasn't going to suffer any longer than
Is would take a sympathetic letter to
reach him. with In Haste" written
on the envelope In bold hand With.
In two hours the letter was in the
mail box
II was letter to cheer a man that
had been shot In the leg by wicked
Filipino. and was being fed cornmeal
cruel by a hearrless hospital nurse.
No doubt II did cheer him, for no re-
turned his grateful thanks NJ once.
and the romance may be said 10 have
fairly begun
For weeks and months II wa. "Dcar
Colonel and Dear Friend" Tho LOT.
tiers were bro'h"rlv They were also
yisierly They referred 10 laNn MIR.
ties and golf in tie east ard IN rho
snakes and 'Skocttrs in the wild island
which Uncle Sam chased he Spanish
from. and then paid them twenty
million dollars for going.
As the letters grew more symna.
fhetic. they grew more loving That
was to be expected They grew en-
loving that the li;lr heroine wrote
that il she truly loved ma, sbe
would marry him i he had a wooden
leg. Her colonel had never told ber
that he had been Wounded in the log