The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-22


,binos over You think you are pre-
Jared to marry. You think SO De-
cause YOU have not analysed yourself
I have told you OF my lacks; sup
ppse you try to find few on your
side Of the shield" -.
And may renew my proposal!
~ shall not be engaged when we
meet again.
| Lets 20 over this thing together
and see about my lacks" said young
Hardie to himself next day as he sat
Down to it.
~ am twenty-three years old
IT have rich father, and can
count on at least 100000 as we'd
ding gift
~ love Winnie, and aer happiness
| shalt be lay care.
Now fcr the other side
Father is a Spectator anu may
lose al his money.
II have neither trade nor prDfes'
sion.
II could ncA 10 out and earn DOB
lar
1 don, know q sirlosn steak from
porterhouse.
II can play pool and bflliarCs ano
whist and bridge, bug cont know the
wages butler gets
Il can run an auto, but 1 couaht
run a chef.
I'm All at a high Tea, but ! guess
Id be a fooA in my own house.
When. ! come to figure it out what
have not to- offeu thas girl"
Miss Winnse's aunt Mary Lived mi
a city 81 miles away She was talrly
well off, and lad big house and Kept
three ser rants One day when the girl
walked in on her, she held up her
hands and exc tanned:
Goodness, but | was thinKlng OF
you two minutes ago Way didn't you
write or tesegra PHI
Didn't have time.
is grandma sic or dead
Neither,
You just JooS a aotion to- eo!ne'
eh?"
Il have come to stay vita yoI until
| know how to rlin a house. Then !
may get married and haya house
Of my own can speak, FRENCH but
| cant cook III egg know Latin,
but hardly know beans. J. can
MAKE bcautiful bow. bus can't
make bed
Aud you've no STOW 70 learn, there
at grandma's? Well, yau, can. take
hold here and Ill out YOU through
Young Hard ;e ditm't stop thinking
after the first half hour He kept 1t
up for two or three days, and the long.
er he thought The harder he criticized
himself He small, went to his To-
Their and asked.
Look here, dad doesn't vi strtAs
you that I'm sayI VI dodo!' 49,
Il never sag dodo. but Il think
yOu uuSt lCoS IDlt kuCtl WIN HAhA-S ~
less" was the reply.
Why haven't YOU said that long
ago."
Il was in ,opes you'd get around
to make the discovery yourself"
Well, have, Will there be any
money coming to me when | start out
Tor myself
Yes"
lis 1t wheer it 1an't b. list until
them"
1T is. What's Up, Douglass"
If | can get over being dndo
can marry one Of the incest girls In
a year or So"
Want to 60 into tasiness?"
Not now. ! want to increase my
stock of GommoA sense ! can play
| fine game of billiards, but can't run
lawn mower. car beat most Of the
boys at pool and more than hold my
own at bridge. but don't know why
they put hair in mortar, and cant
tell you how brick is Eade"
Good boy go seek" laughed the
father. If the dodo wakes UP he may
amount to 50 cents yeti"
Douglass Hardie dropped cut of his
clubs. He dropped out OF society. He
was not to be found at his rooms or
on the street Some OK the newspapers
limited about the mysterious disappear.
ance of a well knowa young man, but
they failed TO locate him Fifty miles
away he was serving an apprentice
ship. lie learned 20 plow, to plant, tc
hoe and to reap. He learned the uses
of the AK. the spade and the rake. He
learned to milk a COW and drive
horse.
Every day he asked dozens of cues
tons, and every day he learned some
thing new. He got robust health. II,
got muscle. He got confidence in him
self. he learned the value of time an,
money. and he was taught that econ
omy was watchword
One day, when nearly a year ha,
elapsed, Miss Winnies Aun. Mar
came upstairs to her where she wa
sewing and said:
There's man downstair to se
you"
"A man? For me?"
Yes. guess he's a working man.
Miss Winnie went down. She ha
to look twice before she held on
her hand and said:
Why. Douglass. what does thi
mean?"