The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-03-24
Nominations of
Uncle Henry

Dear Editer, In thinkin yesterday
over the days that are past and
gone, got to thinkin of Melissy
DICKSON, which we new up where we
come from, an all to onct like a
nash OF lightnin out of clar sky
seen application to our life in this
fare City. ldees is quar-, there amt
no noslon when one of them will
strlk me with such solem forse
that | feel like settin down on the
spur OF the moment and writin it
Tor your paper. no matter what
may be nece sary to be done at the
time. From what have red on the
subIeck genS IS is that way. If
WAS TO give up to the stirrins of
81 us within my sole it aint likely
tina, the chickens and such things
Wo Id ever get done and likely it
weld pay better in the end. hut
MaEthy is no, far Sited She wants
Il "hould spend my days in such
m al tasks as the farm work and
trust to luck 10 Get enough time for
Wr.'in to keep up my reputation in
that line. That is why although
| am a CRATE suckscss at writin /
cou ! of been a crater if | could of
give up my whole time to it, like
other CRATE writers has done which
has now got there picters in the pap
perS and are getting paved for
what they write.
With me it is pleasure to write
and if | could get time to write
enough to make my livin that wayl
| would be happy. But such is life.
Every rose has few thorns, and
mine is Marthy. She meens well,
however, but she aint got faith
enough She don't believe | could
make a livin writin She don't take,
me Serious enough
| started to tell you about some /
thin but | have run off the track
| guess it will come to me in a minitI
especially if | read back over what
have wrote. Oh, mind now? I'll
was Melissy Dickson
She was Andrew Dickson's oldest,
girl and she looked like she was 60,
in to be a old made, and her mother
was feelin bad about it and she con-,
tided in Marthy one day, MarthyI
and her being good trends. She,
told Marthy about all that went on
in their family and | know on one
or too occasions of Marthy tellin
her more than she ought. At any
rate she told Marthy it begun toi
look like Melissy WASH never go
ing to get marryed, and she was
feelin bad about it like mother
will about such things, and Marthy
says to her in Marthys way, you,
know how she talks, Have you
done any advertizin?" That took
her breth away. She says, says she,
ooh, Marthy, you amt advisin me
to advertize in them matymonial
pappers?" No, says Marthy, III
ant, but am advisin you to do al
little somethin to attrack some at
tension to Melissy," says she.
MEMS eyes COS where they are at
tracked, not where they had ought
to, and if you don't know that it
was time you was notisin it, she
says, this last remark bein on ac-
count of people sayin and I guess it
was the truth that Andrew Dickson
was lookin long and often at the
new school teecher. II am advisin
says Marthy 'you should by Me-
lissy some nice. bright close, and let
her 20 out a little more where she
can be seen. You can't especk a
man to marry her if he don't know
she is on the arth, and furthermore
you can't ecpeck man to see her
if she amt nOtsable, of course not
too notisablo. but so she won't be
put in the shade by the Williams
girls and Tom Mansiield's neeces,
and the like " Miss Dickson set a
while and then she SAYS, Close is a
awful expense if you go to byin,