The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-04

but I thought they would do until / got
to the city.
when we reached New York my
friend Immediately % me TO his
house. which at that time was in one Of
the Fffties. between Madison and Fifth
avenues I'm going to let o have my
brothers man. he said to me. He win
attend to your trunks when they come
n take good care Of you / hope His
hammered servant, but my first impress
sion of him was of his profound and
overwhelming sense of gratitude. He
thanked me for permitting him to an
nounce that my bath was ready when 1
wished IL, Inc he hanked me reverent-
ly when I tossed him the keys of my
trunk and went out to jump into the
bath he a thanked me for letting him
hx. Having spent 10 years in a country
where porcelain tubs were al rare as
blossoms on century plants. 1 presume
1 fingered a little longer over my bath
than i would do now; at any rate, when
1 returned to my room my trunk was
unp&ked. and there was my hosts
brothers man standing in the middle Of
h room. his hands clasped behind him,
and his eyes riveted on the bed.
Never before have ] seen such a look
Of horror, amazement and ~reproach.
mingled with awe. as there was on that
lackey's face. He had carefully folded
and placed sid by side on the N
pane my entire outfit of undergarments,
and I'll admit II was about as choice a
collection of wooden antiques as you
would care to run across. There were
garments with the original dome re-
matched In flaming red flannel and 9TH
ers with the hip-pocket sections of over
alls grated on them and shirts with
the arm amputated at the elbow or the
shoulder, n there were no two alike.
And that fellow actually had arranged
them all with an eye to color effect. The
tri-color was made up of one row, the
Spanish emblem of another. and so on.
When he discovered my presence in the
room he emitted one frightened. awe
stricken thank you and escaped.
II tell you 1 threw those relics back
into my trunk in short order. but the
picture of them as they lay there on that
bed haunted me, and whenever i saw
that servant I felt like ~apologizing to
him. / stayed 1t out until the next
night. and then made some fimsy ex-
cuse to my host. told him ! had to go
up into Westchester county for a couple
Of days to visit some relatives. and IL 1t
was perfectly convenient would like to
return to his house when i got back.
/ had intended to buy three or four
suits of moderately decent flannel when
L left nome, but that lackey hange
all those modest notions. 1 spent two
days at it. and 1 laid in everything from
embroidered socks to pale pink pajamas.
Every time my conscience would prick
at some fresh extravaganza the picture
or that valet gazing at my gents fur
nishings' degradation would rise before
me. and i went madly on.
1T cost me all the money / had laid
aside to bring my wife and baby East.
but nothing could stop me; l was bound
to redeem myself in that rascal's esti-
nation IL I had to mortgage the ranch.
Well. when i returned to my friends
house i had a trousseau hat would ave
dazzled an Oriental prince. and-but
even now i cannot speak of this at all
calmly-I was never redeemed. When
I went up to my room to see the effect
i had produced, / found a brand new
valet. My friend brothers man had
stumbled onto a Task of New Mexico
rye i had left on the bureau-and he
never knew the sacrifice my wife had
made for him.'-New York Sun.