Evening star., 1900-10-11
THE HARDSHIPS OF
HIGH SOCIAL POSITION
'Georgie." in the Chicago Times Herald.

'G"orgie." in the 'hcago Times Herald.
When NAV was putting some which hazle
on paws rewmuttizm up behind his neck
mite before last he said:
Every little while it makes me Glad l
don't belong to high society. That's the
saddest Thing about having lots of mummy
The newspapers won't let you alone. Look
at this poor young Alfred Vanderbilt
There's a boy ] can't help feeling sorry for
every two three days when ] see his pic
ture in the papers with Elsie French In the
next coIlum.
Just think how much more happiness
they in life For the young man that
clerks in a Grocery store or drives coal
wagon and can Go 10 see the girl he loves
seven mites week and stay till his arm
gets asleep or its nearly time for her paw
u get up and go to relieve the mite man at
the ear barns.
But here is this Poor boy with seventy
Million dollars. that can't even meet the
girl he loves down behind the gas works or
take her for a car ride Sunday afternoon
without getting wrote up by every paper in
New York and having ii TELEGRAPH ali over
the country that it's rumored they are en-
gagged
If he walks home from prayer meetin'
with her and they sit out the frunt stems
eatin peanuts for nour or so Afterwards
what happens? The next morning they see
their pictures in the papers and it's rumor-
Gnurep and she comes running down TO the
hptc at the last minute with a bag of lem
nuns for him the reporters write up three
columns about them and ii gets rumored
once more that they are engaged.
Then he gets discurridged and comes
home and buys six thousand DolIer otto
mobeei when he knows the reporters are
lsScning. so he takes the girl out riding in
IL. and they Run over three or four dawgs
and Kill a calf two becoz he can't hold
all the handles at once with one hand. and
By George If the papers don't have a foto-
graft of IT the next morning. and it's pasa-
lively rumored they're engaged again
That's the way ii keeps going up to the
last minute and il costs him over eighty
dollers Il munth besides lots of hard work
10 get all the papers and cut the pieces out
for his scrap Book. He can't trust emmy
budy else 10 do II, becoZ they mite miss
some There's where | can't blame people
with millyuns for saying nobody knows
what a Serious thing ii is to be ritch till
they try 1t themselves. Think what a sad
thing II must be to get borned the head of a
Vanderbilt family and haft to do all your
counting rite out in the fierce white lite of
publlssiitie with a kodak behind every gate
post in the naberhood. What bizness is il
az the newspapers II Alfred loves Elsie and
every buddy wants to find out about ii ?
Can't people get let alone emmy more il they
have mummy, just becoz they buy three
hundred extra copies OF the paper to send
their friends when ii writes up their en-
gagements or prints their pictures? This
kind OF outrages OF to be stopped by Law.
Look at the Letter girls, too, since they
Got connected with the royal family What
chance do the papers give them to keep on
showing they still want to be modest chill
dren OF nature. loving the plain people in
spite of their nobuil station? Can Mamie
40 out with Cordy Roi hunting SCOT on
aud jab pike pole into a wild bore like a
West Consin lumberman would spear a
saw log without getting II put in the pa