Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-01
THURSDAY. NOV |, 1900
PAS HARD TIME r.
r. IN HIGH SOCIETY.


last he sed:
EVERY little while it makes me
Glad / don't belong to high socie-
ty. That's the saddest Thing a.
bout having lots of mummy. The
newspapers won't let you alone.
Look at this poor young Alfred
Vanderbilt. There's boy | can't
help feeling for every two or three
days when | see his picture in the
papers with Elsie French in the
next column.
"Just think how much more
happiness they are in life For the
yung man that clerks in a Grocery
store or drives coal wagon and
can go to see the girl he loves sew
EN- mites a week and stay till his
arm gets asleep or it's nearly time
for her paw to get up and go to
relieve the mite man mt the car
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 ear ride Sunday afternoon
without getting wrote up by every
paper in New York and having it
TELEGRAPH all over the country that
it's rumOred they are engaged.
If he walks home from prayer
meetin' with her and they sit out
, on the front steps eatin' peanuts
for an hour or so afterwards, what
happensi The next morning they
see their pictures in the papers
ann it's rum0red they are engaged.
When he goes to Yourcp and she
comes running down to the botc ut
the last minute with Il bag of lem
nuns for him the reporters write
up three collums about them and
it gets rumOred once more that
they are engaged.
Then he gets discurridged and
comes home and buys a six thOus-
and Dollar ottomobeel when he
knows the reporters are lissening.
So he takes the girl out riding in
it, and they Run over three or
four dawgs and kill calf or two
becoz he can't hold all the handles
at once with one hand, and by
George if the papers don't have II
fotograf of it the next morning,
and it's positively rumorcd they're
engaged again.
That's the way it keeps going
up to the last minute, and it costs
him over eighty dollars Il munth
besides lots of hard work to get all
the papers and cut the pieces out
for his scrap book. He cant
trust ennybudy else to do it, becoz
they mite miss some. There $
where | can't blame people with
millyuns for saying nobody knows
what II Serious thing it is to be
ritch until they try it themselves.
Think what a sad thing it must be
to get horned the head of Van
dcrbilt family and haft to do all
your counting rite out in the fierce
white lite of publissittie with ko-
dak behind every gate post in the
nabcrhood. What bizness is it of
the newspapers if Alfred loves Elsie
and cverybuddy wants to find out
about it, Can't people get let II
lone emmy more if they have nun
ny. just becoz they buy three hun
dred extra copies of the paper to
send their friends when it writes
up their engagement or prints
their pictures' This kind of out
RACES 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 show
ing they still want to be modest
children of nature, loving the
plain people in spite of their no
bull station' Can Mamie go out
with a Cordy Roi hunting SCOT on
and jab Il pike pole into wild
bore like a West Consin lumber
man would spear saw log with
out getting putin the papersi No!
Can an English erl stand under
her windo at mite with his kataar
and sing Just one Curl without
having all the papers from kalkut-
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