The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-05

! ed up a few Points on Architecture by
| reading the Guide-Book, and when they
| came back and looked at their fancy
House they suspected that it would have
| given Mr.. Ruskin Case of the Fan-Tods.
Alexander began to observe a new Order
| of Things. Instead of putting the entire
| Supply of Victuals on the Table so that
| All Hands could Pitch In, ElVira had the
| Courses brought in a little Dab at time.
Alec put up medium Holler, but he was
| overruied in such a Jiffy that he never
| Came Back. He had to learn to use an In
| dividual Butter Dish and a Finger Bowl
| with Fruit and Vegetable Exhibit sail
ing around in 1t.
| 1t soon became evident that Elvira and
! Farina were getting too Swagger to be
| tied down to Water-Tank much longer.
| They wanted to HE away 10 the City,
where they could mingle with their own
/! Kind. Also, Elvira wanted to get outside
| the Sphere of Influence of lot of sptteful
! old Tables who had organized the l.
| knew-her-wh Club. They had Eivira' S
! Record just about right, including Names
| and Dates, and they had put on their
| Nermilion and Feathers and were out
| Ghost-Daneing and waving their Toma-
| hawks because Elvira had got so drafted
| High and Lofty that she couldn't see
| where they came i'm at all. They said
| she seemed to forget the Time when she
! had 20 give Lessons on the Melodeon aud
| could have put all her buds into a Hat
| Box.
| When Alexis Factory went into the
| Combine and he Doubled his Stake, then
Elvira made the Star Play of her Life.
The Trio got into Parlor Car and went
! right up to the City to drop few Divi-
dends into the Slot and take out more
or less Social Prominence. Alex, was go
| ing sideways and trying to derail the EX-
petition, but Elvira ordered him to take
hold of her Dress and keep close behind
and she would land him right in among
| the Chosen and Elect.
For Time after arriving in Town they
| lived at a Hotel, but the Street-Cars
made so much Noise that no one heard OF
| them being on the Scene. Alec began 10
| get Lonesome, SO he warmed up to the
Porter at the Hotel. and was getting
! Chummy with the Night Clerk when Ell
vira told him to Drop II, and said n
they wished TO be mistaken for the Real
| Thing they must give all Subordinates
and Employees the F'ishy Eye and pretend
not to see them Elvira had been looking
over the Ground, and she said that in or
der for them to get into the Running Il
would be necessary to take House out on
the Avenue and begin 10 entertain every
one who had Drag. Alec proposed that
they slip back to where they could be the
biggest Ducks in the Puddle without
knuekling Under to anybody. but Elvira
| thought of the I-knew- her-when Club
| and she said they had come up to get into
Society and they were going to get in
| even If they had to dig Tunnel Alec
! wanted to know what IL would be like, but
she couldn't say. She said Society was
something like the Masons. The only
Way TO find out all about 1t was to Get
In, and those who were in didn't dare
| tell. But she thought IL must be EXhilar-
! ating' or there would not be so many
! trying to Butt IN. She said that after
she had become identified with the Swell
| Set she expected TO cause a good deal of
Pointing and Whispering wherever she
went, and once a Year she would get her
Name on the Programme for the Dog
Show She said that the General Public
would all the time be wondering what she
was going to do next, and she would be
In the Papers 80 often that after awhile
the Printer would get tired OF setting up
her Name and would keep Il Standing in
Type the same as the Notice for Sarsa-
parilla. Alec didn't see the Good Of Il,
but he held on 10 her DreSs, as directed,