The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-06-13
IT LACKED NOVELTY
A COLLECTION OF HEIRLOOMS THAT
WEARlED AN OBSERVER.

TrappiBgs at So Much Per Hour |
Has Its Drawbacks.
Two guests were being shown through |
a Philadelphia mansion in which a |
nouveau richie broker was entertaining |
a party of fashionable friends. The |
splendid array of family heirlooms, all
bespeaking a lineage Of earliest colo
NAL origin, deeply impressed one of the
party. He was stranger but lately |
arrived from Baltimore. Oddly enough, |
his companion, Philadelphia, seem
ed fippantly Indifferent to these treas.
ured relics Of family's honored his
tory.
Remarkable collection of heirlooms
our host has," remarked the stranger
as he stopped before a battle SCARED
sword of Revolutionary days.
Yes" drawled the Philadelphia
cynically, every interesting. But I'M
fortunately it lacks the charm of nov
city for me. Already this season I've
seen the same batch of relics in three
other Philadelphia houses"
"How could that beT
that all four families, our host and the
three others l refer to, hired their an
cestral trappings from the same man."
Hired them?'
ayes, hired them. We have in this
city an enterprising collector of colo.
NAL junk who makes a business of
renting out family glory to all who
| were unfortunate enough to be born
without it."
"Wheww was the only comment the
astonished Baltimorean could utter.
And doubtless many Philadelphians
would be moved to say "Whewv' if
they could learn how many members
of the Quaker City social elect are con-
strained to seek the assistance of the
heirloom dealer when they wish to
give brilliant function.
1t is a deception that is forced upon
: them. for unless you have distinguish
ed appearing fOrbears you stand little
J chance of penetrating the sacred pre-
cincts of the local fashionable set.
Ancestry, not cash, is the open SEES
anne, and even If man can claim some
sort of family tree his pretensions are
questioned Unless he can show some of
the furniture or portraits that his
4 American forefather brought with him
, on the Mayfower or the Welcome.
OF course If the two vessels named
had been as large as the Great Eastern
and had been loaded with nothing but
heirooms they couldn't have carried
half the stock needed to launch the de
scendants of Pilgrim fathers into so
tciety. Hence the need of an heirloom
dealer.
He has his warerooms in Pine street
: in a part of the city which was once
t the center of fashion, but is now de
t serted by that element in consequence
r of the westward movement of the city:
$ elect.
Ostensibly he is a curio dealer bu
/ mis- revenue is mainly derived from
+ furnishing and hanging the walls O.
e fashionable dwellings with century OLE
x portraits.
8 This clever manipulation of men,
q vanties has ancient straight backe'
\ furniture and copper kettles and snuff
ers for candles and bullseye watche
I and similar relics of ancient grandeur
4 all at your disposal for night, whel
! you, poor fellow. with money, but NJ
ancestors, want your friends to know
!, what an old family yours is! He ais
:, has rare furnishings for Libraries ant
= drawing rooms which you may rent
you have the price.
D 1t matters not from what part of tn
/ country the applicant halls or wha
| opff0 6nEnnnf wishes
. his needs are promptly filled.
For those who wish to pose as Inca
l. descendants of the stanch old colonia
patriots who fought the stamp tax AM
e defied the power of King George a
y Bunker Hill and drew up the Declare
d ton there is especially attractive stock
1t For the naughty cavalier who "cam
d over with Lord Delaware there ar
a. costumes and furniture and portrait
a of more elaborate style, as BELTS tn
e past of emigrants who in Englan
IS basked in the favor of the king an
,r were participants in brilliant court Gel
1t emonials.
Il The Quaker City allegiance TO tn
e honored memory of William Penn is
sentiment that the curio dealer ha
" been careful to cherish.
70 On his walls he has portraits of stu
q dious looking Quakers. On his shelve
are modest Quaker clocks that >di
: service in the days when the founde
! was exchanging thirty blankets 70
Philadelphia.
. There are Quaker walking sticks, til
u der boxes, documents on all subject
" household utensils legion.
Is 1t is true that this system of supply
ST ing ancestors has its disadvantages
re Contretemps such as the one reveale
to of tba beginning of this article an