The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-20
lnss for stage faree. He sased about him

ings for stage fare?' He gazed about him
suggestively.
Corn beef and cabbage was pretty good
then, eh?' and with sure, vigorous strokes
he fell to demolshing his filet de dinde
la Parigueux, while a butler refilled his
glass with Chateau Malescot, 1878.
well, 1t does beat the two rooms the
madam and me started to keep house in
when we was married.. admitted the host.
THAT was on the banks of the Chicago
river, and now we got the Hudson flown
right through the front yard. you might
say. right past our own yacht landing
From old days OF work and hardship
they came TO discuss the present and their
immediate surroundings, social and finan-
cial.
Their daughters it appeared, were being
sought in marriage by the sons of those
among whom they sojourned.
"Oh, they're a nice band of handshakers,
all right all right asserted the gentleman
from Kansas City. lone of 'em tried to
keep company with our Caroline. but l
wouldn't stand for it, He was a crackin'
good shiny player, and he could lead them
cotillion dances BLOWN a whistle and call
in, All right. Up;' or something like
car starter-but Tell me something good
about him. 1 says to an old friend of his
family. Well. he hemmed and hawed-he
New York gentleman. and says he,
L don't know whether I could make you
understand or not he says. but he's got
Family jest like that, bearin' down hard
on 'Family'-'and you've got money he
says, and Money and Family need each
other badly in this town. he says. Yes,
says I, Il met up with number of people
here / says, but amt met none yet that
you'd have TO blindfold and back into lot
of money 1 says, family or no family 1
says. And that young man. he says, is
pleasant, charming fellow; why ne says,
hes the best-coated man in New York, but
he'll be the best-booted man in New York,
too says, if he comes around trying to
spark Caroline any more-or would be IL
1 had my way. His chin's pushed too far
back under his face 1 says, and BESIDES
1 says, Caroline is being waited on by a
young hardware drummer, a good steady
young fellow travelling out of little old X.
Co. L says, and while he amt much for
family says, he'll have one of his own
before he gets through 1 says; we start
| families where 1 come FROM says
''Good boy! Good for you,'' sheered the
self-made Barbarians, and drank success
| to the absent dissemination of hardware.
With much loud talk of this modifying
| character the dinner progressed to an end /;
| through selle d'agneau, fioated in "a, cham
payne, terrapin conveyed by a special Ma
| deira of 1850, and canvas-back duck with
Romance Cont, 1866, to triumphant finale
| Of Turkish coffee and 1911 brandy.
| After dinner the ladies gossiped of New
| York society, while the barbaric males
| smoked their big oily cigars and banded
| "reminiscences Higbee showed them
through every one of the apartments twen-
| ty~two rooms, from reception hall to laun-
| dry, manipulating the electric lights with
| the skill Of a stage-manager.
| The evening ended with a cakewalk, for
the musical artists had by rare wines been
| mellowed from their classic reserve into a
| mood of rag-time abandon. And if Mon
| sieur the Baron with his ceremonious grace
| was less exuberant than the Crown Prince
of Cripple Creek, who sang as he stepped
the sensuous measure. his pleasure was
not less. He joyed TO observe that these
men of incredible millions had no hauteur.
81 do not wrote the baron to his noble
father the marquis, that night, ''yet UNI
derstand their joke; why should it be droll
| to wish that the man whose coat is of the
| best? but as for what they call une prom
| enade de gateau, L find it very enjoyable.
| / have met a Mile. Bines to whom 1 shall
| at once pay my addresses Unlike Mile.
| Higbee, she has not the father from Chi
| cago elsewhere. Quel diable d'homme,'
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