The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-04
BY HARRY LEON WILSON.
Copyright 1907 by Lathrep Publishing Co., Boston.

"'Tain't much like them old days, Ell.
Higher" queried the Crown Prince OF
Cripple Creek-"when you and me had to
walk from Chicago to Green Bay, Wlscon-
lings 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 demolishing his filet de dinde
la Perigueux, while butler renlled ms
glass with Chateau Malescot, 1873.
well it does beat the two rooms the
dam and me started to house In when
we was married." admitted the most.
That was on the banks of the Chicago
river and now we got the Hudson flown
right thru 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
ooh, they're nice band Of hand
shakers, all right, all right" asserted the
gentleman from Kansas City. one OF
'em tried to keep company with our Caro-
line. but wouldn't stand for 1t. He was
a crackin' good shiny player. and ne
could lead them cotillion dances BLOWN
| a whistle and calm, All right up. or
| something. like a car-starter.-out' len
me something good about him., says to
an old friend Of his family. Well, he
hemmed and hawed-he was New YORK
gentleman, and says he, 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
land you've got money he says, and
Money and Family need each other badly
in this town. he says. Yes says l, l
met up with a number of people here,
1 Says but I amt met none yet that
you'd have to blindfold and back into a
lot of money ! says, family or no lam
ily, I says. And that young man. he
says, is pleasant, charming fellow;
why he says, he's the best-coated man
in New York Well. looked at him and
says Welt says I, he may be 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 if I had my way His chin's pushed
too far back under his face I says, and
BESIDES 1 says, Caroline is being waited
on by a young hardware drummer,
good steady young fellow travelling out of
little old X. c. says, and while he
amt much for family I says. he'll have
, one of his own before he gets thru l
! saws: we start families where I come
from I says.
Good boy! Good for you," cheered the
self-made Barbarians. and drank success
2 to the absent dissemination Of hardware.
With much talk of this modifying
; character the dinner progressed to an
) end; thru selle d'agneau, foated in '84
champagne, terrapn conveyed by spec
: ial Madeira of 1850. and canvass-b back
duck with Romance Cont 1866, to a tri-
= umphant finale of Turkish coffee and 1911
) brandy. @~s @~a~'-e-@
After dinner the ladies gossiped Of New
s York society, while the barbaric males
S smoked their big oily cigars and banded
t "reminiscences. Higbee showed them
s thru every one of the apartments twenty
two rooms, from reception-han to laun-
t dry, manipulating the electric lights with
e the skill Of stage manager.
|. The evening ended with a cake-walk
. for the musical artists had by rare wines
> been mellowed from their classic reserve
into mood of rag-time abandon AND
!. IL Monsieur the Baron with his cere.
!, monious grace was less exuberant thar
u the Crown Prince of Cripple Creek. wht
:. sang as he stepped the sensuous measure
. his pleasure was not less. He joyed tt
- observe that these men of incredible mil
e lions had no hauteur.
- II do not wrote the baron to his nobl,
W father, the marquis. that night. yet un
~ derstand their joke: why should it b,
. droll to wish that the man whose Goa
is Of the best should also wear boots o
the best? but as for what they call UNI
y, promenade de gateau. I find it very en-
-, joyable. L have met a Mile. Bines t.
= whom l should at once pay my addresses
=, Unlike Mile. Higbee, she has not tn
;, father from Chicago nor elsewhere. Que
diable dhomme''