The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-03
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 Comeback Qf Proud Steam filter
BY GEORGE AIDE. Copyright, 1908, ,y Robert Howard Russen) '

sity, we let him take Lessons at a Box ing Academy and now. when any one starts Rough House. he is almost as han dy as a regular Student. He can smoke Egyptian Cigarettes and blow the Smoke through his nose and he gives me the Laugh when l call him down. and so feel that we have accomplished by Home Training what might have been expected from a College Course. As for Vivian, our bright-eyed little Daughter, she Is the zippiest High-Flyer that speeds the Boulevard. When it comes to French Heels and the long Straight Front and all kinds of Blouse hanging in front of her. she can make the average Society | Bud look like a bum Imitation. She has | one of these wfg-wag Walks-the kind | that makes People jump off of the Side walk. Of course, she is only the Daught- | CT of an obscure Steam Filter but let me | give you a Pointer. You can't tell by | looking at one of these Fairies nowadays | what kind of Clothes her Father wears. When it comes to Lugs. can't see that | the Heiress has any Bulge on the simple Working Girl. As for putting into the Social Swim, she has Scheme all framed | up. hy which she expects to become ac- quainted with all of the god-plated John | nies who infest the Municipality. She Is going to the Stage to be Show Girl. l She says that the Debutante seldom has more than one on her Staff while the IShow Girl can take her Pick of a large Bunch So you see that in these Days
 
 ter and .custom-made limitations. even the most Humble can occasionally make a Bluff at being the Real Thing So long as my Children hoot at my Suggestions and tell me every Day where to get on or how to back over the Dump. Papa will not be altogether discouraged in re gard to their Social Careers. In fact. ths only thing that worries me is the Feal
 that l won't be able to keep up witf them
 ''I am glad to find you so Philasophical.' said the Millionairess. After reading | several Books written by College Profess ors who disguised themselves as Laborer and went and lived among the down-trod en Masses. I have supposed that as
 Steam Filter was rather gloomy Proposi
 ton"
 Why should I be gloomy? The forma
 Dinner Party is the Champion Gloom | Factory and l never have to go near on
 of them. 1 don't have to wear my Intel
 lect at a Frazzel keeping up with th'
 Popular Novels When a Foreign Music ian or Lady with a new System of Cultur
 its bobs up on the Horizon, don't hay,
 to go chasing around. letting on that
 am interested. You never see me4at on'
 of these punk Amateur Perfo0ances | applauding the Bank Accounts. g#Obod,
 expects me to make any Calls and1 nev | CT drink Tea except when l want it. Th'
 Scandal Sheets never show up my Tamil,
 History and far as 1 can learn. m,
 wife never hired n Detective to watch me.
 l. Is true that sometimes find nothing
 on the Menu except Corned Beef and
 what goes with it, but tear into 1t witf an Appetite that would be worth $S.0O0, 09O to Rockefeller at this Minute. And now, Lady. according to the Rules of the Union. I must knock off for today, as il is 5 o'clock.
 Your story has interested me" said the Lady of the House.. "I should like to visit your Family and write a Paper on the Home Life of the Toilers."
 I'm sorry we cant have you was the Reply. You Society Ducks don't care who you invite but I'm an Officer in the Union and I'll queer myself If l begin to associate with the disrepuable Rich
 You'il have to put up with your own kind
 Moral: The Wealthy have nothing left except Money.