The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-01
NEW hooks.
A Suburban Invasion.

people OF the Whirlpool" CThe Mac
milan Company 10 described on the title
page as from the experience book Of a
Commuters Wife 1t is written by the
author OF the excellent Garden OF Com
muters Wife" and is in the same spirit OF
wholesome and kindly philosophy. The
people Of the whirlpool are the dwellers
on Manhattan Island and the explanation
Of the title was given by Martin Cortright.
an antiquarian friend of the Commuters
Wife. 1T is well known that the Indian
tribes have taken their distinctive names
chiefly from geographical features, and
these often in turn control the pace OF the
people, The name for the island once
called New Amsterdam and York was Mon
ah-tau-uk a phrase descriptive of the rush
ing waters Of He'll Gate that separated them
from their Long Island neighbors. the in
habitants themselves being called by these
neighbors Mon ah-tans. AnGHce, Man
hattans. literally. People Of The Whirlpool,
a title which, even though the termagant
humor Of the waters be abated, it beseems
me, as APPLY fits them at this day
The story concerns itself principally
with the doinGs Of Il colony OF rich New
Workers, who invade the quiet sanc,ity
of tn, commuters village, with some
astonishing results The patrol wagon
of the commuters small twins. that for a
year had existed uneventfully az a haywain
and a stage coach dragged by a team of dogs
and a goat was suddenly transformed into
the sambancs Of some weird sort Of auto
cart by the aid OF bits Of old garden hose.
cast away bicycle gearing. a watering pot.
and an oil lantern, while Corney Delaney,
the gray goat. was abandoned with the
calves in the stock yard. And all becaus,
the seven-year-old Nanderveer boy on the
Bluffs had an electric runabout for Christ
mas gift, with man TO run i; Tn, Van
dervcer boy by the way, suffered from
indigestion and various aches and Doctor
Russell, the Commuters Wire's father.
said some very severe things on the subject
Of his bringing up. He called him plain
case Of suppressed boyhood.
"He doesn't know how 10 play. or run
naturally without falling; he afraid to
sit down in the dirt wonder with these
starched linen clot has; and he keeps looking
about for the nurse, first over one shoulder
and then over the other. like hunted
thing. Evidently they have weighed his
food, measured his exercise, and bought
his amusements, lis only free will and vent
is to get in temper. They give him no
chance to sweat Off his irritation, only TO
fume; while that shaking, snorting tea
kettle Of an automobile they haul him about
in puts the final touch 10 his nervousne SIS"
The commuters did not take kindly to
the people Of the Whirlpool The price Of
swcetbreads went up soon after their ad-
vent. and coach horns and hooting auto
~ Ill -
the summer nights Even Mrs Corkle,
the commuters cook, expires sed her feelings
on the subject with considerable asperity.
She said, with a sniff. Il knows colernies
of folks not born to or loving the soil,
but just trying to get something temporary
out o it in tho way of pleasure, as rabbits,
or mayhaps bad smelling water for the
rheuma,ics. To my thnkin these pleasure
oolernies is bad things; they settles as
senseless as a swarm Of bees, just because
their leaders lit there first and when they've
buzzed themselves on, and moved on, like
as not some as has come gapin' too close
is bit fatal or poisoned for life
1t Was certainly calculated to try the tenn
ger Of the most amiable OF commuters
when Mr.. Harvey Somers plunged his
automobile hub deep into the new straw
berry bod and himself took header into
one of the hothed frames, landing in a
doubled up position, with the sound of much
broken glass Even though he sent der
rick and n gang OF men from the railway
company next day n remove the wreck
and florist and Clazer from town to re-
pair the DANA GO. We think it not unnatural
that the commuters wife should regret
fully ask why WIS lenks Smith inspired
to start a land boom here and fate allowed
to make fashion smile on it, when We
We're 40 uneventfully happy; so twinfully
content?"