The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-15
TIE MANNERS OF MEN.
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8X de Vs XEEA0 w. fCopUl9ht. 1904, by. Daily Story Pub co). J6hp Smith was self-nhade man. He had woxied hard ana saved aasiduCusly sp get his feet on the ladder of success. ana hs had worked hard and thought un- ye1nltsinsiy and correctly in his journey up the rounds. He made his final slic- eess in soap. He learned an unusually good way to make q fne article and studied out an AfEectiwe way to advertise Et. when 1t began to pay it paid 90 fast that . very few years served to mako him very rich man.
 when his fortune had rolled well into the millions and wae invested so well ffat his yearly income ran into six of his wife and daughter and moved east to enjoy the fruits of his labors.
 Truth be told. he did not enjoy the new fife as we'll as he did the one he had left. but his wife and daughter did. and. being an easy-going, fuiI-biooded. normal sort. of person, with plenty of philosophy. he made himself comforts hls and found plenty of things to in- 3erest him, whether at the paiatial home on the avenue in New York or travelling abroad.
 AS the years sped, however. he began to hear a discordant note now and then, and to find himself somewhat without the pale of his own family circle. He had not married early and his wife had not been the partner of his earlier strug- @lAs But she had shared his hopes and fears during the crucial period of his career and their married life had been exeaedingiy companionable and sympa- 1hetie.
 Once in New Yorl, however. and launched into the campaign to get into Gn-nfsr 4nfw with the daughter, Nellie. and sought tc obliterate all memory and connection with the old fife and to push resolutely to- ward those inner circles so jealously guarded against those who ever did any thing useful.
 As for the daughter. she was Q hand some young woman. as ambitious as her sire had been. and with all this ambition directed toward an entree to the zoo"
 xt was very soon after invading the East-in fact, when the palace on the avenue was compieted-that Smith was stunned 10 see on the door-plate the name "Smythe." There was c great up- roar and Smith stamped about for sew eral days, pledging his word to two tear ful women that he never would stand 1oK iki but, swearing he would not. did. Nothing could induce him to sign his uanos that way, but that was the way khe name appeared in the society col nEnna. the blue books and on the ladies' cards.
 Later it evolved into Johnston smytha. and there was another scene, ending sm the rout of the head of the family.
 There are so many John Smiths," sob bed Neliie-whose name had now been tEanangured to Eleauor-"that we win be positively lost Who can identify John Smith in a list of names?"
 Iheee trifing storms in the life of 5ohn Smith. capitalist, blew over and he went on in the even tenor of his way. reading his favorite paper, smoking black ElGars. hohnobbing with western friends ef his old days when they came East. and taking a fly now and then at the produce market, just for diversion. Per- hspz his greatest trial was the dress suit into which he was poured with in- creasing regularity and the functions to which he was led as a lamb to fine slaughter. But he got use, to the clothes and even wore them with a sort of grace eventually. The functions he desplsed. Be thought everything of his wife and daughter and was willing and anxious that they should have their hearts de- sire.
 And the career of the smythes was me. teorfc toward the social goal. They npent. money like water and their enter. eainnlents were the wonder of the metrop olfs
 Tn the midst of it all a new factor ap peared in ahe equation. Leslie Archibalt Van Hot, scion of one of the oldest an, most exclusive families in the metropolis Descended on the one aide from the Val