Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-20


tana standard of extravaganza" Brew
ster said to himself. Il wonder II he
ever secs the New York pnpers."
Late each night the last Of the grand
old brewster family went to his bed
room, where after dismissing his man.
he settled down at his desk, with
pencil and Il pad OF paper. Lighting
managed. he found. than lamps and
much more costly, he thoughtfully and
reliSiously calculated his expenses for
the day. hopper Harrison and Elon
Gardner had the receipts for all mon
eys spent. and Joe Bragdon was keep
ing an official report, but the chief.
as they called him, could not 60 to
sleep until he was satisfied In his own
mind that he was keeping up the aver
age. For the first two weeks 1t had
been eaSy-in fact. he seemed to have
quite Il comfortable lead in the race.
He had spent almost 100000 in the
fortnight, but he realized that the
greater part of 1t had gone into the
yearly and not the daily expense &c
count. He kept profit and loss"
entry In his little private ledger. but 1t
WAS not like any other account of the
kind In the world. What the ordinary
merchant would have charged to "lOss"
he jotted down OH the profit" side, and
he was continually looking for oppor
tunities to swell the total
Rawles. who had been his grand
fathers butler since the day after he
landed In New York. came over to the
grandson's establishment, greatly to
the wrath and confusion Of the latter's
Aunt Emmeline. The chef came from
Paris. and his name was Detuit. Ellis,
the foOtman. also found much better
berth with Monty than he had had in
the house on the avenue. Aunt En-
incline never forgave her nephew for
these base and disturbing acts Of
treachery. as she called them.
One Of Monty's most extraordinary
financial feats grew out Of the pur-
chase Of n $4,000 automobile. He
blandly admitted to hopper Harrison
and the two secretaries that he intend
ed to use 1t to practice with only, AID
that as soon as he learned how. to run
an auto" as it should be run he ex-
pected to buy a good. sensible, durable
machine for $1,000.
His STAFF officers frequently put their
heads together to devise ways and
means Of curbing Monty's reckless ex-
travagance. They were worried.
Hes like sailor in port" protest
ed Harrison. Money Is no object II he
wants a thing, and-hang 1.-THE seems
to want everything he Sees"
1T won't last long," Gardner said
reassuringly. Like his namesake.
Monte Christie, the world is bis Just
now, and he wants to enjoy It."
to me-"
Whenever they reproached Brewster
about the matter he disarmed them
by saying: Nov that I've got money
mean to give my friends a good time.
Just what you'd do If you were In my
place. What's money for. anyway"
But this 5000 q plato dinner"
I'm going to give q dozen Of them.
and even then can't pay my just
ACOSSs - "a yC0Ao 4 VO OCCA CAtCAN dl0Cu
at peoples houses and have been
taken cruising on their yachts. They
have always been bully to me, and
what have ever done for them? Moth
ing. Now that I can afford It, I am
going to return some Of these favors
and square myself. Doesn't 1t sound
reasonable?"
And so preparations for Monty's din
ner went on. In addition to what he
called his efficient corps Of gentle
manly aids he had secured the serv-
ices Of Mrs. Dan DeMille as social
mentor and utility chaperon." Mrs.
DeMille was known In the papers! as
the leader Of the fast young married
set. She was one Of the cleverest
and best looking young women In town.
and her husband was one Of thsse who
did not have to be invited too" Mr..
DeAfille lived at the club and visited
his home. Some one said that he was
SO slow and his wife 80 fast that when
she invited him to dinner he was usu-
ally two or three days late. Alto
gether Mrs. DeMille was a decided
acquisition to Brewster's campaign
committee. 1t required just her touch
to make his parties fun instead Of
funny.
1t was on Oct 10 that the dinner was
given. With the skill Of general Mrs
Dan had seated the guests in such 4
way that from the beginning things
went off with zest. Colonel Drew took
IN Mrs. Valentine. and his content was
assured. Mr.. Van Wrinkle and the
beautiful Miss Valentine were side by
side. and no one could say he looked
unhappy. Mr.. Cromwell went in with
Mrs. Savage, and the same delicate
tact-in some cases it was almost in
delicate-was displayed In the DISPOSE
ton Of other guests.
Somehow they had come with the ex-
pectation of being bored. Curiosity
prompted them to accept, but it did not
nrpvanf tho anhsn1nont fnnxrita hIo Ia sal
tude. Socially Monty Brewster had vet
to make himself felt. He and his din
ners were something to talk about, but
they were accepted hesitatingly, halt
1ngly. People wondered how he had
secured the cooperation Of Mrs. Dan,
but then Mrs. Dan always did go in for
q new toy. To her was inevitably ut
tributed whatever success the dinner
achieved, and It was no small measure.
Yet there was nothing startling about
the affair. Monty had decided to begin
conservatively. He did the cOnven-
tional thing, but he did it well. He add
ed touch or two Of luxury, the faint
est aroma Of splendor PettingIll had
designed the curiously Maynard ia
BILE, with its comfortable atmosphere
Of cOmpanionship, and arranged its
decoration of great lavender orchids
and lacy butterfly festoons Of white
ones touched with yellow. He had
wanted to use dahlias in their many
rich shades, from pale yellow to
orange and deep red, but Monty held
out for orchids. 1t was the artist, too,
who had found in n rare and happy
moment the massive gold candelabra-
ancient things of u more luxurious
age-and their Opalescent shades.
Against his advice the service. too, was
of gold-"rank vulgarity." he called 1t,