Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-16
cOpyright, BY LOthrOp Publishing Company.
CHAPTER X.-CoNr1Nurp.

Really" she admits, we're comm
to do the right thing over here; a few
years were all we needed. Hardly a
town house to be opened before
Thanksgivin', understand; and down
At the Hills some of the houses will
stay open all winter. It's coachin',
Eidin', and golf and auto-racin' and
polo and squash; really the young
folks don't go in at all except to dance
and eat; and it's quite right you
know. It's quite decently English,
now. Why, at Morris Park the other
day the crowd on the lawn looked
quite like Ascot, actually"
Nor could we have learned in the
hostile camp the current gossip of
Tuxedo, Meadowbrook, Lenox, Norris
town and Ardsley; of the mishap to
Mrs. Jimmie Whettin, twice unseat-
ed at a recent meet; of the woman's
championship tournament at Chats
worth; or the good points of the new
runner-up at Baltusrol, daily to be seen
on the links. Where we might incur
knowledge OF Beaumont ''gusher" or
Pittsburg mill we should never have
discovered that teas and receptions are
really falling into disrepute; that a
series of dinner-dances will be or
ganized by the mothers of debutantes
to bring them forward; and that big
subscription balls are in disfavor, since
they benefit no one but the caterers
who serve poor suppers and bad cham
payne.
Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan takes only
Scotch whiskey and soda.
But Pm glad, she confldes to Hor-
ace Milbrey on her left, that you
haven't got to followin' this fad Of
havin' one wine at dinner; l know it's
English, but it's downright shoddy."
Her hosts eyes swan with gratitude
for this appreciation.
81 stick to my peg" she continued;
~but like to see a Chablis with oys-
ters and good dry sherry with the
soup, and a Moselle with the fish, lsad
then you're ready to be livened with
q bit Of champagne for the roast, and
Steadied bit by Burgundy with the
game. Phim sticks to it, too; tells me,
my peg is downright encouragement to
Hhe bacteria. But l tell him I've no
quarrel with my bacteria. Live and
let live is my motto, tell him.
and If the microbes and l both like
Scotch and soda; why, what harm. I'm
torty-two and not 50 much Of fool
that l amt a little BIT Of a physician.
know ny stomach, tell him"
What about these Western. paO-
ple?" shs asked oldaker at her other
side. after a little.
Decent, unpretentious folks, some
what new, but with loads of money.
I've heard how the breeds stormin'
New York In droyes; but they tell me
some vt us need the money"
II dShed with one last night, q sugar. |
eured ham magnate from Chicago"
"D0ar me! how shockin'i"
"BSt they're good, whole-souled peo-
pie"
"Ahd well heeied--and that's what
we need, It seems. Some of us been |
so Busy bein' well-famiIied that we've
forgot to make money"
'It's good thing, too, Nature has
her own building laws about fortunes. |
When they get too sky-scrapy she
N1fEANo NAShA ONCAs AADbt pGOUib WlLU
their thrifty habits would have all the
money in time II their sons and daugh.
tefB didn't marry aristocrats with ex-
pShsive tastes who know how to be
Bpenders. Nature keeps things fairly
even, one way OF another"
you're thinkip' about Kitty and the
drke.'
mo, not'theh / wasn't, though that's
ono Of the class mean. was think
Eng especially about these Westerners.
We'll ms grandfather made the
host barrels in New York, and I'm
mother-in-law Of a chap whose ances-
ters Tor three hundred and nifty years
haven't done a stroke OF work; but
hos the Duke Of Blanchmere. and /
hope Gus friends hero win come as
asar gstsin' the worth Of their money