Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-13

CuduC ldIlOr, dCludlly, DuC not the
tailor's manhood. Otherwise he'd be
above marrying some unsuspecting
girl for her money and breaking her
heart after marriage. Now, Mauburn
is type so different; honest, unaf.
fected, healthy-really he's man for
any girl to be proud of, even if he
were not heir to a title-one of the
best in all England, and an ornament
of the most exclusively correct set;
Of line, my dear, that is truly great
not like that shoddy French nobili.
ty, discredited in France, that sends
so many Of its comic-opera barons
here looking for large dowries to pay
their gambling debts and put furni.
ture in their rattle-trap old chateaux,
and keep them in absinthe and their
other peculiar diversions. And Mau.
burn, you lucky mink, simply adores
you-he's quite mad about you.
really!"
In spite Of Mrs. Drelmer's two-edged
sword, Miss Bines continued rather
more favorable to the line Of De Pal.
LAC. The baron was so splendid, so
gloomy, so deferential. He had the
air Of laying at her feet, as rug, the
whole glorious history Of France.
And he appeared so well in the vic.
toria when they drove in the park.
1t is true that the heart Of Miss
Bines was as yet quite untouched;
and it was not more than a cool, dim,
esthetic light in which she surveyed
the three suitors impartially, to be.
hold the impressive figure of the
baron towering above the others.
Had the baron proposed for her hand,
it is not impossible that, facing the
question directly, she would have par.
ried or evaded.
For certain events befell unpropi.
tiously at a time when the baron was
most certain OF his conquest; at the
very time, indeed, when he had de-
termined to open his suit definitely
by extending a proposal to the young
lady through the orthodox medium Of
her nearest male relative.
Il admit" wrote the baron to his
expectant father, that it is what one
calls very chances in the English,
but one must venture in this country,
and your son is not without much
hope. And if not, there is still Mile.
Higbee."
The baron shuddered as he wrote
it. He preferred not to recognize
even the existence of this alternative,
for the reason that the father of Mile,
| J;ctrnCcnI hyr
pleteness of suavity.
He conducts himself like a pork,
the baron would declare to himself
by way of perfecting his English.
The secret cause of his subsequent
determination not to propose for the
hand Of Miss Bines lay in the hope
lessly middle-class leanings of the
lady who might have incurred the SUI
preme honor of becoming his mother
in-law. Had Mrs. Bines been above
talking to low people, a catastrophe
might have been averted. But Mrs
Bines was not above it. She wa
quite unable to repress a vulgar in
terest in the menials that served her
She knew the buffers life histor,
two days after she had ceased to b.
! afraid of him. She knew the distress
ing family affairs of the maids; hoy
many were the ignoble progeny of tn
elevator man, and what his plebeial
wife did for their Group; how nue.
rent the hall-boy's low-born fathe
paid for his mean two-story dwelling
in Jersey City; and how many hour
day or night the debased scrut
women devoted to their unrefinin
toll.
Brazenly, too, she held convers
with Philippe, the active and volubl
e Alsatian who served her when sh
d chose to dine in the public restal
e rant instead of at her own private t.
n BILE. Philippe acquainted her wit
IS the joys and griefs of his difficult pre-
j. fession. There were $4,000 waiter
in New York, if, by walters, 20
IF meant anyone. Of course there wer
n not so many like Philippe, men {
Y, the world who had served their tim
Ie as assistants and their three years a
10 sub-waiters; men who spoke Englisl
If French and German, who knew somt
in thing of cooking, how to dress a salat
e and how to carve. Only such, it a.
ID peared, could be members of the e,
N elusive Geneva club that procured
le place for you when you were idle, an
ct paid you eight dollars a week whe
r. you were sick.
le Having the qualifications, or
n could earn $2j a month in salary, an
to three or four times as much in gratu
e. ties. Philippe's income was nevt
n less than $120 a month; for was
Ill not one who had come from EuroI
SIS as a master, after two seasons
he Paris, where a man acquires his pc
IS. ish-his perfection of manner, h
of finish, his grace? Philippe cou
at never enough prize that post-gradua
eel course at the Maison dor, where
at had personally known - madam
might not believe 1.-THE incompa
SIS able Casmir, chef who served tv
an generations of epicures, prince
ID. kings, statesmen, travelling American
h; all the truly great.
lie. With his own lips Casmir had to
lis him, Philippe, of the occasion WHIT
in Dumas, pere, had invited him to di
tie ner that they might discuss Il
ID esoterics of salad dressing al
er sauces; also of the time when Ma
g quis de st. Georges embraced Casm
gh for inyentinp the precious souD tn