The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-07-05
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that form it's farther wall. And, for
the horde of Goths and Visigoths,
Huns and Vandals, drunkenly Keeling
in the fitful light of camp fires, chant
ing weird battle runes, fighting for
captive vestals, and pickering in I'M
couth tongues over the golden spoils,
what have we now to make the paral-
lei convince? Why, the same Barbar-
ians, actually; the same hairy rude
ness, the same unrefned, all-conquer-
ing, animal force; a red-faced, big
handed lot, imbued with hearty good
nature and an easy tolerance for the
ways of those upon whom they have
descended
Here are chiefs of renown from the
farthest Businesses; they and their
curious households: the ironmonger
from Pittsburg, the gold miner from
Dawson, the copper chief from Butte,
the silver chief from Denver, the cattle
chief from Oklahoma, lord of 100000
good acres and 10000 cattle, the lum-
Der prince from Michigan, the founder
OF later dynasty in oil, from Texas.
And, for the unaesthetic but effective
Attila, an able fashioner of pork prod
ucts from Chicago.
Here they make festival, carelessly,
unafraid, unmolested. For, in the
lapse of time, the older peoples have
learned not only the folly of resisting
inevitables, but that the huge and
hairy invaders may be treated and bar
tered with not unprof1taDly. Doubt
less it often results from this amity
that the patrician strain is corrupted
by the alien admixture-bUt business
has been business since as many as
two persons met on the face of the
new earth.
For example, this particular shelter
is builded upon land which one Of the
patrician families had held for CEN
fury solely because it could not be dis
posed Of Yet the tribesmen came,
clamoring for palaces, and now this
same land, with some adjoining areas
of trit1ing extent, produces an income
that will suffice to maintain that fam
lily almost in it's ancient and BETTING
estate.
In this mammoth pile, for the petty
rental of $4,000 or $4,000 year,
many tribes of the invaders have found
shelter and entertainment in apart
ments Of many rooms. Outwardly, in
details of ornamentation, the building
is said to duplicate the Chateau Blois,
those splendid palaces Of Francis I.
Inside are all the line and color and
device of elegant opulence, modern to
the last note.
To this palace of an October evening
comes the tribe of Bines, and many
another such, for triumphal feast in
the abode of Barbarian Silas Higbee.
The admirable host-if one be broad
minded-is now in the drawing-room,
secOnding his worthy wife and pretty
daughter who welcome the dinner
guests.
| For man who has fad for ham
and doesn't care who knows it, his
bearing is all we have right to ex-
pect that it should be. Among the
group of arrivals, men of his own
sort, he is speaking of the ever shift
ing fashion in boards, to the evangel
of Texas oil field who f1aunts to the
world one of those heavy mustaches
spuriously extended below the corners
of the mouth by means of the chin
growth of hair. Another, a worthy
tribesman from Snohomish, Washing
ton, wears a beard which. for a score
of years, has been let to be it's own
true self; to express, fearlessly, it's own
unique capacity for variation from
type. These two have rallied their
host upon his modishly trimmed side
whiskers.
you're right says Mr. Higbee,
amiably, 81 amt stuck any myself on
this way of trimming up a mans face.
but the madam will have it this way
says it looks more refined and New
Yorky. And now, do you know, ever
since I've worn 'em this way-ever
since I had 'em scraped from around
under my neck here-I have to go to
Florida every winter. Come January
or February, l get bronchitis every
blamed year,"
Two or the guests only are alien to
the barbaric throng.
There is the noble Baron Ronaalt
de Palliac, decorated. reserved, observ-
ant-alnost wistful. For the moment
he is picturing dutifully the luxuries
certain marriage would enable him to
procure for his noble father and his
aged mother, who eagerly await the
news Of his quest for the golden fleece
For the baron contemplates, after the
fashion of many conscientious explor-
ers, marriage with native woman;
though he permits himself to cherish
the hope that it may not be condi-
toned upon his adopting the manners
and customs of the particular tribe
that he means to honor. Monsieur the
baron has long since been obliged to
confess that a suitable mesalliance is
none too easy of achievement, and. in
testimony Of his vicissitudes, he has
written for a Paris comic paper
series of grimly satiric essays upon