Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-17


 IT matter of markets, staples, and
 such as we perforce endured
 I0nsh the overwined and too-abun-
 repast of Higbee. Instead of
 ming what beef on the hoof brings
 hundred d-weight, f. Q. b. at Chey-
 ne, we shall here glean at once the 44aluable fact that while good society
 London used to be limited to those 1p had been presented at court, the
 N4entations have now become so nu-
 Ipus that the limitation has lost it's
 6incance. Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan thus
 closes, as if 1t were trife, some
 ing we should never learn at the
 10 of Higbee though we ate his 56Sy dinners to the day of ultimate teos. And while we learned at that
 1kressingly new table that one should I'D ones heifers and sell of ones
 TIT calves, we never should have been
 ermed there that Dinard had just G1oyed the gayest season of its his 1ky under the patronage of this enter
 1plng American; nor that Lady de
 1xxy had opened tea-room in Graf n street, and Cynthia, Marchioness
 Angleberry, a beauty-improvement orlor on the Strand because she
 eds the money"
 Iots of 'em takin' to trade nowa- m; it's smart sayin' there now 1lt all the peers are marvin act
 laes and all the peeresses goin' into
 oiness." Mrs. Gwilt-Athelstan nod
 - little shocks of brilliance from her 1ra and hungrily speared another
 stsr.
 Only trouble is, it's such rotten Egk collectin' bills from their in- nats friends; they simply won't
 Y."
 qor 1t the barbaric Higbee's should
 have been vouchsafed, to treasure
 t our own, the knowledge that Mrs. Filt-Athlestan had merely run over r the cup-fortnight. meaning to re-
 Tn directly to her daughter, Kathar- Duchess of Blanchmere, in time f the Melton Mowbray hunting sea- ](n; nor that she had been rather
 ken by the new way of country life nong us, and so tempted to pfotract pr gracious sojourn.
 Really" she admits, we're comin' Io do the right thing over here; few foars were all we needed. Hardly a sPwn house to be opened before v xbanksgivin', understand; and down " the Hills some of the houses will r >y open all winter. It's coachin', i In', and golf and auto-racin' and
 D and squash; really the young b don't go in at all except to dance Ind eat; and it's quite right, you Lknow. It's quite decently English, how. Why, at Morris Park the other lday, 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, Morris tpwn and Ardsley; of the mishap to Hrs. Jimmie Whettin, twice unseat- "a at . recent meet; of the woman's Championship tournament at Chats worth; or the good points of the new at Baltusrol, daily to be seen |pn the links. Where we might incur knowledge of Beaumont "gusher" or Pittsburg mill we should never have liscovered that teas and receptions are kealiy falling into disrepute; that a beries of dinner-dances will be or kanized by the mothers of debutantes to bring them forward: and that big Subscription balls are in disfavor. since khey benefit no one but the caterers who serve poor suppers and bad cham pagne.
 Mrs. Gwilt-Athlestan takes only Scotch whiskey and soda.
 But I'm glad" she confides to Hor- ace Milbrey on her left, that you haven't got to followin' this fad of jhsvin' one wine at dinner; l know It's English, but it's downright shoddy."
 Her hosts eyes swam with gratitude fof this appreciation.
 T stick to my peg" she continued; ~but like to see Chablis with oys- fsrs and good dry sherry with the noup, and a Moselle with the fish, and then you're ready to be llvened with . bit of champagne for the roast, and steadied . bit by Burgundy with the game. Phim sticks to 1t, too; tells me my peg Is downright encouragement to tho bacteria But I tell him I've no quarrel with my bacteria. Live and let live is my motto, l tell him. and if the microbes and I both like Scotch and soda, why, what harm. rD forty-two and not so much of a fool that ain't . little bit of a physician. I know my stomach, tell him."
 What about these Western peo- pIe7" she asked oldsksr at her other side. after . little.
 Decent, unpretentious folks. some what new, but with loads of money" i've heard how the breeds stOrnin' New York in droyes; but they tell me some of us need the money"
 T dined with one last night sugar. cured ham magnate from Chicago"
 Dear me, how shoekin'I"
 But they're good vhole-souled peo- ,leL-
 And well heeled-and that's what ue need. 1t seems Some of us been so busy bein' veIl-fsmilled that we've forxot 10 make money
 ~1t's a good thing. too. Nature has ner own building laws about fortunes. When they get too sky-scrapy she topc1es them over. These people with