The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-03


these austere relics. Yet It would
hardly be observed In this house or
| this night, for not only do arriving
guests bring the aroma Of a later
prosperity, but the hearts OF our host
and hostess beat high with a new
hope. For the fair and sometimes un-
certain daughter OF the house of Mil
brey, after many ominous mutterlngs,
delays, and frank rebellions, has de-
clared at last her readiness to be q
credit to her training by comforting her
family prestige, distinction Of manner
and charms OF person upon n
equipped for their suitable mainten-
ance.
Already her imaginative father Is
ravishing in fancy the mouldiest wine
cellars of continental Europe. Already
the fond mother has idealized a house
in "Millionaire's Row" east of the
Park, where there shall be twenty SER
wants instead of three, and there shall
cease that gnawing worry lest the
treacherous north setting current
sweep them west Of the Park into one
of those h~ideously new apartment
houses, where the halls are done in
marble that seems to have been sliced
from a huge Roquefort cheese, and
where one must vie, perhaps, with a
shop-keeper for the favors of an ir-
reverent and materialistic janitor.
The young woman herself entertains
privately a state of mind which she
has no intention OF making public. 1t
Is enough, she reasons, that her action
should outwardly accord with the best
! traditions of her class; and, indeed, her
, family would never dream of demand
ing more.
Her gown tonight is Of orchard
green, trimmed with apple blossoms,
a single pink spray of them caught in
her hair. The rounding, satin grace of
her slender arms, sloping to the opal
tipped fingers, the exquisite line from
l ear to shoulder strap, the melting ripe
I ness of her chin and throat, the tender
I pink and white of her fine skin, the
| capricious, melting tilt of her small
I head, the dainty lift of her short nose,
Q these allurements she has inventor
t led with a calculating and satisfied
eye. She is glad to believe that there
d is every reason why it will soon be
over.
And, since the whole loaf Is motor
9 iously better than a half, here is the
engaging son of the house, also firmly
8 bent upon the high emprise of matri.
mony; handsome, with the chin, it may
be, slightly receding; but an unexcellet
leader of cotillions, a surprising pole
player, clever, winning, and dressed
: with an effect that has long made hin
remarked in polite circles, which NJ
t mere money can achieve. Money, in
e deed, if certain ill-natured gossip Of
e tradesmen be true, has been an incon
siderable factor in the encompassmen'
l. of this sartorial distinction. He watt
y now, eager for a first glimpse of tn
g young woman whose charms, even b.
g report, have already won the best de
votion he has to give. A grievous er
ror it is to suppose that Cupid's al
tillery is limited to bow and arrows
Ell And now, instead of the rude com
mercial horde that laughed loudly an
r ate %uncouthly at the board of the bar
l. barian, we shall sit at table with PEG
a pie born to the only manner said t.
'e be worth possessing;-if we except, in
deed, the visiting tribe of Bines, win
may be relied upon, however, to be
re have at least unobtrusively.
Le AS a contrast to the oppressivel,
Western matron from Kansas City
here Is Mistress Fidelia Oldaker o.
the arm of her attentive son. Sh
would be very old but for the circum
stance that she began early in life t
be a belle, and age annot stale sue
women. Brought up with hoard at he
back, books on'her head, to guard he
: complexion as If it were her fair name
to be diligent at harp practice an
conscientious with the dancing master
she is almost the last of a school tina
nursed but the single aim of subjugat
ing man. Tonight, at seventy som
thing, she Is a bit Of pink bisque frs
gility, bubbling tirelessly with remir
~iscence, her ~yivacity unimpaired, he
energy amazing, and her coquetr
faultless. From which we should learl
and be grateful therefor, that whe
a girl is brought up in the way sh
ought to go she will never be able t
depart from 1t.
Here also is Cornelia Van Geist, sis
ter of our admirable hostess-relict {
a gentleman who had been first {
second cousin to half the people l
society it were really desirable I
know, and whose taste in wines. dir
ners, and sports had been widel
n praised at his death by those who ha
We had the fortune to be numbered anon
his friends. Mrs. Van Geist has
r. kind, shrewd face, and her hair, whic
turned prematurely grey while she wa
III yet a wife, gives her a look of ae
he that her actual years belle.
Here, too, is Rulon Shepler, ii
at money-god, his large, round head turf
ing upon his immense shoulders witt
IT. out the aid Of a neck-sharp-eye'
an grizzled, fifty, short of stature, an