Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-03-20

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tai or's manhood Otherwise he'd be
above marrying some unsuspec citing
girl for her money and. breaking her
/; heart after marriage. Now, Mauburn,
Is a type SO different honest. 1,naf-
fected, health really he s. i man for
any girl to be proud OF, even III he
were not heir to q 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 BAY
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!"4 &c.. H. =. 7, ss.s.ss,s.: -.
b. In spite of Mrs. Drelmers two-edged
sword, Miss :Bines continued rather
more favorable to the line of De Pal
LAC. The baron was so splendid. SO
gloomy, SO deferentia1. He had the
air of laying at her feet, as a rug, the
whole glorious history OF France.
And he appeared so we'll 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 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. i, =, - .
For certain events befell unpropi-
tiously at q 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 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 rs he wrote
it. He preferred not to recognize
even the existence of this alternative,
for the reason that the father of Mile.
Higbee distressed him by an incom.
pleteness of suavity. -
He conducts himself like 8 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: was
quite unable to repress vulgar in.
terest in the menials that served her.
She knew the buffers life history
two days after she had ceased to be
afraid of him. She knew the distress.
ing family affairs of the maids; how
many were the ignoble progeny of the
elevator man, and what his plebeian
wife did for their Group; how much
rent the hall-boy's low-born father
paid for his mean two-story dwelling
in Jersey City; and how many hours
a day or night, the debased scrub
women devoted to their unrefning
toll. H.. -
Brazenly, too, she held converse
with Philippe. the active and voluble
Alsatian who served her when she
chose to dine in the public 2restau.
rant instead of at her own private ta-
BILE. Philippe acquainted her with
the joys and griefs of his difficult pro-
fession. There were $4,000 walters
in New York, it, by walters, you
meant anyone. OF course there were
not so many like Philippe, men OF
the world who had served their time
as assistants and their three years as
sub-waiters; men who spoke English,
French and German, who knew some.
thing Of cooking, how to dress a salad,
and how to7carve. Only such. it ap.
peared, could be members Of the ex.
elusive Geneva club that procured a
place for you when you We're idle; and
paid you eight dollars a week when
you were SICK ~ ..<- =s@, H..
+ Having the qualifications, #s+. ono
could earn SIS a>month in salary and
three or four times as much in gratui.
ties. Philippe's income was never
less than 1920 a month; for was he
mot one who had come from Europe
as q master, after two seasons at
Paris, where man acquires his pol
ish-his perfection Of manner, So his
finish, his grace? Philippe could
never. enough prize that. post graduate
course course at the Maison d Or, where he
had personally known madame
might not believe 1.-THE $incompar.
able Casmir, q chef W no served two
generations Of epicures, ii princes,
kings. statesmen. travelling Americans
the truly great. :z 81 55.5a
With his own lips Casmir had told
him Philippe of the occasion when
l Dumas ma pere, had invited him to din.
:ner that they might discuss tho
;eaoterics of salad dressing II and
3sauses; slsO 1ke . sen M :,
4sis de- st. Georges embraeed Casmir
fors inyentiAg the precious soup that