The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-12

Co.. .c,hn,tn suburb and most
of them seemed tt
flock TO our house--it was entirely IN
explalnable.
Essemere is such a frightfully ex
elusive suburb that each new arrive
runs regular red Indian gantlet be
fore he is either admitted as a real
belonger' or dropped.
The first evening | met DR.. Bill
,omer | was impressed with his broad
as'-one simply can't fail to be q
Dit respectful when a new man says
cahnt" instead of cant and does
t as if he was in the habit of saying
L always before breakfast instead OF
lust saying it for eyening--and ii did
not take more than ten minutes before
q had very skIlfully dragged in the
act that be was born and bred in
Worcester, Mass, and that 70 him all
he rest of the earth was composed of
waste places.
Just as if | We're hypnotized | found
myself murmdring that could quite
understand his feelings because my
mother came from Boston | stopped
before | added that she was three
years old when she left that sublmat.
ed city.
OF course that remark led On to the
subject of families 1t seemed that
he had a relative who was in the IA
nous tea party. responded promptly
J sth the story of my ancestor who
Oiled a hundred men, more or less
With one glance of his eye in the reyo
ution. couldn't recall thar | had
ragged out that great-grandparent
before in years, but | did it breath
essly for DR.. BllIcomer's benefit, 1t
vas awful.
The evening that | managed to
mention the chancellor and then at his
nurmur to stop with a little lift Of
ny eyebrows to say that Of course he
rouldn't know-it was stupid of me-
nut that my fathers uncle had been
he lord High chancellor of that coGn-
ry at the time of which we were
speaking, | felt more set up than the
,ime won the cup at solf
Afterward Suffered to Griffith, my
elder brother, because had to get rid
If my mental tumult somehow,
DR.. Bilcomcr would be all right"
Old Griff, If he wasn't such a fright
su snob, What is worse, he makes
me be a snob, tool With other men
can carry on a sustained conversa.
don on intelligent topics. but when he
and talk al we do is try to cap each
others Boosting!
Gnf confessed that he felt the
same way and what was more, all
he other fellows did, too. In the pres
ance of Or. Billcomer they lost their
.aqads and tried TO live up to him
Then behind his back they muttered
dedantly that he was lobster and
privately suffered in Ter the conviction
that they themselves were becoming
Holsters also.
There was, / discovered at last, a
perfect epidemic of Boosting in Esse-
mere. We all grew more languid in
our speech aud resurrected all cur good
points in pedigree and accomplish
ments. Above the tumult DIR. Bill
eomer's little song still rose tri-
lmf kant. calling rs On ~ III greater
hcich's OF s.ehoery, anl we followed
Each ZINE / was in his society | hated
myself worse-and otherwise he would
have been so nice!
Some weeks after DR.. Billcomer be-
gan to have this dreadful effect on
Egsemere Grif came TO me one day
with the light of a great discovery in
mis- eyes. He looked happy,
what do you think?" he said
Bilcomer is all right! What we've
uatred is nothing to him. We've
.ot rather chunmy lately and he
snG1od TONIGHT that never in his
IL had he STRUCK such a snobbish
lace as Essemere Fight against it
he would, be said, ne had to SC
be pace himself to keep his head
bcyc water, he said be had worn
himself ont with bcasiins in order to
rove that he was on a Far with the
.urercllious resideats--and he was
cad tired of it aud sick and ashamed
If himself,7
| held my head down weakly while
he light broke over ne also. Then |
ne hadn't meant in the least 10 have
.hat erect on me-or any one else,
He wasn't that way really at all.
was in such a hurry to start in ali |
over az2in and get acquainted with |
Jr. Eillcumer normally that when |
Iriff added that he'd asked the doctor
mp to dinner I realized afresh how use
III a really intelligent brother can be
The scheme Of things.
But the wo:s of it is that there |
uu4 be one great and original snoA !
a is emere 20 create such a situa |
ion and Il is interesting TO speculat
II VINO it is. AByhaW. I'm clad fl ism |
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