Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-01

called them, turned into an expensive
looking side street and stopped before
one OF the most enormous buildings /
ever saw in my life. 1t seemed only
half finished, for the steel columns of
its skeleton were still visible around
the ground floor and the street before
it was still cluttered with bricks AMI
boards and rubbish. In the hallway
men were working like active animals
in an immense cage. Suddenly from
among them l saw emerge a beauti-
lace frills, led by a trained nurse in
a gray and white uniform. They We're
actually being let out of the lift, which
had swooped down with appalling
swiftness by a man in livery.
"Good heavens" | exclaimed, what
queer place for a child and its nurse
to be in
MY dear girl, they live there" said
Mrs. Ess Kay rather scornfully. THAT
is Mrs. Harvey Richmount Taylour's
little Rosemary with her nurse
''People live on top of those poles
like Jack in a beanstak"' l exclaimed.
How appalling"
AS l looked through the hallway up
sprang the lift once more, fierce and
swift as one of the rockets which
used as a child to be afraid might
strike the angels. A minute of sus-
pense and it swooped down again with
two girls in it. l felt as if it We're
thing I oughtnt to be seeing some
how; it was SO much like spying on
the digestive apparatus of skeleton
you see," explained Mrs. Ess Kay,
''the Taylours and other people We're
frightfully anxious TO get in. The rest
of the building will be finished soon,
and this is going to be one of the
SWEETEST apartment houses il New
York"
This an apartment house!' cried l,
thinking of the dull streets-in London.
where almost every door has Apart
ments" printed over it in gilt letters
or else hanging crooked and detected
on card. But, oh-perhaps you
mean it's flats"
For goodness sake, don't say fats
to Margaret Taylour," exclaimed Mrs.
Ess Kay, marshaling me into the
mammoth skeleton. over here, only
common people live in flats; our sort
have apartments.
ITS just the other way round with
u.s." ] explained. Those who have
flats would be furious if you said they
lived in apartments"
"You English are so quaint in some
ways" remarked Mrs. Ess Kay, and
though / didn't answer. l was sur
prised. It's all well enough for us to
think Americans odd, and we are ac-
customed to that, for everybody says
they are, but that they should think
our ways comic does seem extraordi-
nary, almost improper.
BY this time we were in the lift,
which shut upon us with a vicious
snap and then tossed us up toward the
roof of the world 1 do hope one
doesn't experience the same sensation
in dying though in that case it would
be worse going down than up.
Before | had time to do moN than
gasp we were at the top, and as we
waited for an instant outside Mrs.
Harvey Richmount Taylour's door
should have liked to pinch my cheeks
lest my fright had left me pale.
Vic has friend who lives in. q
fiat near the park for the season, and
once / was taken there. / thought il
quite beautiful, but though the friends
a countess and very rich the fat, Is
poor compared with this topheavy nesi
of Mrs. TayIour's.
In white drawing room where the
only spots of color were the roses-
masses of pink roses in gold bowls
Madonna-like being was reclining ii
a green and white billow of a lace te: