Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-30

AS N the afternoon Mrs. Es
 AH Kay and l, in our thin
 T.1lA nest muslins, went out II <HA the motor. We whizze(
 WI - up Fifth avenue for sev
 eral blocks" (as sh, called them). turned into an expensiv, looking side street and stopped befor, one of the most enormous buildings ever saw in my life. It seemed only half finished, for the steel columns o1 its skeleton were still visible around the ground floor and the street before 1t was still cluttered with bricks and boards and rubbish. In the hallway men were working like active animals In an immense cage. Suddenly from among them I saw emerge a beauti. fully dressed little girl foaming with lace frills, led by trained nurse in gray and white uniform. They were actually being let out of the lift, which had swooped down with appalling ewifmess by man in livery.
 Good heavens" exclaimed, "what . queer place for 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 beanstalkv' I exclaimed. 'sHow appalling"
 As I looked through the hallway up sprang the lift once more, fierce and swift as one of the rockets which I used as child to be afraid might strike the angels. A minute of sus- pense and it swooped down again with two girls in it. I felt as if it were a thing oughtn't to be seeing some how; it was so much like spying on the digestive apparatus of a skeleton.
 You see," explained Mrs. Ess Kay, ''the Taylours and other people were frightfully anxious to get in. The rest of the building will be finished soon, and this is going to be one of the swellest apartment houses ia New York"
 This an apartment housew cried 1, thinking of the dull streets in London. where almost every door has Apart ments" printed over 1t in gilt letters or else hanging crooked and dejected on a card But, oh-perhaps you mean it's flats"
 For goodness sake. don't say flats 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 us" I 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 I didn't answer. I was sur prised. It's all we'll 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 I 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 more than gasp we were at the top, and as we waited for an instant outside Mrs. Harvey Richmount Taylours door I should have liked to pinch my cheeks lest my fright had left me pale.
 Vic has a friend who lives in a fiat near the park for the season, and once l was taken there. I thought it quite beautiful, but though the friends a countess and very rich the flat is poor compared with this topheavy nest of Mrs. Taylours.
 In a white drawing room where the only spots of color were the roses masses of pink roses in gold bowls a Madonna-like being was reclining in a green and white pillow of lace tea gown on white sofa. She held out both hands to Mrs. Ess Kay and look cd at me, apologizing for not getting up.
 When you come to examine her, the only thing really Madonna-like at0Gt Mrs. Harvey Richmount Taylour is her way of doing her hair. It's parted in the middle and folds softly down in brown wings on either side of rather a high forehead. white enough to match her drawing room. She has gently curved eyebrows, too, but under them her dark eyes are as bright and sharp as fox terriers. She has pale skin, red lips and thin features, with stick out chin. cut on the same pat tern as Mrs. Ess Rays, though it isn't as square yet, because she is years younger-perhaps not more than twen- ! weight. Mrs Ess Kay introduced us, in a more precise way than we have at | home. and Mrs. Iaylour said that she was very happy to meet me, which should have thought particularly kind If I hadn't found out that it's a sort of formula which Americans think it polite to use.
 She talked to me good deal and wanted to know how liked America, of course. l was sure she would do that
 Then Mrs. Ess Kay explained that I