Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-08
R|CH ESTATES
 AND INERT TANCES Have Such An Appeal to the Popular Mind They Are
 Made Use of in Fiction. 1fsssssEss se=.s sz...a SOME USES FOR MONEY Famine In Thrills May Occur ts E.
 Result of Pace Set For the
 Modern Mind.
SOME USES FOR MONEY

Washington, Sept 7.-EXpectations | of prospective inheritances of rich estates have made such an appeal to the popular mind that in fiction we find this circumstance made the bas- is of countless romantic novels with good effect. There is always some- thing fascinating about the inheri- tance of an estate and we never read of how some poverty haunted, ne, er- do-Well, or some poor but honest, and emlnently deserving young man sud denly has beeny notified that he ia the possessor Of all right, title and interest in big fortune, without heaVing a sigh, and wishing shat we stood in the luck-starred beneficary's $ shoes
 Castles in Spain chateaux in Brit tany, Languedoc, Gascony or any other romanoe-wreathed region; long lost estates in Flanders, dormant English titles and huge, interest-swollen .bal ances unclaimed in the Bank of Eng
  land have formed the basis for so many wild tales that even to think of them provides that which Ameri- cans prize above all other sensations the Thrill.
 For number of years, Americans have had great deal to talk about, or in many cases even to think about and these are by no means identical operations in the high cost of living. [ The high cost of living has provided [ infinite entertainment for all classes in these United States and i. has been talked about so much that it has pass ed into a Saw But Americans can not thrive long upon one topic, be it ever so near to their hearts. So the | time is coming when the high cost i. of living will cease to he diverting subject for conversation or argument. r
 But, so fast is the pace at which | the modern mind travels, that there is very likely to occur famine in | thrills. When Abraham Lincoln could | find no better light by which to read | his Blackstone and Kent than that given by log fire, people would have been thrilled to have seen the bril- liant electric light of today. Now E adays, it is common and the average i person would laugh in your face if [ you dared to intimate that the light [ on the corner was capable of thrill I ling you. In these days constant hus- tie, hustle and excitement the good f old-fashioned thrill has become hard E to find. With the cheap pleasure parks and the cheaper moving pie ture theaters, the citizen of today reaps the advantage of what it costs millions to produce. Places of amuse-I l ment, and it might even be said places of amazement for every one now are matters of course.
 A first class thrill is produced now adays and almost overnight it loses it's glamor. It takes something really hig, in this time of intensified mod ernity to become a nine days won der.
 We are agreed then that the idea of an unexpected inheritance or a vast estate awaiting some unknown claimant provides a real thrill r The House of Representatives through it's Committee on Indian af- fairs, has unearthed such a romance It is similar in many ways to those rehearsed in the novels but it has an added touch of fantasy in it that the