Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-20
What Are You, Gordon?'

WnaJ are you, GOrQonE
Mildred looked at Gordon curiously.
What are you, Gordon-a Georgia
rajah, a baseball player or what?"
He leaned over and whispered
something in her ear, whereat she
smiled and pincled his arm.
They ran through the forest for
about a mile and then emerged into
the open. From that point the ground
gradually rose until it ended on the
horizon I'm an indistinct blur Half
mile further on Mildred exclaimed:
What is that directly ahead of us :?
It looks like an immense gray battle
ship with volumes of smoke pouring
out Of its forward turrets."
wait a minute and you viii see
just what It is" replied Gordon. He
opened the throttle and the ear rush
ed up the hill. Before Milured rea-
lzed it they had stopped in front OF
large. imposing, long, low, mansion
built of granite. In the distance its
minarets had resembled the military
masts and smoke stacks Of warships
and the smoke of Mildred's magma
ton was nothing more or less than a
curving row Of superb naples that
shaded the Western and part Of the
Southern portion of the edifice."
This is my home, Mildred" said
Gordon This is the house where
was born and here is where | have
lived all my life. I want you to see
il, Mildred and I want to tell you
all about myself"
Mildred Enthralled.
Steve opened the foredoor of the
car and they stepped out on a low,
semi circular porch extending out
from the mansion on the southern
side Of it, The colored boy took the
car away, leaving them alone Mildred
turned and swept her eyes over miles
and miles of country to the south,
east and west. She was enthralled.
mo wonder you love your home Cor
don; ! would never tire Of it if / had
no more than this one view of the
surrounding country. | have never
seen anything like it anywhere"
Yes. it is grand" replied Gordon.
I'm glad you like it so far. What
would you like to see first, the house
or the grounds surrounding it?'
"Oh, the house" said Mildred II
want you TO take me through the
house"
Hand in hand. like little children,
they entered the large gray granite
structure and came into a hall as
large as a ballroom. They were mot
by a middle-aged woman, whom Cor
don presented as Mrs. Ward, the
hOusekeeper The hall had seemed to
be fully so feet wide and 35 10 40
/ feet deep Stairs assembled from one
/ side of 1t to the floor above. On the
other side was a grand piano, the
only article of furniture except two
/ or three chairs and rugs.
There are six rooms on the main
( ground floor" said Gordon. Straight
ahead is the library, the same size
/ exactly as the hail.
! They entered the room, where Mil
! dred saw thousands of volumes
around the walls, while above them
! oil paintings hung.
The hall and tie library as you
see,' continued Gordon, extend from
/ the front to the back of the house.
| Leading out Of the library on the
west is the music room They
! passed through it and Mildred saw
stacks and stacks of music arranged
! on shelves along one wall like a music
/ store. There was a cabinet contain
| ing four violins. In the center of
the room were two grand pianos, side
| by side
| The dining room was the same size
! as the music room and led from it as
/ well as from the hall It was rich
/ ly decorated in somewhat somber