The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1919-11-07
CHAPTER VIII.

| A few days after Georges return
to the university 1t became evident
that not quite everybody had gazed
with complete benevolenee upon the
various young collegians ut their
holiday sports. The Sunday edition
Of the principal morning paper even
expressed some bitterness under the
heading, "Gilded Youths of the Fin
| de-Siecle"--this was considered the
knowing phrase Of the time, espe-
cially for Sunday supplements-and
there is no doubt that from certain
references in this bit of writing some
people drew the conclusion that Mr..
George ANDERSON Minafer had not
yet got his come-upaDce, a postpone
ment still Irritating. Undeniably
Fanny Minafer was one of the people
who drew this conclusion, for she cut
the article out and inclosed 1t in a
letter to her nephew, having written
on the border Of the clipping, II won
der whom 1t can meanw
George read part Of 1t:
We debate sometimes what is to be the
future OF this nation when we think that
| In few years public affairs may be in
the hands OF the fin-de-siecle gilded
youths we see about US during the Christ
mas holidays. Such foppery. such luxury,
such insolence was surely never prac-
ticed by the scented, overbearing patri-
clans Of the Palatine. even in Rome's
most decadent epoch. With his airs Of
young Milford his fast horses. his gold
and silver cigarette cases. his clothes
I from q New York tailor, his recklessness
OF money showered upon him by induigent
mothers or doung grandfathers. he re-
| spects nothing and nobody. He IL blase,
II you please. Watch him at a social
function how condescendingly he deigns
to select q partner for tho popular waltz
or two-step; how carelessly he shoulders
older people out of his way. with what a
blank stare he returns the salutations OF
some old acquaintance whom he may
choose in hts royal within to forgeti
One wonders what has come over the
new generation. or such as these the re-
| public was not made. When we compare
1.-THE young manhood Of Abraham Lincoln
with the specimens we are now producing
we see too well that II BODIES Ill for the
twentieth century,
George yawned and tossed the clip
ping into his waste basket, wondering
why his aunt thought such dull nom
sense worth the sending. AS for her
insinuation, penciled upon the border,
he supposed she meant to joke-a sup
position which neither surprised him
nor altered his lifelong opinion Of
her wit.
He read her letter with more IN
terest:
The dinner your mother gave for
1 the Morgans was q lovely affair. 1t was
last Monday evening. just ten days after
you left. 1t was appropriate that your
mother, herself an old friend, should as
semble a representative selection OF Mr..
Morgan's old friends around him at such
time. He was in great spirits and most
entertaining.
He win soon begin to build his factory
which he says II q term he prefers to
''horseless carriages" Your Uncle George
told me he would Ike to invest In this
factory. AZ George thinks there Is fu-
ture for automobiles; perhaps not for gen.
eral USE, but AZ an interesting novelty,
which people with sufficient means would
like to own for their amusement and the
sake Of variety. However, he said Mr..
Morgan 1aughingly declined his offer. a.
Mr.. N. was fully able to finance this ven
ture, though not starting In very large
way. Your uncle said other people are
manufacturing automobiles in different
parts Of the country with success. Your
father 10 not very well. though he II not
actually III, and the doctor tells him he
| ought not to be 90 much at his office, az
the long years OF application indoors with
no exercise are beginning TO affect him
unfavorably, but believe your father
would die IL he had TO give up HE work.
which is all that has ever fnterested him
outside Of his family. never could UNI
derstand II. Mr.. Morgan took your
mother and me with Lucy to see Mod
jeska in Twelfth Night" yesterday eve
ming, and Lucy said she thought the duke
> looked rather like you, only much more
+ democratic in his manner. Hoping that
you are finding college still as attractive
y AffectionateIy.
III AUNT FANNIE.
II George read one sentence in fiiis
letter several times. Then he dropped
tie m.ssivc in his waste basket to
, join tho clipping. and strolled down
the corridor of his dormitory to Dor
! row copy Of Twelfth Night" Hav-
, ling secured one he returned to his
1 study ard refreshed Ills memory Of
the play--but received no enllghten-
! ment that enabled him to comprehend
Lucy's straags rNrnrk However. he