Cleveland County herald., 1919-10-30
CHAPTER VIII.

A few days after Georges return to the university it became evident that not quite everybody had gazed with complete benevolence upon the various young collegians at 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 Mir.
 George Anderson Minafer had not yet got his come-upance, a postpone l ment still irritating. Undeniably Fanny Minafer was one of the people | who drew this conclusion, for she cut the article out and inclosed it in q letter to her nephew, having written
 on the border of the clipping, T won 1 der whom it can meani"
 George read part of it:
 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 glded youths we see about us during the Christi
 mas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury,
 such insolence was surely never prac- l ticed by the scented. oyerbearing patri- l clans of the Palatine, even In Rome's | most decadent epoch. With his airs of young milord, his fast horses, his gold | and silver cigarette cases, his clothes | from a q l of money showered upon him by indulgent mothers or doting grandfathers. he re- ! spects nothing and nobody. He is blase, | if you please. Watch him at a social | function, how condescendingly he deigns | to select partner for the popular waltz | or two-step; how carelessly he shoulders l older people out of his way, with what a | blank stare he returns the salutations of some old acquaintance whom he may choose in his royal whim to forget! One wonders what has come over the new generation. Of such as these the re- public was not made. When we compare | the young manhood of Abraham Lincoln with the specimens we are now producing we see too well that 1t bodes i'll for the twentieth century
 George yawned and tossed the clip ping into his waste basket, wondering why his aunt thought such dull non- 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 | the Morgans was a lovely affair. 1t was | last Monday evening, just ten days after | you left. It was appropriate that your | mother herself an old friend, should as- semble representative selection of MT, Morgans old friends around him at such | a time. He was in great spirits and most | entertaining.
 | He will soon begin to build his factory | here for the manufacture of automobiles, | which he says is a term he prefers to | 'horseless carriages" Your Uncle George | told me he would like to invest in this factory, as George thinks there is fu- | ture for automobiles; perhaps not for gen. eral use, but as an interesting novelty, | which people with sufficient means would | like to own for their amusement and the | sake of variety. However, he said MT. Morgan laughingly declined his offer, as | Mir M. 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 1 parts of the country with success. Your | father is not very we'll, though he is not | actually ill., and the doctor tells him he | ought not to be so much at his office, as | the long years of application indoors with no exercise are beginning to affect him | unfavorably but I believe your father would die if he had to give up his work | which is all that has ever interested hin | outside of his family. I never could un- derstand it. MT Morgan took youl mother and me with Lucy to see Mod l ieska in Twelfth Night" yesterday eve ming. and Lucy said she thought the duke I looked rather like you. only much more l democratic in his manner. Hoping that
 you are finding college still as attractive | as ever,
 | Affectionately.
 | AUNT FANNY. George read one sentence in this
 letter several times. Then he dropped | the missive in his waste basket tC
 join the clipping, and strolled dowT the corridor of his dormitory to Dor
 row a copy of Twelfth Night" Hay l ing secured one he returned to his
 study and refreshed his memory ot
 the play-but received no enlighten
 ment that enabled him to comprehend
 Lucy's strange remark. However. he