The Aberdeen weekly., 1919-10-24

I menr 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. Il Won
der whom it can meant"
George read part of it:
We debate sometimes what is to be the
future of this nation when We think that
| in a few years public affairs may be in
| youths we see about US during the Christ
| mas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury.
| such insolence was surely never prae-
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
| from a New York tailor. his recklessness
| 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 condescendingiy he deigns
| to select a partner for the 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 his royal whim to forget,
One wonders what has come over the
new generation. OF such as these the
public not made. When compare
the young manhood OF Abraham Lincoln
with the specimens we are now producing e
we too well that 1t 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
the Morgans was lovely affair. 1t was
last Monday evening, just ten days after
You left 1t was appropriate that your
mother herself old friend, should
semble representative selection of Mr..
Morgan's old friends around him at such
a time He was in great spirits and most
entertaining
here for the manufacture of automobiles.
which he says is term he prefers to
"horseless carriages" Your Uncle George
told me he would like to invest in this
factory, as George thinks there is a fu-
ture for automobiles; perhaps not for gen.
eral use, but 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 laughingly declined his offer as
Mr.. M. was fully able to finance this VEN
ture, though not starting in very large
way. Your uncle said other people
manufacturing automobiles In different
parts of the country with success. Your
father is not very WELL 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
exercise are beginning to affect him
unfavorably but / believe your father
would die If he had to give up his work
which is all that has ever interested him
outside of his family. I never could un-
derstand 1t. Mr. Morgan took your
mother and 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
as ever.
Anectionately,
AUNT FANNY.
George read one sentence In this
letter several times. Then he dropped
the missive in his waste basket to
join the clipping, and strolled down
the corridor of his dormitory to bor-
row a copy of Twelfth Night" Hav-
ing secured one he returned to his
study and refreshed his memory of
the play-but received no enlighten-
ment that enabled him to comprehend
Lucy's strange remark. However, he
found himself impelled in the direc-
ton of correspondence, and presently
wrote letter-not reply TO his
Aunt Fanny.
Dear Lucy: No doubt you will be sur
prised at hearing from me 80 soon again,
especially this makes two in answer
TO the one received from you since getting |
back to the old place. 1 hear you have |
been making comments about me at the |
theater, that some actor was more demo- |
cratic in his manners than 1 am, which |
do not understand. You know my theory |
OF life because I explained it to you on |
our first drive together, when / told you |
l would not talk to everybody about |
things / feel like the way / spoke to You /
of my theory of life. l believe those who |
are able should have a true theory OF life. |
and I developed my theory of life long. |
long ago.
Well here 1 sit smoking my faithful |
briar pipe indulging in the fragrance of |
my tabac I look out the campus
from my many -paned window, and things |
are different with me from the way they
were way back in freshman year 1 can
see now how boyish in many ways I was
then. I believe what has changed me
much anything was my visit home at
the time 1 met you. So I sit here with
my faithful briar and dream the old
dreams over as IT were, dreaming of the
we waltzed together and Of that
last night before we parted, and you told
me the good news you were going to live
there, and would find my friend waiting
for me when / get home next summer.
I will be glad my friend will be waiting
for me. / am not capable OF friendship |
except for the very few. and. looking back
over my life. remember there were times
when I doubted If I could feel a great
friendship for anybody-especially girls.
Here in the old place do not believe in
being hail-fellow-well-met with every
Tom. Dick and Harry just because he
happens to be a classmate any more than
90 at home, where I have always been
careful who I was seen with, largely on
recount of the family, but also because
ny disposition ever since my boyhood has
been to encourage real intimacy from but
he few.
From several letters from my mother.
Ind one from Aunt Fanny / hear you are
seeing good deal Of the family since
eft. I hope sometimes you think OF the
member who is absent. I got q silver
rame for your photograph In New York.
Ind keep 1t on my desk. 1t Is the only
yirrs photograph ever took the trouble
% have framed, though. as told you