San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-28

Birth who has been carrying his Kohl
some thirty Minutes has to 20 around
opening Cold Quarts and telling how
Good he is, or else the General Public
would be long time in finding out
about it.
Ollie bought for great many dis
interested Acquaintance who told him
right TO his Face that he was Cen
tlemam of the Deepest Dye.
And the way he roasted Walters and
Taxi Drivers was calculated TO con-
vince the most Sceptical.
VIXEN he went travelling, he always
stopped at the Hotel that had the
largest Mirrors on the Wall.
All who heard him when he pounded
on the Desk and demanded the Best
Room in the House knew that they
were standing in the presence of the
Young Squire from lapville-on-the-
Crick.
Il was quite Job that Ollie had
mapped out for himself. He was 60
ing TO impress the World. And such
large " orld at that!
However,, he tackled it brayely. He
knew that in order TO back up Tne
Pearl Buttons and the Twenty-Five
kravat Ring he must needs be "a sport.
At the Track he loved TO L,aAo a
Swell Bet merely to cause Talk.
He did not care TO win. A winner
! never gets a Reputation for being
Dead Game.
The Boy who feeds in his large
Bills without letting on is the one who
wins the sincere Admiration OIL Iuose
who stand around such Places.
flIl,A 1nt-nl IN Sfrnll IN tho Wlnpl
and fool around with long Stack OF
Blue Chips and get Stung for paltry
Three Hundred, and then stretch him
self, as if longing, for Excitement
while all the twenty-five dollar-a-
repeated his Name in Whispers.
That was the kind of Glory that
Ollie was after.
He began to have some Trouble in
getting Things that were good enough
Tor him.
He paid 20 Dollars apiece for his
Shirts, as a great many people after
ward learned, and the Tobacconist had
to send away for a Special Brand of
t'ifty-cent Cigars because Ollie hated
the Cheap Kind.
|. While out shopping, if the Salesman
showed him a Pair of Silk Pajams for
Sixteen Dollars, he always wanted to
know if they didn't have something
for Eighteen Dollars.
He had more than two hundred
Cravats, mostly Blue and he went in
for Socks with his Monogram worked
on the Side.
His Belt Buckle had Rubies set in
it and he wore Inlaid Buttons with his
Evening Clothes.
At the Theatre, he insisted on the
Stage Box, and if the straw-colored
Soubrine smiled at him he sent her a
cart-wheel Of Yiolets worth Forty Dol
lars.
A Bird for q Time.
He was q gentleman frSm away
back. Everybody said that. He did
not give any man a Chance to think
differently.
Ollie was ready to go to any Length
in order to demonstrate that he was
Fine and Fancy.
One Day he counted up what he had
left of Uncle's Money, and figured that
if he continued to be the Real Thing
he would last for about six Months.
He suspected that it would be avery
foxy Move TO begin TO economic, but
he was too proud to sacrifice that Rep
utation which he had built up with so
much painful Effort. He couldn't bear
the Thought of having it said that he
was Piking and flying low.
Besides, he decided that he could
avoid going over the Dump by jump
ing into the Stock Market and buying
1000 Shares of something that was
about to advance forty Points.
So he took some Advice, and now,
| this January, he is wearing the fawn-
colOred Benjamin with the Pearl But
tons, also the open-work Socks with
the Monograms.
But he has this Consolation. All the
other Has-Beens who stand around
the Radiator with him, waiting for
somebody to come in and Say Some
thing, agree that he was a Bird for
the time being.
Moral: The Gentleman Business is
handicapped by OverprOduCtiOn and TOO
much Competition.