Evening star., 1923-02-11
4 Meeting Abroad Stories of the
Old Home Town. the Thrill Of the
Countru That Is Alive, Then Romance

whole is not a respectable word.
Finally. it is a term of utter contempt.
A gigolo. generally speaking. is
man who lives or women's money.
In the mad year 1922 A. W.. a gigolo,
definitely speaking. was one Of those
incredible and pathetic male creatures
born of the war, who for ten francs
or even less would dance with any
woman wishing to dance on the
crowded floors of public tea rooms,
dinner or supper rooms in the
cafes, hotels and restaurants Of
France. Lean, saIlow, handsome. eX-
pert and unwholo Tome. one saw them
everywhere. tf@ir slim waists and
sleek heads in juxtaposition to plump.
respectable American matrons and
slender. respectable American flap
pers. For that matter. feminine re-
spectability Of almost every national
ity Except the French) yielded itself
to the skilful guidance of the genus
Eigolo in the tango or fox trot. But
America, touring Europe like mad
after years OF enforced absence, out
numbered all other nations a-travel.
ten to one.
inc Gideon Cory Of the Winnebago.
Wis. Gorys. employed daily and
nightly as n gigolo in the gilt and
marble restaurants along the Prone
made des Anglais in Nice. Gideon
Cory of Winnebago. Wis. Why. any
one knows that the Gorys were to
Winnebago what the Romanoffs were
to Russia-royal. remote. omnipotent.
Yet the Romanof.s went in the cata-
clysm. and so, too, did the Gorys.
x = Il
THE Gorys lived for years in the
l. great, ugly. sprawling, luxurious
old frame house on Cass street. II
was high up on the bluff overlooking
the Fox river and incidentally the
hugo pulp and paper mills across the
river in which the Cory money had
been made. The Gorys were so rich
and influential for Winnebago. Wis.)
that they didn't bother to tear down
the old frame house and build a stone
one. or to cover its faded front with
cosmetics OF stucco In most things
the Gorys led where Winnebago could
no, follow. They disdained to follow
where Wennebago led. The Gorys
had an automobile when those vehi-
cles were entered from the rear and
when Winnebago roads were wal
low of mud in the spring and fall and
a snow-lined trench in the winter.
The family was Of the town and yet
apart from it. The Gorys knew about
golf and played it in far foreign play
grounds when the rest OF us thought
oil
something vaguely Scotch. like haE-
gis They had oriental rugs and
hardwood floors when the town still
stepped on carpets. They had fire.
places in bedrooms. and used them,
like characters in an English novel.
Old Nine. Cory had a slim, patent
leather foot, with a buckle. and car
ried a sunshade when she visited the
flowers in the garden. Old Gideon
was rumored to have wine with his
dinner. Gideon, jr. Gather OF Giddy)
smoked cigarettes with his monogram
on them.
Every prosperous small American
town has it's Cory family. Every
small-town newspaper relishes the
sayory tid-bits that fall from the
rich table of the family life. Thus
you saw that Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon
Cory, jr. have returned from Cali
fornia. where Mr.. Cory had gone for
the polo Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Cory.
jr.. announce the birth. in New York,
Of son Gideon III (our, in manner
OF speaking. hero. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gideon Cory, jr., and son Gideon III,
left today for England and the con-
tinent. 1t is understood that Gideon
III Will be placed at school in Eng
land. Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Cory, ac-
to Chicago for a week OF the grand
opera.
DOEN of all this you would have
- thought that young Giddy would
grow up a somewhat Objectionable
young man: and so. in fact. he did.
though not nearly SO Objectionable as
he might we'll have been. considering
things in general and his mother in
particular. At sixteen, for example.
Giddy was driving his own cara car
so exaggerated and low-siung and
with such long predatory and gilt
tering nose that one marveled at the
eypertness with which he swung its
slim length around the corners of
our narrow trce-shadcd streeis. He
was real Cory. was Giddy. with his
thick black hair. his lean swart face.
and his slightly hooked CORY nose
Oa the rare occasions Whef Giddy
rracod Winreba@o with his presence
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the pleasure thrt occupied other
Winncbaso boys Ot his age. If not
station. In some miraculous way ne
had escaped being a snub Still. train
ing and travel combined to lead him
into many innocent errors. When he
dropped into FetZer's pool shack car
rying maiacca cane, for example
RE had carried cane every day fol
six months in Paris. whence he hao
just returned. There was gooo
game of Kelly in progress.
Giddy, leaning slightly on his stick
stood watching it. Suddenly he was
aware that players and lounsers were
standing in attitudes Of exaggerated
elegance. Each was leaning Oh Il cue
his elbow crooked III as near an imi'
tation of Giddys position as the
sticks length would permit. The
players themselves walked with {
mincing step about the table. And
My deah fellah, what pretty play
Mean to say neat. don't you know
came anonymously from the lips o.
Eeddy Lennigan. whose father rai
the Lennigan House on Outagami'
street.
Think So giggled his opponent
sir. Dutchy Meisenberg. "Aw-ti.