The Glenwood post., 1923-12-27

"Highland Place" was one of those
new little cross-streets in new little
bosky neighborhood, "grown up over
night" as we say, meaning grown up
in four or five years, so that when citi-
zens of the older and more solid and
soiled central parts of the city come
driving through the new part, of a
Sunday afternoon in spring, they say:
"Nfy goodness, when did this happen?
Why. it doesn't seem moren year or
so since we used to have Fourth o.
July picnics out here! And now just
look at it-all built up with bride-and-
groom houses
"Highland Place" was the name
given to this cross-street by the spec
ulative land company that had "de-
veloped" it, and the only reason they
had not named it "Waverly Place" was
that they had already produced a
"Waverly Place" block below. Both
"Places" were lined with green
trimmed, smarl white houses, frame"
or stuccO, and although the honeymoon
suggestion was INTELLECTUALLY so
strong, as matter of fact most of the
inhabitants held themselves to be "set-
tied old married people" some of the
couples having almost attained to a
tin wedding anniversary.
The largest of the houses in
"Highland Place" was the "hollow-
tile and stucco residence of Mr.. and
Mrs George NJ. Sullender." Thus 1t
had been defined. under Photographic
reproduction, with the caption New
Highland Place Sullender Home" in
one of the newspapers, not long after
the little street had been staked out
and paved; and since the "Sullender
Home" was not only the largest house
but the first to be built in the place"
and had had its picture in the paper,
1t naturally took itself for granted as
being the most important.
Young Mrs. William Sperry, whose
equally young husband had just bought
the smallest but most conspicuously
bride-and-groom cottage in the whole
place" was not SO deeply impressed
with the Sullender Importance as she
should have been. since the Sperrys
were the newcomers Of the neighbor-
hood, had not yet been admitted to It's
intimacies, and might well have dis
played more amiable Difference to
what Is established.
NO." Mrs. Sperry told her husband.
when they got home after their first
experience of the places" hospitality,
a bridge-party at the Sullenders-"I
Just can't stand those people, Will
They're really awful"
"Why, what's the matter with 'em7"
he inquired. IT thought they were first
rate. They seemed perfectly friendly
and hospitable and"
"Oh, yes; lord-and-lady-of-the-
entertaining the tenantryi don't
mind being tenantry," young Mrs.
Sperry explained, but I can't stand
the lord-and-lady-of-the style in
people with a nine-room house and a
one-car garage I"
"One-car 1t may be-" her husband
laughed, "but 1t has two stories. They
have chauffeur, you know; and he
lives in the upstairs Of the garage"
$50 that entities the Sullenders to
the manor style7"
"But didn't notice any of that
STYLE" he protested. IT thought they
seemed right nice and cordial. OF
course Sullender feels that he's been
making quite success in business and
It naturally gives him a rather con-
descending air, but he's really all
right"
"He certainly was condescending,"
she grumbled, and went on. with some
satire: ibid you hear him allude to
himself as a 'realtorr"
"Well, why shouldn't he7 He is
one. That's his business"
my lord, the realtori" Mrs. Sperry
cried mockingly. "There ought to be
an opera written called Eel Realtor'
like the one there used to be with the
title II Janitor.' Those are such 70.
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