San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11

In the third place, the gig is pro
Esunced zhig and the whole is not q
respectable word Finally, it is term
Of utter contempt.
Az A gigoIo, generally speaking is man
who lives off women's money. In the
mad year 1922 A. W., gigolo, definite
" speaking, designated one of those IN
credible and pathetic male creatures,
born of the war, who, for ten francs or
more or even less, would dance with
any woman wishing TO dance on the
crowded floors of public tea rooms, din
) ncr or supper rooms in the cafeS. hotels
and restaurants of France. Lean, sal
4 low, handsome, expert aud unwh0Ie-
~~cme, one saw them everywhere, their
.snm waists and sleek heads in juxtaposI-
Den TO plump, respectable American
.rsAtrons and slender, respectable Amer
nan flnppers. For that matter, temin-
me responsibility Of almost every ma
Ssienality, Except the French) yielded
Itself to the skilful guidance of the
sauus gigolo in tho tango or fox-trot.
But America, touring Europe like mad
after years of enforced absence, out
i numbered all other nations that travel
.stcn to ono.
SHY no feat Of fancy could one i'm
,agine Gideon Cory, of the Winnebago,
Wisconsin, Gorys, employed daily and
nightly as a gigolo in the gilt and mar
BILE restaurants along the Promenade
des Anglias in Nice. Gideon Cory, of
winnebago, Wisconsin! Why, any one
Knows that the Gorys were to Winnc-
bago what the Romanoffs were to Rus
sfa-royal, remote, omnipotCnt. Yet the
Romanoffs went in the cateclysm, and
$50, too, did the Gorys. 1t happened
something like this,
~ The Gorys lived for years in the
great, ugly, sprawling, luxurious old
I, frame house on Cass street. 1t was high
up on the bluff overlooking the Fox
river and, incidentally, the huge pulp
aad paper mills across the river in
waich the Cory money had been made.
TAe Gorys were so rich and influential
ffos winnebago, Wisconsin, 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 stueco. In most things the Gorys
led where Winnebago could not follow.
They disdained to follow W ere Whine
bago led. The Gorys had an automo-
bile when those vehicles were entered
from the rear and when WinnebagO
roads were a wallow 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 Fairgrounds when the rest
of us thought of it, if We thought of
it at all, as something vaguely Scotch,
( like haggis. They had oriental rugs and
hardwood floors when the town still!
stepped on carpets. They had fireplaces
In bedrooms, and used them, like char
acters Of an English novel. Old Ma
dame Cory had a slim patent leather
foot, with a buckle and carried a sun
shade when she visited the flowers in
the garden. Old Gideon was rumored
70 have wine with his dinner. Gideon
Junior Gather of Giddy) smoked ciga-
rettes with his monogram on them.
Every prosperous small American
town has its Cory family. Every small
town newspaper relishes the sayoury
,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 California, where Mr..
Cory had gone for the polo. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gideon Cory, Jr., announce the
birth, in New York, Of a son, Gideon
I'll (our, in a manner of speaking,
hero). Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Cory Jr..
and SON Gideon III, left today for Eng
land and the continent. It is under.
stood that Gideon III will be placed at
School in England. Mr.. and Mrs. Gid
con Cory, accompanied by Madame
Cory, have gone to Chicago for a week
of the grand opera.
y Born 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 Nigh
well have been, considering things il
general, and his mother in particular
/, At sixteen, for example, Giddy wa
driving his own cara car so exagger
ated and low-slung and with such
long predatory and glittering nose tina
one maryeled at the expertness wit
which he swung its slim length aroun
the corners Of our narrow tree-shade
streets. He was a real Cory, wa
Giddy, with his thick black hair, hi
lean swart face, and his slightly hool,
ed Cory nose. On the rare occasion
when Giddy graced Winnebago with hi
presnce you were likely to find him pul
suing the pleasures that occupied othe
winnebago boys Of his age, if not sta
ton. In some miraculous way he ha
escaped being a snob. Still, trainia
and travel combined to lead him int
many Innocent errors. When he drol