Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-08-19


had been patterned as far as possible
after the pale f1abby viands served at
English hunt breakfasts and ruined
in an atmosphere of lukewarm steam.
The women were slim and perfectly
tailored but wore their hunting clothes
trifie uneasily and self-consciouSly
like girls III their first low-cut party
dresses. Most of the men had turned
stubborn on the subject Of pink coats,
but Captain Stokes-Beatty wore his
handsomely. The fox-a worried and
somewhat dejected-looking animal
had been shipped in a crate from the
Sourn and on being released had way
of sitting socially in an Illinois corn
field instead of leaping t1eetly to cover
AT the finish you had a feeling of
guilt, as though you had killed a cock
roach.
Dirk had told Selma about it, feeling
rather magnificent A fox hunt.
"a fox hunt! What for?"
For! Why, what's any fox hunt
forY'
Il can't imagine. They used to be
for the purpose of Kidding a fox-in-
tested country of a nuisance. Have
the foxes been bothering 'em out in
Lake Forest?"
snow, mother, don't be funny" He
told her about the breakfast.
"Well, but it's so silly, Dirk. It's
smart to copy from another country
the things that that country does bet
ter than we do. England does gar
dens and woodfires and dogs and
tweeds and walking shoes and pipes
and leisure better than we do. But
those luke-warm steamy breakfasts OF
theirs It's because they haven't gas,
most of them. No Kansas or Ne
braska farmers wife would stand for
one of their kitchens-not for a minute
And the hired man would balk at such
bacon" She giggled.
ooh, well, if you're going to talk
like that"
But Dallas O'Mara felt much the
same about these things. Dallas, it APP
peared had been something of fad
with the North Shore society crowG
after she had painted Mrs Robinson
Gilmans portrait She had been in
vited to dinners and luncheons and
Dances but their doings, she told Dirk,
had bored her.
They're nice,'' she said, ''but they
don't have much fun. They're all try
Ing to be something they're not. And
that's such hard work. The women
were always explaining that they lived
in Chicago because their husbands
business was here. They all do things
pretty well-dance or paint or ride or
write or sing-but not well enough
They're professional amateurs, trying
to express something they don't feel;
or that they don't feel strongly enough
| to make it worth while expressing"
She admitted, though, that they did
appreciate the things that other people
| did well. Visiting and acknowledged
writer's, painters, lecturers, heroes,
] they entertained lavishly and hosplt-
| ably in their Florentine or English or
Spanish or French palaces on the North
side of Chicago, ILL., Especially for
eign notables of this description.
Since 1918 these had descended
upon Chicago (and all America) like
a plague Of locusts, starting usually
in New York and sweeping westward,
devouring the pleasant verdure of
greenbacks and chirping as they came.
Returning to Europe, bursting with
profits and spleen, they thriftily wrote
of what they had seen and the result
was more clever than amiable; bear
ing, too, the faint of bad taste.
] (TO BE CONTINUED)