The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-05

ride In his place.
His admonitions were cheer
full but exact - which pony to
play in each period what
moves to make when Parker got
on the ball with his fast mounts
- what precautions to ia k e
against the same Parker's in
herent weakness in the matter
of fouling.
Then girths were brought up
tight. The men began climbing
into their saddles. And Henry
Prentiss walked with Cynthia
Merriwether over the soft grass
to her box in the clubhouse en-
closure.
When they were in their seats,
they were surrounded by per-
haps a hundred other spectators,
who nodded at them, or waved
and called greetings. The play
ers rode out upon the field. Cap
tain Pugh took his place in front
of them as they lined up. He
blew his whistle, and bowled
the ball fairly among the legs
of the horses.
Mrs. Porter West, who sat
some distance behind and above
Cynthia and Prentiss. gave no
very sharp attention to the open
ing moments of the play. It was
true that her Fred was out on
the turf and the horses were
laundering off in their first long
run. But he could take care OF
himself, and probably would
win. He had the habit of win
ming - in all concerns saving
those pertaining to Cynthia Mer-
riwether.
She stared at Cynthia and
Prentiss, her face without ex-
preston, but her eyes were
drawn slightly together, and the
poisons of Illustration and re-
sentiment and anger brew d
within her heart. 1t looked like
match. That was that. But this
meant that her own thoughtfully
contrived plans were to be ig.
nored. cast whimsically aside
and the family of West pro-
foundly injured thereby.
Mrs. Porter West was, as the
saying goes, of the old school
the old Long Island sc h 90
which had carefully forgot that
the family fortunes got their
primordial start in paper bag:
or imitation velvet forgot
such uncouth affairs amid the
sweet smells of the stable, the
gentle languor of the beach. Ir
that neatly ordered school, such
trifling though necessary inter
ludes as romance were guided
by rules that were splendid ir
their simplicity.
Neither passions Of the Crane
order, the perpetuation of blue
blood, nor the sustenance of SO
cial prestige were the desidera
ia. The young we're supposed
to fall in love where it would d.
the most good. In such forthrigh
fashion, those sinews which tool
their first nourishment from pa
per bags or imitation velNe
were nurtured and renewed.
If Beacham family fell upoI
troubled times, for example, j
was the decent and proper thinl
for a Crandall family (current
ly able to increase its string O
Irish Hunters and even pay it
tailors' bills) to send. forth ,
youth or a maiden. as the case
might be, and by the perfectly
ordinary process of matrimony
bring the situation into a seem
ly balance. When, betimes, thu
arrangement grew sour in thu
souls of the youthful individual
involved, there was always Re
no, and~a reshuffling of the mar
ital cards easily to be effected.
The youths and the maiden
had a deplorable word for thi
state of things. The word was
Icky. But it was difficult TO
them to be too selfish or stub
born when roast prime ribs TO
the family and No. l crushed
oats for the managers were a
stake.
Not to put too fine poin
upon it, Mrs. Porter West hat
reached the considered conclu
sion that Cynthia Merriwethe
was a suitable wife for Fred
erick Halliburton West, no
merely Yale '37, but captain o
Yale's polo team and by NJ
means neglected in the photo
graphic art of either sporting
page or rotogravure reports o
hunt balls and kindred fetes.
That her son, Fred, had turn
ed out TO be really an anus
ing. and friendly, and unpre
tentious sort of young man dit
not enter into her calculation
at all. Those calculations, on TIT
contrary, were based in sound
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