Show 0 0 D 4 Q 0 i 5 i ii i f 1 f x 1 s l lY Y Z 1 r n Y I HoWoo i r DO f 1 J 1 I i o Cs BY ARTHUR BOWEN SIpE SI DE from a r fear men so soA wonderfully COI constituted ISU t that they may be classed clashed A k as sul suI generis It Is probable probable able no one who Is IsI l I in hl proper possession or of I mental faculties has failed some time or I other to wish vIsh that he here I were re a millionaire When a man haan feels the rustling of unpaid gus gas grocers and rent bills in his pockets and knows that his pis im immediate immediate mediate are Q while at any mo a c drop on I a demand for immediate repay repa of ofa II a 5 loan the thought of being a millionaire mil millionaire Is one that pleases and man mann many n man has taken desperate chances of losIng hIs job such as it was vas by gazing abstractedly Into the all air within full view of his Indignant employer while he portra portrayed ed to hImself the par paradise paradise adise of sloth that would be his were he only rich beyond the dreams of even hIs avarIce Yet in reality the millionaire Is tied to the heel of work like all the resto rest or o us Starvation and ejectment from his flat may not face him If he stops ork but he faces a loss or a shrink shrinkage shrinkage age of his millions and no millionaire worthy orthy of the name can bear benr to con contemplate contemplate template a shrInkage of his two or three millions any more than MY Jones shipping clerk can bear to consider a r rt of Ills his 20 0 a week salary to 15 Of course there are exceptions There are millionaires pro tern who by in inheritance or other luckY s ilces sprout forth In a night and stand full blown next mornIng in the Millionaire Garden beautiful as roses They are the kind to whom sudden leisure and v come as such marvels that nothing except complete Idleness will assuage theIr thirst thirsty souls forthwIth they throw theIr busIness affaIrs trust trustfully ull into the hands of others and hire men to dress wash feed and nd t then I Few vi Genuine Idlers Alas Men len who can take good care ot of millions ate aie not only scarce but smart and there Is alwa always s the chance that the they wIll decide that they the can take better care of the millions by making them their own Thus the career of the true idler who really and conscientiously does nothing nothing at all is almost sure to be brief Its duration Is det determined purely pUrel b by the n number or of mIllIons that need be converted from his possessIon into that of more Industrious if not better men Even Ir if the money lasted th the aver average age Idler would have to cut his career as an aft Idler short In sheer after atter a few years ears at most for in the not utterly unwIse design or of the world it was arranged that IdlIng makes a aman aman man ten times as tired as twenty times the same amount ot of work There are some few folk who appear Q to be able to idle indefinitely without I p iii HI effects but the they are vegetables and as If a they were tramps There really are not many American millionaire idlers the true type Is as asIre l Ire re as the American bison Some Sometimes Sometimes times you muy thInk that you haw have found a perfect specimen but hard hardly I Ido do you study hIm closely before you find that he has some highly Important Important on occupation fad or delusion that keeps him as busy and even een worried as if he were tryIng t tu earn 10 n a week b by the sweat or of his brow bro w When a genuine absolutely pure specimen Is found he can always b be spotted b by his melancholy far faraway aa away appearance compellingly like that of the unhappy adjutant bird His bearing is essentially th that t of the men vho have u a blighted future tying ing be hind them Not Much f un in It Poor tiring thing he much fun in life His exclusive cIrcle Is so small compa compared d with the large and interest interesting ing though undignified affairs of our ruder world hIs clubs are so majestic und and pervaded craded wIth the qUiet of a good asylum his frIends are ure so Intensely his valet Is so like a traIned nurse his hism m money ney can buy him only so much more fun that he Is almost to be congratulated when at last the remorseless process or of separating him from the money has been finished The wrIter once knew a rea real million millionaIre millionaire aIre Idler He was a Smith and through several generations before he graced the world a lot of other Smiths had enjoyed l themselves immensely making much mone money Then the they died and left Jott it to hIm although he had i never done anythIng to harm them themIe He Ie rose to the occasion and became a genius at idling At ten In the morning he yawned hIs wa way Into ess Iy fly a quarter quarter ter past he usually had mastered enough energy to reach out and push the ivory button to summon his hisman hisman man During the process of dressIng he absorbed the news of the day In min minute minute I ute doses Hr I saw Mr yesterday sir the valet would ente Yes sir f He had on a sack suit with four but tons sir that was quite a delicious color yes Jes sIr My soul you OU dont tell nw ate James was the Interested responSe of Billion Billionaire alre aire SmIth Yes sir And Mr 11 s man tells me that they are going to have huv a anew anew new auto sIr Violet VIolot bod body thirty horse and guaranteed to go faster than yours sir Air Yes sir My 1 soul you OU dont tell me Jams James Yes s sir And the Would like to know when he shall call callon callon t on you sIt sir My soul so l you oJ dorta t tell me Jame Yawning His F is Way Out AL tt ll with exquisite ife yawned his r wa forth into the avenue and f trolled strolled sadly along owing bowing stonily to his acquaintances until he reached the particular one of his liis half dozen clubs which he had selected as as the goal after consideration A liveried servant emerged from the Ule dusk of the corridor and helped hIm out of hIs overcoat Then he walked Into the cafe and said Good lug In l to the few fellow members who responded with equally sepulchral voices s He san sank Ie Into a adeep deep arm and gazed in dignity at a newspaper for a few moments Then he gazed out or of the windows and seeing nothing there at that hour of the tho day except common humanity very cry bus busy he turned with ith a heavy sigh and said to the con company pany gener generall generally ally all My I soul but its dull in town this year After a minute or 01 so during which the others pondered the remark one more energetic than the ret rest replied Just the very thing I was going to say when you OU came in Yes replied Mr 11 Smith with gratification what wIll you ou have At 2 he arose from his luncheon and strolled slowly back to his apartments where his valet was waIting to dress him in the frock coat that Is demanded of the man who would walk the avenue in the after afternoon afternoon noon In proper garb garbIt It took almost an hour for Mr Ir Smith to g get t dressed but it was time wen well spent for durIng its passage he learn learned ml ed from his useful valet that Mrs Mrss Irs s Pomeranian had fallen iI ill suddenly and that it wa ova ft was distemper engagement to Counts Count had broken and that the haberdasher had hada a new style in embroidered silk hosiery to show him A Roaring Life My b soul loul you dont tell me James said Mr Smith and walked abroad a again ain fresh and pr pretty ty V as u p picture ct r j to Show himself f I ra hl e o on tJ avene dIve deep i io he d of speaking e earn ly about the weather with spaniel ladies and say Ah how do do to handsome men like himself After a while Mr 11 Smith strolled into a side street where amId a soft thrill of conversation and rustling dresses tall beauties were pouring tea and sayIng So glad as they touched fi finger ger tips while the they looked over oer ones shoulder toward the next arrival Then a hansom took up Mr Smith for the next stop of his bis roaring life as asa asa a mIllIonaIre He was whirled through the park where he indulged in the frantic dissipation of bowing to more ladies wIth more dogs perched In puffy insolence beside them Then it was home and bath and from the bath after an hour or so spent lounging upon a di divan an in it a bathrobe with a high highball highball ball as company the fevered of the idle millionaire took Mr Ir Smith Into the full black and white glory of evening dress S The Millionaire Dinner Draped in Inverness and correctly crowned with a crush hat lie he went out outto outto to a solemn dinner where a pretty girl opposite tried vainly to ralI rally hi his gloomy gloom spirits Gloomily he ate hit his way through h the dinner Now and then lie he con contented to crack a few jokes which were received wIth gloomy gloom laughter Then the party went to a problem play that most or of them enjoy but to which the they went as a matter of dut duty because It was well known that th play would be the leading subject or of conversation during the coming week At t the supper party afterward Mr 11 SmIth and his friends came nearer to having real fun than had been his lot durIng any other part of the day la The ladies were clever and handsome the supper was good and Mr 11 Smith Sinith be became became came almost ga gay gayAt At in the mornin morning he dropped into a club for a nightcap and 2 found him in bed having havin completed com completed his hard bard days work with pet per perfect feet success Sometimes he varied his days roU roUtine routine tine by spinning through the suburbs i In his auto car now and then he rode to hounds a bit once or twice during the season he made up a coaChing par party party ty occasionally he even gave little en entertainments entertainments In iii his apartments But the enterprise demanded too much thought and he evaded it as much as possible Now low and then he Indulged In the wilder pleasures of Im the kind that ma may be enjo enjoyed ed by quite common per persons persons sons who are wIlling to take their chan chances es bf f a headache next morning But he really could not enjoy tho those e things as mu much h as the general genera world for his mIllions t help him a bit bitIn bitin In getting drunk an any differently from others or enjoying it more and they did serve to get his name into the papers on an occasion that made mado hIm shudder e ever er after Thus this quiet Smith passed three years as n a perfectly successful Idler then one da day he was warned that his hisman man of affaIrs was a scamp Poor Smith had Inherited the money of his hig Smith ancestors but not their quIckness at figures After Arter a few days spent downtown durIng which time I 1 the noise and dirt got on his nerves to IJ appalling ett extent nt he wm was po M mud muddied died ed that he tell as much about his affairs as he had known when he started Experts and In law yens ors were called in and they relieved him of the greater part of his his worry b by taking away of IL He Has Fun at Last SmIth is out of society now He does not promenade the avenue any anymore anymore more for his was so small when whon his reScuers got through wIth It that ire e has to do n a Ht little work to e around Helsin de is in 1 Ship hIp Itt Ut a small way with a br i and though he dp do tit tie fU T rave e or of life hIs posItion and anel is at the ahead of everybody else every day ss L Ll l r 1 1 fir lr r a ar I r s J I P b t s A DEVOTED SPORTSMAN 11 My soul he s staid id to the writ writer thE thEother theother other d day rn Im having vinS fun now and that more ever had then Tte te t typical millionaires w whose dames jnames come at duce nce to all ull who vho think of idle men of wealth are arc not call early idlers at all Some of them cannot even be classed as men of leisure Though they are not men who make the Investing and reinvesting of their wealth a business as the V and Goulds do they are arf k kept pt bus busy I I enough watching their capital Such i families as the and the I Astor Astor have enough real estate prop property property erty on their h dB in the city of o New York to a 8 bIg village and though they are able to and do pa pay great salarIes to clever managers there are hundreds of things In the management or of real estate that demand de demand mand the personal attention of the owners Titles and mortgages cannot I pass without the signature of the prin t I I J lit The constant accum accumulation ot of In Income income come requires a constant investment and nd It i is natural th that t the owners of the money should have sa says about it Now a man to Invest money safely in New York without knowIng a great deal about tits the financial conditions Ever Every year os as the income increases the owner finds his nose a a little nearer the grindstone 1 He cant escape If he were to t tto try to spend the increase Instead or of In InVesting Vesting It he would find itan equall hard job He could doubt but there are not many men who really find amusement In throw throwing throwing ing money away Spending Is Hard Work I Spending it in charity charit building mu museums or churches sendIng out expeditions ex expeditions I buIlding libraries buying I works of art all demand hard work works A s man cant simply say sey to an architect archi architect Go ahead and build me so or to a city r I will wUl give ghe such a thing The city wants to know a whole lot about it and have havea a whole lot of assurances Buildings which are to stand as monuments to the donor naturally demand a great deal of his personal attention unless he is willing to take the chances that thata a structure w will ill arise that will make him ridiculous So the millionaire man or of leisure ma may be found in hl lilt real estat estate or I other offices at certain regular times as surely as It if he were Mr 11 Jones book keeper who must to there to earn his hissa sa salary 1 Ii or he ma may spend weeks and months poring over architects plans or other technical problems I The mere work of taking even cven gen i HIS C GIVES HIM MUCH THOUGHT 1 oral era intelligent care or of millions would I Ibe be quite hard enough for most per persons persons sons but the majority or of the well known men of leisure have plenty of other concerns to keep them going going heed hard Thus C Oliver IselIn not only pays personal care to his beautiful estate but he has developed his talent for Cor yachting to such a degree that It has R an exacting vocation for him and makes more demands on his time brain and bod body than does the dall daily work of the average man The man manon on whom has rested nearly the whole hole responsibility for keeping the Amer Americas Americas cup on this side of oC the water as it has reSted on him for years ears Is hav havIng having Ing a strenuous time of it Levi Lei P Morton unto recently man managed aged hIs great geat hous farm and the rest ot of the line fine estate on the Hud Hudson son personally and was up and out early and late Some years ago he hesp sp spent nt as much time and energy as s sany any professional proCessional breeder in developing the breeds or of Jerse Jersey cattle H McKay Ich y Twombly is another nother farmer on a huge scale and b by dint of sheer hard dally daily thought and work haS hag made hIs name much better known knon as a breeder or of draught and carriage horses than it was before as that of a aman aman man who married into the Vanderbilt family Archie Watt learned so much about nautical matters shipbuilding and nd marine engineering that he not only designed his own great steam yacht but planned her engines and is isable isable able to take her around th the world without a captain to help him if ie he chooses Elbridge T Gerry too is a million millionaire millionaire aire of leisure who has worked so hard over his pleasures that he is a trained aril and ablE sailor today as good gooda a navigator as most sea ea captains who command m merchant ve vessels ela These 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