Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-08-21 | Page 4 | Such Toadies Are Americans!

make any publisher rich eoeld he have had it and been, paid for it at half rate. ; Wt saw ia a book written by jf spiritualist the other day how she was awakened one night at hearing a well known voice saying. "Is this all!" And there was further assertion that at the moment she heard this voice asking her the question, reckoning the latitude and longitude and the flight of the hours, the very noment shr. heard that voice ask that question, waa the moment when the possessor of that voice died in an isi nd 4000 miles away." It was a pretty hard yarn to swallow, but when after a while Mr. Astor and his bride-to-be are married, and we look back on all the fufw that has been made over it. will we not nil be inclined to cry out, "Is,this allt" An old author, wrote once: What'thadow w ar; what ahadowa we purane! And looking this matter aH over, we could paraphrase para-phrase that line and make it read Wbst toadies w are: what rich man ia ant pursued! SUCH TOADIES AKE AMERICANS! ' , Whst toadies the American people are to wealth after all! If sn ordinary man finds a beautiful girl, who, for fear she will die an old maid if the docs not, eonsente) to look across the breakfast table at ' him every morning until it gets too tame and then ' gets divorce, there is no special note made of it in ' the newspapers. But about a month ago it began to be told that one of the Astor family waa to marry - , a very lovely little lady, and since then we have had every morning aome marvelous feature of the approaching wedding". Yesterday the trous-seau trous-seau waa to be limited to a thousand dollars ; today we are informed. that probably the. marriage will take place on the rich man's yacht to avoid publicity pub-licity and snapshots from the fiends; probably tomorrow to-morrow we shall hear that the mother-in-law that is to be, is disgruntled and has-informed her dsughter thst if her intended csnnot afford to give her a tPOMsaeau as good as the Vanderbilta or th Mor- . gsns or the Stuyvesants or the Van Rensselaer or some other old Dutch house, then the wedding does ' not go. Last winter for several days it wu thought that this same Mr. Astor wss lost at sea. The government gov-ernment sent out ships to (ind the possible rem- .. nsnts of the yscht ; the wire lea wore itself out in trying. to locste bim; the whole nation was in anxiety anx-iety until it was found that all the time, while the , hurricane waa raging, Mr. Astor and hie yacht had been secure in a little port in one of the West Indies, In-dies, that he was sf personally, and that bis yacht bad not lost a sail or a streamer. W are not certain that it would not have been better for all concerned, except,- of course the bride .that is to be, if be reslly had goat down. It Vould have aaved'to much telegraphing, so much speculation, so many comments, and free advertising enough to