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Show Too Ambitious. "Alfred Vanderbilt, in a whit8 coaching coat and a white top hat, with his colors in red and white carnations car-nations in his buttonhole, drove me down to Brighton one fine June day," laid a Chicagoan. "Mr. Vanderbilt talked on the ride about horses. He is a shrewd and witty young man. Apropos of the way, In horse breeding, you must sacrifice sac-rifice speed to strength or strength .to speed, he told me a little story. "He said we could never eat our cake and have it. We could never arrange things as the little girl in Sunday school desired. " 'Minnie,' said this little girl's teacher, 'which would you rather be, beautiful or good?' "'I think,' she said, 'I'd rather be beautiful and repent.' " |