| Show the new fable able of hoy ho v a family jumped out of class 0 into the king row once there waa was a side street tet consisting of papa and mamma and gordon and ethel the ostensible stroke oar of this domestic combination was a bradu ate of one of those towns in which the occidental hotel faces the depot and all trains are met by a popular drayman wearing a black sweater when he elbowed his way into the city years before his assets consist ed of a paper N valise ailse a few home laundered garments and a small volume tell ng how to win at cards in the refined home where here he obtained his liver and macaroni paved with cheese he met the daughter of the household ahn there was as a rush she would some times put on all of her kings rings and help wait on the table although her star specialty was to get the stool at the right elevation and then tear the vital organs out of pansy blossom and white wings the young shipping clerk used to fly to his kennel and gt himself all gussied up and then edge into tl e parlor and turn the music tor for aliss miss livingstone who looked to him I 1 ke le mary anderski anderson Ander soi and sounded like adelina patti when the blue envelope hit the twenty mark he saw thit that thi t it would be clear sailing so they beg n to hold hands and he bought a si ark dia mond which could be seen held hela at a certain angle they went vent to housekeeping in a R stingy flat with a bed that could ba stood on end during the daytime and made to resemble a book cae also a plaster of paris lion on the mantel about the time gordon was nias arst tethered on the pire rire escape the pro vider got a taste of soft collateral and began to wear gold bracelets on land I 1 his cigars ahn ethel was large enough to take into the park the graft craft had de 1 until the whole outfit moved to an apartment where all goods had 1 to be delivered in the rear near mother 61 ll 11 h kl F I 1 7 2 tear the vital organs out of pansy blossom bigan to ride in hacks racks which ft ere n not ot numbered so they went along tor for years rid ing on L trains calling up the jani tor ter to ask for more heat trying to find a good maid and experimenting experiment in with new cereals all of thesa these romantic adventures combining to ihrl 1 a what Is known as city lite life they were simply four scrambling units in the great ant four tiny tadpoles in the great sc 1 th t wiggled up and donn don the main thoroughfares it seemed th t the r only chance to male mal e an I 1 prea pre sion on the huge and callous C y vias to d e and then hold up a line of street cars while the fearse aid and tle tye tl e five carria carriages es moved slowly vly in the chec tion J of calvary but destiny had theia them spotted father was ery nery busy trying to run a shoe string up to a national Nati natili olal al bank ank he would rush into his oce and the desk and push buttons and send hurry up wires and dictate letters to ng myrtle with the small N alst and keep people waiting just like the whales who control the sugar trust he lie had bad a front like the ne v fenn penn syl sylvania vanla station and the soft personal attributes of a humid an lion when he was sued in the courts by a victim who wanted a final look at his money the reporters came around and he was so stiff necked and de fiant that all of them referred to him as the millionaire promoter it mas as easier to be this hind kind of a millionaire than stand for a search every office building Is coagulated with millionaires who never vall be caught until the tin box Is opened in the probate court then the widow will get ready to take boarders As soon as father was bawled d as a millionaire it was up to mother to lola join a new kind of club and have a handle put j on her eyeglasses eye Uye glasses sue slie would woula iraq tice in her room for hours at a tim line q gripping the rocking chair with bota oth hands and trying to get the real Doson ian sound of A as in lard her efforts were not in vain tor for one day when the club meeting broke up with the lady president throwing fits rits and a copper gl guarding arding the ballot eo do the principal insurgent was men in the public prints as a lar society matron and leader in the new movement among women they had to call her that or the story ot of her shooting the ink stand at the re cording secretary would not have been worth orth playing up on the first page it was as a proud morning for gordon and ethel when they saw all the pictures and learned that they were the immediate descendants of the millionaire promoter and the popular society matron gordon found himself endowed en dowed with a social asocial status which enabled him at the age of 23 to gain admission to an exclusive club of 3 members the object of which was to serve a 40 cent table d hote every noon to as many as were willing to take a chance therefore when he was yanked out of hia his 2 cylinder car and stood up before the magistrate charged with running over people and smearing up the boulevard the whole reading public was as thrilled to hear of what had happened to a well known club man whose father was a millionaire promoter and whose mother was a popular society matron B by this time ethel was merely a relative Reli relative tive bhe she had not come across in any particular As a matter of fact she was not palling emiling down any ribbons at beauty blows and toed in when she walked end and was beyond the reach of massage cream however she wag as not discouraged bho she eloped with a chauffeur employed in an 8 car garage and next day she was a beautiful heiress whose croth broth er was as a well known down man about town the mother being very prom I 1 beat meat in club work and remembered as the wife ot of the millionaire promo ter after all this came out father rather still bad ad between 3 and 4 and the whole family including the chaut beur eur eat sat down to prunes every morn las ing but they were very happy for the they y were recognized in almost every cafe find and their relatives in the east were bending tending christmas cards MORAL some achieve greatness bad end others have it rubbed in |
