The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1907, Page 13

. The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Monday, March I1, 1907. Do You Ghink You Could Sanely Spend One Million Dollars Inside of a Near? > ; Peter Brewster was the talk of the town, and not one of the sixty Inylted) would have charged to “loss” he fotted down on the “profit” side, and ho| taken cruising on thelr yachts, They have always been bully to me, and f: x vi y ing fe tunities to swell the total. what have I ever done for the Nothing. Now that I can afford: it I am By Geo. B. McCutcheon. gueafs ‘could have’ teen persuaded to. miss It, Reports_as-(o_1t¢/magnif-| %88 continually 1001 ng for opr a ties to ane ee eee on oT eee ee nar: “Doesn't it sound cence were abroad long before the night set for the dinner. One of them!) .ngeq in New York, came over to the grandson's establishment, greatly to] reasonable?” +had-it that it was to cost $3,000 a plate. From that figure the legendary | the wrath and confusion of the latter's Aunt Emmoline. The chef caine And 50 preparations for Monty’s dinner went on. In addition to what trom ais | price receded to a mark as low as $500. Montgomery would haye been | from Paris and his name was Detult. Elits, the footman, also found 8/he called bin “efficient corps of gentlemanly aids” fe had pecured tho ver- Marbara - 33 veyed | much better berth with Monty than he had had in the house on the avenue. | vices of Mrs. Dan DeMille as. “social mentor and ptility chapeton.” Mrs, only too glad to pay $3,000 or more, but some mysterious force conveyed [Eat Emmeline, never forgave her nephew for these base and disturbing | DeMille was known in the papera as the leader of the fast younger mar. fo his mind a perfect portrait of Swearengen Jones in the act of putting) pets of treachery, as she called them, i t red set. She was one of the cleverest and best-looking young women {i down a-large black mark against him, and he forbore. One of Meaty’s most extraordinary financial feats ‘grew out of the pur-) town, and her husband was of those who did shot have to be “invited. to “I wish I knew whether I had to ablde by the New York or the Mon-| chase of x $14,000 automobile. He blandly admitted to lopper” Harrison Mr. DeMille lived at the club ané visited his home. Some one satd that he ; and the two secretaries that he intended to use !t to prac! with only, and | was no slow and his wife so fast that when she invited him to dinner he ¢ (Copyright, 1903, 14, by Herbert 8. Stone & Co.) Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Hrewater, a yourm New York bank tnt ni ntgenclon 2. meal makes. bie Hasiong ainired ite Goanda with nl’ Macgareh have. been like erouher an taser tu ethe enjoyment nt hia just died, Jeaving hin $7,000,008 ei Hise chat bres Qevutterly pennilexs. $1,000,000 Jeft him by hte in pUfled that hie uncle d to thie bequest are $0 Gly [uncle’n executor, notifier inn that Ute tana standard of extravagance,” Brewster sald to himself, “I wonder if he| {vat ay soon as he learned how’ to rin an “auto” as it should bo run he ex-!was usually two or three days late. Altogether Mra, DeMille wus a de- Browetar, at once, begins bls (al of SAUbnGeTIO S ever sees the New York papers.” pected-to.buy-a-good, sensible, durable machine for $7,000: cided acquisition to Brewster's campaign. cornilttes, —1t- required Just-her—+ % z Late each night the Inst of the grand old Brewster family went to his His staff officers frequently put. thelr heads togethor to devise wayas| touch to make his purties fun instead of funny. % : R VI, bedroom where, after dismissing his man, he settled down at his desk,|and means of curbing Monty's reckless extravagance.’ They wers worried, It was on Oct. 18 that the dinner was given. With the skill of a gen- | q CHAPTE . i with a pencil and a pad of paper. Lighting the candles, which were more | ‘He's like o saflor {n port.’ protested Harrison, '*Money. Is no object | eral Mrs. Dan had seated the guests in such-a_way that from the beginnins— erat eu a AG ~~ | easly managed, be found, than iamps, and much moro costly, he thought-|{f he wants « tbing, and—damn 1t—ho seems to want everything he sees.” | things wént off with zest. Col. Drew took in Mra. Valentine and his con+ é Monty Cristo. fully and religiously calculated his expenses for the day. opper"’ Harri- “It won't last long,” Gardner sald, reassuringly. “Like his namesake,|tent was assured; Mr. Van Winkle and the beautiful Miss Valentine wero > In wtrict | £02 224 Elon.Gardner had the recelpts-for_all-monoys spent,and-Joe-Brag-| Monte-Uristo, the world {a his juat-now-and-he wants to enjoy It side by: aide and no one coiild say he jooked unhappy; Mr. Cromwell went FORTNIGHT later Montgomery Brewster bad a new home. In pi don was keeping an official report, but the “chief,” as they called tim, “He wants to get rid of t,t seems to me. in with Mrs. Savage; and the same delicate tact—in some cases {t wns al- Hience to his chief's command, “Nopper” Harrison had leased un-| could not go to sleep until he was satisfied in his own mind that ho was Whenever they reproathed Brewster about the matter he disarmed | most Indelicate—was displayed in ‘the Gisposition of other gaesta one Mow! ne of the most expensive apartments to} keeping up the avernge. Mor the first two weeks !t had been,easy—in fact,| them by saying, “Now that I've got money 1 mean to give my friends w Somehow they had come with the expectation of being bored. Curfos- til the September following o1 he seemed to have quite a comfortable lead in the race. He had spent al-|good time. Just what you'd do If you were in my place. ,What's moucy | {ty prompted them to accept, but 1t did not prevent the subsequent inevi- - be found in New York City, ‘The rental was $23,000, and the shrewd Snan-| 71111 "s109 o09 in the fortnight, but ho realized that the greater part of it| foc anyway? eee table Idssitude, Socially Monty Brewater had yet to make himself felt. Ho. resentative had saved. $1,000 for his employer by paying the sum {n|naq gone Into the yearly ‘and not the. daily expense account. He-kept_a ut this-$3,000-a-plate. dintier”—— > and his dinners were something to talk-about, but they were accepted: heal cater. he reported this bit of economy to Mr, Brewster he| “profit and loss” entry in his little private ledger, but 1t was not. like any “I'm going to give a dozen of them, and even then I can't pay my Just|tatingly, haltingly. People wondered how he had secured the co-operation But when he repo “I never saw a man who had| other account of the kind in the world. What the ordinary merchant debts. For years I've been entertained at people's houses and have been] of Mrs. Dan, but then Mrs. Dan always did go in for a new toy. To her : was loovitably-attributed whatever success the dinner—achteved; Ant—it 4 was no small measure. Yet thore was nothing startling about the affair, Monty had decided to begin conservatively, He'did the conventional thing, By George MGManus ] but ve att i've, ‘tre added a touch or two of luxury, the salatest arene v. of splendor. Pettingill had designed the curiously wayward table, with. ‘ ; 5 * {ts comfortablo atmosphere of compantonship, and arranged its decotation sternation, was engaged to redecorate certain rooms aprons 8 spike : 3 SLL aca e aie neat tts fiy: Teatooun (or white coee touches iby the tenant. The rising young artist, in a great furry of ex-, ‘A ROOM , SAH, YES, SAH! z tt Falarealiceearo ee aieeabiire Me Mente neon is. Seen to do the work for $500, and.then blushed Ike a schoolgirl “WAT SOUTHEHN YOU IVE ME —— : Teoma the SrUats Coon hak LOO TS areas Ra Rae NST : EYPOSuAY . 4 CHECK TRESE \ It-waa the artist, too, who had found In @ rare and happy moment the mas- when he was informed by the practical Brewster that/the paints and ma. SAN! THE INGREDIENTS TOO, PLEASE sive xdld candclabra—anctent things of a more luxurious age—and thelr eae ht forth a frown. was surprised that it broug! orth Bi A Jess senso about money,” muttered “Nopper” to himself, | “Why, he spends Z re Chi millionaire trying to get into New ork society. If it] P E g e ° ; a, 4 | ore not for the vest of dy he'd be a pauper In ex month 6 Man FFOM LOUISVHIE is Paul Pettingill, to his own intense surprise and, it must bs said, con- H puch. | ANG TLL sax P lescent shad inst his ad hi 1 “rank terial for one room alone would cost twice as much. / THE JULE! AN BE CAHFUL, opalescent shades. Against his advice the service, too, was. of gold—“rank “ re ness than a goat,” criticised k vulgarity,” he called {t, with {ts rich, meaningless ornamentation. But Petty JOUR BAY SE NO Am Ore eis ae bl elaranea “That man | | “ here Monty was obdurate. Ho insisted that he liked ‘the color and. that’ Montgomery, and #gul lowered his head in bumble op = ‘ po G porcelain had nd character,’ Mrs. Dan: only prevented n ‘quarrel by sug-—+ who kalsomjnes your studio could figure on a piece of work with more : j é gesting that several courses should be served upon Sevres. 5 nabs intelligence than you reveal. I'll pay $2,600. It's only a fair price, and 1] ° i Pettingill's scheme far lighting the room was particularly happy, For the benefit of his walls and the four lovely Monets which Monty Had pur- } 4 » = chased at his instigation he had designed a celling screen of heavy rich “At this rate you won't be able to afford anything,” eald Pettingill. to glass in tones of white that grew into yellow and dull green. "It served to “himself. : = = = conceal the lights in the daytime, and at night the glare of electricity was ‘And so it was that Pettingill and a corps of decorators soon turned the : 3 5 immensely softened and made harmonious by passing through {t, It gave. “Yooms Into a confuslon of scaffoldings and palut buckets, out-of Which ti = = ‘@ hote of qulet to the pictures, which caused even these men and women, who had been here-and there and seen many things, to draw in their the end emerged something very distinguished. No one had ever thought breath sharply. Altogether the offect -mantfestly-made-an_tmpression,__— can't afford anything cheap In this place.” ~~ Pettingill deiicient In {deas, and this was bls opportunity. The oly draw- = cages A 5 az : ; Baek satenyirenment had {ts Influence Bpow the compen » It arene B q remorselessly fixed. Without s foward making the dinner a success. From far in the distance came the va SL, eat ee es aooinine peieaad in the way of ‘ softened strains of Hungarian music, and never had the little band played. , that he felt that he could have D the “Valso Amoureuse" and the ‘Valse Bleue” with the spirit it put_into decorative panels—something that would make even the glory of Puvis de 2 them that night. Yet the soft clamor in the dining-room insistently ig- Chavannes turn pallid. With it he was obliged to curb his turbulent ideas, moreds the emotion of the ae Monty, bored a beteles etd bate Nel zs i most important dowagers at the feast, wondered dimly what invisible and He decided that a ric sIupIIEIy was the proper nots, ‘The remult was = ee il iplayedninitiuakioes thicenleotintaa toot ee aaetente SDL CWItneUOHTe Gorgeous, but not too gorgeous—It had depth and distinction. ELEANOR HEN __ AHM <LAD TO 60 we Sethi New: F Uiere would have been no zest for talk, no noisy competiton to overcome, — Elated and eager, he assisted Brewster in selecting furniture and hang- pl SEE ONE PLACE g / CHUMP GIVIN no hurdles to leap. Ax it was, the talk certainly wont/vell, and Mrs. Dan ings for each room, but he did-not know that his employer was making ROBSON IN TOWN FIT For < A WOMAN A Inspected the result of her work from time to time with smiling satisfac- tion. .From across the table she heard Col. Drew's volce—‘Brewster. evi- condftione! purchases of everything. Mr. Brewster had agreements with dently objects to a long slege. He is planning to carry us by assault.” all the dealers to the effect that they were to buy everything back at a fair} > wd = K-} Mrs, Dan-turned-to-'Subway'-Smith, who was at-her right—the tatest~ rice, if he desired to give up his establishment within a year. He adhered = ‘ . addition to her menagerie. “What is this friend of yours?” she asked. "I b > - . to this ruie in all\cases that called for the purchase outright of substantial ‘y g => have never seen such a complex almpliclty.- This new plaything-has noy To 4, | + necessities. The bump af calculativeness {n Monty Brewster's head was 7 \ N y : etre er ene Weibrea eine ot eens tie is made of. Andy homing alone Boormall propor tone, “Oh, don't worry about him,” sald-“Subway” easily; * at least In retaining his rooms at Mrs. Gray's he gave the filmsy but pathetic iy af a hee my & good sportsman. He won't complain, whatever happens, He'll aecept’ tt he wanted a pl: in which he might find occasional season: ioe the reckoning and pay the piper.’ Sec eal aie = SE ils useless bit. epee r It was only toward the end of the evening that Monty founé. his reward || ina moment with Barbera Drew. He stood before. her, squaring his shoulders belligerently to keep away {nitruder: In that bewildering fashion of hers, But {t was only, for an Instant, and —_-trayagance his _grief_was so-obylously-genuine-that—her-heart-was-touched, and there was a deep, fervent joy in her soul. She loved this fair-faced = = ‘< = = ~ - = “ z = = then came a terrifying dtn trom the dining-room, followed by the clamor or boy, and-tears of happiness came to her-eyes when ate was Biven this He ; crashing gh The guests tried for a moment to be courteously oblivious, proot of his loyalty and devotion. His rooms were kept for him just as tf : — ae 6. B Cs but the noise was so startling. that such: polltenoss. berame farcical, The i he*had expected to occupy them every day and every night, notwithstand- host, with a ttle laugh, went down the hall. It was the beautiful screen ing.the luxurious apartments he was to maintain gleewhers._The- Oliver = 3 Hear the cefling that had fallen. “A thousand ploces of ‘shattered glass cov- Optic books-still‘lay in the attic, all tattered and torn, but to Margaret the ered the place. The table was a sickening heap of crushed orchids and ter! les, Frightened servants rushed into the room from Yi knew Monty well efough to feel that he would not forget the dark little at- YAS SAH! CINE ME A 5 After the first pulseless moment of horror, exclamations of dismay went up ‘ tic of old for all the\splendors that might come with the new dispensation: 00D KAINTUC KY. AHEL TEACH, ~ on all sides. For Monty Brewster the first sensation of regret was fol- There was no little surprise when he sent out invitations for s large UGH BRED YOU TO CALL lowed by a diabolical sense of Joy. “Thank the Lord!" he said softly In the hush. ee dinner, His grandfather had been dead less than a month, and society ——Fhetook-of_surprise ho encountered inthe taces-of_his- guests brought———_— BSOMeEWHET KcAKAATIZed Dy the plain symptoms of disrespect he was Wi him up with a Jerk. ! __showing. No one had expected him -to observe a prolonged season of 9 “That It didn't happen while we were dining,” he added with serene . «. ; mourning, (but that|ke should (disregard) the: formall lea /encapietaly: eras ih 4 ~ i WHY THIS than ktulnese: And his nonchalance scored for Als) Us) the idle game he. } rather shocking. Some of the older people, who’ had not long to live and } x H INSULT TOA : (To-Be Continued.) nS gro who had heirs-apparent, openly denounced his heartlessness. It was not ‘} : KOI TU Y: _—_—_—<oeo very gratifying to think of what might be in store for them !f all memories : were as whort a Brewster's. Old Mrs. Ketchell changed her will, and two nephews were-cnt-off-entirety;—2—rery—modest-am-tmpecuntous-grandson-of- Joseph Garrity alap was to sustain a severe change of fortune in the near -+-~ “future, If the-cards spoke correctly. Judge Van Woort, who was not ex- pected-to live through th® night, got better immediately after hearing same. che {a the sick-room whisper that Montgomery Brewster_was to give a big ~—dinner:--Neturalt: ~hetra-to-be~combemned-young Brewster hd ur certain terms. fs . . ” Science Discovers “Lip Fear. SLY on the condition that he should not be asked to make a apeech dla M. fardou-consent tobe banqueted {n_recoguition-of his _recelpt-of the Grand ~~ Crosa of the Legion of Honor, To mont men it is a terrible thing to have to rise und talk; frequentty thet doingsec te woreestill for their muditors, Teney= son always vowed that. he never would make the attempt and he kept his ‘vor. “nt you hreve made n-apecch new, romre-cone-mnidete hin et-e-gathertng- tt which he had been talking acrons the table. “But I did not get on my lega," he chuckled. Beated, any man_can talk; tt ls the change of poaltion which’ {s hfs |'® : Lundoing—Gladetone-declered—that—he—was_alwava neous whenhe. got Up taco apeak at the Guildhall Banquet. John Brights knees shook beneath him every ul @ addressed the House of Commons, and Mr. Chamberlain says that this day he never rigex-in-the House without-an acute ggnse-of-nervourness, fear” n'a malady which aclence hae discovered, bea tahjch It cannot cure, BETTY VINCENT’S ADVICE TO LOVERS. Saw Her apith Another,’ Tereee take-mv tom ball Saturday night do not appear Jealous. On the contrary, [oly licreaves the cliarm of an object: May- Manton’s ‘Daily Fashions rae : a 4 Mrs. Warren's Profession” but never ci round. Do. you. think, tt ~ 2 - jhe loves met ONNg, Tee [wee Antereated, — Hewitt soon tatit} are “onty thing for you to do If hin atc i y pe Dea: Betty: It does nat look as if he loved. you,|220Ut sometliing else. tentlona are objectionable Ia to refuse i Resumed Without Poli HILE on my vacation Iaat aummer | tie does not treat you with ordinary hia invitations and be out when he calls. UCH a elmple cons (oA I> got acquainted witha young jrourtesy or réapect: He owes you ani A Persistent Wooer: Pyied ffey aT eel anata AT S plouse aw thin oS ee Bo eo =a f “Indy with wtom I “fell deeply tn] *Poloxy. z iwarron Sheslln ite slong720-etc > one is always in 2 Interference, * Jove and-kopt siempeny utter her: | Talks About a Peach, "AM e lari of nineteen. A man of thir-| 10 Get Rid of Him, damend tor active 5 a SANA Paste eae hl | took her-to-all the amusements I-knew ere oe i eataareees eta trees boys. The supply’ !4 = eRe aaa erie less. ri; ate Data for Narre euros eww Ber wit: PSOE he past fev months T have OW should T act toward a young| never too big, and as 6 was no more or less right Oigna ‘bad company, ald % : : gentioma: forces over “Mra. Warren's Profession.” Saturday night's use patel. ae sarees ree ue I visite been in love with a young man|Although I felt honored by his choice I tleman who continually all garments ofthe ; 8 lence at the Man. cep up her company or le! 50 who belongs to a club that I do,|told him decisively-that {t was !mpos- his unwiehed-for company upon) sort are noted for the hattan Theatre seemed to take the play as a joke, It was forever laughing at ANXIOUS. Acheihasiledsme’eoehell that my|sible. Now, Ido value his friendship, |e? Having been seen together 95] and rapidity’ ‘i the wrong tHme. Most of the Ill-advised merriment came from the rear and} You may have jodged Ner too hastily, and he has ae) he{and yet he'persists in bothering me, giv,] 2ke™ my trenda-Bre-beginning:to think NIGHT HAVRTSd sv y-— Ubper parts of the house, Bernan Shaw would havo shuddered had he been | Give her a chance to explain, StfosUcnsiare returned ya Tmat weeks ne * an | that We are going to make a matoh, | with whic here. Hi a hea B : went to Troy and there met a yotng|!ng as his excuso that any man can win| and naturally that ts very embarraaa:| quire renewing, fresh there, He would have rushed out of doors @nd wept with the ticket mpeculators dd Indy that he siys Ix’ a “peach”: and/any woman, Can you suggest any way | ing for me, as I am only a young eit} Te ver who found themaelves walling at the curb for the victims who never came |e Never Came Around. continually talkn to me about her, Willfot making film understand that T value | S42, Prefer, & number’ ‘oc, entfeman |ones make an ovcr : Bheyiararesaiaaabutl wiser lot of men'et ta, “Thetr frantic, hysterical attempts | pear petty: you Kindly tell me how T can regain his/him only aq a friend without nurting his{pelng rude that hla company te not de: | model illustrated $9 0 unload were enoug! me! the snow on Sixth avenue, AM ® young girl twenty years old/jove, as I am almost heartbroken? feelings? As It (a I fear [tis tmpossibie | aiced? . HM. P. ff one of the The plight of these unhappy brigands told what little remains to be told of and have been keeping corfipany with SADIE, |to be-friends with him, as his Is one of sieitirey fie) pavitetlons) anid oexouk made oy toda per’ Mra; Warren's Protession,\\ 0 far as New, York 1s concerned. ‘They had scented ||’ «very, nice 'youngiman, He prom-| Listen amlably, to what he ecys and those, natures, with “whom redstence PO acat 7 Ame ites | anes ee 4 @ sensation Ike that of last season, when ecata for the original-and-only per- tm. cales, which ts dur- formance at the Garrick iWwera worth the prive of an -epern hat, ‘Thoy had able ag well as hand- looked for a grand rush only to find thelr eyesight defective, poor, mlsgulded nome, but it ls quite chapat sThelr despair was beautiful to see. It told the story. .The town, after A Few More Lemons at a Cent Apiece. & &2 By F. G Long appropriate: for linen more than a year's reflection, was too sensible to lose {ts head @ second: time, and chambray, for ven © Deputy Police Commiionee, detailed ax dramate ert for the fret : : Et a } ime in his otherwise honorable ‘career, watphed the performance with admin aa for flannel, able self-control and gave ft a “good notice," That 1s, he made the semi. [ES>THE EVENING FOBGE 3» / EVENING THubcE ai for every material ts official announcement that there would probably be no Interference by the police. Manager A. 11. Woods will probably find ‘Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,<| much more lucrative than ‘Mrs. Warren's Profession.” Perheps he was tm- _Pelled to offer thin ‘great moral lesson’ forthe: good. of the <qmmunity. -Per- hapa, But the revival of the play suggested mare sensation mongering, with here and there a desire to keen on the safe aide of public opinion, * If beauty js Its own excuyd,, ugliness, too, because Qt its very truth, might claim the same privilege. Hut Saturday night's audience put eo ugly a face on an ugly matter that It became quite intolerable, The fact that the house, or Yery large part of It at least; took the play my a mere exposition of-a bad-lot" and a rotten net, went to prove—ae was the case at the Gerrick—that Ghaw has falled to make his polnt clear. He might answer, of course, that the fault is {with the people who go to seo his play, But this argument mould not alter cir- cumstances, And for that matter, why argue tho case aguin at this late date?” ‘The only thing that calls for attention now is the acting—and that deserves but Uttle, Miss Mary Shaw, this time without the red dress and the broad grimaces that de her first performances inexcusably vulgar, played Mra. Warren with more Intelligence than she showed before, but with a self-consclous- hess that often robbed the character of reality, Misa! Catherine Countiss showed little, if any, intelligence as Vivie; Mr, John Findlay was again miscast as the Rev. Samuel Gardnor, thowph he shone by compartson; Mr. Walter Thormis was drritating as young Frank Gardner; Mr... 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