Part 7 (1/2)

It was the A a hu for personal worth Then I sailed for home I went to Newport, to the Atlantic coast resorts They were all the saed but not ance, more carelessness, more reckless ing up in the neorld, the narrow social standards which war had torn frohtened Men who had been overwhelly welco to bank accounts or ”fahboy shavetail”, a hero before the are until Novee suit and went back to selling insurance or keeping books, beca acquaintance, soht often of those splendid irls who poured tea for the King of the Belgians

I wondered if any one back ho” to them

Everywhere was the blatant show of neealth

New litters I saw it in cars with alus, erht

Bad breeding plus new money shouted from every street corner At private dinners, I ate foods that I kneere served lutton feasts with twice as much as any one could eat with comfort

One day I went to one--and I sao to buy any but porterhouse steaks--merely because porterhouse steak stood for prosperity

In Washi+ngton Iup suddenly like an evil toadstool It is a fungous disease that spreads

Soles fros, all of it is snobbish and offensive It wears foreign clothes and affects foreign ways, son accents It chops and uage badly

So schools or fron secretaries and servants These new A all things Alish chintzes in their homes, French brocades and Italian silks and do not even know that some of these very textiles from America have won prizes in Europe since 1912 An Alish style print” to sell it in this country

This new species of Aoes in for crests Ittobacco, but it hires a genealogist to dig up a shi+eld Fine, if you are entitled to a crest

But fake genealogists will cook up a coat for the price

There are crests on the motor-cars, crests on the stationery, on the silver, the toilet articles--there are sometimes even crests on the servants' buttons and on linen and underclothes!

Fake crests are the first step down, and like all lies they lead to other lies The next step is ancestors

Selling and painting ancestors is another business which thrives around New York, Philadelphia, and Washi+ngton And the public ss it

They s each other's ancestors Even old families take these new descendants as a ave a large feast in Washi+ngton with every out-of-season delicacy in profusion The only siht it was a tangled skein

I saw she orried Her house was full of potentates, the wives of two cabinet officers, and Mrs Coolidge She left the room twice after the dinner hour had arrived, and it was late when dinner was finally announced