Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — Wanted to know the figure [ARTICLE]

Wanted to know the figure

Fortune Hunter’s Mother Was Not Dealing in Uncertainties, if She Could Help It.

Miss Jeannette Gilder, The brilliant critic, toyed with a pink and gold mustache cup at the mustache cup tea concluding the Bad Taste exhibition in New York. “The mustache cup,” said Miss Gilder, “holds its own even better than the hand-painted cuspidor. But, after all, there is spiritual as well as material bad taste, and a spiritual bad taste exhibition is now in order. “In the forefront of it I’d put the fortune hunter. Not all our fortune hunters come from across the water, f -tteard of one the otber day who belongs to the oldest family in America. “Blit his family Is very poor, and •so he and hir mother have decided ’.hat he must -marry for money. They were discussing recently, the pair of them, a western girl. “ ‘Her fortune is large but vague/ said the mother. ‘Besides, she is gauche. Her feet are broad and flat. She has a gold front tooth: Her French is execrable. She —’ " ‘Oh, I could make something .out of her,’ the young fortune hunter asserted confidently. A ' ‘"Yes, but how much —that’s the question,’ said his mother.”