THE IDLE RICH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 52, 16 October 1911, Page 3

THE IDLE RICH.

DIAMONDS FOR DOGS

Tho “idle rich” of Chicago (says the New York correspondent of the “Daily Mail”) have been made the' subject of a diatribe in the United States House of Representative by Mr H. Robert Fowler, an Illinois member of Congress. Amidst the boisterous laughter of his fellow members, Mr Fowler invited the House to consider tho'decadent condition of Chicago, the “home of the Steel Trust, Pullman Car Company, Lumber Trust, and other grinding monopolies, as well as; of the idle rich.” Mr Fowler proceed,cd to edify the House with a vivid description of a birthday party he had recently attended in South Chicago. Ho declared that of all tiie idle rich there present, not one of them had a hahy to show, hut “each of them, however, had a dog. The birthday party was, in fact, given to a dog, and the dogs of tho idle rich had all ' been invited. They had been trained to walk on their hind legs, and were dressed like men and women. I iie dog whose hirl Inlay was being celebrated wore a long train, and a big wiiite duck, taught to act as page, held the train. A procession was formed in pairs in mimicry of men and women, hut someone disgusted at the spectacle threw a handful of maize before the duck, which immediately dropped . the train and disarranged the whole of the programme. In the confusion one of the dogs tripped and hist a LIO,OOO anklet, which oceanic mixed with the maize which the cluck was eating. Another dog, forgetting his hobble-skirt, fell sprawling, while 'the duck Hew away with the diamond anklet to a quiet restingplace in Lake Calumet.”