With all our might we belie this clause, though in the time of Ellisville it might have had some footing.

That day has long since passed.
The men of the Cottage Hotel continued big, brown, bespurred and behatted, yet it might have been observed that the tenantry of the Stone Hotel became gradually less sunburned and more immaculate.
Mustaches swept not so sunburned, blonde and wide, but became in the average darker and more trim.

At the door of the dining-room there were hat racks, and in time they held "hard hats." The stamping of the social die had begun its work.

Indeed, after a time there came to be in the great dining-room of the Stone Hotel little groups bounded by unseen but impassable lines.

The bankers and the loan agents sat at the head of the hall, and to them drifted naturally the ministers, ever in search of pillars.