Those who could
afford such luxuries pretended to look upon these things as
indispensable, and those who couldn't regarded them with simple pride,
and lived in the glamour of their reflected glory, and told each other
how such things should be administered.
Such developments, however, were for the future. The race-track
existed, and, amongst its many other delights, it supplied the cranks
with a text for frequent sermons.
It was set in a luxurious woodland dip, well beyond the town limits,
and occupied a small flat of rich grass through which a mountain creek
wound its ridiculously tortuous course. Thus it was provided with the
natural resources demanded by a steeplechase course as well as the
"flat."
It was a toy which the wealth of the neighborhood had been poured out
upon with no niggard hand, till it found itself possessed of a
miniature grand stand, a paddock and loose boxes, for the use of many a
pony whose normal days were spent roaming wild upon the plains. Then
there was the Polo Club House and ground, where many of the city's
social functions were held.
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