The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-06-01

but not in giving a ball" The girl being
beauty, all the rest was easy enough. gave
her theater party after theatcr party, followed
by charming little suppers; ngked TO them the
jeupesse dorce OF the day, took her repeatedly
TO tho opera and snw that she was always there
surrounded BY admirers, necessarily talked of
her fascinatons, assured my young friends
that she was endowed with fortune equal to
the mines of Ophir, that she danced like
dream and possessed all the graces, n sunbeam
across ones path, then saw to IL that she had
prominent place in every cotilon and n ft-
ting partner, showed her whom to smile upon
and on whom TO frown, gave her the entrce to
all the nice houses, criticised severely her toilet
until II became perfect, daily met her on the
avenue with the most charming man in town,
who by one preteSt or another turned over
to her, made her the constant subject of con-
versation, insisted upon II that she was to be
the belle of the coming winter advised her
parents that she should have her first season
at Bar Harbor, where she could learn to flirt
to her hearts content and vie with tho other
girls. Her second summer, when she was
older, l suggested her passing at Newport
where she should have q pair Of ponies, a
pretty trap with well gotten up groom and
Worth TO dress her.
The method of dress used by this set
of people among the women is fashioned
for the express purpose Of exciting the
animal passions Of men, and it is decol-
lete to the limit of decency and far be-
yond the point Of discussion. The ex-
posure is 80 complete, SO vulgar, that it
passes the realm of sane discussion. And
yet so far is this custom established that
there are those who seem to treat the
matter as an event in life about which
there is no question. There is a tragedy
that could be written about one of these
girls that graduated under the tutorship
of McAllister Of the past who is now
one of the most daring adventuresses in
this city that would startle the world.
She was brought up in this atmosphere
She was sold TO a lecherous wretch. He
dragged her down to his own level and
revealed to her depths of infamy of which
she had never dreamed and then cast her
off for evil women more suited to his
taste. She went to the bottom with re-
markable rapidity and returned to the
scene of her childhood with all the proud
ancestral blood in her veins crying for
revenge on society, and she has had it in
the wrecking of hundreds of homes and
in the debauchery Of thousands of lives.
1t is no wonder that such results follow.
The only marvel is that such lives are
not oftener revealed to the public.
Third-The occupations Of this circle
of people are such that any statement
describing their position in the world Of
ethics could scarcely be overdrawn. Ex-
travagance and luxury and idleness are
the opportunities the devil always uses
to wreck the human soul. The society
of which l am speaking spends its time
| in balls and receptions and suppers, op-
eras, Observation-Disclosures in the city
and extravaganza out of the city. Their
business in life is to eat and to drink
and to sleep, to spend the winter and
| spend the summer. Think of normal,
rational human being eating for liv-
| ing. Think of II rational human being
living as an end Of life simply to per-
form the daily functions of the body
and think Of the monstrous insolence Of
such an aggregation of asses calling
themselves society!
| The world in which we live is q real
world, filed with real people, driven by
| gigantic motive powers, with heroes and
heroines for actors, with grand causes
to be championed, with great battles to
be fought, victories to be won or defeats
| to be retrieved. And yet we behold n
circle of people whose motive IN life Is
to dance, and TO eat, and to sleep, and
whose body and mind and soul are actu-
ally exhausted in the superlative effort
of eating and drinking and sleeping and
dancing ana gadding about and gossip
ing. And when they get too tired to
dance themselves they hire a skirt dancer
from dive to come in and kick for them
at SO much q night, while they sit by and
witness, with their gentlemen friends,
this elevating performance. What a
magnificent spectacle in world inhab-
tied by real people!
The world in which we live is o world
in which such men as General Booth have
been born and work. 1t is world in
which the scientist is busy in his labo-
ratorY wrestling with nature for her se-
| crets, in which Koch pours over the Sc
| cret of the fell disease that has haunted
the race through the centuries and seeks
| to solve the riddle of consumption. And
| the world hangs breathless over his lab
| oratory to hear his last bulletin. II is
a world in which Louis Pasteur lives and
| moves to bless. 1t is world in which
DarvIins think and work, world in
which the Edisons and Franklins and
Peter Coopers are born and live TO bless
the race and lift it to higher things in it's
everyday life. 1t is a world in which the
Earl of Shaftesbury lived, and when he
died cried because he had to leave the
world in which there was SC much suf-
fering, cried for the privilege of living
another day that he might relieve the
suffering about him. 1t is a world in
which thousand earnest, honest men
and women are living liyes,ef heroic self
denial.
Besides, it is a world in which there
are thousand sullling wrongs to be
righted. 1t is q world that still has its
Darkest Africa" has its sin cursed
stricken millions, who toll in darkness
and in hopelessness and wrestle withle-
spair and with starvation. 1t is world
that still has its Siberias and its under
peasant world. And yet thissggregation
of asses. calling themselves society, eat
and drink and laugh and dance and loaf
and deem that the world centers in theas
little circle.
Fourrh-We see tin the designations
of this 80 called society. Where there is
luxury and idleness dissipation is fore
gone conclusion. This dances indulged
In by these people, in which women half
naked spin round the room in the arms
of all sorts of men, cannot be discussed
in terms adequately describing the facts.
As one of our greatest women truly says,