Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-07

smells or The BOWery ana OF the ulUcn
The business of this class of people is
after all, the exploitation of person, the
imposition of that personality upon the
credulity of the world And if the per
son be girl her marriage is the event
looked forward to, and the methods used
to bring it about are those that are il
vogue in all swindling transactions.
Mr.. McAllister, the great butler Of
this circle, thus describes how he man
aged one of these articles for sale.
He says that wealthy man went to
Europe and placed his wife and daugh-
! ter in charge Of Mr.. McAllister for the
purpose of bringing them into society.
The author of Society as l Found IT.
thus relates what happened:
! replied: My dearNfellow, how many people
| do you know In this city whom you could invite
TO ballf The funds you send me will be used,
| but not in giving ball" The girl being a
| beauty, all the rest was easy enough. gave
| her theater party after theater party, followed
| by charming little suppers; asked to them the
| jeunesse doree Of the day, took her repeatedly
to the ope-a and saw that she was always there
surrounded by admirers, necessarily talked Of
her Vaccinations, assured my young friends
that she was endowed with fortune equal 10
the mines of Ophir, that she danced like a
dream and possessed all the graces, sunbeam
across ones path. then saw TO IL that she had
prominent place in every cotillon and Mt
ting partner, showed her whom to smile upon
and on whom 10 frown, gave her the entree 10
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 pretext or another turned over
TO her, made her the constant subject Of con-
versation, insisted upon 1t that she was 10 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 fiirt
to her hearts content and vie with the other
girls Her second summer, when she was
older, | suggested her passing at Newport,
where she should have a pair Of ponies,
pretty trap with well gotten up groom and
Wortheo 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-
posture is so complete, so vulgar, that it
passes the realm Of sane discussion. And
vet 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 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. Elk
travagance and luxury and idleness are
the opportunities the devil always uses
to wreck the human soul. The society
of which am speaking spends its time
in balls and receptions and suppers, OPP /
eras, theaters-extravaga in the city 1
and extravaganza out of the city. Their /
in life is TO eat and TO drink 4
and TO sleep, TO spend the winter and 4
spend the summer. Think of a normal, I
human being eating for a liv- 1
ing. Think of a rational human being 1
living as an end of life simply TO per-
form the daily functions of the body I
and think of the monstrous insolence of |
such an aggregation of asses calling
themselves society,"
The world in which we live is a real 1
world, filed with real people, driven by
gigantic motive powers, with heroes and
neroines for actors, with grand causes
to be championed, with great battles to
be fought, victories to be won or defeats
10 be retrieved. And yet we behold a
circle of people whose motive in life is
70 dance, and 10 eat. and TO sleep, and
whose body and mind and soul are actu-
lily exhausted in the superlative effort
If eating and drinking and sleeping and
lancing and gadding about and gossip
ny. And when they get too tired to
lance themselves they hire a skirt dancer
rom dive to come in and kick for them
it so mucli night, while they sit by and
witness, with their gentlemen friends.
his elevating performance. What a
spectacle in world inhab-
ted by real peoplel
The world in which we live is a world
n which such men as General Booth have
,een born and work 1t Is world in
which the scientist is busy in his labo-
atory wrestling with nature for her Sc
rets, in which Koch pours over the Sc
ret of the fell disease that has haunted
he race through the centuries and seeks
o solve the riddle Of consumption. And
he world hangs breathless over his lab
ratorv to hear his last bulletin. 1t is