The Progress., 1893-06-03


The business Of this class Of people is,
after all. the exploitation Of person. the
imposition IF that personality upon the
credul;tv cf tie world. And if the per-
son be q girl h.r marriage Is the event
looked forward 10. and the methods used
to bring it about are those that are in
vogue in al swindling transactions.
Mr.. McAllister, the great butler of
this circle. thus describes how he man
aged one of these articles for sale.
he says tha. wealthy man went TO
Europe aud placed his wife and daush-
ter in charge of Mr. McAllister for the
purpose of bringing them into society.
The author Of ''S0ciety "S Found 1t
thus relates what happened:
Ircp,.ed: NY Gear fellow. how many people
do sou know IL this city whom Oh could invite
to n ball? TIN funds you send me will be used.
bat not in giving ball" The girl being
beauty. all the rest easy enough. gave
her theater party after thcatcr party. followed
by charming little suppcrs; asked to them the
ieunessc dorcc of the day, took her repeatedly
to the opera and saw that she was always there
surrounded ly admirer,. incessantly talked of
her destinations. assured my young friends
that she wa, endowed with II fortune equal t0
the mines of OpEir, that she danced Ike
dream and possessed all the graces, a sunbeam
across ones path, then saw to II that she had
prominent place in every cotilion and n IT.
ting Iartncr. showed her whom to smile upon
aud on whom TO frown. gave her the entrec Ten
all the nice houses, criticised severely her toilet
until i; became perfect. daily met her on the
avenue with ;he most charming man IN town.
who 10y one preteXt or another | turned over
to her. made her the constant subject Of con
ip-, it,sfa fal hat ~ fp lp
TIE belle OF the coming winter, advised her
parents that she should have her first season
at Ear Ilarhor, where she could learn To dirt
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
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 AMI far be
yond the point of discussion. The OK
posure is 80 complete. so vulgar. that it
passes the realm of sane discussion. And
vet 50 far is this custom established that
there are those who seem to treat the
matter us an event in life about which
there is no question. There is n tragedy
that could be written about one of thee
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 i'll this atmosphere.
She was sold to u 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 TO
markable' rapidity and returned to the
scene of her childhood with all the proud
ancestral blood i'll 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 am speaking spends its time
in balls AID receptions and suppers. op-
eras. theaters-extravaga in the city
and extravagance 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 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 a real
world, filled 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
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 and gadding about and gossip
ing. And when they get too tired to
dance themselves they hire skirt dancer
from u dive to come in and kick for them
at SO much 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 world
in which such men as General Booth have
been born and work. 1t is a world in
which the scientist is busy in his labo-
ratory wrestling with nature for her Sc
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
oratOrv to haar hia last hul1etin II Is