The morning news., 1894-03-04
The Society Girl.

The Society Girl.
4 The Rev. DR.. William $. Rainsford, of St
I Georges church, New York city, who is
much ADMIRED by women, has been Civ
ing the Brooklyn girls a talk upon the
subject Of the society girl" Re says that
The great fault with the modern society girl
is that she is taught to make pleasure
| the chief end Of existence" He points
out that the wealthy father makes every
| possible sacrifice to enable his daughter
/ to occupy an exalted station in life and
have what she considers good time, and
the poorer father tries to follow the eX-
ample Of the wealthy one, and makes
sacrifices fer her he cannot afford. The
/ girls grow up expecting, very naturally,
| 70 have everything done for them. They
| have no settled purpose, and they are all
/ the while seeking something new. Nat
urally the limit of new pleasures is fin
ally reached. and then they rush into mar
riage because it offers a new experience
What is the motive of their hves2 Dr.
Rainsford thinks it is the pursuit of
| pleasure, which is 4 false motive, and he
| asserts that when the women of society
are actuated by false motive, society
itself must be false through and through"
In view of the fact, says DIR. Rainsford.
that people are now seeking the universal
| development of society the good of the
whole body polite, while in the last
generation they sought the develop
ment and education of the in
| dividual a change is coming that
places an awful responsibility upon
women. He believes, therefore, that
every girl should have an object in
life, should seek to do some good
They ought to go about this work
at once. They should not wait for some
more fitting opportunity and in the mean
time waste Their time in the sole pursuit
of pleasure. Those who put of doing
what good they might do Immediately are
likely to find their opportunities for
beneftting themselves and others gone
forever when they feel they are ready to
improve them.
DIR. Rainsford's remarks are applicable
to girls out of society as well as to those
in it, but he addresses them to society
girls because so many of them are sup
posed to be devoted wholly to pleasure.
The most of them however find the hard
realities of life soon enough. But it is
true that too few girls realize to the ex-
tent they ought their relation to society
in general, and the esponsibnities which
| that relation imposes upon them.
80 Fer Parity of Pockets.
At the recent Congress of Women for
| Improved Dress, held at New York, one
of the speakers appealed for "a system of
pockets for women" that would put them
on'the same plane with men In this
one respect" said the speaker, women
are not the equals of men; the men have
dozens of pockets, while the women have
only one each"
Who could be so heartless as to say nay
to this appeal' If a multiplicity of pock-
cts will enhance her happiness, let
woman have all the pockets she can find
room for. Let her have all of the various
kinds that men have-fob pockets,
match pockets, breast pockets,
corner pockets" pistol pockets,
and the rest. The womau's pocket has
been the butt of the joker ever since
Jokes had market value, and will proba-
bly, continue to be so as long as fashion
compels woman to hide her pocket as if it
were forbidden fruit hence woman has
suffered because of her pocket Now, If
a great number of pockets will raise the
institution itself above ridicule and there
by save the sensibilities of the owners.
let the number be raised and the higher
the better
AT the same time, we cannot refrain
from cautioning woman that even the
sweet of dozen pockets is not without its
bitter. Emptiness in woman's single
pocket is multiplied by twelve or more
when itcomes to man, these hard times.
Frequency of pockets does not indicate or
make fullness of pockets; it only accen-
tuates the vacuum, very frequently.
! There is a vast difference between being
rich in pockets and rich in the pocket. and
an amount of riches Of the one kind may
become only a reminder of lack of richie ;
OF the other kind For verify, twelve
/, pennies in one pocket will make greater
clatter than one penny in each of twelve
pockets
Nevertheless, if the women have made
up their minds that equality with men in
the matter of pockets is the thing they
want at this juncture of the fight for
woIhans rights, why let there be a parity
OF pockets established. in the manner
most convenient to the women. There
are few men who could not dispense with
some of their pockets just now, aud they
/ would be willing to meet the women half
way, if the dear creatures should not feel
like taking on twelve or fifteen pockets at
. once
Michael Fay, the New York elections
. manipulation. who, according to our dis
/ patches of yesterday, has been sent to
Sing Sing to join his friend McKane, is
the thirteeath person, including McKaue,
who has been convicted ofofTeuses against
the election laws in New York since the
recent state election A pleasing feature
about these prosecutions and convictions
was the absence of partisanship in the
! prosecution The defendants were petty
losses and their henchmen, who thought