The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-01-20
THE DUDE.

The dude" comes out Of the war
with more reputation for sense and
grit than when he scaled the heights
Of San Juan. Lord Kitchener's dudes,
trifing dawdlers in the London draw
ing rooms, celebrated the coolest of
moral pluck at Omdurman the other
day.
The dude. as a rule, is a case OF
suppressed energy. He is one OF those
whom Col. Parker calls, the neglected
children of the rich" His fond pa
rents put gold spoon in his mouth
when he was In the cradle, and their
blighting love and demoralizing care
keeps it there He Is nursed, watched
and shielded from harm" as 1t is call
ed. but which really is wholesome con-
tact with the world. He is allowed to
take few risks, because he may hurt
himself. He must not know the world
lest he become corrupted. His parents
keep him. morally, as a shorn lamb,
and prevent the winds of heaven from
visiting him roughly. An acquaintance
asked a rich and sensible dude in
great city, why the large majority OF
rich young men in the large city were
dudes. He said, because our papas
and our mamas make us SO. They don't
know how TO set us to work. Our papas
want Ills to learn how to make money.
But We don't feel the need of money.
Why should we work for it?"
The dude often has fine brains, and
strong energy, but he cannot create
opportunities. He finds that the reli-
gion OF his home is orthodox enough,
but resembles that OF the old kanaka
who always Joined Jehovah and the
native god Lono in his prayers, because
it made a safe" religion. The dude
Is taught by his rich parents to love
God, but at the same time not to neg
lect the golden Calf The richest Pro-
testant Presbyterian Church in Amer
lea, in which "the neglected children
OF the rich" abound, sings with enthu-
siasm every month the hymn, From
Greenland's Icy Mountains" and ex-
presses fervsnt belief in the abstract
doctrine OF preaching the gospel to the
heather, but 1t never sends any
Of its rich young dudes beyond the
seas in exile and self denial. Here are
the grand opportunities for the dudes,
but the loving parents cannot spare
them, and SO keep them at home and
dwarf them soul and body.
These neglected children OF the rich"
have fabby intellectual muscles, as a
rule. because the best exercise is de-
MED them. Parental love strikes out Of
their book OF Life the words, sweet
are the uses OF adversely" Parental
love goes before the dudes, and clears
away the lions from the paths, and
puts down rugs over the sharp stones.
One would expect that the great
scientists, the educators, the inventors,
the statesmen, the working philan-
thropists should come from that social
class that holds the wealth that gives
the largest opportunity for training,
and preparation for the best work.
But, instead, 1t is the men who are
making the struggle for existence and
drive away the lions in the highway
who are the pioneers al the head of
| the columns.
1t is a curious phase OF our present
civilization, that SO many of those who
are free from the drudgery Of daily toll
and are equipped with the education
OF the schools and colleges, dawdle in
the club rooms of the cities and re-
cruit the army of dudes, President
Barnard of Columbia said II was due
10 the low environment OF what are