Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-10-10
A GEORGIA WOMAN
BACKS EDITOR WATTERSON IN
HIS ATTACK ON "4oo."

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A Noted Southern Woman Comes to the Sup
port OF the Foreible Writer in His Campaign
Against the ImmoraIs Of Society She i,
Likewise Forceful.
AS was expected, Henry Watterson
has been roundly scored for his com
ments upon the moral tone OF SO, o,called
high society of New York and other
large cities, where wealth affords pre-.
text for immunity from all sorts OF
vice. But he has valiant defender in
the wife of former Congressman and
a former Federal Judge, Mrs. VIM. H.
FELTON,, of Georgia. That lady writes
as follows:
"The most remarkable and pungent
piece of writing that has appeared in
the New Century is Heury Waiter
sons scathing review of men and
women, methods and morals of the
present era. 1t has q masters i'm
print on every line of it. 1t is evident
ly the overflow of full heart. There
is nothing uncertain in a single sen.
tence, for it bears along with every
sentence a profound conviction that
the writer is in dead earnest and knows
what he is writing about exactly.
at Is not wall like disappointed
man might utter, but it is warning
that reads like it was inspired and
prophetic from an elevation.
at is also q terrible indictment OF
the manners of the very rich and dis
solute. and although reply has been
promised from out OF the ranks OF the
Four Hundred / should not like to
undertake reply to this marvelously
strong paper, because it has the stamp
OF truth upon the whole of it.
But it is we'll to understand that
the article applies to great many
more people than four hundred of our
fashionable in New York City. Per-
haps that is q simple lot or q speci-
men case 30 to speak, but there is
more or less of the same sort of goods
in every prominent city or town in the
United States.
"They are doing their best as imi.
tators, copyists, and, according to
their opportunities, they are treading
in the steps Of great leaders in fashion
and frivolity and sping manners and
customs as nearly as possible, and
compliment themselves on their
ability in so doing.
"Old Rome went to pieces just in
the same way. A woman born to the
purple commanded her carriage driver
to roll the wheels in the open street
over her fathers dead body, and the
crisis was near at hand when Rome's
glory was changed into luxurious Ii.
centiousness and official vanity, and
these crimes we're permitted to pass
unrebuked by its rulers.
Doubtless there had been many
Jezebels in the land before the un-
righteous women known to Hebrew
Bible history was flung from the pal
ace window and trodden under foot by
the maddened populace. One swallow
does not make summer, but it 90
happened that the Jezebel was the
object lesson of that particular era
and paid the penalty.
,"Mary, Queen of Scots, was no
worse. probably no better, than many
woman in royal palaces during her
time, but John Knox made the vel.
kin ring with the dangers that lurked
in licentious luxury, and Mary became
the object lesson OF her time, and the
way was easily paved.
"Marie Antoinette was the vain
butterfly in times preceding the
French revolution - flattered PAM
pered, admired. and copied after by
thousands Of women OF high and low
degree in France and Austria. But a
time came when an object lesson was
needed, and the poor woman's head
fell into the guillotine's basket. She
was no worse and perhaps no better
than scores OF women OF the nobles''
in affiuence and pampered frivolity,
but the rage Of an entire class was
concentrated upon her as the hated
representative of . hated CLASS.
at is the unhappy trend Of the
times Grown-up men among the four
hundred give dinner parties to mon
keys and fancy balls are frequented by
giddy, silly people, who personate
animals to create sensation. Mr.
Watterson has trumpeted q note oil
warning but the evil seeds were sown
many seasons ago."
Mother-Edith, 60 and see whether
the clock is going.
Edith Coming back)-No, mamma