The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-24
MIR. PATTERSON
 RAPS SOCIETY Set Themselves as a Law
 Unto Themselves DESCRIBES TRUE SOCIETY 
He Says It Is Not the so-caIled Smart Set, Who Give Monkey Dinners and !s,composee . .ly Women
 and simpering Johnnies.

pittsburg. October 23.-Henry Waiter son delivered his lecture on Society this evening In Carnegie hall, Alleghany.
 before small but enthusiastic audience. | The unusually cold weather that pre- vailed during the evening was responsible for the light attendance.
 1 Mir Watterson said;
 No Mystery to Reveal. aIf anyone has come here this even- ing under the impression that he or she would be regaled by any pretended revela- tions, by any startling dissertations and exhileratng diatribes, touching that curious exhalation of polite society known ] as the smart set--sometimes eaning it. | self the swagger set--I am afraid that l shall disappoint his or her expectation. 1 Anyhow. and in the beginning, l niusc forestan that misimpresson l have no : story to tell no mystery to reveal. As suredly l am not a crusader either as to
 manners or morals.
 "Something over year ago q mnsr lamentable tragedy. taking for it's misc en scene the very vestibule of the temps of 1 fashion-the sanctum sanctorum Of the l Four Hundred-led me in the line of my l duty as writer for the press to say { some exceedingly plain and It may have l been thought some very harsh things, about the nouveaux riches--the idle rich,
 the God-f forgetting world-defying. pleas
 ure-seeking rich-who set themselves as
 a law unto themselves. who submit to
 no restraints except those fixed ny na- 1 ture and the surgeons kaife who have no intellectual perspective except that ' ba et ri he fo.
 gest titles, nor rule of conduct except | that impeling them to eat drink and
 be merry for tomorrow it max he some
 one elses turn; q code whisn 1 am told
 became altogether the rage h Babylon some centuries ago.
 IL Is Not Manhood. They society? Has Caliban grace? has i Tom Thumb manhood? Must the mon- key and the swell be accepted as inter- changeabe types. as alternating meas
 aments of human breeding and beauty? Indeed. one would think ao euding some of the reports that come to us from the inner circles of that apotheosis of boredom, that incarnation of stupidity and affectation, which takes it's cue from Leicester Square and the Corinthian club in London--which emulates the demi- mondaine of Paris-which eddies round the abodes of luxury and alimony at Newport, and thinks no more of running down an ordinary pedestrian in it's auto- mobile than you and l would think of brushing away a spider or q fly.
 "Sursum Corda, lift up your hearts! at least have never wasted many thoughts or nursed any serious fears. about such ca te, nor shall do so until | monkey dinners become as popular in Pennsylvania IS they seem 10 be in Rhode Island
 Those Little Coteries.
 "I know that in each of our centers oe
 population and wealth there Is a little cotere of silly women and simperng Johnnies which would initiate the mlta- tors; but they are too shallow and too scattered to make much headway against society and by society l mean not merely those who, by their character, their genius and their good fortune. have earn ed the right to dwell in great houses. without the suspicion of the ostentatious display of wealth--to have picture gal leries and libraries and horses and car riaSes, and if they please, yachts and automobiles-but behind them that greau army of the well-bred and well to do-- that noble American commonalty. clean - of birth and clear of grit--those cultivated men and women, who live without sesn- dal and travel without adventurc-hor rich indeed but quite able to payl as they go-the rose and expectancy of true manhood and womanhood, the very but tress and bell-tower of our free republic
 The True Society.
 These constitute what 1 cali society Radiatlng from the home-thrice- blessed in dad and mann and granny yea in Bill and Joe, Sis and company it's in- huence penetrates the dark and the light reaching from the flreside to the counting room, from the counting room to the asy- lum and the hospital, and, somehow, nna ing it's way back again to the roof ire and the hearthstone via the school hous and the house of God: never though of the divorce court-not so much as tn shadow of a noble lord, to disturb it serenity, or to frighten it's dreams Ma that society be forever true in it's politic to the lesson of the greatest good 10 tn greatest number. in it's religion. to Chris and Him crucifed."
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