Evening journal., 1903-10-24

Louisville Editor Declares That He is
Not Crusader, Either as to Man
ners or to Morals in Pittsburs Lee
ture.
Pittsburg, Pa. Oct. 24.-Henry Wat
2erson delivered his lecture on so
7eiety" in Carnegie Music Hall, Allie
gheny, before a small but enthusiastic
audience. The unusually cold weather
Ahat prevailed was responsible for the
hight attendance. Among other things
EAIr. Watterson said:
IF any one has come here under the
Impression that he or she would be re-
called by any pretended revelations, by
kny startling dissertations and exhil-
hrating diatribes, touching that curious
hxhalation of polite society known as
HE Smart Set-sometimes calling itself
II he Swagger Set-I am afraid that l
Ehall disappoint his or her expectation.
kAnyhow. and in the beginning, / must
.forestall that misimpression. l have
no story to tell, no mystery to reveal.
(. .Assuredly, I am not a crusader, either
As to manners or morals.
Something over year ago most
3 samentable tragedy. taking for It's
bcere the very vestibule Of the tenn
bic Of fashion-the sanctum sanctorum
X bf the Four Hundred-led me in the
line of my duty as a writer for the
bress TO say some exceeding plain, and
B L may have been thought some very
s larsh things, about the nouveaux
1iches-the idle rich, the God-forget-
ing, world-defying, pleasure-seeing
4ich-who set themselves as a law unto
Ehersolves. who submit to no re-
uaints except those fixed by nature
nd the surgeons knife, who have no
j. .ntellectual perspective except that the
pngost purse brings down the biggest
"A .lss. nor rule of conduct except that,
peilirs them to eat. drink and be
gerry. for tomorrow it may be some
ae olsa's turn. Sursum cordial lift w
ogr hearts, | at least have never
ted many thoughts or nursed any
iCaa fears about such cattle, MOI
IN ] do so until monkey dinSsrs be
Il ne IS popular in Pennsyly-S-ia a'
ley seem TO be in Rhode Island.
now that in each of our centers OF
5oulation and wealth there is a lit
|c coterie Of silly women and simper
bg Johnnies, which would initiate the
nitators; but they are too shallow anC
bo scattered to make much headway
sgainst society, and by society / NEAR
ot merely those who by their char.
cter, their genius and their good for
lne. have earned the right to dwell
great houses, without the suspicion
the ostentatious display OF wealth
have picture galleries and librarie:
nd horses and carriages, and, If they
lease. yachts and automobiles-bu
ehind them that great army of thu
rell-bred and well-to-Go-that noble
merican commonality, clean Of brit
nd clear of grit-those cultivated mel
nd women, who live without scanda
nd travel without adventure, not rich
ndeed, but quite able to pay as thel
o. the rose and expectancy of tru'
manhood and womanhood the verl
uttress and bell-tower of our free re
ublic
"Thesei constitute what I call so
iety. Radiating from the home thric
lessed in dad and nam and gran
y yea, in Bill and Joe, Sis and Co..
s influence penetrates the dark am
he light, reaching from the firesid
the counting room, from the count
ng room to the asylum and the hospi
al, and. somehow. finding its way bacl
gain to the .rooftree and the hearth
tone via the school house and tn
ouse Of God; never a thought of tn
ivorce court, not so much as tn
hadow Of "a noble lord to disturb it
crenity or to frighten its dreams. Ma
hat society be forever true in its poll
les to the lesson of the greatest goo
the greatest number; in its religion
Christ and Him crucifed."
cartmell's Cold in Head Cure
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