The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1903-10-31

BOreuOm ana
"Mus: the Monkey and the Swell
Be Accepted as Intercha en- bile
Types of Human Breeding nni
Beauty"
Colonel Henry Watterson, editor OF
the Louisville Courier j CHInal. who de
liyerpii his lecture on '.Soc tty" the 9th
er evening in Carnegie Music hall, AL
leGBcny. Pa. before an en-, 'Siasuc AL
diencp. said in part:
IF any one has come her this even
ing under tie Impression TIL he or she
wou.u to rcs;!led Dy any pretended rev
Citations. BY any startling dir5ertatioNS
and cXhilarating diatribes oucLing
that curious eXhalatiou Of polite society
known as the smart set-sonetimeS
calling itself tie sWJ:Ser set i am
afraid ! shall disapIpOint his Or her eX-
pectation. Anyhow. and in fhe begin
nIns. | must forestall that r,'stupreS-
sion. | have no story to tell. 40 mys-
terry to reveal. ASSuredly | am not
crusader either as to manners or NOR
ais.
something over year ago most
lamentable tragedy. taking for its mise
en- scene the very vestibule if the tenn
pie of fashiOn-the sanctum sanctOrum
Of the -Four Hundred-led me in the
line Of my duty as a writer for the
press to say some exceeding plain and,
it may have been thought. some very
the idle rich. TIE God forgetting,
world defying. pleasure seeking rich,
who set themselves as law unto
themselves, who submit to no restraints
except those fixed by nature and the
surgeons knife. who have no intellec-
tual perspective except that the longest
purse brings down the biggest titles,
nor rule of conduct except that i'm
pelling them 10 eat, drink and be lSer-
ry, for tomorrow it may be some one
elses turn. Il code which | ain told be-
came altogether the rage in Babylon
some centuries ago
They society: Has Caliban grace!
Is fCu Thumb manhood: Must the
monkey and tie swell be accepted as
intercha ngeabie types. as alternating
measurements OF human breeding and
beauty:
Indeed one would think so. reading
some Of TIE reports that come To us
from ia inner circles OF that apOtheO-
sis of h. 'pdO:.!. that Incarnation Of stu
pidity and a.. pvtatiUn which takes its
cue frDll IC.,,5tCr square and the
Corinthiun cub OF London. which cniiI-
lates the dpmimOndaine of Paris, which
eddies rCunL tho abCGuS of luxury and
alimony at Newport and thinks no
more of running down an ordinary pc
destrian in its automobile than you ard
l would think of brushing away a
spider or Il Is.
".Sursum cOrda Gift up your hearts)!
| 1T least have never wasted many
thoughts or nursed any serious fears
about such cattle. nor Shall | do so I'LL
til monkey dinners become as popular
in Pennsylvania as they seem to be in
Rhode Island.
hllOW lL.dl cuCu our CeuleIS
Of population and wealth there is a lit
tie cOterie of silly women and shipper
ing Johnnies which would initiate the
iuitatOrs, but they are too shallow and
too scattered to make much Roadway
against society, and by society l mean
not merely those who by their charac-
ter, their genius and their good foStune
have earned the right to dwell in great
houses without the suspicion of the os-
tentatious display of wealth. to have
picture galleries and libraries and
horses and carriages and, If they please.
yachts and automobiles. but behind
them that great army Of the we'll bred
and we'll TO dO-that noble American
commonalty, clean of birth and clear Of
grit-thOse cultivated men and women
who live without scandal and travel
without adventure-nOt rich indeed.
but quite able to pay as they go-the
rose and expectancy Of true manhood
and womanhood. the very buttress and
bell tower of our free republic
These constitute what call society.
Radiating from the home. thrice bless
ed in dad and mann and granny
yea in Bill and Joe, Sis and Co.. its
influence p@netrates the dark and the
light. reaching from the fireside to the
counting room. from the counting room
to the asylum and the hospital and
finding its way back again to
the roof tree and the hearthstOne via
the scLOOIhOUge and the house of God;
never thought Of the divorce court
rot 50 much as the shadow Of a noble
IOTd'-tO disturb its serenity or to
brighten its dreams
Nay tlat society be forever true in
is politics II the lesson Of the greatest |
good 20 the Greatest number, in It's re- /
igiCn 10 CAtist and him crucifed."
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