The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
PATTERSON ON SOCIETY.
BERATES THE IDLE GOD-FOR-
 GETTING RICH.


 swsiI-siIIy Women and simpering
 JUhnnies-Not Worried About such
 "CattIe"-The Real society-The QuuI-
 tiles That Go to Constitute It.
 Pittsburg, Pa. Oct. 2S.-Henry Wat terson delivered his lecture on "Soci- ety. this evening in Carnegie Music hall. Allegheny, before a small but en- thusiastic audience The unusually cold weather which prevailed during the evening was responsible for the light att tendance. He said:
 Something over a year ago a most lamentable tragedy, taking for its mise en scene the very vestibule of the tenn pie of fashion-the sanctum Sancto- rum of the Four Hundred-led me in the line of my duty as a writer for the press to say some exceedingly plain, and 1t may have been thought some very harsh things, about the nouveaux riches -the idle rich-the forgetting, world-defying, pleasure-seeking rich who set themselves as a law unto them selves.
 They Society? Has Caliban grace? Is Tom Thumb manhood? Must the money and the swell be accepted as in terchangeable types, as alternating measurements, of human breeding and beauty? Indeed, one would think so reading some of the reports that come to us from the inner circles of that apotheosis of boredom, that incarna- tion 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 lux ury and alimony at Newport, and thinks no more of running down an ordinary pedestrian in its automobile than you and I would think of brush ing away spider or fly.
 Sursum Corda! Lift up your hearts! at least have never wasted many | thoughts, or nursed any serious fears, | about such cattle, nor shall do SO un- | til monkey-dinners become as popular in Pennsylvania as they seem to be in Rhode Island I know that in each of our centers of population and wealth there is a little coterie of silly women | and simpering Johnnies, which would Initiate the imitators; but they are too 1 shallow and too scattered to make much headway against society. and by society I. mean not merely those who, 1 by their character, their genius and Itheir good fortune, have earned the right to dwell in great houses, without 1 the suspicion of the ostentatious dis play of wealth-to have picture gal | leries and libraries and horses and car- riages, and, if they please, yachts and automobiles-but behind them that great army of the well-bred and we'll I to-do--that noble American comnonal- | ty, clean of birth and clear of grit those cultivated men and women who Hive without scandal and travel without | adventure not rich indeed, but quite l able to pay as they go-the rose and expectancy Of true manhood and wo- manhood--the very buttress and bell flower of our free republic.
 These constitute what call society radiating from the home -thrice-b bless ed in "dad'' and imam and granny yea, in "Bill and Joe, Sis and Co,"--its influence penetrates the dark and the light, reaching from the freside to the counting room, from the counting room Ito the asylum and the hospital and somehow, finding it's way back again to the roof-tree and the hearthstone via | the school house and the house of God never thught of the divorce court not so much as the shadow of "a noble Elord" to disturb the serenity, or tc frighten It's dreams May that society l be forever true in it's politics to the les. son of the greatest good to the greates number; in it's religion, to Christ ant Him crucified.