The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1903-11-06

"SoCIE

abused word given 10y thu brilliant
editor OF the Courier-JOurual IN his
/ recent lecture ia PittS5urg:
If anyone has come here this wen
+ ing under the impression that he, or
+ she would he RECALLED uv any pre-
tended revelations, 10y any startling
( dissertations aud exhileratiug dia-
tribes touching that curious eXhaia-
/ ton OF polite society known o. the
Swagger SET sometimes calling IT.
self the Smart Set am afraid That
l shall dissappoint his, or her. expecta
tons. Anyhow, ana in the beginning
l must forestsll that impression. /
have no story to tell, no mystery to
reveal Assuredly, am not crusader
a. TO manners or morals.
something o.er a year ago most
laDentabe tragedy, taxing for its
miss en- scene the very vestibule OF
the temple of fashiou-the sanctum
sanctorum OF the Four Hundred--led
NE in the liue Of my duty a. writer
for the press TO say some exceeding
plain, and, il may have been thought,
harsh things about the nOUVeauX
riches, the Idle rich, the God forget
rich-who set themselves a. Law
unto themselves. VINO submit To no
/ restraints except those fixed by La
ture aud the surgeons knife, even
where they submit TO these, who have
/ no intellectual prospective except that
the longest purse brings down the
biggest titles, nor rule OF conduct eX-
cept that ImpeilIug them to eat,
drink and he merry, for t"hOrro~ IT
! may tie someone eise's turn a code
which lam told became altogether
the rage in Babylon some centuries
ago.
They Society? Has Calban grace ?
l. Tom Thumb manhood? Must the
! Sinian ana the swell be accepted a.
interchangeable types, a. alternating
measurements, of human breeding
anu beauty? Indeed, one would
think - reading some of the reports
that come to u from the inner circles
Of that apo.h-osi, Of boredom, that
incarnation % stupidity aud af-cta-
ton, which takes Is cue from L-ice~-
Ter square and the C0riuthian Clut
ia London-which emulate9 the
demi-moudaine of PAris-which
eddies round the abudes OF luxury
and altmony at Newport, and think,
no more OF running down au ordI-
nary pedestrian in it, automobile thai
you ana would think OF brushIn!
away spider or a fly.
-Sursum corda Qlft up your hearts,
l at least have never wasted man!
thoughts or nurSed any serious fear
about such cattle. nor shall DO 81 uu
Ill mOn6ey dinners become as p0pu!a
IL Pennsylvania as they seem 10 be il
: | Rhode Island.
i know that in each of OUT center
, of population ANA wealth there is lii
! / tie coterie OF silly women and shipper
! iuc IUhuuies which would initiate til
imitat0rS bat they are too shallow ant
too scattered to make much Leadwu,
against society, and by society ! meas
Lot merely those who 10y their cLaral
! jev. their genius and their good forum
!. have earned the right To dwell in grea
: houses without the suspicion OF the os
teutatious display OF wealth. 10 Lav
picture galleries and libraries am
horses and carriages and, # they please
yachts and automobiles. but benin
them that great army Of the we'll bre
and we'll 10 do-th2t noble America
commonalty. clean OF birth and clear O
grit-thoSe cultivated men and wome
who live without scandal and trave
without udvenure-not rich indeed
but quite able 10 pay as they goth
rose and expectancy of true manhoo
and womanhood. the very buttress an
bell tower OF our free republic.
These constitute what | call society
Radiating from the home. thrice bles.
ed in dad and mann and granny
Z yea in Bill and Joe, Sis and Co. il
influence penetrates the dark and II
light, reaching from the fireside to Ii
counting room, from the counting ROOF
to the asylum and the hospital an
e somehow finding its way back again I
e the roof tree and the hearthstone VI
;, the schoolhouse and the house Of Coz
never a thought Of the divorce court
e not so much as the shadow OF a mob
= lord-fo disturb its serenity mr.