The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-24
IA FEW JABS l AT SOCIETY |WatterSOn Again on the Subject.
 HIS VIEWS ARE vicoRoUs Stinging SarcasmS Concern ing the Newport Colony.
 The Cool Weather atPittsburg Keeps Down the Attendance, But MT. watssrson's Words are Warm.
HIS VIEWS ARE viGoROUs

Pittsburg, Oct. 2.-Henry Watter1ou delivered his lecture on Society this evening In Carnegie Music Hall, Ale gheny. before small but enthusiastse audience The unusually cold weather that prevailed during the evening was respon- sible for the light attendance. Mir. Wat terson said:
 .'Something over a year ago a most la3 mentable tragedy. taking for it's mise eu scene the very. yestihule of tue temple Ck 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. 1t may have been, some very harsh things. about the noveaux riches-the idle rich-the God-for- getting. world-defying. pleasure-seeking rich--who set themselves as a law unto themselves, who submit to no restraints except those fixed by nature and the sur geon's knife, who have, no intellectual perspective except that the longest purse brings down the biggest titles, nor rule of conduct except that impelling them to eat. drink and be merry, for tomorrow it may be someone eise's turn; a code which am told became altogether the rage in Babylon some centuries ago.
 'They Society? Has Caliban grace? Is Tom Thumb manhood? Must the monkey and the swell be accepted as interchange able types, as alternating measurements, of human breeding and beauty? Indeed one would think so reading some of tho reports that come to us from the inner circles of that apotheosis of boredom. that incarnation of stupidity and aifectation, 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 ahodes of luxury and alimony at Newport, ana thinks no more of running down an or dinary pedestrian In an automobile than you and would think of brushing away a spider or a fly.
 'Sursum Corda! Lift up your heartsI I at leaat have never wasted my thoughts. or nursed any serious fears, about such cattle, nor shah I do so until monkey dinners become as popular in Pennsyiva- nia as they seem to be in Rhode Island. I know that in each of our centers of population and wealth there is little coterie of silly women and simpering Johnnies, which would initiate the imita- tors; but they are too shallow and too scattered to make much headway against society, and by society mean, not merely those who, by their character, their ge- nius and their good fortune. have earned the right to dwell in great houses, with out the suspicion of the ostentatious dis play of wealth-to have picture galleries and libraries and horses and carriages, and, if they please, yachts and automo- biles-but behind them that great army of the well-bred and weIl-to-do--that mo- ble American commonalty, clean of birth and clear of girth-those cultivated men and women who live without scandal and travel without adventiIre--not rich in- deed. but quite able to pay as they go-- the rose and expectancy of true man. hood and womanhood. the very buttresn and belltower of our free republic.
 These constitute what I call society. Radiating from the home-thrice blessed in dad and mann and granny yea, in Bill and Joe. Sis and Colts influence penetrates the dark and the light, reach ing from the fireside to the counting room. from the counting room to the asy- lum and the hospital. and. somehow, find ing its way back again to the roof-tree and the hearth-stone via the school house and the House of God; never a thought of the divorce court-not so much as the shadow of a noble lord'-to disturb it's serenity. or to frighten its dreams. May that society be forever true in it's poli- tics to the lesson of the greatest good to the greatest number in its religion, to Christ and Him Crucihed."