The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-16
MRS. SAGE'S WARNING
Financier's Wife Tells Of Perils
That Beset Leisure Glass.

Mrs Russell Sage in an article on
Opportunities and Responsibilities OF
Leisured Women published in the
North American Review for Novem-
Der makes the following statements:
There Is an immense amount Of
feminine talent and energy wasted in
the world every day. This is not due
to the indifference or the laziness Of
woman, for she is eager TO do, to ac-
complish, to 20 out into the field OF life
and achieve for herself aud for her
kind But she simply does not know
how. One Of the most important
movements OF the day, therefore, is the
reawakening Of woman, the building
her up on a new basis Of self help and
work for others That movement VIII
set loose an amount Of energy and tai
ent that will revolutionize our social
life
1T Is absurd to suggest that women
who have a talent for music or litera-
ture or art should be enslaved by do
nestle drudgery, while the struggle for
the civilization of the world is going
on"
Mrs. Sage thinks selhshness and idle
ness great sources OF danger. She
thinks wOmen's laxity toward drinking
and smoking Is injurious. At a din
ner she recently attended, she says. 1T
/ was put to Il vote whether or not smok-
ing should be INDUCED in. The ladies
present. not wishing to be obnoxious,
/ voted Yes being the only one that
/ voted No The result was that the
men indulged their love for tobacco TO
the discomfort Of almost all the wo-
men present and the nausea of some
Of them. This sort Of thing is remote
I ly responsible for the cigarette smok
ing habit among reputable young wo-
men. They indulge In order to affiliate
with young men and be considered
good fellows
Drinking is incalged in to an ap-
palling extent by women of the
wealthy idle class, and their daughters
are following in their footsteps. The
great danger OF this is that the I'd e
rich class influences the succeeding
strata Of society. This class is sur
rounded with a certain glamour that
those not so high up in the so called
social scale mistake for something
genuine but which is the yeriest sham.
Bear in mind that l refer to 70 set OF
CLIQUE, but TO a condition manifested
in all parts of the country. Now, tho
persons of this class are widely imi-
tated. If they drink It is considered
smart to do so, and others follow suit
If they smoke cigarettes other girls dc
the same"
Mrs. Sage denounces gambling as
one of the "inevitable concOmitants OF
idle extravagant life" She tells OF
hostssses politely bullying men into
games Of poker or bridge whist and
making them pay dearly. She adds
"The trouble is that the wives oi
many men in this class squander II
gambling and other forms Of dIssipa
ton the money their husbands give
them for household expenses and ar.
compelled TO resort 10 just such meas
ures TO make up the deficit, lest thei
husbands ind out The true state of af
fairs and adopt drastic measures e
correct them
"Week end parties have bridge whs
as sole purpose. Rooms are hireC
and furnished in all parts Of New Yorl
city by fashionable young women wh'
do nothihS brt gamble there. l wal
sitting ia my carriage not long ago
and, seeing a young friend Of whom
am fond walking up the avenue. l 10
vited her 10 drive with me But sh'
waved ner hand and exclaimed:
cant today I've been losing at eu
chre. and now I'm going to make it VI
at bridge And she buried on.
The idle rich are no more vicious
than the idle poor. but they are mucl
more lacking in sympathy with on
another
Mrs Sage recommends women q
leisure 10 apply themselves to mission
airy work In improving towns and VII
lages She says;
In our great cities many womer
are necessarily lonely or are forcec
into vicious society And this loneli
ness Is not amelorated by attending
balls and other entertainments. II &
unfortunate that men of small means
having 10 attend business, must leave
their wives much alone in hotels ant
boarding houses 1t is not woman,
nature TO be philosophically resigned
TO solitude. She must have society
preferably good, but she must hay,
society.
IAN inexperienced man Is apt t
neglect his wife and still expect her 4
be chaste as Lucrece There is grea
field for work among the unemploye,
wives OF salarled men. II the idle ricl
woman would only learn to look upol
, her sister of this class as the daughte
OF n woman like herself, coequal witt
, her before God she would take her b,
the hand arl draw her out from he
solitude and by so doing reap a rewar,
in the unfolding OF her own character.
Mrs Sage very earnestly declares
that the only remedy for the social evi
IN our communities is by educating
2 boys and girls to one standard of mo
I rality.
B An Eject OF AnEIo-Japanese Alliance
! In consequence OF the Japanese all
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