The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-01-25

0CAS1ufc, WOu ueI money, out tuey II
bet what costs money. This girl was
unusually handsome when she was
sixteen, but she shows only traces Of
| it now.
Il know another with $4,000 a yeaA
allowance from her mother who spends
1t all on her own pleasure, and she has
| become as coarse as a washerwOms m
and talks like teamster. / know any
quantity of girls who swear profanely.
heard a rich society woman, old
enough to know better, curse at her
coachman one night in front Of the
metropolitan Opera House. If the
coachman had used the language that
| lady did, he would have been arrested
| for disorderly conduct. / don't say
that the money made that woman vul-
gar and profane, but know that her
| mother would have cut her tongue out
before she would have laid it to such
| language.
and the stories they tell. Good
Lord, I've sat at a supper table in one
of the finest houses in Fifth avenue
heard young men and young women
tell stories and howl with delight over
them that would redden the cheeks
of Carrara marble statue. l don't
say the money did it, but do say that
| know many young women who don't
have money in excess, and they ar9
not that kind.
1.-THE girl who has money must have
something to do. and as the ordinary
domestic occupations are closed to her
keep her mind and body engaged. The
trend of society is to excess of some
sort-no matter what is done it must
be done to the limit-and naturally the
girls fall into the customs of the people
of whom they form a part If they
like horses they are not satisfied with
pair to drive and possibly one to
ride, and have a man to look after
them, but they want to own a drove
and get in among them themselves,
and talk horse and smell horse and act
horse. With dogs it is the same. and
of the animals and their disorders and
their points in way fit only for pro-
fessional fanciers and veterinaries. II
they take up athletics the same policy
is pursued, and the girls are not salts.
fed unless they out-man the men in
all the courses of physical exercise and
training
Money gives our young women a
mannish independence that ordinary
girls do not have, and they have no do
nestle counterbalance. The result il
that many of our rich girls as rule
are not the best material for wives
and mothers, and, as they cannot be
husbands and fathers, they occupy
middle ground, which is unnatural and
undesirable. If I had daughters with
in the New York atmosphere, nor
should they have unlimited means,
even if / had to put the money in the
hands of trustees and allow them only
a reasonable portion of their income.
There is nothing better in this world
thai SOOu NO1udl-SOOd III lu1lo dAlu
heart and body, and when she has the
means to spread her goodness among
those who are not so fortunate as she,
then she becomes the supreme earthly
good-she is good, and the money is
good. But when she becomes dewom-
anized by her money, then the woman
is bad and the money is bad, and we
have in New York more deWomaniZed
young women than anywhere on earth,
not excepting London. There they are
worse than ours, but there are not so
many of them. Denomination, as
I express it, does not mean immortality;
but there are qualities in a woman
which make her much less attractive
as real woman than lack Of virtue,
and woman may be vicious although
she be virtuous.
ssI don't say that our rich New York
young women are vicious, but I do
say that the poet did not have one of
these I have been talking about in
mind when he wrote:
A Lady with Lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type Of good,
Heroic woman hood.
New York Press.