The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-10

good moral character, as we under
stand that in a woman. She has Eer
horses and her dogs and her yachs--
not n very large one, but large enough
| and she has the manners OF "A man,
and very nearly the masculine voice.
docs she gamble? or course. /
don't think know rich young worn-
an who won't wager something or
other. The beginners. and the very
sensitive, won't bet money. but they'll
bet what costs money. This girl was
unusually handsome when she was
sixteen. but she shows only traces CT
it now.
"T know another with $4,000 year
| allowance from her mother who spends
il all on her own pleasure. and she has
become as coarse as washerwoman
and talks like teamster. l know any
quantity of girls who swear profanely-
| heard rich society woman, old
enough TO know better, curse at her
! eoachman one night in front OF the
Metropolitan Opera House. II the
coachman had used the language that
lady did he would have been arrested
for disorderly conduct. / don't soy
that the money made that woman yul-
gar and ,profane. but / know that her
mother would have cut her tongue out
before she would have laid it to sucn
language.
"And the stories they tell. Good
Lord, I've sat at a supper table in one
of the finest houses in Fifth avenue
with millions of money around me and
! hna ar1 nd SON
tell stories and howl with delight over
them that would redden the cheeks
of a Carrara marble statue. i don't
say the money did it, but do say that
| know many young women who don't
have money in excess, and they are
not that kind.
THE girl who has money must hare
something to do, and as the ordinary
domestic occupations are ,loscd to her
she must go to social advertisements TO
keep her mind and body engaged. The
| trend of society is to excess of some
sort-no matter what is done IL 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
q pair to drive and possibly one to
| ride, and have a man to look after
Them but they want to own drove
and get in among them themselves,
and talk horse and smell horse and act
horse. With dogs it Is the same and a
dog-grl will talk about the breeding
Of the animals and their disorders and
their points in a way fit only for pro-
fessional fanclers and veterlnaries. If
they take up athletics the same policy
is pursued and the girls are not satis-
fed unless they out-man the men I'm
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 TO
nestle counterbalance. The resIit IS
that many of our rich girls as o rule
are not the best material for wives
and mothers and, as they cannot be
husbands and fathers, they occupy 81
middle ground, which is unnatural and
undesirable If I had daughters with
money to excess should not rear them
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 on,y
reasonable portion of their income.
There is nothing better in this world
than a good woman-good in mind and
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 ifot so
many of them. Dewomanization as
express it, does not mean immortality,
but there are qualities in a woman
which make her much less attractive
as a real woman than lack of virtue,
and woman may be vicious although
she be vrtuous.
Il don't say that our rich New York
young women are vicious, but 1 do
say that the poet did not have one of
these l 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.
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