The daily sentinel., 1906-05-31
THE SOCIAL DEMAND.

The strenuous social season has
about been concluded in this city.
The past winter and spring have been
filed to repletion with social func-
lions of every kind and character.
II has taken. upon the part OF the
ladies'. considerable nerve force to
maintain the constant round of par
ties. social calls and all the other re-
quirements made upon them through
their social ties.
1t is questionable If any other city
in the state has quite so many affaii !
of social nature as has this city
Besides the strictly social duties
men and women pay considerable at
tention to their lodge duties and the
demands of social organizations. 50
that all the time of the average indi-
yidual is pretty well occupied here.
The question of returns and the
compensation for this everlasting So
cial whirl must be determined by
each for themselves
Strong ground is taken in the east
ern country against a too constant de-
votion to the call of society and lodge
Il is asserted and contended that The
penalty of being tied to the social
string comes in the loss of a large
degree of enjoyment in ones home.
Isolated as we are in this section
of the country, there is more or less
demand for social pleasures than
there would be in other sections.
where the pleasure can be diversified
by surrounding conditions, which af-
ford more amusement in so many
other attractions.
In the Ladies Home Journal during
the past winter there has been one
of the most forceful appeals to society
to return to the conditions of the old
regime, modelled after the society OF
the time of the Colonial DANES. These
articles were by +. Hopkinson Smith,
one of the foremost writer's of the
day and with their Illustrations were
powerful appeals for the condition of
society modelled on the lines of the
splendid home times maintained in
that period.
Nor were the articles of namby
pamby nature. They dealt body blows
at the hollowness of modern society.
which must have made some of the
new rich and those whose pretentions
have come with their wealth blush
deeply at the snobbery of the times.
All that old Difference paid to
women by men of the gallant per-
iod referred to. has been lost or ta-
booed, asserts the writer. Men are
commanding, lnSolent ana caprlclOuS.
while women who were made queens
of In that period have to struggle
in lndelieate manner. for the amen
tiles of polite society. which in for
mer years was their due.
Young men and women who at
a very early date. cut loose from the
home ties take with a large de
gree of sufrrance the kindly sugges-
tons of parents for their welfare.
The head of the house Is looked up
on MS an appendage, whose prinei-
pal function Is to furnish the
bright(? y youth with spending money
and at the table and in the home the
viii and the Judgments of the son,
are expected to be the law OF the
household.
The daughter Is impatient of res
traint and knows better than her par
ents what is best for her well being.
Fortunately there are many who re-
fuse to adopt the modern method of
soclety's behest and refuse to abdi-
cate for their children and who ac-
cept just so much of the social life
of the community in which they live,
reserving a large margin of time to
be spent in the home which after
all is the real place of absolute en-
joyment.