The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-26
PASTOR REBukES
SOCIETY SMELLS
Says Women at the Chicago
kirmess Were Shameless
Iy ALFRED.
CAUSES RAID
VT Is a Hideous Caricature for tn,
chiIdiess Through Choice to
Stand as Patrons for
Children"

Chicago. Jam. 26.-The scathing de-
nunciation OF the Kirmness, the star
society event OF the winter, unde the
auspices of Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Frank
lin MacVeigh, Mrs. j. O.. Armour. Mrs.
Stanley Field and others equally prom
inent in society. by the Rev. Sidney
Strong, of the Second CongresatiohaN
| church. in Oak Park, has Bit
ter resentment.
The minister attended the kirmess
one night. and said of it in his pulpit:
Il saw young women attending the
frappe table attired III such "a way thaq
a similar attire IN Il saloon IN SCUM
state street would provoke IL raid by
the police. ~,
"The women who took part of the
product of our best NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mawr, Vassar and the ltke-and thetis
relatives are powers In the commercial
world. They gave an exhibitor OF
themselves open to the public.
."The feature tina at first aroused me
was the irony OF the spectacle of u
company of wonen banding themselves
together III a 'cribside' society-womefl
who come from the class that Keeps
as far from the cribside as possible;
women whose class, which is called 'so-
ciety,' Is by sins OF omission doing q
thousand-fold more for the injury OF
the innocents than they Will be able 10
atone for by charity to h homeless.
Suppose IL hundred saloonkeepers
should form a society TO iouho 3
drunkards' home.
1T is a hideous caricature Tor the
childless through choice to stand as pa
irons of the children. J
Akin 20 Zulu Women.
"rhe half-naked. painted. ~sensualized
Chicago woman is IL full sister with the
benlghted woman of South Africa.
Striving to be leaders of society; In
stead, destroyers or the pest ne ol uia
race.
"It seemed to me that the girl gradu.
ate Of Halstead street who danced on
the West Side had a right to reach out
and clasp both hands with the girl
graduate at Bryn Mawr."
Mrs. Walter l.. Brewster, treasurer OF
the Kirmess, declares that zone of the
dances was immodest, and that the cos7
/ tunes worn by the women who dis
pensed punch complied with every rule
of propriety.
Dance says Mrs. -Ashbel Newell, who
was one of the prettiest OF the span
n Kicking at all, like some of tho
others And the dresses We're just aa
modest as could be. l am afraid Dr.
Strong never attended many theaters
or he would not have been shocked" =.
''The mar is a bigot and a Puritan"
declares Edison Keith. The average
skirts at the Kirmess lacked something
like five inches OF touching the round
Now. one couldn't seriously object to
a skirt OF that length-unless. of
course. he was looking for something.
to object to. AS a matter of fact the
skirt of that length is better THAI the
ones ordinarily worn by women" :.
Honore Palmer, who led the grand
march and whose wife was a member
of the Spanish set. would say only:
What do we care about Oak Park?".
One on promise not to use
her name, said:
..The atmosphere of that last night
particularly may have been conducive
10 too much wine. I really believe my
self that things We're carried too far;l
that some of the girls who danced
around the place after the dance was
over in the early morning hours did
capers tina they would never have per-
formed If they had stopped to think;
but they were all sorry for IL the next
dav. I know