The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1906-01-24

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bet what costs money. This girl was
unusually handsome when she was
sixteen, but she shows only traces of
it now.
81 know another with $4,000 a year
allowance from her mother who spends
it all ON her own pleasure, and she has
become as coarse as washerwOman
and talks like teamster. | know any
quantity of girls who swear profanely.
l 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 l don't say
that the money made that woman vul-
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 supper table in one
of the finest houses in Fifth avenue
with millions of money around me and
heard young men and young women
tell stories and howl with delight over
them that would redden the cheeks
of n Carrara marble statue. l don't
say the money did it, but do say that
l know many young women who don't
have money In excess, and they are
not that kind.
"The girl who has money must have
something to do, and as the ordinary
domestic occupations are closed 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 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
ride, and have 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
dog-girl will talk about the breeding
of the animals and their disorders and
their points in way fit only for pro-
fessional fanciers and veternaries. If
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
mannish independence that ordinary
girls do not have, and they have no do
mestic counterbalance The result is
that many of our rich girls as a 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 l had daughters with
money to excess I 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 only
a reasonable portion of their income.
There is nothing better in this world
than 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 not so
many of them. Denomination. as
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.
81 don't say that our rich New York
young women are vicious, but l 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.