The National tribune., 1907-07-25

a fashionable friend spoke to her hostess
Just twice-once when she arrived and
when she departed. OF course. this sort
of thing prevails only among the ultra
fashionable class. There are thousands
of homes all over the country whose
doors are opened only to those of re-
hnement and culture. Fashion and
money are powerless in effecting an en-
trance there, but men and women of
brains. no matter how modest their in
come, are warmly welcomed. In these
homes interesting. stimulating CONVEX
satlon is the only entertainment pro-
vided, but the guests who leave such
houses feel that they have been FEAST
ing indeed on reason. Instead of the
flowing bowl being made the princi-
pal factor of these feasts. dulling the
intellect and numbing the higher aspira-
tons, the flow of soul has mentally
stimulated and encouraged them. i'm
some cases proving so helpful that the
success, following failure. can be dis
unctly traced to some particular visit
and some particular house
DR.. Aked, John D. Rockefeller's pas-
tor, who has just taken out his first citi
Zenship papers. says that he has always
oeen anxious TO be an American citizen,
ana has strongly felt that his best work
could only be done under the Stars and
stripes. He says our history has ever
Deen an inspiration to him, and the
stories of our great men and their
achieVements fired him with an over
poWerlng desire to make his home in
TINS country. DR.. Aked is very at
tractive man. with a magnetic person.
atty He is typical Englishman in an
pearance. tall, athletic, clear-skinned-
blue-eyed. brown-haired and brown as
to mustache. He is very enthusiastic in
and talks with an ease and
tuency which makes him delightful to
listen to. He gives one the impression
OF being thoroly wide awake and in
tensely in earnest. The Doctor saws he
prefers this country to England for sew
eral reasons. He doesn't care for a
hereditary monarchy; he doesn't believe
in an established church, which he
thinks degrades religion; he doesn't be-
leVe IN Sectarian system of education
such as prevails in England, CARRYING
with 1t narrownesS, Snobhery and a per-
scouting spirit; he does rot believe in
the military despotisra of that country,
with its caste and class interests. He
prefers to live in America because he
thinks there is greater intellectual ac-
tlvlty in the atmosphere here and a GER
tain disdain of convention. Every Eng
gllshman IS slave of precedent, while
the American thinks it is his business
TO make precedents. not blindIy follow
them. He prefers America because he
thinks we have a higher standard of
that it is more general and
widespread: because our standard of
morals IS higher than the English; be-
cause we have less drunkenness and for
q lot of other reasons all so compliment
tary that they quite make us blush DR..
Aked is all right, and will make a first
class American citizen.
Altho it means a good deal of trouble
to get 1t, John d. Rockefeller, the rich
est man in the world, means to have the
S9220 due him as witness in the Stand
ard Oil case in Chicago the other day.
He sent a messenger to find out what
he would have to do to collect it, and
was told that he would either have to
go himself to Chicago and be properly
identified or present himself before the
District Attorney in Cleveland and
swear to the facts in the case If such
an affidavit is received. a pay roll will
then be sent him, and after that the
Government will send him voucher for
the money. 1t seems a rather small
sum for Millionaire to bother about,
but John d. has his principles and must
live up to them.
There is no sight in the whole world
more pathetic and distressing than a
homeless, penniless old woman, and any
charity that provides for this class Of
must make the angels glad.
There are Old Ladies Homes every
where, of course, but in most cases these
require at least small entrance fee,
which keeps many a poor old woman
out. Mrs. Russell Sage has just added
another $125,000 to the millions already
given by her to charitable objects by
bestowing this amount upon the Asso-
citation for the Relief of Respectable
Aged lndfgent Females in New York
City. This money is to be used in so
charging the Home, which now accom-
modates 80, that three times that num-
ber can be comfortably taken care of
within it's walls. The Home only ad-
mits women over 60 years of age. Alas!
what tragedy life is to all penniless.
homeless old women during that last
home stretch-from so on to the end,
and the best thing of all about Mrs.
Sage's bequest is that it will make it
possible to abolish the entrance fee Of
5000.
Too much prominence is given divorce
cases by the leading newspapers, it is
true. Such publications are undignified
and lowering to the tone of the press,
and the public should not be allowed to
share the intimate secrets of the home,
and is certainly not helped in any way
by being allowed to do So Neverthe-
less. when any one particularly well
known. socially or otherwise. appears
before the world as unfortunate in hav-
ing drawn a blank in the lottery of mar
riage. the papers seem to feel that they
must furnish to their readers all the
hold of. The recent Preston Gibson di-
vOrce case has attracted much attention
IN account of the prominence of the
couple in the literary and socia; world.
Mrs. Gibson is the stepdaughter of ThoS
Nelson Page. the well-known writer.
who married the widow of Henry Field.
brother of the late Marshall Field, of
1t will perhaps be remember
ID that Henry Field met his death in
he most tragic manner while entertain
ng some friends on the Fourth of July
many years ago. In setting off some
fireworks his head was practically
blown Off. Preston Gibson is something
IF an author himself. clubman and
society leader. and the two met when
she was but school girl and he stu
lent at Yale. She was very pretty.
sweet attractive girl, and her mother
was naturally anxious TO have Pcs an-
sh her education before thinking of
marriage. However. like most girls, she
vas somewhat wilful. and thought she
Knew best what she wanted to do. so
she and Young Preston Gibson shut up
heir books and ran off together. A lit
lie boy now four years of age is the
-esult of this union, which seemed hap
ly enough till about a year ago. Some
If their friends say there was too much
had an income of about
$4,000 between them-and too much
pleasure seeking. Mrs. Gibson applied
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