The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-06-16

mus Magazine the editor talks as
| follows:
And it so happens that when you
come to know yourself, you will like
wise know all things about all men,
| the best there is to be known, as
| well as the worst; and though, in
one sense, the knowledge you gain
| Is not by any means refreshing, it is
| not at all depressing. You feel that
you are at least armed against ig-
norance of your neighbors, and if
| you are much of a man, your pride
and conceit, and the whole swarm
of vanities that dance attendance
on them, will fall away from you
| like leaves from the trees in an au-
| tumn storm, and you will find your
self growing in the good will and es-
TEEN of your fellow-men. You will
no longer wonder that sensitive
| Christians have worn hair-shirts with
smiling face, or that they seek the
solitude Of the desert, fasting to the
point of furnishing, on bread and
! water-or that, in some quarters of
the globe. where tradition stands
guard over the actions of men, there
are flourishing societies of flagel
| lants, men and women who know
themselves so well that they take
sad pleasure in the self-infliction of
| the punishments of the flesh, and
feel that they deserve every wound
and every blow"
The Peoria philosopher talks in
this strain:
| Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish declares
that New York society is only an
empty and hollow shell, while New
| port has been ruined by money
| Everything has heretofore been reg
ulated by this standard and the re-
talent brains, magnetism and per
sonality have no influence. This
must change. The time must come
when brains will count for more
than money but at present every
| body is bored to death. Inasmuch as
people are invited simply because
they have money, there is no CONVEX
sation, no kindness of feeling and
they fall back upon SANDER and Cos
| sip and even abusing themselves to
each other. In England and on the
continent, they value people for
what they are. If they are entertain
ing, Intellectual, magnetic and kind
| ly, they are welcomed, invited, made
much of and regarded with affection
ate interest Society in New York
and Newport has made itself ridicu-
lous. The newspapers have contribu-
the truth of it is that people who
have only money are wearisome to
themselves and to their acquaintan-
ces. We do not know of a single rich
man whose society is either enter
tanning or instructive, For the most
part, our rich people spend their
over their troubles and in worrying
for fear their acquaintance will
work them. They are surrounded
by a set of toadies whose compli-
ments are hollow, insincere and who
! make fun of their pretentions behind
their backs. All this makes Ameri-
can society pmnty vain selfish dis
trustful The first thing a rich man
does is to quarrel with his family
and relatives. All his life he has been
trying to have money and it hurts
him to spend the sums that his fam,
lily demand in order to keep up their
position. The moment reverse
comes, these people disappear like
fog blown away by the morning
wind. They are here today and gone
tomorrow and no one cares fol
them. Their whole structure having
been based on money, when the
; money is gone, they go, too. Nc
wonder Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish feels
that this sort of life is unsatisfactory
and she announces that she will GU
Newport and go abroad for the sum
mer, where people study true en-
joyment.
Here little and there a little; sc
, we learn the lessons of life. Waco
Times-Herald.