The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-29
COURTENAY GUILD CONDEMNS
CLASS IN WHICH HE MOVES
SOAP BUBBLE.
RIvALRIES AND JEAL0USIfS
A oilded Soap Bubble, a Structure
Without a Heart, a Place Where
Brains Are Useless and Unknown,
Says a Rich Society Man.

Boston. July 2S.-Courtenay Guild,
brother of Ex-Governor Guild OF Mas.
sachusctts and member OF the most
exclusive social circles in this city,
attacked American society today,
saying that IL "rccks of rivalries
as cold-bloOded as fish" Guild
has spent twenty years in amusing
simsclf. and he warns anybody
against entering upon a similar
career. He charges the men and wo-
men of society with being Interested
only in their own selfish desires
and that society never knows
true love match" He said that
parents In society force their chill.
dren to marry by threat Of dis
inheritance
II know society from the bottom
TO the top" said Guild and have
grown TO loathe I Society is tin
sci II gltters. IL attracts. but
enter It and you are like the moth
around the flame. ! have sought
for It, but | have never been able
70 find a heart in society. II society
has heart II is of stone.
Those who want to go along a
road of unhappincss have only TO
enter society. The world of so-called
fashion is one OF disappointment, bit
terness. envy malice and uncharita-
blcness toward all. To grow old ia so
ciety is 20 be disgraced Have you
ever seen a white head in society?
No, but you may see women up TO
20 with dark fleecy locks and frocks
and hats like girls of is. and faces
that seem to tell in plain language
of horror against fast growing
old In other walks of life there is
dignity attached to old age.
Success in society is not
question OF personality but ques.
tion of money. You might be De
mosthenes or Shakespeare, but II
YOU We're poor society would snap
its fingers at you in disdain When
you enter societys portals leave Mr..
Brains outside, for you will find no
use for him within II you have
money, enter, streaming II out OF
your open hand and you will he
applaudcd as one OF the salt Of the
earth
'Hhat is society. All you oct is
= dollar mark. To become a s9,iai "a.
v@r'lo IL Is not necessary ever TO
be- what you might call res sps~.lble.
You may be divorced every day in
the week, you may be a libertine
but only have money and no more
VIII be required OF you
Champagne with dinner every
night. gambling for high stakes
at bridge, up late every morning, out
calling every afternoon That's the
life OF the average society woman.
There's nothing more IN social life.
for men, Both sexes pursue pleas.
ure ana pleasure alone. 1t is ham.
mered into the children that pleas
ure seeking must be their aim in life.
The boys and girls must know how
70 cross a ballroom floor. they
must know how TO bow; how To talk
nothings at dinner; how to look gay
when the heart is heavy; how many
cards 10 leave when calling on a
family with "A spinster aunt and how
to do the hundred and one other
{ formalities which society marks of
/ first importance.
The average society woman Is
written up for her charities, but |
still have to find one woman, or
man, either, in society who is a true
philanthropist. I'm heartsick OF so,
1 ciety and its emptiness, rs a guild.
ed soap bubble"