The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-23
LADY PAGET SAYS THE MOTH
ERs ARE THE GREATEST OF
ALL.
SOCIETY ONLY DOLLARS
Women Suffrage win Limitation Is
Retorm-The Wealth and Luxury
IN America Is Appalling. Says the
Daughter. Of Millionaire.


New York. Feb. 22.-"Thc happ.cst
woman in the world, the woman who
is filling her greatest usefulness in
the world, is not the woman who is
trying to proclaim herself tn, intel.
lectual equal OF man. bur who is sat.
isicd to be what the Creator meant
her TO bc-iust woman. whose chief
function in the world and whose use.
tulness is TO be the mother Of child
ron and the keeper of the home. 4
woman Is not mans intellectual
equal. Can any woman comprehend
ana solve the business problems that
are so easy for men? And. after an
what good would It do her II she
could?
II was Lady Arthur Pagct. socially
one of the most successful American
women that ever lived i'm London
who expressed this opinion today She,
whom George Moore described as the
most intellectual. charming and well
poised American woman he ever met.
lay back against her pillows in her
apartments in the Waldorf Astoria
and discussed her views Of America
suffraglsm and luxury with similar
candor
Did YOU ever stop 20 think that
the worlds most cherished women
the woman whose names thrill us
were the worlds most feminine Great.
ures?' she asked "There we're not
the aggressive women. but they were
the plastic influence behind aggressive
men. They eXerted charm -theyradi.
ated womanhood and love and affec.
tion and were glad for what the gods
gave them. It was because that ev-
cry great man in history grew great.
But here in the United States I do
not see why women shouldn't have
the franchise-they are only asking
for that. what the English suffragettc
demands is for more Her demands
reach out to the farthest limits of so
cialism with its dangerous problems.
which are not yet understood even
by the worlds greatest thinkers"
Lady Pagets comment then turned
to the enormous aggregations of
wealth in the United states.
at is appalling-this enormous con.
centration OF wealth and themarvel.
Gus luxury of the people here-the
greatest luxury that the world has
ever seen. Why, when look back on
my childhood and young girlhood.
here. II seems that IL must have been
in another world had no maid: I.
wore no jewels We Young folks rev.
eled in skating slcighing and out OF
door advertisements such as mush.
rooming and nut gathering. What
child of New York today knows of
such things? Wealth and luxury have
abolished all simplicity OF living.
'In society should like TO see the
great empire builders-the men who.
with their brain and Drawn, have
evolved this wonderful common wealth
but who OF them is known in so
cicty? What artists, literati and peo.
pie who are doing things for the prog
ress Of the nation are to be found
there? II Is money, money, only mon.
oy. A handful OF people compose so.
ciety, while the great numbers Of the
doers of things the founders Of the
great institutions. are all on the out,
side | believe that my mother was
really the only woman who founded
a salon In New York In her house
was accustomed 10 meet such men
and women as 7 speak about. II is
a joy 10 think bacl, 10 those days