The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-08-07
FOR SUNDAY REFLECTION.

Courtenay Guild brother of eX-
! Governor Guild of Massachusetts
and a member of the most exclusive
social circles in Boston attacks Am
erican society saying that it "reeks
! Of rivalrics and jealousies. and
4 that lit is as cold blooded as a fish.
Guild has spent twenty years in
amusing himself in society, and he
warns anybody against entering
upon similar career He charges
: the men and women OF society with
being interested only in their own
selfish desires and that society new
er knows a true love match He
said that parents in society force
their children to marry by threat
of disinheritanCe.
Il know society from the bottom
| to the top" said Guild. and ! have
grown to loathe it. Society is tinsel.
! It glitters it attracts, but enter it
and you are like the moth around
the flame | have sought for it, but
II have never been able to find
heart in society. If society has
/ heart it is of stone.
! Those who want to go along
! road of unhappiness have only to
enter society. The world of so-called
h! fashion is one of disappointment,
1ur y
litableness toward all. To grow old
/ in society is to be disgraced. Have
YOU ever seen white head in So
! ciety? No. but YOU may see women
fup to 10 with dark, fleecy locks, and
ifrocks and hats like girls of 8, and
faces that seem to tell in plain Ian
ing old In other walks of life there
is dignity attached to old age.
Success in society is not a ques-
ton of personality but a question of
money. You might be Demosthe-
mes or a Shakespeare, but if you
were poor society would snap its fin
ter society's portals, leave Mr..
Brains outside. for you will have no
use for him within. If you have
money. enter streaming ii out ef
your open hand and YOU will he APP
Iplauded as one Of the salts of the
jearth
4 SC q
dollar mark To become a social ia
.vorite it is not necessary even to be
what you might cali respectable.
You may be divorced every day in
the week, YOU may be a libertine,
but only have money and no more
will be required of you.
Champagne with dinner every
might, 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 pleasure
and pleasure alone. II is hammered
ing must be their aim in life. The
boys and girls must know how to
cross a ballroom floor; they must
| know how to bow: how TO talk moth
ings at dinner; how to look gay when
the heart is heavy: how many cards
to leave when calling on a family
v,rith rtin n n
the hundred and one other formal
ties which society marks of first inn
portance.
The average society woman is
written up for her charities but |
still have to find one woman, or
man, either. in society who is true
philanthropist I'm heart sick of So
jciety and its emptiness. It's a gilded
soap bubble"
The society to which Mr.. Guild
irefers spells its name with a big S.
Ut is nine parts sham and one part
| hypocrisy. 1t is not exclusive, al
though it pretends to be ANY man
,or woman with money can buy his
or her way into it. Nor is il confined
to the large cities. Every city. after
tit passes the town" stage, boasts of
Its Four Hundred We all bow to the
dollar mark, not alone in society,
but in business, in art, in politics,
even in the church 1t is the curse of
!,