Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-07
IDLE RICH GIRLS; c.
LOAFERS, SAYS MINISTER
Pastor of Trinity Church, South Orange, Inveighs Against Pur-
suit of Material Pleasures and Says Wealthy Men Would
Be Ashamed to Bring Up Sons Like Daughters.

| do not refer to the w%orshipers OF
money. The pagans OF today do not
worship so useful a thing as money,
They give life for the purely mate
rial pleasures that money will buy.
Money is a necessity to them and
must be had, but only that they may
indulge the more their love of ex-
%traVagant luxury. They are like those
people of old of whom Paul said that
their God was their belly.
| You say that I am fitting at wind
I mills, that you know of no such peo-
pie. There are hundreds of them
passing this corner today. Their
only thoght is of purely sensual
things. If you would entice them to
church it must be by means of some
device hat shall appeal to their
senses. They are as pagan as the
Corlnthian themselves.
DO You Begin to Have Mlsgivings
Have you no such neighbors? Are
they not touching you with the virus
of their disease? Have you no secret,
half-formed desire to emulate them?
Do you begin to have misgivings
about the strictness of yor ideas and
to wonder If, after all, it is not
mans chief duty to enjoy himself.
THE cup of devils that we are all
tempted to dring is the cup of ex-
travagant pleasures. Men are work.
ing themselves into premature old
age, darkening their souls with
shady business transactions that they
may achieve economic independence
or provide adequately for the future
of their families, but they may en-
able their wives and sons and daugh-
ters to keep up in the passionate
race for pleasure. lie begins with
what seems harmless emulation.
Your ons and daughters are enevit-
ably drawn into certain social sets.
They begin to wonder and then to
complain at the simplicity of your
home. There is an element of dis
content introduced into the family.
Children of today and in this part
of the country must engage in social
functions and observe social conven-
tions that their mothers did not
dream of until they were twenty
years further along in life, and so
1t goes until the old ideals are cor
rupted and the life is poisoned.
A Direct Result of ~Idleness.
81 have spoken of the irreverance
and fippancy to be observed among
a certain class of young women. 1t
is doubtless the direct result of idle
ness. 1t is M of the blessings of our
generation that women are being
emancipated from many of the bonds
of tradition and convention that for
merly limited them. But it is one of
the curses of our civilization that so
many of it's ome are idle. They are
freed of all necessity and cured of all
desire to work. These idle women
corrupt their sisters.
1.-THE girl who waits upon them / n
the shop envies them their idleness
and their expensive clothes. She longs
not for the day when she can be
supremeeley useful, but for the day
when, having made a lucky marriage,
she, too. can be supremely idle. Lady
hood to her, becomes the condition of
having nothing to do.
ut is one of the strange incon-
sistencies of men that many a father
who would be deeply disgraced in the
thought that n of his sons was an
idler will deliberately rear his laugh
ters to be nothing but expensiyely-
dressed loafers.''