Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-06
new REVOLUTION
IS PREDICTED
BY MRS. FISH
Prominent Social Leader and
Thinker Says Country Is
Facing Upheaval

NEW YORK, June 22-'Like France
on the eve of its great revolution
that is the way | feel that we are
now unless some great leader. some
powerful mind, can save US from what
seems almost inevitable"
This remarkable statement WIS
made by Mrs Stuyvesant Fish. whose
social prominence, whose charm and
brilliancy have always made her.
leaeer, and who is received on both
sides Of the Atlantic as representing
the social life of America.
When | say that we are IN the
most critical period of our existence
as nation ! do not say it as social
isl, as a radical or as sensationalist,
for | am none of those things" con-
cisued Mrs. Fish. but somehow feel
that / have u peculiarly clear outlook
in more than Usually large way up.
on what is going on around me. and
my opinion is that if our country con-
tinues to go in the way we are drifting
there is a grave, a wonderful danger
ahead"
Society Is Misrepresented.
but returning 10 my fears for the
future of our country, want TO say
that society, the handful of people like
myself who live within a certain re-
strieted environment. is not largely re-
snonsible for existing, conditions.
While l look upon society as 1t exists
at the present time as entirely not
worth while, | do maintain that SO
ciety has been very badly misrepre-
scented to the ma SIS es of people,
AS matter. of fact, there is hardly
any woman OF my acquaintance. no
matter what her alleged frirolities
are. who does not take a deep hums n
interest in her fellow creatures and
try in every wav possible 20 make the
life of those less fortunately more.
worth while. But what does one read
of society? They do not hear the Sc
rious-tEe real-doings of the woman
of society. but let a man or two women
lunch together and bring a dog or
two along and the whole country is
sblaze with front page stories of the
event.
ITO one monkey dinner there are
thousands of sDleneid. fine, unselfish
acts of human kindne,ss done by these
women These go unheralded, not
that we want them heralded, but We
do not want the other things exag-
gerated, for they not only misrepre
sent but they make for class. anita
gonism and for class hatred continu-
ed Mrs. Fish,.
The trouble is that IS a whole our
country i.s almost without standards
and IDEAS, and our TRADITIONS are fast
going from us. We have, lost thel
greatest of our ideals, in fact. the one
thing that makes ideals possible. We
have lost our religious consciousness.
1t doesn't matter what sort of a reli-
gion one has, but no nation can exist
without a religious feeling and under
standing
Il am taken for a worldly woman.
Few of nv old friends realize an0 un,
derstand the deep religious sense that
has been the undercurrent of my life
and has made me do whatever has
been worth while in my life. But
were I without this deep sense of the
meaning of things. life would be the
emptiest of baubles. While | have
been frank and candid at times, to-
the verge of being misunderstood, /
still feel that | have tried always to
live up to the best that he's been in
me-.
Ideals Are Maintained.
with all nv mistakes and failures
/ can at least look back upon my life
as one that has striyen at least to live
up to certain standards which my !
sense of religion has given me.
but do people about me understand
all that? No, / find my friends look
upon my serious side as peculiar.
They think am blase. tired. finished. |
1t is no sign of jades spirits to change |
ones idea as to what one most enjoys
than it is to think one is dying OF In
digestion because one changes ones
breakfast food.
Have YOU noticed my dances them !
selves have changed; my waltz has be-
come 'old fogy'?" she was asked.
Have /? should say had. These /
wretched, vulgar dances, this Turkey /
trnt which I have seen during the last /