Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-24

We put our hearts Into IL not reeos
nl1ed or rewarded. but In the strug.
gle for spiritual existence we adapt
| ourselves to the 1nappfeciAtive rea
lures Of the environment and learn
to LOOK elsewhere for recognition.
We do not expect people To paw lis for
our best. We look to the approval OF
conscience. to the light of our ideal,
seen more clearly when our work
Is good, or TO the Judgment of God.
Our terms differ more than our tens
denotes. The essential point Is that
for appreciation OF OUR best work we
look TO q judge more just and keen.
sighted than our payinaster.
The Jsrsop Abcut ssoclety.s
From Harpefs Weekly
A life In society lie evidently a
thing quite apart from life anywhere
else. For example, one Is constantly
reading something like this mil.
lionaire's daughter gives up society
te become teacher II Is hard to
understand One might suppose that
even a teacher would like TO keep
some of her old friends. could find
an occasional evening 70 dine out or
TO visit the opera or play, that
one, IN short could be I'm society"
and still exercise some slight per
sonal choice as TO which Of its va
fied plea sures one would accept. In
stead Of behaving like a python hut
this Is evidently not possible A re-
cent article ended with an absolutely
heafi-rending description of such
Society girl' putting away forever
the frocks she had worn I'm society,"
and would never wear again in
Brooklyn. or Salina, or wherever II
was she was going TO live. You can
not In short, be IN newspaper society
and be like any human creature that
ever was by sea or land
What IA heavens name, TO speak
quite seriously, Ia the use OF writing
and printing such arrant nonsense9
The point ia not, IN the least, that the
people written about either as In or
out OF society are nisrepreaented,
that would really be of no very great
Importance What is nhisrepfesented
"a our national good sense and our
American good taste Is IL or is It
not true that the only fact which in
terests us In our fellow~oitizens IL
that they are in society % We are.
of course, according to The papers,
violently Interested i'm them when
they are rich, but this IN the journal
istic cosmos is the same thing as
being fashionable. The morning paper
tells us that az ball on board an in
coming transatlantic liner the for
tunes Of those present amounted to a
billion dollars This may well he, but
what Of it Is IL true that we are so
vulgar that this fact is what chiefly
catches our attention about any set
of ladies and gentlemen dancing
That ball of such elegant size can
exist upon a steamship is piouant;
il IS a bit Of news which, without
stirring any one TO the depths, may
be presumed to please all But Just
the sum total OF their Fortunes"
Society does exist; there is no ihten-
tion here OF Questioning that fact.
But does It not exist side by side with.
supplementary 10. other aetiVities2
Is it not conceivable that the thrice
Happy people in il do not consider
il the whole end and aim of life
And II so. is ii not unwise 10 teach
the great mass OF newspaper readers
that somewhere, in the golden midst
OF millions, there goes on this "a
diant saerosanct existence which,
though led apparently by utter fools,
is still the one thinS which can give
pub lefty and excite ii1terest2 II we
are not all snobs. is IL worth while
TO try so hard to make as 500