The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

ter to pay them for work tina to give
them thy kind of charity
Whlle, OF course, monkey dinners,
circus balls and other freakish enter
talnments, which sometimes furnish
material for the society editors, are
disgusting to most people of taste and
Judgment, it will be found that such
entertainments generally are given by
persons who recently have acquired
money n are not quite sure how
it may be expended to the best adj
vantage. The entertainments, which
are sometimes condemned most Sc
verely for their cost, are not of this
type but have many elements of real
beauty. Frequently the whole scheme
OF decoration is designed by an artist
who is well paid for his services. His
ideas may be carried out by any army
of skilled workmen, each of whom is
properly paid. The guests derive
pleasure from the beauty, originality
and execution of the entertainment.
but hundreds or perhaps thousands of
working people are benefited by re-
ceiving pay for the work it required.
1t has been stated that the wonderful
Bradley-Martin ball. which for several
years represented the climax Of lavish
expenditure in this country, indirectly
furnished additional earnings to near
~ five thousand people at a season of
the year when they most needed work.
The sane has been true of similar en-
tertalnmentS given since then.
Society women are each year show
ing more consideration for the women
who work. Many of them belong to
the Consumers league and similar or
CARNATIONS. When the investigation
made regarding the laundry workers
in New York last year revealed the
fact that, after an elaborate entertain
ment at one of the large hotels, laun-
dresses often were obliged to work for
from II to "a hours without any
rest one prominent woman went
to the manager of a hotel she usually
~patronized. Il want to give a ball
here for my cousin, Lady Blank, from
England, who is coming over for the
llfst time since her MARRIAGE" she
explained. Il will give it here only
on condition that you supply yourself
with sufficient able linen to prevent
the necessity of women being COM
PEELED to work at unreasonable hours
to put it in order for the next EVENT.
The man knew that the lady would
keep her word, so through her influ-
ence the oppression of the laundresses
in that establishment was practically
ended.
The influence of the society woman
is an important factor in any reform,
Years g Susan b, Anthony said:
There never will be any real progress
made in woman suffrage until it be-
comes the fashion, 1t could not be-
come the fashion until women of So
clal prominence took it up. After
Mrs. Clarence Mackay and Mrs. Q. Fl.
+. Joined the ranks, the suf-
frage movement in New York city
began to flourish. A woman no
longer is ashamed of believing in
equal rights in New York. On the
contrary, if she does not belong to a
suffrage club she begins to make
apologies for being SO far behind the
times.
The charities and philanthropies of
the society woman are almost bound
less, but she is constantly perpleXed to
know whether it is best to follow them
secretly or to let her interest be known
in order that others may profit by her
Man women find the keen
est pleasure in helping those in need
only to have the edge Of their own
enjoyment lessened when news of their
efforts is published in the public press.
Yet many times this seems to be ne
cessary for the good of the cause they
wish to aid. While the type of social
climber exists who is trying to pur-
chase social recognition by her phil
anthropic work n contributions to
charity, she represents a small minor
lty of the women recognized as society
leaders.
The term. society woman covers
a wide range and, therefore, includes
many individual types. Each of them
is supplied with problems peculiar to
her particular circle. The wife of the
one rich man in a. small town of me-
cessity is the social leader there and
has many obligations resting upon her
which her %neighbors have not. It is
her privilege to lead in every move
ment for the betterment of her town.
If she is a timid, shrinking person this
may he hard to do, but the great in
fluence of the Women's organizations