The broad ax., 1920-12-04
ONE SHAM JU1BLE OF ENVY AND
GOSSIP.
BY DR.. NJ. A. Majors.

is society. He riseth up with his pay
check and straightway he gOeth to the
tailor shop or clothes merchant to buy
himself a suit and overcoat. He gets
himself all fixed up and goeth in quest
of il and finds it. Does he like itf
Well, maybe.
All you can make, and often more
than can be honestly made, makes the
thing some call society, something very
expensive. Then after you spend
everything trying to reach that spot
of light, you find you have been dis
appointed by much of the crude and
unbecoming audaeity both in spirit and
character of those you thought were
difficult to swim with in the turbulent
social sea.
Later you admit that your mistake
was worse than cruel disappointment,
it was downright disbursement, and
if you were honest you d see that the
lesson you we learned has taken a lot
of coneeit out Of your heart.
Society has always cost a good deal
of money, the poor man or woman need
not make pretensions that they can af-
ford to keep up with its gallOp. Then
after all, what is accomplished All
of us have TO greatly depend on the
honor of parents who were somebody.
Eligibility TO association with a re-
spectacle set is another thing, alto
gether, one need only be decent and
intelligent, certainly to be dressed up
fob, or frimp is to be out of place when
it requires goodness and brains. And
vet respectable ones with money need
not be excluded if they have brains
in the bargain.
Respeetability has little to do with
society of the present day. The big
social meet, the big feed, and the big
extravaganza of expensive paraphar-
MALTA does not mean deceney, nor eligi- |
bility. The fellow who has the most |
money may make the biggest splurge,
but it does not determine society, for
where is assembled the biggest bunch
Of social beauties and dressed up men
there may be the least proportion Of
eligibility, and perhaps no respeeta-
biity.
There are very grave doubts of any
thing ike society being found, or even
expected in the large cities. Veneer,
garnish and tinsel, fine raiment and all
the accomplishments Of the modiste
and the miIliner, paints, powders and
corn cures do not make women nor .
men eligible, nor respectable.
Being written about, being talked
about, and having dinner here and
there, giving this fete, or big reeep-
ton is all blarney and you find after
all is over that you are simply fOoling
yourself, and worshiping at a shrine
made almost sacred by P. T. Barnum,
only now one is born every half min
ute.
Your social status does not depend
upon others, but upon yourself. To be
eligible to the decent reaches of re-
spectacle association does not make
society. You have left society in the
discard when once you choose with a
eeE.ain fnesse the real friends whose
hos and aspirations are forward and
" ard and tawdry non-essentials can
h no claim upon your attention.
frequently see the impossible at
te. pied by some poor fool with a few
o.-1rs. Do not be cheap. You are
10 social lion, you are q fool The /
eT'T woman killing her husband by
s. ding all he can make working him
s to death, fuiming and sweating to
d -miled at by a bunch of little grin
nHS black and white and yellow imbe-
elies who are not near the women their
mothers were and can never be. And
'lS2 there is the gossip that is manu- Z
iaeiCred by society that develops every ]
woman who undertakes it into an iron :
JaTed phenomena Gossip win be
treated next week. Education, eul-
'Ofe and refining traits Of character
are attained by hard and close appi-
cation Of the highest attributes Of q
Oeing. They cannot be bought by him D
VINO has money-bOrroWed by him with
= slick tongue, nor begged for, and
lhey cannot he sfolen j.
II You who like to shine in the graees B
Hna splendor Of the social muck would Z
-'Aeh further into q realm Of social q