The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-30
Signs of the Times
What Is SocictyP

What Is Society?
with the falling leaf and fading
flower society editors all over the
country are saying this month, so 70
ciely takes on new life and enters
upon season Of gayoty. or words to
that effect, The intimation is that
society reverses the usual custom
and hibernatcs in the summer time.
then comes TO life In the winter.
society pages are ostonsibly devoted
70 me ohronicled interests and ac-
uVltles OF that part of any COM
mnnily called society. and tho
varied groups thus <fvolved, raise
the question OF What Is society? A.
often and as famiiiarly usl as that
term is, 1t doesn't mean the same
To any two groups Of people
According TO Webster. who Is
generally considered 10 hc moro or
less Of an authentic authority. So
clety is the cultivated part Of any
community. That !s general enough
10 let anybody In ON It according 10
lhelr own rating OF themselves. To
q woman, society means her clubs.
mer church. her Cotcrie Of friends.
!" the average man. va'nIv trvfNy
TO comprehend that which lt Is civ
en- 10 no man 70 understand Il .s
some secret organization maintained
Tor the benefit of jewellers florists
a.nu oresamaEcrs. To rewsp1per.
IL means readable copy for women
about women and usually by women.
inc assumption Is, that society is
Iemin ne and that none hut women
read the society page. Although tho
question is dcbatlhle we are willinr
TO give the man tho benefit of tho
Puht wants it.
sometimes even those Of us who
Know better are tcmDtod to agree
with the small boy who said that
society is n lot of women with their
good clothes on irving to make
other women sorry they weren't in
ylted, However, wemav differ from
the small hoy's masculine divinatia1
OF tho motive Of women in wcarin ~
their good clothes I'm society. wa will
conccde HIM this much--soclety IS A
lot Of women more often than not
Man will frivol IN the evening and
catching up his cue. keep un his role
IN the piece. nut he is, in so far ae
the intricacies Of the thing called
society Is concerned. on the outside
looking in. lie plays his game
down town.
The majority Of men don't think
very highly Of women as politicians
That Is, tho uninitiated don't. There
arc some few whom experience has
made wiser Thev know what everv
woman knows, that there are no
more deep lald plots In the plain =
~ the game called politics. no moro
selling OF personalities and pro-
Ne1ts in what used 10 he n mans
Ia. 10 4, 4
nav around In IT, than 90 on IN po-
lite society.
A Kansas preacher once had n
good deal TO saw about woman ana
the ballot. Combination OF vote and
woman as a subject for discussion
sn good any moro in Tulsa Or
oklahoma either: having secured II
whether she wants Il or not, woman
passes on and turns her attention TO
tho next thing she hasn't got. Bat
lhe minister of tho gOsnel f"Om tho
sunflower state cast wholesale os-
peislon on the Creator when he de-
ole'ed that THE Lord has so made
woman that she Is incanabl, OF fair
p'dv' He said moro very uuEip'
thlnfs Int that was unkiudest ~ az
1h9 might have been unpa~dOnahl"
u mis- premise hadn't been so fanny
IMAGINE basing an argument on the
az lmp-ion that politics Is alwa"r
ialr play ANYWAY. even II one We're
.nl!ned to take the reverend gen
fnau seriously. his statement
Mn Z nearly so hard on the wome0
a. u was on the Lord The signs ~
we times are unmistakahie, but the
gentleman from Kansas fails T.
coinprchend them.
hGl that Is straying far from tho
suh'.ct OF society, OF which womer
a'r the makers, brains and nar
Sg'pants, Men, by the aid Of thei
esenee ana ducats, maintain II
i,' does tempt, and whero temnt
ny 'hlls she coaXes and Ca'oles he
''HSoTt Into something that he Il