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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1913
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DO WOMEN DRESS TO PLEASE THE
MEN?
I hardly think so, although I feel sat
isfied that decollette waists are not par
ticularly attractive to women as women,
while they may be attractive to men as
men.
One writer says: "Women dress for
each other, because men only look to
the general effect, while women take in
colors, shapes and patterns in detail.
What women think about when they
purchase an article of apparel is the
admiration or envy it excites in the
mind of a rival.”
1 think this writer is somewhat in
error. I believe women seek to gratify
their natural instincts in the dress line.
They have a certain love of color. They
are more or less given to display. They
delight to array themselves in garments
that particularly tickle their own fancy.
Doubtless they confidently expect these
styles to be appreciated by the other
sex, but their chief concern is to have
them noticed by their own set, and there
are a great many women who like to be
odd and to be remarked because they
dare to use extraordinary shades and
ornaments on their clothes. Sometimes
they are. “eritire” beyond the recognized
limit, and actually fantastic, but all the
time they are seeking to please them
selves first and later on to excite prompt
attention and comment in both sexes.
.Therefore, I conclude 'that preachers
ars hardly the class who can reform
dress arrangements for women. All their
resolutions and anathemas will not stop
slits in skirts or little narrow bottoms
to them until women make up their
minds to quit, because these ultra styles
fail to tickle their own fancy. I saw a
young lady so completely hobbled by
the bottom of her frock that she had to
sidle along a few inches and then move
up her other limb a few inches. If she
had suddenly faced a mouse she had no
recourse except to stand stock still or
fall down on her front teeth. But
preachers can’t stop that sort of fool
ishness. The woman has to become dis
gusted with herself, and it seems that
our fashionables are slow in getting dis
gusted.
WHERE DIAMONDS ARE POUND.
After I had finished inv brief article
nbout the craze for diamonds I con
cluded to find out where the bulk of
these sparkling jewels are found by
miners and expert diamond diggers.
In table and story "the Mines of Gol-
ccnda” wdre my first information as
t} the real whereabouts of the spark
lers. The monster diamond called the
“great mogul,” was chronicled as early
as 1640, and it weighed at that time
787 carats.
A fine diamond of one carat will
bring-two or three hundred dollars so
that we see that the "grand mogul”
was a gem worth having. A Venetian
jeweler chipped it down to less than
thre« hundred carats, but it is still
one of the wonders of the world. It
•was found in the province of Goleonda.
in Persian territory. There is also
the Orloff diamond—the next largest
—which is now a part of the regalia
of Russia. It originally was placed as
an eye in one of the Indian idols and
was stolen by a French deserter.
Prince Orloff presented it to Cath
erine of Russia in 1772, and he paid
nearly a half million dollars for it.
the great Kohinoor, is one of the Brit
ish crown jewels and was presented to
the queen of England in the year
1849. The Indian and Brazilian dia
mond fields have been eclipsed by the
outflow from South African mines.
The famous Culliman diamond was pre
sented to King Edward in 1907. The
largest diamond yet recorded in Amer
ica was found in Chesterfield cour.
ty, in Virginia, and it weighed some
thing over eleven carats.
In 1910 there were imported into the
United States rough or uncut diamonds
to the value of twenty-nine millions.
Amotjg the remarkable diamonds of the
world is "the regent,” which has been
valued at two and a half millions—
the "Saucy,” alued at $100,000 and the
"Hope” which weighs nearly forty-five
carats. India, Brazil, South Africa and
Australia are the diamond producing
centers.
In its natural condition it is said to
be a dull lead gray. Maybe we do not
know diamonds in the natural state and
we may know them later when we are
wiser.
THE CRAZE FOR DIAMONDS.
Everybody who makes a dash in so
ciety feels obliged to have diamonds,
more or less. When a rich fellow is
engaged to a girl she expects him to
rivet that engagement with a diamond
ring. When the wedding comes off she
expects him to give her a breastpin or
a necklace with a diamond ornament.
When the president’s daughter got
married congress gave her a necklace
with diamonds caught in the chain.
They do not call it necklace any more.
It is “lavalettc,” and the breastpin has
retired for the brooch.
When royalty has a swell function
the ladies fasten on all they own to out
rival the other diamond wearers. Then
they sprinkle in the crowd detectives in
plain clothes, whose business it is to
see that these fine women are not
robbed of their diamonds. They do say
that they keep the real stones in steel
vaults and wear the imitation ones, be
cause diamond thieves are so successful
and plentiful and women are proverbial
ly careless. Five thousand dollars for
a diamond bracelet and $30,000 for a
diamond tiara or crown are somewhat
common nowadays.
Burglars are constantly entering
houses to find diamond jewelry, and
when my fine lady goes abroad dressed
in the glittering gems she may be sure
that somebody "has an eye on them.”
The parvenu rich always catch on to
diamond jewelry. It is one of the two
passports into society. The other pass
port is money. With plenty of both, the
coarsest and uneducated can make their
way and will find plenty of folks to
fawn and flatter.
Diamonds are most popular of all
gems and diamonds will pass as curren
cy in big figures.
Y Woman Cop Stops
—Fierce -FigkFand
'f Takes Man to Jail
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Mary Boyd,
one of Chicago’s ten police women, dis
played her prowess yesterday when she
arrested a powerfully built man who
was quarrelling with a street car con
ductor over a transfer. Separating the
fighting men, Mrs. Boyd showed her
star and told the passenger lie was
under arrest.
He resisted and Mrs. Boyd pulled him
from the car, stood him against a post
and rang- for a patrol wagon. When
they reached the station house the po
lice woman preferred a charge of dis
orderly conduct against her prisoner.
ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL
ON GOTHAM MARKET
(By Associated Press.)
•NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—St. Johns
chapel in Yarick street, built in 1807
and one of the landmarks of New York,
is in the market. Trinity Corporation,
which owns the chapel prefers to sell
\ it to an organization that will continue
its use as a church. , Parochial work
in connection with the chapel was dis
continued some time ago because of the
changed character of the neighborhood
now wholly commercial.
When erected the old chapel stood
facing a beautiful proprietary park,
surrounded by handsome residences.
Several years ago the park was sold
for a freight depot site to the New
York Central railroad. The chapel site
is very valuable because of its adapt-
ibility for commercial purposes.
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S. LEADS GERMANY
IN AFRICAN EXPORTS
Ride All Night in
Auto Through Rain to
Wed Christmas Dawn
ALBANY, Ga., Dec. 29.—After an all-
night automobile ride in a storm of
wind and rain, Mr. R. H. Sapp and Miss
Lucy Hilton, both of Blakely, were mar
ried here at 5 o'clock Christmas morn
ing at the home of the groom’s brother.
J. E. Sapp, on Broad street. The young
couple left Blakely in the groom’s auto
yesterday afternoon, expecting to reach
here in time to be married, on Christ
mas eve, but the storm delayed them
to such an extent that they were all
night getting here, and the wedding was
held at early Christmas dawn instead
of at dusk of Christmas eve, as they
had planned.
AMERICAN HISTORIANS
GATHER AT CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C\, Dec. 29.—The
twenty-ninth annual meeting of the
American Historical association opened
here today, with a program that will be
continued at Charleston tomorrow and
be concluded at Columbia S. C., on
Wednesday. About 150 delegates are
in attendance from all parts of the
country, many distinguished scholars
being present. A reception in honor of
the visitors will be held this afternoon.
Tomorrow afternoon a trip to Fort
Sumter will feature as entertainment.
Tonight a public meeting of welcome
will be held, when a.dresses wjx\. b^,made
by J. W. Barnwell, president of the
South Carolina Historical society, and
W r illiam A. Dunning, of Columbia uni
versity, president of the American His
torical association. Conferences were
held today.
THE EVENING
STORY
MISS MATTY’S VISIT
I I Copyright, 1913.
By W. Werner
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—The United
States is outstripping Germany in its
exports to South Africa, the depart
ment of commerce points out, last year
being the first time in five years when
America exceeded Germany in ship-
of goods to that country.
And this was accomplished, the de-
partment adds in its statement "in
W spite of the fact, that there is a fort-
" nightly service of Go.inan passenger
and freight steamers between Hamburg
and South African ports; that there are
large investments of German capital In
the mines and other industries of the
country, and that German manufacture
ers send out numerous travelers each
year in an attempt to secure a larger
share of the trade.”
KILLS HIS GUEST,
THEN SHOOTS SELF
DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 29.—-Frank Long,
a. Dallas carpenter, in vited a number of
friends to spend the evening at his
home last night. As his guests were
leaving, Long, for no known reason,
opened fire on them with a pistol, killing
Mrs. J. T. Pollard, wife of a Dallas
policeman.
Wihile the others were hurrying to
safety. Long shot himself, dying in
stantly.
. Alfonso Outtalks Barber ■
(Special Cable to The Journal.)
VIENNA.—A good story is being told
of King Alfonso’s visit to Vienna. Tie
was going to pay his respects to the
aged Austrian emperor, and called in a
barber to shave him. The knight of
the razor was on pins and needles all
the time because the king never ceased
talking, which made the barber’s task
most risky. The latter thought every
moment he would cut Alfonso, and he
regards him as the most restless cus
tomer he has ever shaved.
NATHAN STRAUS BUYS
OLD COMIC PAPER, PUCK
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Nathan Straus,
Jr., it was learned today, has purchased
Puck, a weekly comic paper. The ar
ticles of incorporation of a new com
pany, whicto will publish the paper,
have been filed in Albany. The incorpo
rators are Mr. Straus, Max J. Kohler
and H. Grant Straus. The capital stock
is $40,000. Mr. Straus said he did not
contemplate making any changes in or
ganization or policy at this time. Puck
was founded in 1876.
WORLD’S SMALLEST MAN
!S DEAD IN ENGLAND
LONDON, Dec. 29.—John William
White, a confectioner, probably the
smallest man in the world, died at South
End yesterday, aged fifty-three years.
He was only twenty-five inches high.
His two sisters were of normal size.
WAYCR0SS BANKS ARE
IN FINE CONDITION
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WAYCROSS, Ga.. Dec. 29.—By declar
ing a 4 per cent cash dividend today, the
First National paid to 1913 holders 8 per
cent. Every financial institute of the city
today is in splendid shape snd all will
Queen Dislikes Furs
LONDON.—Queen Mary is not a
great lover of furs. Her favorites are
sable and mink, though they do not
suit her nearly so well as ermine, which
throws up her fine coloring. It was no
ticed when she went to the imperial in
stitute in connection with the Needle
work guild, that her handsome stole
and muff, both of sable, were of the
shape worn three or four years ago,
and both were quite small when meas
ured by the present fashion.
Mrs. Brisben’s invitation to visit her
for two weeks during the month of
September was ass unexpected as it was
delightful. It threw Miss Matty into
a great flutter. She thought of it,
dreamed of it, talked of it to her cro
nies, Mrs. Dillworth and Miss Morton,
wno lived in the flat below.
“It’s the loveliest time of the year to
visit,” said Mrs. Dillworth. "You’ll en
joy yourself hugely, I’m sure. Only
I'm afraid you’ll get led away by your
friend’s magnificence.”
Long years before Miss Matty and
Cornelia L^isben, who was Cornelia
Walker then, had attended the same
girls’ school, sat together in the same
She had no difficulty in finding out
the special car.
classes and suffered from tnat amazing
mutual disturbance of the affections
which, commonly speak.ng, constitutes
a “crush.” Miss Matty had loved Cor
nelia because she was brilliant and
beautiful, but why Cornelia loved her
she never knew. Perhaps the theory
that "opposite always attract” hadn’t
been formulated then. At any rate,
their crush lasted remarkably all
through their school days and after—
for a while. They wrote and wrote im
passioned epistles. Then suddenly Cor
nelia cooled. She had fallen in love
again—this time with a man—and she
married him. Miss Matty could not go
to the wedding because her mother was
just then ill, and anyway, it was too
far and she had no suitable clothes to
wear. She learned that Cornelia had
gone abroad on her wedding trip and
that when she came back she was to
enter into an entirely new sphere, ror
her husband was rich and came of an
influential family. That was the last*
Miss Matty heard from Cornelia In
years, except by way of the newspa
pers, until suddenly had come this in
vitation. Cornelia was recovering from
an illness and had taken a fancy to
have some one she used to know near
her. She had thought of Miss Matty
and so had asked her.
Miss Matty had four days in which to
get ready. It was years since she had
traveled anywhere, and no one could
have been more high strung and palpi
tating than she on that eventful morn
ing, when she at last set forth. Miss
Morton went to the station with her
to help her with her valise and see her
safely on the train. Miss Morton felt
more experienced than Miss Matty be
cause she had once actually been as far
as Florida and back again, though this
constituted the sum total of her life’s
journeying.
“You’ll be sure to write?” said Miss
Morton as they stood waiting for the
train. "I shall be real uneasy until I
hear you’ve got there safe and sound.”
Tears stood in her kind, faded eyes,
but Miss Matty’s eyes were bright with
excitement. "Oh, yes, I’ll write, of
course.” she promised, hastily. “Arc you
sure my veil’s on just as it should be,
Harriet? And isn’t there a hairpin loose
somewhere? My hair feels sort of
tumbly, I declare.”
While Miss Morton was fussing with
the veil and hairpin the train rushed
in and the two friends were caught in
an eddy of bustling arrivals. There was
no more than time now to kiss good
bye and get aboard. Miss Matty's last
glimpse of her friend showed Miss
Morton wiping her eyes with one hand
and waving farewell with the otner.
Miss Matty sat upright, her cheeks
hotly flushed, her chest fluttering, her
nervous hands clasped in her lap. She
was conscious that she looked very well,
but whether she would look well enough
to please Cornelia was another thing.
What would Cornelia think of her? To
her Cornelia was a wonderful being, a
kind of cross between empress and god
dess. And Cornelia’s home—that, of
course, would be befitting so grand a
being. There would be servants and
motors and flower gardens and vast
rooms all provided by Cornelia’s hus
band for Cornelia’s prime benefit. Cor
nelia was a favored mortal.
In her secret heart Miss Matty always
envied Cornelia. She was so stately, so
handsome, even as far back as she
could remember her. Then, as if nature
had not done enough for Cornelia, for
tune must step forward with its own
incomparable offerings. Yes, Miss Mat
ty envied her, for Cornelia’s life ap
peared like one long romance of the
kind she still loved to find in old-fash
ioned books. As for her own romance,
Miss Matty had never any. The nearest
she had ever come to it was one winter
when Sam Sloat, a neighbor's son, had
come courting her. Everybody had ex
pected her to marry him; she had even
expected it herself. But when it came
t,o the final test she could not, even
though she might have to remain an
old maid all her days.
Miss Matty never had another lover,
but after a, while she got used to being
her own mistress and enjoyed it. After
her parents died she sold the farm and
moved into town. She hired a tiny flat,
filled it with the most cherished of her
possessions, and settled down to maiden
and middle age comfort. There was a
good library near, which supplied her
digestion and her purse both permitted
her to eat what she liked, and she al
ways had two or three friends handy
to play with her when she wanted .1
game of cribbage. Ther e was no rea
son in the world why she shouldn't
have been happy, and she would have
been save for her memory of Cornelia I
Brisben.
Miss Matty reached be r destination
late that afternoon. Tt was a suburban
station, and’ she had no difficulty In
finding out £he special car and chauf
feur awaiting ber. Almost before she
could draw a natural breath the car
had whisked : her up one street and
dow n anotheij, in between the regal, up
standing stone pillars and under a porte-
cochere. The car door was opened and
Miss Matty stepped down to face a
white-capped maid who had been sent
to receive, her. The maid conducted
her into a'great entrance hall, up a pal
atial staircase, down another hall, and
in through a panelled door.
“Miss Matty Mayhew.” she announced
and withdrew discretely.
Matty was actually in Cornelia’s
presence. She saw dimly a wonderful
room flooded with sunshine and a large
yellow eomplexioned woman rising from
a chaise lounge with a Pekinese poodle
in hep arms—-a woman who appeared
to be tangled in silk and lace, so intri
cate was the garment that enfolden
her.
“My dear Matty!” she cried. And
Miss Matty felt herself submerged m
softness and scent and warmth.
"And. now let me look at you,” Corne
lia said, and holding Miss Matty oil
she began to study her. “Why, Matty,
you are quite the same. Look in that
glass and then let me show you a little
picture I have of you.”
She unhooked an oval frame from the
wall. Matty looked at the glitering
surface of the great mirror and then
at the picture cursorily. Her whole
mind was taken up with Cornelia.
“You see?” Cornelia said. “But I sup
pose you find a great change in me?”
“Some.” acknowledged Miss Matty.
"Yes. Some, of course.”
“I’ve been ill of liver ailment,” Cor
nelia explained. “My doctor says I
need more air, more sunshine, exer
cise. He’s cruel, that man. He’s taken
away all the things I love—chocolate,
cream, sweets. He makes me sleep on
a hard mattress and walk two miles
every morning—walk, mind you, when
I’ve got three motors. Well, I obey
him, hjut I never take a step that I
don’t have to after that two-mile
walk. That’s why I wasn’t down to
meet you. I hope you don’t mind.” She
touched a button. “Now you- shall go
to your room and rest till dinner.
That’s at 6:30. We’ll have it here. I’m
all alone. My husband is off with
a party of friends ”
The appearance of the maid inter
rupted her and Miss Matty was led
away.
Her room was luxurious beyond any
thing she had ever imagined. For a
long time after the maid left her she
went about admiring and examining.
Then she unpacked her vailse. Then
she bathed, combed her thin, light hair,
and put on her best frock. It looked
pitifully cheap and inadequate. She
sighed, remembering Cornelia’s extrava
gant negligee. "But how I’d look in a
rig of that kind,” she consoled herself.
*The maid came for her when she was
ready and took her back to Cornelia’s
room. A table was drawn before a
couch. Cornelia and the dog were on
.. A 1 '
They Settled ao"wn to a long talk.
the couch. She motored Miss Matty
to a chair. Then a touch of the bell
brought dinner.
Miss Matty was hungry. She had ex
pected excellent, perhaps even usual
food. What she got was a scant menu
oi bouillon, crackers, thin bread, and
butter, some white meat, and for des
sert oranges.
“I knew,” Cornelia said, pleasantly,
“that you’d wish to eat what I eat.”
"Yes, yes, of course,” agreed Miss
Matty.
After dinner was taken away they
settled down for a long talk—that is,
Cornelia talked. She told all about her
liver trouble and what the doctors had
done and hadn’t. It was a long story.
Miss Matty stifled a good man yyawns.
Then Cornelia grew more confidential
and told about her- servants, how they
acted and what hard work it was to keep
them under. From that standpoint she
went on to tell about her husband. They
were not very congenial, She confessed.
He was away from home a great deal.
He had his friends, she had hers—such
as they were. Sometimes she felt that
the only thing that loved her was Pinky-
Pco. She sighed and let Pinky-Poo lap
out of her bouillon cup. The sight near
ly turned Miss Matty’s stomach. She
loathed dogs.
Cornelia kept talking until well upon
II. When at last poor Miss Matty got
to her room and t.o bed she was exhaust
ed. It seemed she had just got to sleep
when the maid came to arouse her.
Madame was going to walk in the early
morning freshness. She begged to
know if Miss Mayhew would accompany
her? Miss Mayhew consented. When
she glanced at her watch she saw that j
the hour hand stood at 5.
This was the beginning, and even so
was the ending. Miss Matty bare with
it for two weeks. She could not very
well do less. Then she got out of Cor
nelia’s clutches and back into her own
dear, shabby, restful flat. How serene
and comfortable and likable beyond
words it seemed! Not a bit too small
and close even after Cornelia’s elegance.
It was home. And there were her
friends downstairs. Mow delightful they
were after Cornelia.
The second evening she was at home,
Miss Morton said as they sat playing
cribbage; "I laughed at Elizabeth, but
[ confess I was myself uneasy lest you
get weaned away from me.”
Miss Matty took a good, long breath.
"I guess you wouldn't ha\se worried
any if you’d seen what I went through
with.” She caught herself hastily. “I
mean I don’t envy Cornelia one mite,”
she added.
BEREAVED BY TITANIC.
WOMAN IS MARRIED
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Mrs.
Daniel W. Marvin, widowed by the Ti
tanic disaster, will be married in this
city today to Horace Decamp, a local
merchant.
Mrs. Marvin’s husband went down
with the Titanic, while the couple were
returning from a honeymoon trip. Mrs.
Marvin was Mary Graham Farquhar-
son. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Farqu-
harson of this city.
$7,700 STOLEN FROM
NEBRASKA P0ST0FFICE
(By Associated Press.)
KEARNEY. Neb., Dec. 29.—Two reg
istered packages containing $7,700 were
stolen from the postoffice here last
right. They had been shipped by the
First National bank of Omaha to the
City National bank of Kearney.
Bloodhounds were brought into serv
ice but early today no trace of the rob
bers had been found.
GREAT GAINS AND GREAT GUTS
By Bishop Warren A. Candler
Our country has enjoyed ‘another
year of great prosperity, growlers
and "calamity howlers” to the con
trary, notwithstanding.
For many years the United States
have been the richest common
wealths in thi-. world,—tne richest
nation that ever was in the world.
With every added year the national
wealth is increased immensely. And,
while there have been reprehensible
methods pursued by some classes of
men among us, whereby the public
has suffered wrong that a few
might become needlessly opulent, it
remains true that in our country
wealth is more equitably distributed
among all classes than in any other
land. In Mexico, for example, the
land is in the hands of a small
number of men, and abject poverty
rises in insurrection after insurreec-
lion, against heartless landlords.
With us the case is vastly different:
the land of the United States is
not owned by a few; in no country
in the world does so large a pro
portion of the inhabitants own
land. Multiplied thousands of our
people own their own homes. And
other property is as well distrib
uted as is real estate.
But while property of every sort
is better distributed in the United
States than in any other country in
Christendom, there is a good, deal
of discontent and restlessness
among the people. This unrest
does not arise from any real want
among the great majority of the
people, but from a wide-spread de
sire among all classes to have
more; the rich seek more in order
to keep pace with one another ii\ a
mad chase after the luxuries and
display of a senseless social ife,
and those of more moderate means
covet the things which the rich
magnify before them. Thus all
classes are infected with an evil
desire for more than they have, and,
if they secured today what they
wish, tomorrow they would want
still more, if anybody else should
appear in sight enjoying what they
did not possess.
It is obvious to any careful ob
server that most of the unrest
among our people springs from the
pursuit of a false social objective;
wrong ends are sought and discon
tent arises when those ends are not
attained. When every man aims at
keeping up with his neighbour, and
feels sore and sour when he fails to
do so, it is evident that contentment
becomes an impossible thing to most
of the people. Wrecks on sea and
land have often occurred from the
effort of engineers to out-run one
another in speed races; and the
American people are making many
moral and social wrecks from the
indulgence of the same evil spirit
of senseless rivalry. They are pois
oning the springs of their life by
the indulgence of this vain and
selfish spirit. Carlyle says happiness
is expressed by a fraction, the
numerator of which is what one has
and denominator of which is what
one wants. If a man has one dol
lar and wants two, his happiness is
expressed by the fraction which we
call a half; and if in the effort to
get the two dollars which he wants,
he inflames his desire to the point
of desiring eight dollars, he will
not be as nearly happy when he gets
-.the two dollars as he was when he
had one dollar and needed only one
more to bring his happiness up to
wholeness. We see this process il
lustrated before our eyes every day;
people who ten years ago had not
half what they possess today, are
much further removed from con
tentment now than they were then.
Increase of goods has been an in
crease of unrest with them. Where
will such self-inflicted and ever-
increasing misery end? Is it not
manifest that, if it were continued
indefinitely it would result in the
creation of an endless hell on earth,
even if there were no hell already in
existence? In truth the restless
running after gaines and pleasures
is diminishing the sum of human
happiness in our country and driv
ing the nation to pains of perdition,
when if we aimed at nobler things
we might have a land scarcely less
happy than Eden.
a new objective must be set be
fore our people, and it belongs to
the rich to set it up; they must live
more simply and set an example of
generous benevolence rather than of
riotous living. If they continue to
pursue selfish ends and indulge in
vain social display, they must be
prepared for all the discontentment
and revolutionary agitations which
such living upon their part will in
evitably engender among all classes
around them. The programme of
selfish wealth has been tried in all
ages and many lands, and it has
ended always and everywhere in
disaster to individuals and ruin to
states. Babylon, Rome, and Paris
tried it at different times in history,
and the end of the experiment in
every case was revolution and con
flagration. Do our rich people, es
pecially the women among them,
lead enout:. n:id think enough to
understand this? Or, are they so
absorbed in "bridge”, “clubs,” and
other manias thA one who brings it
to their nHention seems to them
as one that mocks? Let us hope
that some among them have sense
enough to understand what is said
to them concerning this serious
matter. Indeed, in some sections of
our country can be discovered men
and women who have intellect and
virtue enough to act wisely and
well with respect to the right use
of the wealth with which God has
enriched them.
Here is a dispatch which appear
ed a few days ago in the newspa
pers. that contains some cheering
facts:
NEW YORK. Dec. 22.—Chari
table gifts in the United States
during the last twelve months
amount to $80,135,476, or at the
rate of $2.91 for every tick of
the clock, according to a com
pilation published here today.
The bequest of Benjamin
Alaman, valued at $15,430,000,
to the Metropolitan museum om
New York, heads the list and
the gift of $10,000,000 by John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., to put an
end to “white slavery” is sec
ond. Colonel O. H. Payne’s gift
of $4,350,000 to Cornell comes
next in size and is followed by
Ferris R. Thompson’s gift of
$3,655,000 to Princeton univer
sity. Andrew Carnegie’s fifteen
donations aggregated $3,633,000
and the next largest gift is
$3,000,000. the sum given
Washington and Lee university
BISHOP W. A. CANDLES.
prises for the public good. Will not
more of the rich men and women in
the South do likewise? Our record
as it *iow stands with reference to
great gifts to philanthropic pur
poses is nothing less than disgrace
ful. A better fashion must pre
vail among us.
Kiddies Win “Feed”
In.Name of Santa
by Robert P. Doremus.
After that the list shows that
the donations dropped in size
to a mere million or two.
If more rich people would adopt
this fashion of benevolence, instead
of running steeple chases to keep
up with the foolish fashions of
pagan display which some of them
pursue, they would be happier
themselves and make more happi
ness in our country. As they now
live they are filling their own and
other lives with dangerous discon
tent.
In ancient Rome anything like
philanthropy was almost unknown,
and it was a fashion for rich Ro
mans to make bequests in their
wills to conspicuous men in order
to enhance their own fame. An
opulent Roman of that period wish
ed to appear to have many friends
by inscribing the names of many
persons in his will, and naturally
the most famous were inscribed by
preference. In such documents
persons were often brought togeth
er who seldom, or never, had met
anywhere else—even men who were
enemies to one another were fre
quently legatees under the same
will. Cluvius, a rich banker of
Puteoli, left his estate to Cicero
and Caesar after the battle of
Pharasalia. The architect Cyrus
placed among his heirs both CJo-
dius and Cicero, two men who cor
dially detested each other. The
wealth of Lucullus was greatly
augmented by bequests which per
sons utterly unknown to him left
him while he governed Asia, and
Atticus received a considerable
number of legacies from people of
whom he had never heard, and who
knew him only by reputation. Such
vanity and folly we deride, and it
well deserves our derision; buf
many of the expenditures of ouf
people of wealth are as much a
matter of senseless devotion to
custom as were the bequests of
these fashion-enslaved old Roman
heathen. And our people of wealth
have less excuse for their folly
than than did the ancient pagans of
Rome; they have heard something
of Christ and Christianity, and they
can not have ■'failed to hear of some
of the philanthropic efforts and
enterprices of our time upon which
wealth may be well bestowed.
Our rich people in the South es
pecially need to awake to a more
intelligent and benevolent use of
their wealth. For many years after
the war between the states we had
few people of -large means among
us, and most of them were discred
itably opulent, having obtained
their fortunes by methods which
most decent people regarded with
suspicion. But this state of things
has now passed. There are very
many rich people in the South, and
they have earned what they have in
ways entirely legitimate. It must
be confessed however, that most of
them are using their money in a
manner less creditable than that in
which they made it; they use it as
a toy and appear to men of serious
minds like silly children amusing
themselves with a valuable posess-
sion as if it were a play-thing. A
majority of our rich people, with
their lavish expeditures on vain in
dulgences and their niggardly gifts
to great enterprises, make us
ashamed of them.
Is it not time the fashion of mak
ing great gifts for the public good
were more prevalent in the South?
We have seen enough of “func
tions”, “bridge”, “box-parties”,
“swallow-tailed-coats”, “slit skirts”,
and the like. We hav4 seen enough
of grown-up babies making a toy of
wealth. Let us now have something
more dignified and useful. It is
somewhat excusable in Ignorant
people to use their first money fool
ishly, but surely there are a good
many men and women among us
who have had wealth long enough
now to begin to use it respectably;
the rich people of the South have
prolonged the silly period of their
lives too far, and they are begin
ning to bore intelligent people with
it.
It is to be hoped the New Year
will bring us a new era. of great
gifts in the South as well as a pe
riod of great gains. During the
year 1913. the South prospered
above every other section of the
country, and the year 1914 promises
to be even a more prosperous year.
Shall it not be a year of great l/o-
ncvolence also? Rich men In other
sections make great gifts to col
leges, hospitals, and other enter-
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Nearly seventy-five children from the
tenement district invaded a leading ho
tel here today and demanded their din
ner, informing the manager Santa Claus
had invited them. Their demand was
complied with.
Although the hotel managed had not
been appraised of Santa Claus’ arrange
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