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BABIES, PUPS
ANDJOTTENS
Rich and idle “Society” People
Seem to Have in Order the Re
versal of the List, and the Re
sult Must Be the Fostering of
the Seemingly Increasing Class
Hatred, So Much to Be De
plored.
O ye who In purples and silks abide.
Have the poor no claims on you?
Have the mother’s prayers by her dar
ling’s side
No power to pierce through your walls of
pride?
Do you owe no debt to the Man that died?
Has He left you naught to do?
Beware how you add to the smoldering
hates
That fester in hovels dim!
I tell you the rage of the ages waits.
And crouches now at your mansion gates!
Righteousness only its wrath abates—
Go forth, In the name of Him!
THERE Is in current use a proverb
disrespectful to womankind in
general, unkind, unchivalric, and
I hope and believe, without foun
dation in fact
To be sure, it only mentions one
class of women. It hits the sex as a
whole.
This proverb alleges that maiden la
dies are all duly catalogued, and at
death will be ticketed to the lower re
gions, where their occupation will be
“to lead apes.”
Now for myself, I think in away it
is a pity for any woman “to blush
unseen and waste her sweetness on
the desert air” of “single blessed
ness.” But is a woman who never
finds her fate any more to be pitied
than a man in the same situation?
Less so. She cannot help herself, and
Is therefore not to blame, while the
old bachelor is and remains so of
malice prepense.
It might seem as if this proverb
had perhaps unconsciously settled
Itself very far back in the occiput of
some women, either never fancied by
any man or not by the right one, who
had determined to begin a course of
preparatory study on earth so as to
be qualified for duties down below.
It must be some thought like this
that Iles at the root of the sentiment
of the young lady who devotes all her
time and attention and a good deal of
her money to the excessive care of
dumb animals. She has a kennel of
fancy pups, which is all right, and if
she would confine her attention to
perfectly proper puppy cultivation
there would be no fault to find.
“Society’s” Peculiar Follies.
Now “society” is peculiar, whether
at home in the Fifth avenue mansions
or In the summer season at Newport
and other seaside resorts. The rest
of the world has heard with mingled
amusement and derision of monkey
dinners given by the women of what
la called the haute ton. It is a matter
®he gwlMw
I of record that some of them, if they
, look back a generation or two, spell
' the first word hoe.
Where the young woman enjoying
leisure from all occupation, too lux
urious a life and the use of entirely
too much money goes wrong in her
devotion to puppies and kittens. Is in
j letting her imagination run away
with her to such a degree that she
* appears to confuse the dumb animals
with the young offspring of her own
race and treats them accordingly,
f These aristocratic puppies of this
aristocratic maiden lady have their
* finger and toe nails carefully mani
. cured every morning, and their teeth
brushed, each canine having his own
outfit.
If that is not preparing "to lead
apes in hell” it Is certainly neither
preparation nor practice for anything
’ quite human or at all useful In this
, life.
Oh, no, I don’t belong to the So
’ ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. It is not because I have no
• care for .doggie or pussy. I have al
most an affection for dogs and horses,
and, unlike the “crank” referred to
; by Shylock, have no antipathy to the
“harmless cat.”
Tribute to Charles Crocker.
, Miss Jennie Crocker is a Call
i fornian. She Is a granddaughter of
j Charles Crocker, one of the original
“big four” to whom all Californians
owe the first trans-continental rail
( road built In the state, which added so
much to the comfort of us all, and to
the prosperity of the state. Many of
us knew Mr. Crocker In his lifetime,
and those who knew him best liked
him most. He had enemies a-plenty,
but most of them were persons who
never met him, and whose objections
, were purely academic. The railroad
in whose directorate his name appear
ed did some things that were not en
tirely right. Do any of you know
, any great enterprise of the present
time or of any past time that was en
tirely "without sin?" It became pop
ular to rail against the railroad,
and the railing was done very largely
because of the road’s political activity.
Also the railing was done in a large
part by politicians who schemed night
and day to keep the railroad in poli
tics in order to make it pay to get
legislation passed which would be
beneficial to the people as a whole, or
to stop the passage of such legislation
as would be detrimental to the rail
road and to the public alike.
The late Charles Crocker was an
abrupt man, as was natural to one
of his birth, bringing up and lifetime
habits. But he was a man of very
hard common sense, and never “put
on a bit of style” nor made any pre
tensions because he had happened to
become a very rich man. As million
aire railroader he was as democratic
as when he was a country miller back
In Indiana. Nor was he a curmudgeon,
either, but often gave generously of
his means to persons in need or for
proper purposes.
From my own knowledge of him f
have a fixed opinion that he would
much rather have endowed a bed tn
a hospital or asylum where sick and
necessitous children might be cared
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912.
tor, than to build a palatial kennel
for dogs. It would be much more like
his good common sense to send a box
of tooth brushes to such an asylum or
hospital than to buy one for the most
highly-bred pup that ever uttered a
“bow-wow,”
I have known a great many maiden
ladies in my lifetime, some of them
sweet sixteen, and some of them Just
as sweet at sixty. They were in all
respects most estimable persons, full
of kindly sympathy and cheerful as
the birds that sing in the summer
day, without a particle of bitterness
bred from disappointment in the
matrimonial or any other line. Yet
I always felt sorry for them, and the
more sympathetic, bright and con
tented they were, the more my pity
grew. No, it is true, my lamentations
were not always for the spinsters
themselves, but divided itself into
their account and that of some man
who had missed the inestimable bless
irig of lifelong companionship and
partnership with them. Nay, my stock
of sympathy was segregated Into a
dividend of at least three parts, for
my pity went cut to the unborn chil
dren who might have been cuddled to
the tender breast of one of these
women, and known the sweetness and
the benefit of her kindly and wise
guidance.
And let me tell you, some of them
had too much humanity carefully cul
tivated under Christian influences not
to find an outlet for their sympathies
and love, and it was not lavished fool
ishly, inhumanly on puppies or kit
tens.
Now, Miss Jennie Crocker is no
doubt not the least in the world like
“Lady Clara Vere de Vere” in pride
of ancestry or of money. While she
has nothing in her ancestry to blush
for, if would make “the grand old
gardener and his wife” smile broadly
to hear one of the Crockers indulging .
in “pride of long descent.” On the
other hand, she has plenty of the
wealth which constitutes too much of
■ the patent of nobility in democratic
America. Yet, as I say, she is not
known to manifest any pride on this
account.
But like Tennyson’s Lady Clara,
would it not be better for the Lady
Jennie to teach the neighbor boy to
read and the neighbor girl to sew than
to waste such frivolous attentions on
the aristocratic puppy and pussy?
Now, it may be that there are no chil
dren to teach to read or to sew. But
let me warn Lady Jennie, there are
thousands of them who would reap
great benefits in being provided with
a tooth brush and taught the proper
use of it. If, moreover, doggie is
provided with a manicure set and a
tooth brush you may be well assured
his fare is too luxurious for his health
and too costly for Christian charity
in a city where there are so many
miserable little souls unprovided with
proper dress and often hungry for
lack of food.
Makes for Class Hatred.
Miss Crocker and her whole class
are menaced every day in the world
in their material Interests by a grow
ing socialism. Increasing daily In Its
Intense bitterness and class hatred.
These rich people are often menaced
in their person by the hostility of
some of those against whom the cur
rents of life run too strong to be suc
cessfully resisted.
There is not a tinge nor touch of
socialism or sympathy with socialism
in my make-up. If there is anything
I Indulge a sentiment of hatred to
ward this is it. But Ido see that just
such conduct as this young woman is
guilty of (and I used the word guilty
with due deliberation) encourages the
growth of socialism, and fosters the
class hatred which is making life oft
en dangerous in other cities like New
York, and it always makes the man
agement of large industrial enter
prises difficult in the extreme.
* For the sake of the love of the All
Father who made us all, and loves us
all, for the sake of our common hu
manity and of our own families, let
this frivolity in the foolish care of
puppies and cats go to —and let us
expend our sympathies as well as our
money on the care of the destitute
waifs whose present life is miserable,
and whose future life to the country
may be dangerous.
Has Repented Her Foolishness.
Glory be. Miss Crocker confirms the
views set forth above on the Influence
of heredity and the ethics concerning
puppies and babies.
After the foregoing was written
comes an announcement that this sen
sible young lady has ordered her ken
nel of thoroughbred dogs sold, and
that she Is about to eschew “single
blessedness” and share all the sweet
ness of her personality with a young
bridegroom who I sincerely hope may
prove in every way worthy of a
Crocker bride.
As the daughter of the late Colonel
Crocker, Miss Jennie should be quite
like all good little girls who as the
fairy tale tells us are made of “sugar
and spice and everything nice.” But
she is only half a Crocker, and there
in again "noblesse oblige." Her
mother was the daughter of the late
D. O. Mills, and if there were ever
anything better in the line of human
ity among the pioneers than the Mills
family it was good indeed.—G. W.
Burton in the Los Angeles Times.
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