The Muldrow Press. (Muldrow, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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BABIES PUPS
ANDK1TTENS
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 Deplored
0 ye who In purples and silks abide
Have the poor no claims on you?
Have Hit mother's pruyeis by licr dar-
ling 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!
1 tell you the rage of the apes waits
And crouches now at your mansion gii'tes'
Righteousness only its wrath abates-
Go forth in the name of Him!
THERE is in current use a proverb
disrespeciiul to womankind in
general unkind unchivalrlc and
I nope and believe without foun-
dation in fact
To be sure it only mentions one
c'aas 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 a way It
Is a pity lor any woman "to blush
unseen and waste her sweetness on
the desert air" of "single blessed-
ness" Hut is a woman who never
finds her fate any more to be pitied
than a man in the vsame 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 Btttdy on earth so as to
be qualified for duties down below
It must be some thought like this
that lies 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 he 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
d' rs given by the women of what
la -iled the haute ton It la a matter
of record that some of them if they
look back a generation or two 6pell
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
letting her imagination run away
with her to such a degree that 6he
appears to confuse the dumb animals
with the young offspring of her own
race and treats them accordingly
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 1 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-
rornian She Is a granddaughter of
Charles Crocker one of the original
"big four" to whom all Callfornians
owe the first transcontinental 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 read'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 stylo" 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 I
have a fixed opinion that he would
much rather have endowed a bed In
a hospital or asylum where sick and
necessitous children might be cared
for than to build a palatial Kennel
for doga It would be much more like
his good common Venae 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
ladles in my lifetime some of them
sweet sixteen and some of them Just
as 6weet 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-
ing 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 out 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 6ome 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 It 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 uride on this
account
Hut 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 dally 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 I do 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 thl sen-
sible young lady has ordered her Ven-
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 0 Mills and if there were ever
anything better in the line of human-
ity among the pioneers than the Mills
family It waa good indeed — O W
Burton in the Los Angeles Timet
U S STUDENTS FRIVOLOUS?
If his complexion were a shade
lighter a short heavy spectacled man
who has been nearly a month in this
country studying conditions and lec-
turing at universities could easily
pose as Rudyard Kipling the great
English author He Is Dr Inazo
Nitobe Tokyo Japan So much does
Dr Nitobe resemble Rudyard Kipling
at one view of his countenance that
it is really startling But it is a one
view effect only When he turns again
he looks only like the typical Japa-
nese that he la
His mind is filled with impres-
sions that are registered by two sharp
brown eyes that look through heavy
spectacles Dr Nitobe who has been
studying the country and its people
and Incidentally has been giving some
thought to the student while lecturing
at universities is the first representa-
tive of- the pedagogues who are to
come to this country under the ar-
rangement provided by means of the
Carnegie fund Dr Nitobe is president of First Higher college of Tokyo
He says that he does not find the boy students in the United States oc-
cupying the high moral plane that he had expected Also that he observed
that the men are for less serious in the work than the Japanese students
TO FOUND NEW CITY OF ZION
Mrs Jane Dowie widow of the
late John Alexander Dowle first apos-
tle of Zion Is attempting a reconstruc-
tion of the Zionist movement in Chi-
cago Believing herself divinely Inspired
to carry out the work her husband
began Mrs Dowie came to Chicago
last fall and gathered about her the
few remaining members of the
prophet's original flock An exile from
Zion City and the tabernacles her
husband founded she planned to re-
build the Zion congregation with the
aid of Gladstone Dowie "unkissed"
son of the departed Elijah II
The younger Dowle was In full
sympathy with the plans of his
mother but apparently lacked the
divine inspiration for the task she has
undertaken He had already resigned
from the present church at Zion City
following the assumption of absolute
control of Wilbur Glenn Voliva gen-
eral overseer and successor apparent
to the first apostle and is now studying for the Episcopal ministry
Mrs Dowie has not allowed the defection of her son to dismay her
but has regained spiritual communion with nearly 1000 of the original con-
gregation The reunion of the present flock she declares does not mean
a schism from the religious teachings of the parent church
VICTORIA WINNER IN SPAIN
Queen Victoria of Spain is slowly
but surely winning the affection of the
Spanish people who at first strongly
disapproved of her and her English
ways In fact if King Alfonso suc-
ceeds in keeping his throne it will be
due In part to the domestic virtues of
his wife Queen Victoria has set a
new fashion In Spanish society that
of mothers taking personal Interest
In their children
Queen Victoria practically devotes
her life to her babies She oversees
the work of the nurses and occasional-
ly may be seen on the grounds of the
palace wheeling the Princess Beatrice
in her specially imported English
perambulator just like any English
mother All this is in defiance of the
rigorous court etiquette of Spain
which demands that a queen should
leave the care of her children entirely
to others
When the prince of the Asturlas
was born according to historical cua-
a peasant woman from Catalonia was engaged to act as nurse to the
heir to the throne She was a very nancsome aiaionian ana wore the
elaborate and picturesque national costume but Queen Victoria soon dis-
covered that she was entirely ignorant of hygiene and was discharged
torn
AMERICAN WIDOW WINS NOBLE
A white and gold gown with a
collar and tiara of diamonds and sap-
rhirs won for the beautiful Mrs
I Wylie Reynolds of Jackson Mich an
Italian nobleman with the blood of
Bourbon kings in his veins and Paris
dressmakers and modistes are busy
upon one of the most elaborate trous-
seaus which has left the city since
PrlncesB Marie Bonaparte married
Prince George of Greece in 1907
Mrs Reynolds is the widow of a
millionaire banker The Italian noble-
man whom she has won Is Baron dl
Francisci son of Marchese di Trian-
ara His family is connected with the
Eourbons of Parma and the Bourbons
of the Two Sicilies who are them-
selves branches of the oldest royal
house in the world Baron dl Fran-
cisci is even richer than his fiancee
and takes an active interest in the
lite of his country Added to these Is
the fact that he belongs to the oldest
Neapolitan nobility all of which make
him in matchmaking eyes the best catch of the season in that country
The widow met the baron at a reception given by Count PrlmolL when
she wore the diamond and sapphire tiara and white and gold gown
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Miller, E. A. The Muldrow Press. (Muldrow, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1912, newspaper, June 21, 1912; Muldrow, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2082761/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.