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HE SCORES SOCIETY.
SAYS IT IS A CLOG TO PROGRESS AND A FETTER TO IDEAS ..
Junius Henri row lie on Social Functions 4,: of the Day—How and Where Women 'i:?. Appear at Tlirir IJest and 3Ien at Tlieir
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fes "NEV YOUK, .'I -1.—Society, with a f«®'big or a little S, in a social, philosophic or jSv# political sense, always means tho two fe: eexos. Thoro never has been and thero novcr can lie society without women, par- '. ticularly as tho term is employed here, s-/-' --"-:whero women aro its essential leaturo, men being in a way incidental. Women are the keepers of the prates of society. They de•sfev terminc those of the other sex who shall
spenter and those who shall be excluded. They are ever socially omnipotent and iki ^should be. It is their evident and inalienable privileye. No man would think of disputing it.
It may bo doubted indeed if men in gencral relish society as women imagine they •s&v&do. They enjoy it so much themselves that K'riMthoy can hardly be made to believe that fathers, husbands, brothers, can bo indifferent to it, much less bo displeased AVfwwith it. ''Do men like society?" must be, from their point of view, a redundant, j.wfrcven an absurd, question. "How can they fail to like it," is the woman's answer, "when it is so delightful?" To her, yes them, no. te'he cannot be induced to think that she does not sec with the uni•••A' .^Tersal eyo. And the incapacity to change hor instinctive, spontaneous thought '. causes her many disappointments, entangles her in innumerable troubles,
What Men Often Like.
She holds that to concede that civilized man at large docs not like society, of which she forms the principal, the moro conspicuous part, is equivalent to conceding that he does not like her, which is, in her view, monstrously unnatural, absolutely inconceivable. But does this follow? Is she not confounding things? Has she not taken for granted what was never implied? A man may like women and dislike so' ifty, as a great many men do. .Liking women is very vague, has little significance. Individual men, men of taste, culture, sensibility, seldom like women in the mass, as a sex, any more than women having any claim to enlightenment like men in the mass, as a sex. Such men must find in a woman something to like before they like her. They are not drawn to her gencrically, as barbarians might he, and it would bo anything but Ilattering to her if they were.
Men, it must be allowed, go in great numbers into society. Is not this ample proof of their fondness for it? Not in itself. They go not because they enjoy it, but becauso their wives, sisters, daughters, urgo them to, and because these cannot well go unattended. How continually they confess that it is a dreadful bore, and how glad they aro to leave it, as the expression of their faces shows at that pleasant moment! If women wero not so wedded to society, nearly all functions would cease. Social entertainments, so called, would become obsolete from the fact that men would absent themselves, and women would not be quito satisfied with their own exclusive company.
Social liollowness.
An exception might bo mado of very young men, from IS to 25, who, not being husbands, overflow with gallantry and miscellaneous fondness for the sex. They are, in consequence, eager in most cases to frequent assemblies where nimble maidens disport themselves in the gayest gowns and the most witching smiles. There are many exceptions, however, even among these. lialls, usually so alluring, pall early on the most sentimental and susceptible youth. Ere they are fairly out of their teens they tiro of dancing and relinquish it from satiety. We all know how delicient is the supply of dancing men in NewYork and the larger cities, and how almost impossible it is to meet the demand, whatever tho premiums offered. If a mere boy wearies ui social liollowness and frivolity if fresh, pretty, winning damsels, whom he can scarcely refrain from idealizing, cannot tempt him to tarry among them for a few hours, how can a mature man of the world, of jaded passions, saturated with experience, be expected to care for the deadly dull comedies, res' hearsed, season after season, until they are repellent?
Tho opinion that most men have no mental appetito for society may bo safely trusted. They are gorged with it, to be frank, and would reject it openly were it not for feminine influences and feminine blandishments. They do not tell their hostesses so, of course. An unwritten though universally recognized law of society is that no one within its portals shall say what ho thinks or admit that anything that appertains to it is not pleasant. Society peoplo aro perfectly conscious that they are shams, and that society is the biggest sham of all. Nobody is deceived, but everybody wishes to pretend that he is, and so the game is kept up and has perhaps its satirical gratifications.
Swamped With Conventionality. It is not assumed that thero aro not amiable, clever, interesting women in society. Thero aro invariably. Every circlo contains them. If it wero not so, society •would perish of inanition. But plenty as they may be, no man has, as a rule, any chance to enjoy their speech or thoir company. Evening assemblies arc apt to bo •without repose or conversation, without mellowness or piquancy. Everything is fragmentary and fruitless. Drawing rooms are commonly crowded and hot. The talk is made up of personalities and platitudes, of misunderstood opinions and unfinished sentonces. It is, in tho main, buzz, bubble and balderdash. Tho scene is uncomfortable, and the characters are unattractive, not necessarily, but because they aro all run together. Society is ono of tho poorest of places to get acquainted or to get profit. Persons who havo met there for a series of jgcasons aro surprised sometimes on being thrown togother elsewhere to discover that they are mutually interesting. If all fcho agreeable frequenters of society wero taken (Out of it and approached under favorable •conditions, their agreeableness would be appreciated and heightened. .Society as •onstituted and managed is a clog to progress and a fetter to ideas. Its supremo conventionality swamps it.
No won dor men who amount to anything fail to like society. It is barren and dreary enough. Women who fondly fancy that they appear so well thero really appear
jodge them in its whirl and whimsies. A nan who might lovo any one of 20 women ahould ho encounter them singly would disapprovo of them in a huddle. A woman is never so charming or so dangerous •8 when alone, and in her solitariness sho triumphs most frequently over man. Ho derstands how unablo he is to cope with
very ill, and men havo no opportunity to call tho ox-governor "grandpa." Tho elder Pecks will temporarily reside with Mr. and Mrs. Pock, Jr. Mr. Pock is passionately fond of his grandchildren, and thoy are his constant companions outside of business or professional hours. Tho second son, Roy Peck, is a slim youth of SJ0 and a student in a western military school.
her unity, and, unless poiticoat proof, is prone, then, to keep out ol her range. The man who would turn pale at a vision of her retreating ligure would never blanch beforo a hundred of her intrenched in society. There she is, with all her equipment for offenso and defense, least liable to attack and really most harmless. When Bho comes to comprehend this fully, society will either be disillusioned for her, or she will reform it, the latter altogether the more probable. The Anglo-Saxon Uialc, much as he may resort to it, has nover revealed any special aptitude for society, as we see from generations of Englishmen. As tho American is far more progressive, more accessible to ideas, wo must look to him for its amelioration, perhaps in tho coming century.
JUNIUS HKNIII IJUOWXE.
THE WISCONSIN HUMORIST.
He Has Retired From Politics and Journalism and Will Probably Take the Platform. [Special Correspondence.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 22.—TIio famous Wisconsin humorist, George W. Peck, for four years Democratic governor of the stato, has retired fnM) politics. On Jan. 7 he turned the gubernatorial 'office over to his Republican successor and joyfully I retired to the walks of private life. Mr. Peck is best known to tho American peoplo as a humorist, and for a dozen or more years his writings wero more widely quot- I ed than any other writer of his time. He wrote two or threo books, and their sales aggregated several million copies, and tho iucky publishers who bought the manuscripts outright retired with large fortunes. I It is a curious lact that Mr. Peck's old paper, Peck's Sun, closed its individual I career about tho timo its founder, an old time editor and publisher, stepped down from the governor's chair. It was purchased by a local publishing house some weeks ago and has been consolidated with a weekly paper of their own.
George W. Peck's career as a politician was meteoric. The Democrats nominated him eight years ago for mayor of Milwaukee, and he was elected with a hurrah. Two years later ho was re-elected. Then he was placed at tho head of the state ticket and was elected governor by an overwhelming majority. lie was re-clect-
GKOIiGE w. PECK.
ed to this high office two years ago by a largo vote, but was carried down in tho political cyclone that swept over the country last fall. Mr. Peck has wearied of official duties -ind is glad enough to get back among tho peoplo who love him and who have long taken a pardonable prido in calling him a fellow citizen. While ho has made no special plans for tho future, he will in all probability go out to lecture. His reputation as a humorous writer and speaker is national in scope, and ho has had many flattering offers to go on tho platform.
Mr. Peck is a man of tho most gentle and charming personality. He is 53 years old, of medium height, compactly built, with a very ruddy complexion, laughing blue-gray eyes, sandy hair, dcoply tinged with gray, and snow white mustache and goatee. He is a splendidly preserved and young looking man, despite his white whiskers. Ho is always in fashionable attire, and invariably, winter and summer, wears a bright scarlet carnation in his left lapel. He is at all times approachable, affablo and good natured, a first class story teller, a fine after dinner speaker, and a man much sought after in social and business circles. He looks so well groomed, relined and philanthropic that no ono would ever associate him with that country store character who was made miserable by tho horseplay pranks of that much discussed and abused Peck's Had Boy," tho central figure of tho most of Mr. Peck's humorous sketches andihe ono hero of all his books, humorist
Tho humoTist was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., but his parents camo to Wisconsin when ho was quito young. Ho had a common school education and became a printer, working for several years at tho case. Then he becamo a country editor and attracted the attention of Brick Pomeroy and helped to edit tho old Brick Pomeroy Democrat when it was printed in La Crosse, Wis., following its fortunes to Now York during the exciting war timos. Ho quit editing to become a soldier, and thero is nothing much funnier than ono of his early day sketches entitled "How I Put Down tho Rebellion." After tho war ho drifted back to La Crosso and 6tartod Peck's Sun, a paper that was ''to ehino for all." Mr. Peck explains that despite its motto it shono for a very small clientele for a number of years, or until ho removed his plant to Milwaukee about 15 years ago. Then it was that he began writing tho bad boy stories, and it is reiteration to say that they took liko wildfire. The littlo country weekly became famous and in fow months ran its circulation up to 100,000 copies. Money literally poured in on the lucky editor, and for a time his paper netted him something like $5,000 a week. It wasn't long beforo ho was living in a big stone mansion, tho owner of a fine privato yacht, a block of city houses, a summer resort hotel and other sorious things. After a year or so tho fickle public tired of tho bad boy, and tho history of all puroly humorous papers was repeated in tho caso of Pock's Sun. It began running down, its editor became engrossed in politics, and it was sold eventually to tho printers working on it for a mere song, although once an offer of half a million dollars was mado for it by a Chicago syndicate, and after a precarious and picturesque existence it has been hyphenated with Tho Moon or Star or some other local luminary, and tho newspapor nioho it filled so long is now an aching void.
Mr. Pock's family consists of awifoand two sons. The oldest, Georgo W. Peck, Jr., is a well known young business man of this city, a clever, handsome young fellow about 30 years of ago. He is happily married, and threo big, chubby children
GEORGE II. YENOWINE.
HORSES AND HORSEMEN.-
A attempt to found a jockey club in New Zealand has failed. Thomas Grady has leased Belmont track for ISiio, the rent being $6,000.
A combined sulky and bicycle race course is among the possibilities in Chicago.
M. Murp? y, the coal oil millionaire, has gathered a dozen or moro youngsters to sport on the turf.
All American trotters over 3 years old sent to Fran-jo hereafter will stare as having a record of 2:25.
Part of the prize grand boulevard snow stakes in Ciiicago this year consists of a pie live feet in circumference.
Father John, tho well known runner that used to set the pace for Nancy Hanks, got his name from Charles Heed's pastor.
Tho Australian bookmaker, Joo Thompson, who cut a swath here for awhile, won $00,000 over Indian Queen's victory in the Cambridgeshire recently.
The horse refuses tho water hemlock that is eaten with avidity by the goat— tho animal whoso presenco is considered so heathful to tho occupants of tho stable.
At Alexander Island recently a bookmaker and a clerk were ruled off for systematically robbing tho backer of tho book by raising the figures on winning tickets.
St. Simon broke down before his third year was properly through. Ormonde before tho end of his fourth was a hopeless roarer. Isinglass neither breaks down nor roars.
Wallace, tho first of Carbine's get to appear in public, won the Elying stakes at tho Victoria (Australia) club's meeting at seven furlongs for all ages in tho fast timo of 1:27 4-
Tho English horse Kuwenzori, now years old and a roarer from his yearling days, is being treated by electricity for his wind affection, and so far with marvelous improvement.—Horseman.
CHICAGO CUTLETS.
Chicago is howling for natural gas wells. Purely the city is sufficiently full of it already.—St. Louis Star-Sayings.
The Armenian outrages might be referred to Chicago's committee on French exhibit outrages.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In its contest for supremacy with Greater New York, Chicago is careful to keep the directory fioor well padded.—Kansas City Journal.
Chicago university has organized a football team, and before long tho Windy City by the lako may become an educational center of some consequence.—Cincinnati Gazotte.
Affairs have reached that condition in Chicago where if a man happens to bo killed in a saloon disturbance tho coroner's jury brings in a verdict that he met his death by accident.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Unfortunately yellow rubbers are not a success. This, however, should make no difference to the Chicago dude who wants to wear the tan shoes. His sweothoart can see his feet a block away, and ho will be happy.—New Orleans Picayune.
If a crowd of college youths had performed the antics with which the brokers on the Chicago board of trade ushered in tho new year and had called it hazing, tho country would have been filled with denunciation of such pranks. But being grown and ordinarily dignified men the brokers aro only laughed at.—Buffalo Express.
THE WHEELMAN.
The missing link—the one you hunt for after the chain breaks. Eight and nine teeth chain wheels on back hubs will be the English fashion in this year's new machines.
A military cycle, built for and ridden by ten riders, was ono of tho features at a recent English cycle parade.
If any one doubts the advantage of a narrow tread in a bicycle, let him try to walk with one foot each side of a five inch board.
A naturalist tells us that a snipo has a nervo running clear down to tho end of his bill. So has tho bicycle repairer. How wonderful are nature's works!
Two one legged riders havo ordered an original sort of tricycle. Thero will be two saddles, but each rider will, as a matter of course, only bo required to drive one pedal.—Sporting Life.
KENTUCKY'S LYNCHING.
Kentucky has just lynched a white man. It is supposed to be a case of color blindness.—Chicago Dispatch.
Merely as an evidence of good faith and also for publication Kentucky has just lynched a white man.—Washington Post.
A singular thing has happened in Kentucky. A white man was taken from jail by a masked band and swung off from a bridge. It is supposed that in the darkness of the night he was mistaken for a negro.—Kansas City Star.
Kontucky is evidently determined to distingush herself during 1895. In Morgan county JI mob took Thomas Blair out of jail and hanged him. The most curious feature of this lynching was that Blair was a white man and that ho had been acquitted of tho misdemeanor with which ho had been charged.—Baltimore News.
A TRIP TO CHINATOWN.
The Chinese havo now given up confidence in their generals and aro pinning their faith to tho clerk of tho weather.— New York Press.
It begins to look as if Japan will get to Poking before the Chinese envoys get to Hiroshima. In that caso preliminaries will i)o to tho point.—Philadelphia Press.
Tho Japanese aro using sleighs in thoir advance over tho snow toward Peking. Wo may bo suro that thero won't bo any retreat from Moscow business about their operations.—New York Sun.
China wants money or credit to keep up tho war. Japan could havo either money or credit, hut wants neither. "She's got tho ships, she's got tho men, she's got tho money too," according to tho old Jingo song.—New York Recorder.
THE NATURALIST.
Owls move in a buoyant manner, as if lighter than tho air. Secretary birds tako their name from tho tufts of feathers like pens on tho sides of their heads.
Although a whale's mouth, when open, is about 12 by 18 feet in dimensions, its throat is so small that a hen's egg might clioko it.
A dog turns around two or three times beforo lying down to sleep because in early times he had to do so to make a bod in the tall grass, and tho habit remains.
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