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The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1907. A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS.

Father Vaughan has been stirring up and exposing the social evils in fashionable circles of Eondon. Too often has it been said that the Roman Catholic Church has been lacking in denouncing social evils but this cannot apply to that section of the Church over which Father Vaughan presides. For the idle, smart woman he has lashes of scorpions. “ A foolish man will think aloud, but a silly woman feels aloud.” The conversations that are carried on between the sexes and among women with each other are nothing less than shocking. It all goes to prove that in reading as in everything else, these persons exercise no restraint whatsoever. It might be a blessing if some of these gambling harpies could be given what are called ‘‘Women’s Rights, ’ ’ for under these conditions I presume, they will drop women’s privileges, and then man might have a chance of seeing that they played the game. It is not what women put on but what they take off that matters. There are not a few houses from which some society ladies are permanently excluded because of their want of decent clothing. Did we know less of the motives for these outrageous breaches' -of decorum we might charitably Vipposc these umvomenly women v-ert- recent j importations from the loji Islands. •

Speaking of childless marriages ) he says that the loveless, childless marriage is sapping the nation. Is it not appalling to think that the very last for newly-married people to want is mutual love? Nay, they ridicule belief in any such old-world relic. It is “bad form” and that is the end of it. I am proud to think that, if my father was one of twenty children, I myself am one of fourteen. My experience goes to show that the larger the family the healthier and merrier the children. Present up-to-date parents ridicule the idea of having big families ; so that instead of being proud, society is becoming ashamed of owning to a nursery full of children- Most of the present day evils far and away come from unhappy marriages, and unhappy marriages come from want of mutual reverence and love. And to prove his indictment that what President Roosevelt calls deliberate race suicide is most prevalent among the better-to-do. Father Vaughan quotes Mr Sydney Webb, who wrote in “The Times’’ :—The dedecline in the birth-rate is exceptionally marked where the inconvenience of having children is specially felt. Referring to money worship, he says the horror of the “ Smart Set’ ’ is that, while loves no longer conquers all, money excuses all. Truth to tell, women with their dainty feet firmly set upon a rung high up the social ladder are easily

condoaed those deadly deeds lor which their sisters lower down would be sure to be severely condemned. Accordingly Herodias, with a past would stand out prominently as a really *Smart Woman of the Smart Set. Provided she and Herod gave good dinners and rare entertainments, there would be no difficulty in finding excuses for their actual life. Old English traditions with rare exceptions, are being swept away by the incoming tide of millionaire wealth, so that, nowadays, it matters little what you are, but much, nay everything what you have. If you command money, you can command the world. If you have none, you are nobody though you be a prince. If Dives who was burned in Hell, were to revisit this earth he Would have the entree to London’s Smartest Set to-day. He would be . . . literally pelted with invitations. The worship of money and the coming of the millionaire have made society vicious and vulgar. “ Form.rly we used to hire chairs for our guests; now we hire guests for our chairs/’

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3740, 12 January 1907, Page 2

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The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1907. A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3740, 12 January 1907, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1907. A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3740, 12 January 1907, Page 2

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