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BATTLE of throe buils lias over
night overthrown tho staid con
servatism of a century, and sent
H'l.iladelphia society in mad pursuit of
the laurels formerly held by Newport as
the scene of the wildest sacrifices of
."Wealth on the social altar.-
In the 'Quaker City, where formerly the
thy debutanto stood blushing besido her
flatoly mother while the dowagers, ma
trons, maids and gallants of Rittcnhouse
Square paid their respectful compll
jncnfs, has grown up a sudden mad de
eire for sensations.
She who would now give distinction to
her "coming out" must present a sensa
tion. S!n must match the spectacular
exploits of Mrs.. Bradley Martin In her
celebrated ball of a few years ago. or
produce some such startling effect as
used to be the specialty of Harry Lehr
In the days when ho was planning enter
tainments for New York's 400.
In the Quaker City it is not enough to
spend a hundred thousand dollars for
tho first bow of a debutante. If the
affair is to bo notable, there must be
thousands of rare roses, costing one dol
lar apiece, or butterflies brought from
all over tho world to be released in a
vivid shower over the heads of the
guests, or thousands of canary birds at
liberty among the palms and flowers must
pour out their mellifluous tones, or when
.these pall, guests must be given a chance
to eaten goldlish 'in a real pond running
through tho ballroom.
The rivalries of the parents of. Miss
Mary Astor Paul, Miss Margarctta Drex
el and Miss Dorothy Randolph have
aetimlly resulted in the introduction of
euoh amazing features as these. Any
one would ha been. a sensation, for a
season at New York, Newport or any
where else, but three coining in a few
weeks 'and in a ,city whose boast has
been the conservatism of its society,
make a most astonishing development.
The "butterfly bair," as it 4s now be-
Jug called, is exploit enough to make
Newport yield the crown of social proflig
acy to Philadelphia.
James AW Paul, a banker, connected
with tho Dre.xel interests, financed the
affair, and originally it was designed to
be known as tho "Bull of the Arts."
It was held at Horticultural Hall, a
building of considerable architectural
beauty, whose interior lends itself read
ily to elaborate arrangement. L
Those who held cards to this affair
expected something out of the ordinary,
for in advance it had been whispered that
not less than J100.000 would bo required to
pay all the bills. Those who mounted
tho stairway leading to the ball room
found the entrances hidden in palms in
terlaced with white and pink ehrysan-
A Modern View of the Ten
One Layman- Attempts an Exposition of Their
BY J. I JONES.
GOD gave only ten commandments,
but Kings and capitalists, noble
men and Congressmen, lawyers,
Dukes and other dignitaries have made
so many additional ones that if all the
lawbooks were collected in one vast
library no mortal man could read
them in .a thousand years, much less
Dbey them in his lifetime.
The law of God is perfect, there-'
fore these man-made enactments are
neither amendments nor improvements
to it. They serve to confuse the moral
perceptions and obscure " the real is
sues of life.
The Ten Commandments are sup
posed to be obsolete and out-of-date.
No one pays any attention to them.
Not ono person in 20 can repeat them.
No one ever attempts to explain them
Intelligently though we have a hun
dred thousand preachers whose business-
it is to do this. I don't like
to butt in and interfere with other
people's business, but as those who
are paid for explaining the law of
God neglect to do it I am going to do
it without pay. Just to show that it
can be done.
There are two parts or tables of the
law. The first part is personal and
private and deals with man's duties to
God and. his own soul. The second
part is public and social and defines
the duties of men to one another. The
first part Is personal religion; the sec
ond part applies to busluess relations.
The last part must be learned and
practiced first. AVe commence at the
bottom and work up. No one can
serve God till he has first learned to
deal honestly and justly with his
neighbors, and this means with all peo
ple, for In eomo degrees all men are
brothers.
Ho that will not provide for his
family is worse than an infidel. God's
family. In its widest sense, is not
merely a few personal relatives, but
the whole world. There Is another
sense, however. In which the people
of God are a select and separate body,
but they acquire this distinction only
through performance of service to
chose ot inferior degrees. Not by op
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4hcmums, Kaster lilies, tied with stream
ers of pink tulle, and having cunningly
hidden in them tiny electric lights, whose
little glow looked almost like tho Burn
ing of morning dew on the flowers.
Ferns, pink roses, begonias and azaleas
formed the decoration of the ball
pressing the people, but by uplifting
them; not by killing the lambs, but by
feeding them, is promotion to be
earned.
Beginning at the . bottom the last
five commandments are:- Thou shalt not
covet. Thous shalt not bear false wit
ness. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt
not commit adultery. Thou shalt not
kill. But the governments of the
world have abolished ' these and sub
stituted enactments of their own. They
have made murder and robbery legal
and their laws exist to protect the
ownership by certain people of prop
erty that rightfully belongs to their
nieghbors.
Then each church has a set of laws
of Its own. Thou shalt not dance.
Thou shalt not drink beer. Thou shalt
not play cards. Thou shalt not say
damn. Thou shalt not stay away from
Sunday school. These are some of the
commandments of the churches. They
are very exacting in petty formalities,
to make up for their . neglect of jus
tice and truth.
"Thou shalt not kill" is one of the
most important commandments, but
people are being killed by thousands
in wars, in mine explosions, in rail
road accidents and by preventable dis
eases, due to overwork, starvation, ig
norance and adulterated food. What is
the cause of the military and industrial
carnage, of ignorance and adulterated
food, and the apathy that assents to
the prevalence of such evils? The
answer is, greed. AVhat is greed? It
is the ruling spirit of commercial
activity and what is called business
enterprise. It is the strife to get
wealth without earning it Jionestly.
The commercial interest rule the coun
try. Among the ancient Greeks. Hermes
or Mercury was the god of traders. He
was also the god of thieves. Thievery is
still a godly business so long as it is
operated under forms of law. Business
is something quite different from honest
labor. Making money is different .from
earning money. Some . business men
manufacture shoddy goods and adulter
ated food. Other business men sell such
things. It is business to buy by long
measure and sell by short measure. The
business men do not produce tho wealth
of the country. The producer puts the
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room proper; fountains splashed under
electric lights so as to throw blue, violet,
pink and silver colors on the flying water.
Tile promenade was lighted by artistic
chandeliers and candelabra, draped with
ferns. I .
If this had been all the ball would
Commandments
Real Meaning.
value into the goods, but the business
men put the prices on them so 'that the
consumer pays from three to ten times as
much for things as the producers get
paid for them In wages. -
The business Interests, by which I do
not mean merely the petty retail store
keepers, but the whole" capitalist class
that lives on rent, interest and dividends,
add very little to the wealth of the coun
try, but absorb nearly the whole of it.
The very existence of a class that lives
on the labor of others is a violation of the
Tenth Commandment..
Under sanction of ' time-honored but
unrighteous laws such people take what
does not belong to them. The masses of
the people are ignorant of the fact that
laws that permit this sort of business are
not moral laws but immoral ones. It is
a commonly accepted maxim of capitalist
economy that the working people of the
world, those who perform nearly all the
work, are poor because, they are too lazy
to work.
Such are the lies the lambs are fed
on by their divinely appointed shephereds.
The black slaves were always kicked and
cursed and lashed for being too lazy to
work, by those who lived off their labor
and did not do any honest work them
selves.' The same condition still obtains
under capitalist wage-slavery. This is
what is the matter with society. This is
the fertile cause of its diseases, its cor
ruptions and its crimes. .
We sometimes hear of what is called
tlje "hyhor law." Well, we certainly
need something higher than the laws
made by politicians. The highest law is
the first commandment beginning at the
top. . "Thou shalt have no ' other gods
before me.", This does not say that there
are no other gods. It admits that there
are other gods and that we may have
other gods. But not "before me." What
does that mean?
We must recognize a supreme good or
God among the many kinds of goods and
gods we have to select, from. The first
law of1 universal order is to recognize the
supreme, the highest, the absolute truth.
The prefix "re" means again; recognize is
to know again, to remember. . Remember
is to member or put together again. We
have forgotten. We have lost the knowl
edge of God and Uia -laws.. We don't
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have been voted a marvel of exotic beau
ty, but the main surprise of the evening,
that which was to make the ball famous,
came at midnight exactly.
A silvery chime . in a costly French
clock struck the' hour 12. The music
stopped instantly, leaving the dancers
surprised and expectant. Some one
touched a spring that opened a dozen
tiny doors; a whirring sound told of
wings in motion, and the ball room was
filled with butterflies.
There were 15,000 of them in all colors,
in all shades of transcendaut beauty.
For this ' one instant the wealth of
millionaire. Paul had been poured out to
agents in the sunlit glades .of Florida,
Southern California, Georgia and Ala
bama. For' this instant experts in shipping
had been put to It to devise a means
know him and he does not recognize us.
The hearts of the children must be turned
to the father.
"Honor thy father and thy mother,"
does not refer to earthly parents who
may not deserve any honor. It means
our heavenly father and heavenly
mother. But who is the h,eavenly
mother? Is there a queen of heaven
as well as a king? Who is this queen?
Is it the Virgin Mary, or the moon,
or the plant Venus o'r the Constellation
Virgo?
The theological conception of God
is a male man without a mate, a king
without a : queen. The theologians
have labored lung and unsuccessfully
to explain the doctrine of the trinity,
for the reason that it is impossible
to' account for the birth of a man with
out a mother. They should study
something simpler first. They should
Inquire into the law of biunity. They
Ehould master the mystic number two
before they attempt the' number three.
In the first chapter of Genesis -we
are told that God is male and female,
and in the last of Revelations the
woman in the case Is introduced. God
has a wife, a bride, and her name is
the New Jerusalem. How can this be?
Is not this more absurd even than the
doctrine of the trinity? How can a
woman be a city or a city be a man's
bride?
'Why do -we call the City of Rome
or the City of Portland "she"? Why
don't we call a city "lie"? Why is the
sun masculin-e and the moon feminine?
Why is a ship feminine even if she
has a man's name? Why is a college
called Alma Mater, which means nour
ishing mother? Why is Rome called
the Mother Church, England the Moth
er Country, and Germany the Father
land? -
Why have we a Goddess of Liberty
and not a god? Is it less sinfu.1 to
worship a fickle goddess than to follow
after a false god? Why Is Nature her
self feminine? Is. Nature a woman?
Now, we are coming to the point. The
answer to all these questions is to be
found in a knowledge of the laws of
Nature, which are the laws of birth
and life and death. It is more im
portant and much more interesting to
study tho laws of Nature, than to
pore over dry and dreary law books
made by human dullness and lack of
common sense.
Moses was instructed in all the wis
dom of the Kgyptians and they were
pretty well posted in the laws of Na
ture. Then he went into the wilder
jm Minora
by which the brilliant-hued insects could
be hurried north In hampers electrically
heated on fast expresses.
So well did they succeed that when
the cavalcade of superb insects floated
out into tho heated, flower-laden air of
the ball room one huge chorus of aston
ishment, thai even the breeding of .these
guests could not suppress, announced to
the host that his plans had not mis
carried. This was the exploit of the first of the
buds.
Tho 'reply in favor of Miss Margucr
etta Drexel was not so spectacular, but
in point of lavish outlay of wealth it
falrjy ranked with the butterfly balL
Six-thousand roses of a' kind never be
fore used for decorations, roses which
are said to have cost one dollar apiece,
appealed to the senses of sight and smell
ness and learned the laws of God.
He was not a graduate of a theolog
ical school and did not belong to a
political party. When he led the Israel
ites out of Egypt, he did not call a con
vention, and none of his corrupt and
cowardly followers were elected .to a
legislature to make laws.
His people wanted to go back to
Egypt to eat garlic and make bricks.
They had become so accustomed to
slavery that they had lost the power
to v adapt themselves to a life of lib
erty. They were enamored of toil and
delighted in drudgery. What did they
know or care about making laws?
Like the modern wage slaves, all they
wanted was plenty of work.
So Moses did not leave it to them
to formulate a- code of laws. He wont
up alone into a mountain to" commune
with God and Nature. He did not make
any laws. He went to the source and
origin of law and discovered and re
vealed the laws already made.
When' he was gone the people made
a golden calf to worship. They were
very religious. When he came back
he made them eat their god. They
did not find it good for their diges
tion. Gold is poor grub. If the Rocky
Mountains were made of gold our
country would not be a penny the
richer. Gold is not the staff of life.
Tho belief in the omnipotence of gold
is the maddest delusion of a demented
race.
Scheherezade could not relate all
her stories in one night. I am not as
wise as she was and I cannot explain
the whole science of the decalogue In
one day. If I did. no one would have
time to read it all and there would
not be room in the paper to set It up.
If the Sultan spares my head I will
continue the story. It will be quite as
incredible as the Tales of the Arabian
Nights. And it may -be as entertain
ing. Corvallis, Or.
Philosophy.
Jenny Meriden. in Leslie's Weekly.
I hold it well our hearts should know
The full extremes of joy and woe;
To feel this mortal life not made
In all OY sunshine or of shade. '
I hold It well that we should cive
Our joys the right -they claim, to live!
Nor sink In childish weakness down
At .sorrow's chill or, fortune's frown.
I hold it true whate'er we do.
In mask of mirth or suffering's thrall.
That, lapsed in years, out smiles and tears.
We have but shadows for them ail-
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from every place in the Bellevue-Strat-ford
ball room where space could be
found for them.
The back of the stage where the music
ians sat was arranged to .' represent an
old French garden. ' A quaint marble
bridge, flanked with statues and a foun
tain,' gleamed amnog the greens and
lilies. Tho florists of New York and
Philadelphia fell short of being able to
meet the demand for decorations, and
blooms had to be sent from the South.
So great was the crowd that the
huge banqueting rooms of . the Clover
1ub, the Red Room and even the hall
ways had to be filled with the multitude
of little tables, flanked with roses and
chrysanthemums, in preparation for the
dinner that was served at midnight.
Real peaeh blossoms had been forced
especially for this dinner in hothouses.
Man With Thirty-Two Autos
And Doesn't Get His Name In New York Papers, Either.
February American Magailne.
rOUR of us who live at the northern
end of Manhattan Island went out
for a walk. One of the four suggested
that we take a public road which
passes-'through the estate of Mr. So-and-So,
whose name I withhold. It is
enough to say that three of the four
ofUs. all regular readers of news
papers, had never heard .of the man.
When we had .admired the rich man's
house from afar, we followed the pub
lice highway until we came to Mr. So-and-So's
stable. The entrance was
convenient, and our curiosity had de
veloped, so we lingered in the neigh
borhood for a little time. Finally an
old man came out. and we engaged
him in conversation. We told him
frankly that we should enjoy seeing
the inside of a millionaire's barn. He
said that he was employed in the stable
and that he was' sure that Mr. So-and-So
would not . object to our seeing his
horses. Visitors were freely admitted,
he told us. So we went in.
First we saw the stalls for (he
horses, and all the conveniences for
"keeping the animals clean and com
fortable. As I passe through the cor
ridors I noticed that a heating system
had been installed in order that the
temperature might be kept even. In
the harness room I saw silver trappings
and an interesting collection of photo
graphs of famous horses. Some of the
horses in this very stable, I was told,
had wonderful records on the race
track. '
So far all was interesting, but noth
ing impressed me as unnatural.
But now we passed through a long
hall and Into a great room which
served as Mr. So-and-So's private
garage. And as we passed along, our
aged guide became more communica
tive. Here were all sorts of automo
biles, including a variety of racing
machines. The room must have been
a hundred feet long. In the ceiling
were huge trap doors, twenty feet
square, through which hung cables at
tached to a traveling crane. This ap
pliance was for lifting, moving and
testing the various machines. One car,
of special make, was the largest auto
mobile I ever saw. As I stood in front
of it, and close to it, I was reminded
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and just before the diners sat down,
the tables were showered with fragrant
blossoms, until the affair took on tho
appearance of one of tho famed cherry
blossom fetes beloved of the Japanese.
Butterflies had been the piece dc resist
ance of the Paul ball; priceless roses and
peach blossoms represented the Drexel
contributions to this battle of furious
finance, and for the -Randolph ' bail that
ended the three-cornered struggle birds
and fishes were requisitioned to furnish
the spectacular element.
This final ball was the costliest of .nil.
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars
passed from the purse of Philip S. 1'.
Randolph in order to provide a setting
fitted for his daughter's coming out.
The Bellevue-Stratford was the scene of
this gorgeous picture. The foyer of the
ballroom whs converted Into a beautiful
garden. One side was turned into a
frreat bank of palms, -poinsettas and
Master lilies, red and- white being thj
colors of the ball.
Five thousand . Kaiserin and Liberty
foses were entwined in the bower which
led 'into the ballroom.
All around the ballroom the chairs er
tied together in pairs by bows of red rib
bon, and huge Australian ferns huus
down at intervals along the ualeony rail.
The ballroom stage, on which the or
chestra was stationed, was a bank of red
azaleas and potnsettlas on the left, and on
the right Master lilies. ' White chrysan
themums and azaleas were the features
of the decoration, thus bringing out point
edly the entire color scheme of red and
white. v
But the great sensation of the ball via
the display of birds and flshes.
The birds were canaries, 500 of them,
all beautiful as to plumage and marvcl
ously gifted as to voice. The carolling
filled the room in tho intervals when the
dance music of the orchestra was stilled, '
and gavo an astonishing aid In the illusion
of an open-air fete made by the floral
decorations.
From the foyer an arched rustic bridc
led into the suppen-room. Under the
bridge ran a little brook, in which wero
countless gold lishes, which darted and
gamboled, their hues being touched into
still greater glory by the flashing of the
lights. In the late stretches of the even-
ing it is said that some of the guests, in
a spirit of play, actually angled for and
caught the gorgeous fish.
Befitting an affair of such luxury, the
favors at this ball were worth a small
fortune. They included silver cigarette
cases, silver-topped canes, silver cigar
cutters, silver vanity boxes, pincushions
and scent bottles.
The battle of the buds has forced New
port to look to its glory, unless Philadel
phia is to usurp the title of having the
Nation's most extravagant social set.
of the first ocean-going tug I ever saw,
and of how much bigger it seemed to
me than the lake tugs to which, as a
boy, I had been accustomed.
"Are these all automobiles belonging
to Mr. So-and-So?" I asked.
"Yes, but seven of them are not
here," said the old man. "Seven ma
chines and nine, horses are down at
the hotel."
"Well, how many automobiles does
Mr. So-and-So require for his private
use?" I asked.
"He has thirty-two." said the old man.
And then it all came out. Mr. So-and-So
has thirty-two automobiles. He
has seven chauffeurs one for himself,
one for his wife, one for his daughter,
one for his son, one for his steward,
one for his housekeeper and one for
his superintendent. In the basement
of the stable is a large repair shop,
where three machinists are continually
at work repairing these automobiles.
At present Mr. So-and-So is not In
habiting the house which my friends
and I had been looking at. He is at
one of the great hotels in New York,
where he pays $10,000 a year for his
apartments. '' But he has 'been there
only a few weeks. And lie isn't going
to remain but a few weeks longer. Al
though he pays for his apartment by the
year, he is going to Kurope in his private
yacht for an indefinite stay.
In the rear of the barn 1 saw a corps
of carpenters at work fixing up a private
skating rink for tin; son of Mr. So-and-So.
But the weather is warm, and if it
doesn't take a brace soon the father will
have the young man off. to Kurope be
fore he can get his skates on and yell
Jack Robinson. . . .
This Is not a complete exposure. I
never saw my victim. I never heard of
him before. I got in through the barn,
and came out through the garden. For
aught I know he may be the most in
dustrious and deserving man on earth.
But I did think one thing. I thought
that any man with all that money saved
up must be very old. But when I came
to look him up in "Who's Who" I found
another surprise: "Born 1S62."
Olive oil Is Injured by being; kept in the
liKht. When used, at the tahle It should he
Tcinoved to a cool, dark place after each
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