The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-09-10
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Women compared with Men

Some kind spirit, hailing from the good 80 city
of br .therly love- recently, in n lengthy article,
plead the cause most ably of the gentler sex.
lie says . Men have talent, but women have
tact men accomplish much with grcaE e%xertiOn,
but women move tie world by unseen influence,
and by work which neither shows nor exhausts.
IL Is admitted that women are better judges OF
character than men and this | conceive Is part
ly owing to the fact that in their instructive
judgment the question of morality has greater
SIin1uonce on the Judgment than with men. y
woman cannot give you reasons for her decisions,
but it is generally correct; 4 man will overwheim
you with reasons in favor of an erroneous con-
clusIOn. Women have, all, many OF the proml-
nent traits and qualities which make up what
we call genius in men the great poets, the
great artists, even the great conquerors, had all
the woman's side of their nature strongly devel-
oped /; and it has often been observed that almost
every really great man owed his best points OF
character. those which made him powerful, 70
the mother. Women live by faith men by
works. Women believe; men wait for proof.
Mary went 70 the grave to seek the risen Saviour;
bu, Thomas must lay his finger in the wounds
before his stubborn doubts gave way. Men take
the world by storm women gain their point by
slow and careful approaches. Men are impetu-
A.s-women persistent. Men are easily discour
a~ged-wonen are patient and tenacious. Men
are ready for a change. the nOmadic nature Is
strong within them. Women suffer by change
they do not bear transplanting well. Men are
III uDRs. GIc H6sC a ca inOlC vi HtESDiiS
women are like cats, who have a stronger affec-
ton for places. Ii would have been "A tribe for
4 man to say to the widowed Naomi what Ruth
said and he who forgets this misses half the
noble sublimity of her faithful sacrifice. These
differences are radical and characteristic. They
are not the effect of education or training, but
inborn. There are others which may be set on the
account of wOman's physical weakness-and here
come in her peculiar vices Women are cunning,
which is the fault of weak men also. They
abhOr the sight Of blood more than m.en do
though this instinct. is strong also in men, and
even leads the pirate to force his victims to
= walk the PLANK in preference To shooting
or stabbing then. So the women bent on muir
der oftentimes use poison and the most notorious
prisoners have been women. The crimes OF
women are in general caused either oy love,
jealousy, or vanity those of men by c%ovetOus-
ness, ferocity and recklessness of character. The
women display more cunning and ingenuity in
their commission the man, inferior animal that
he IS, works here, rs in everything else, by main
strength and stupidness. The woman, with
doubtless greater temptations. contributes, vastly
fewer TO the number of criminals than the man
and IL has been noticed in England, as well as
here, that of reformed criminals the greater num-
Der are women-and this in spite of the fact that
it is much more difficult for a woman, once fallen.
than for q man TO recover 4 place in society.
Nor should we omit to notice here the fact, that
IN many countries acts have been counted crimi-
nal IN women which were not noticed in men.
Thus sca~ndal-mongery, qu~arrelsomeness, and
scolding. were punishable once all over Europe
In women and how many hundreds have suffered
for the imaginary crime of witchcraft :"