The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-11-02
play at night is said to have been very fine, max
ing fairy pageant,
"sueh sights as youthful poets dream,
On summer ewes, by haunted stream"

| Such sights as youthful poets dream,
On summer ewes, by haunted stream"
/ The immense iron structure Of a. r. Stewart,
situated on Fourth Avenue between Thirty
second aud Thrty-third Streets, intended to be a
hotel for women, progresses rapidly. and is be-
ginning to rear It's head so high as to show the
quality OF its building. In scanning this great
enterprise, one hardly knows whether most to
admire the philanthropy or the busiuess-like
shrewdness of the scheme. The lower part of
the building is to be devoted to stores, while the
upper part is to be fitted up as a irstelass hotel
for the accommoda ton of unmarried women,
where they can live on the European plan for "a
triHe more than the bare cost Of service and ma
terials. The establishment will virtually amount
TO an experiment in cooperative housek keeping,
or bookkeeping. with the advantage of being
secured from the possibility of failure by the long
head aud deep purse Of one responsible man.
Paris the queen city of style, the maker of
fashions, being busy about other things, has no
leisure this fall to supply US OF the western
world with those formulas of taste and caprice
that are obeyed with an alacrity yielded to the
behestS OF no monarch; and, in consequence. the
prospect is tba; New York will have to depend
upon her own devices in this important matter.
or else cast about for some leader worthy to wear
the mantle lately dropped by that most excellent
lady, true woman, and faithful wife and mother.
the Empress Eugenie. Rumor had it that a
certain German Princess had been nominated
onaen If the fashions h,t ~ rro.s- -
seems either not to have coveted the office. or
not to have had the aplonlb to mount the vacant
throne and grasp the sceptre, so that her. oppor.
tunity, alas has slipped by Is it possible that
the earnest words addressed 10 German women
by Fanny Sewald, Of which the following trans
lation is an extract, have deferred her or any of
her eountrywomen from setting up in this ca
paciiy? Listen it sounds as though addressed
TO American women This is the time to point
ont to German women how much they are to
blame for the present and ever-growing arrogance
and seli-suiicieucy of the French. When has
there been fashion. gotten up by the most
shameless among French women, that the re-
spectacle wives and daughters of Germany have
not adopted it? Don't you recoIlect how stylish
you felt when, personally deuuded to an immodest
degree you went about, interlarding your simple
German speech with frivolous French phrases?
And even now, while your sons storm French
batteries. and thousands Of German men spill
their life-blood for the independence of Germany,
you still strut the streets in towering French
chignous, and wear clothes cut according to
brazen French fashionsl'
Il is not easy to conceive of the once gay and
brilliant Paris-the leader in the worlds pomps
and reveries-as, stripped of her inery and
holiday attire, girding herself in desperation to
battle for her very hearth-stone. But much more
grievous is the thought that it is not volatile and
voluptuous Paris alone, but Paris, the store
house of art, the centre of science and literature
Paris, the leader in some Of the worlds wisest
thinking and best economies. that is threatened
with desolation
Are not the agonies of poor France in this
her hour of supremest trial, enough to rend the
heart with anguish CLAWS