The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-07-16
European COrrespondence-No 5.
PARIs, May, 1870

Theatre Leetares.
Within the last year fashion has sprung up
in Paris Of giving lectures at theatres on some
play, which is Immediately represented. These
meetings take place Sunday, and are well at
tended If the male sex viii not darken the
chapel door, they do these theatres, and the
ladies' after hearing mass, can likewise assist,
and still be in time for vespers. Out of these
Haatilees has originated Sunday conferences on
many important social and economical subjects.
If deputy a man Of position be not the
occupant Of the tribune, he presides over the
meeting. just now the is upon obligatory
national education. NJ. Ferry, one of the repre-
sentatives of Paris, has pronounced very able
discourse ON this subject. He would Danish from
France the instruction of the Middle Ages, con-
fined to learning the catechism and scraps of,
Latin, adding that there was much need to
remodel existing systems as to establish new
schemes Of instruction, which should all rest on
a scientific basis. The revolution of 'S9 aimed
ut making all men equal by making all men
capable, and it was only the United States that
has acted up to this view. 1t calumny to
say Parisians desired to be amused they desired
to possess knowledge- Passing TO the education
of woman, it was Eecessary to educate her equal
to man, not only to make her capable to rear her
family, but even to educate her husband. In
France this was an imperiOus necessity, for if
women did not belong to science, they became
the creatures Of the church.
Education OF Women.
With the view Of enabling woman to work out
her own mission herself. the Prefect of Paris has
opened in the most commercial part of the city
course Of gratuItOus instruction for females, in
bookkeeping and arithmetic. IL is said that no
lady can explain her system of casting up ac-
counts-but she is ever correct in the end In
Paris, where as cashiers and book-keepers, the
females are to males, as three to one, technical
instruction in these points is excellent. French
men need not be jealous of the fair sex pOaching
on their preserves, seeing that they have driven
woman from the Offices of housemaid and Iaun-
dress. What more ludicrous sight than Her
cuIes 81 making up your room or young men
over q tub OF suds, starching and making up
linen Mantilini turned the mangle, but be
never descended 10 touch the - damp, moist, un-
pleasant - conteDts of the tub. Why does not
America, that wants, in her cities particularly,
good maids Of all work y invest in these her
maphrodites?
Women In Russia and France.
Russia having emaDcipated man, is doing the
same for woman. She is employed in telegraph
Offices, and if not yet elevated to the bench, or
permitted to mix in the 81 gold ring she can
henceforth, by late decree, take out her diploma
as a surgeon. an NJ. D., or both. France, that
wants all change effected by the magic wand of
Prospero, is just now 50 talking over - the posi-
ton Of the woman question. In no other country
In the world hns woman much influence, and
excepting in outward form and ceremonies, so little
respect az in this She is quick, full of tact and
natural intelligence, and the fashion seems to
tend to restore her to the power she possessed IN
the seventeenth century. She had Rousseau at
her feet, and she was the only idol that great
ieonoelast, yoItaire, spared.
Dumas ills has opened mp the matter. He
does not like the knights of old, enter the lists,
with '' My God, my King, and my Lady, on
his banner. He scouts the claim for her equality
with man but as there is some soul of goodness
in things evil he thinks her utility is rather best
when she plays somewhat the role of a vampire
Gentle reader, don't start, he will unsay all this
to-morrow-and has written some of the most
pathetic appeals on behalf of the frail SEX |
Musset ought not to be overlooked in the debate |
He wrote years ago that men were liars and |
that the most holy and sublime thing in life was
the union Of these imperfect and frghtful beings.
Different in aptitudes, instincts and desires
they are equal only in their faults. Man has
preserved the vices of the tyrant and woman the
cunning of the slave; one thing ennobles them
eieYates them above themselves-loye.
'sHam Fairs"
IL Is odd that Paris should select the last week
IN Lent Tor laying in her stock of hams, bacon,
sausages, lard, &C., for all the year round. Yet
such Is the iact- Holy Week and the Ham
FAIR are inseparable- The fair was recently
opened on one OF the exterior bouleyards How
ever, it was one of the omnibus class. where can
be had umbrellas and saucepans; mousetraus
and erayats, hard boiled eggs and medals of the
Pope; Brummegen jewelry and fried potatoes
shoes and lollypops; old clothes, and keys with
out locks, and locks without keys. Then come
i've hundred stalls, with matters poreine from
every part of the Borld-hams from Bayonne
and Mayence, beside pork from Cincinnat-York
hams, cheek bv ioul with sauaa0es from Vianna |