The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-06-26
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOrrtlser.
SATURDAY,, JUNE p
GOSSIP AND CRITIC.

Our contributor Gossip met our other contrib
utor Critic during the week. and the conversation
turned upon the events Of what is known rs Gen
~rul Meeting Week. Said Gossip:
You attended the Tea Party at the parlor Of
the Fort Street Church, and no doubt found some
thing to c%riticise I?
Cnho-No. | wac rather pleased. than other
wise, with what l SOW there; but the newspaper
report of speeches was rather unfair. y Rever-
end from Kona made an excellent speech wl.eh
was dismissed with an eight line report.
GOSsiP-You mean q native Reverend?
Crhc-Why say native Reverend? Are they
not oil one in the sight of the Master? The
affair was managed in the interest of mutual good
will and fellowship, and it would have pleased
the native brother to have seen a full report of his
speech as much as it did the foreigner. I0ur re-
porter endeavored to procure the notes of the ma
tive gentlemen who spoke, but did not succeed.
Ed. p. c. Al
GOssip-Ynasts at a missionary Tea Party are
rather an innovation an idea borrowed from the
worlds people.
FCThhc-The missionaries have as good a right
to have toasts with tea as the-world's people to
have the same with champagne. l rather Tie
the idea How else could ambitious ehurchmen
find a text for a religious political or rather, po-
ltical-religious speech.
GosSp-You noticed that the precious
treaty" was introduced.
CriHc-And why not? Do you imagine that
there is no connection between sugar and our reli-
gion? 1t takes no end of dollars to sustain a we'll
appointed church nowadays; what with reserved
seats, parlor and other luxurIes.
Eoss,-Vou beord fba bopp,, oIus;oD 70 tho
delicate tact with which the late mission Quot re-
Iigious) had brought their labors to a successful
issue, without exciting the apprehension" of
the natives or wounding the "susceptibiIities"
of the foreigners? What do you think about t?
Critc-Yes, it was put in a very felicitious
manner. OF the matter-well-let me use the
language of the church, to this effect: Let not
him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as
be that putteth it of.
Gossip don't like your vein and SO let me
change the subject to that Of the gathering at
Punahou.
Critic-Do you mean as reported in the papers?
GOssip-Yes. Why do you make a distinction?
Crilc-Because | think that after reading the
account you have the better impression.
GoSSip-You mean of the examination exer-
cises, cY the evenings entertainment?
Critic-Both. The examination was the most
natural aud less labored.
Gossip-The compositions were good, certainly
showing the effect of drill in the use of language.
Critic-Yes. If a remark might be made, as
criticism, it would be that the " education of wo-
men > was an ambitious theme for i girl who is
as yet upon the threshold of the tomple of learn
i~G-T Ta-e~er, it WOO s~0u nbrased, snd she~o e
high aim.
Gossip-The {. bird 's-eye view of a Royal Ball"
was good.
Crinc-Yes. Crisp and pert for a girl just in
her teens; but
Gossip-Well, what?
Cfitic-My criticism may be compassed in this
she had much better have been in bed than at the
ball.
Gossip-The speeches in answer to the toasts
were certainly good.
Critic-The sentiments were well selected and
expressed but the speeches were mostly too long.
Gossip-The woman's rights idea asserted itself
in the response to the toast {" co-education of the
sexes"
Criic-If women have anything to say, (when
do they not p why should they not be heard? Is
the right of speech any more mans than woman's?
Gossip--The response reads well.
~Critic-Yes-an advocates plea. The citation
of Adams and Ewes experience as an example of
the advantage of cO-education was hardly a happy
one, when we consider the miserable failure they
made; for which l suffer as al unhappy critic.
Gossip-Well; by her showing and experience
the girls excelled in many of the sports, as we'll
az studies, and the weather made more difference
in the school attendance of the boys than in that
of the girls.
Crihc-Puta pin in that last fact. The girls
would ride on horseback from town to Punahou
in weather that daunted the boys. Friend Gossip,
I have heard more than one mother say, "our
Helen or Jane or Emily, as the case might be, in
iured herself for life by riding at all periods and
in any weather to Punahou )" that they would do
differently if they had the experience to go over
again. This simply shows that females, in the
transition period from girlhood to womanhood,
need peculiar care and treatment.
G~ossip-Friend Critic, you had better put q
stop,-a full one,-just there, or you will be as
prosy and prolix as most other writers and speak
ers hereahout.
90. 1t q 70, aau Scupd oritio;er,