The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-08
Miscellaneous Items.

A BOsToSIAN MIsTAKE--At n late Boston
party the host said TO n guest .. beg you TO
entertain Mr.. Blank little; he looks utterly
forlorn and bored to death. | will intr Jduce
him and you must interest HIM. BY the way,
his strong point is butter, on which he has
written u book The lady guest graciously un-
dertOok the task of entertaining the man, in
wardly wondering that he should be 30 much
interested in butter (of which she knew very
IittIe), when his face indicated mind given to
much profound thinking. However with butter
in view, she began on the weather, gradually got
TO the country, then into n farm, from that 10
cuWs, and at last to butter. The man looked
more bored than ever, the magic word producing
not the slightest effect, and he somewhat abb
ruptly left her and soon withdrew frsm the
house. " 1 did my BEST she exclaimed to the
hostess - went through agOnies to prove that
1 was deeply Interested IN butter, but it was all
in vain - =. Butter " exclaimed the hostess
.'Uhat possessed you TO talk to that man Of all
men on blliIeT? / told you be had just written
book on 'Buddah', and know how deeply you,
too, were interested in the same subject And
they said in chorus, &" Gracious
OPPRESSION OF WoMES.-EyeryWhere in Con-
tinental Europe there Is q contempt for and an
oppression Of woman. Everywhere there is laid
on her the menial drudgery that must be done,
but which men will not assist IN doing, nor for
the performances Of which they will provide
mechanical appliances as American men do.
EVeryWhere she is robbed Of proper cOmpensa-
ton OF her labor but Germany the land OF liteIa
ture, science, scholarship, music, art, eulture-to
whose universities we send sons for thorough
mental eduipmenl-the land that boasts Of Its
advanced cIyilizatiOn-this country leads IN
mean treatment Of women, and has pre-
eminencc IN that kind Of civilization which
leaves nothing undOne to eXnlt man, but IS con-
tent to regard and treat woman serf- The
country was in the perfection y! its midsummer
beauty as we adjOuTneyed through IT. But
could not enjoy its beauty, for here, as IN Viz
gina years and years ago, women were forced
into employment unsuited to them, degraded to
extreme menial service and robbed OF all that
makes life worth living to q weman Eight
tenths Of ell the agricultural labOrers were
women. They were hOeing the immense sugar
beet fields or on their hands and knees, were
wedding, where q hoe could not be used. Stagger-
ing under heavy loads Of manure, which they
brought from distant place Of deposit, they dis
tributed it as il was needed. They we're moving,
Taking, pitching the hay carts, or loading as
il was pitched. They were redPing, and stack
ing the grain IN the fields. or bearing u home on
their heads and shoulders, which had been so
loaded that we scrutiniZed long and closely +,
before we discovered the motive power OF the
peripatetie gram sacks marching away. In fields
where the first crop had been removed, women
were driving the OK or COW to plow-ior we saw
no blowing with q yoke Of OXen-or the OF or COW
WAS dispensed with, and one women drew the
plow while another held it. For the work Of q
day, twelve hours long, when these women
board themselves, they are paid an average oil
TWENTY-FIVE cents. When they are boarded by
their employers their wages average from ten and
twelve cents a day Men doing the same work,
working side by side with these women receive
nearly twice as much