The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-21

livery tL1DS IN the way OF llgnE neafUeQneSS
had, alas, been laid on the shelf 1--WE are
here for tremendously serious business" was
written as with charcoal, on every face.
''There's a man who scolds his family
continued my friend, as a stalwart refOrmer
entered GA street saint and house devil.
I know it by the way the corners Of his
mouth turn down"
Rather an interesting company of women
and men were present that evening; evil
IDENTITY not ''fool creatures who we're there
for diversion, to judge from the plain and
serious cast Of most Of the faces. Prettiness
and strong purpose are, for some unaccount-
able reason, mortal. enemies. There were
more elderly than young women, and most
Of the men were middle-aged. Not all, not
half, perhaps, Of the women were from the
ranks of those who have wriggled out Of
what was once considered their 'sphere."
There were some from several Of the pro-
fessions, but quite as many who were still
exclusiy ily within what sable editors"
speak Of as the ''family circle" Here and
there was a Sorosis member, though Sorosis
as a bod holds no suffrage convictions,
touches not, discusses not the explosive
topic.
Some new people became members. One
woman gave her name as 'Mrs. john some
body. "Oh, give us your own woman's
name" said the white haired president,
gently, but yet with an Unmista1able in
dexion of contempt for women who wanted
to be put down on list of membership by
their husbands and not their own names.
The frightened 'Mrs. john" brought thus
summarily to bay, stammered out 'Kath-
crime" as Iamely as though the name had
been in disuse so long that it sounded strange
to herself in her own voice, and perhaps it
did. Women are much given to burying
their Christian names when they marry.
They fancy it makes them seem of more
Importance to be ''AIrs. John" than 'Mrs.
Katherine"
One man was present that evening who
seemed as out of place as an owl among par
rots didn't know him but I continually
wondered-anybody might wonderfully he
was there. He had thrown his tall form
into Iounging attitude, and his long beard
less face, with the chin seeming to drop
little was as expressionless as a white dinner
plate His eyes looked CLASSY and were
apparently glued to the floor during all the
business of the evening and the ranting
of a few balloons who kept themselves
curious person was scrupulously clad, and
his fair hair was brushed and fixed in the
most fashionable style; but he looked utterly
irrelevant to the Situation. SO far as any
one could see he was as oblivious to every
word uttered as he was to the opinions of
the man in the moon. Nothing in the
nature of an expression ever flashed over his
face If he thought at all there was no
u =. z4.1,, ho md
he made no sign.
At last, when Mrs. Blake made flank
movement and routed the two male wran-
gIers, the talI,man with the long, expression
less face was introduced as Governor Lee,
the first governor of Wyoming, also jour
| nalist, and now legal practitioner i'll this
city.
AS soon as he began to speak his long face
lighted up and grew positively handsome,
the CLASSY eyes burned with enthusiasm, and
he made as hearty, graceful and witty a
! little speech as I ever listened to. Alto
| gether he was great surprise to everybody
who did not know him.
| Among other interesting things, he told
the inner history of how they enfranchised
women in Wyoming. 1t was not, as some
might naturally believe, the result of
| superior acumen or Observation-Disclosures on
the part of Wyoming Lawmakers. 1t was
| simply a gigantic advertisement for the
| Territory. The governor said he was sitting
in his office one day when a slouching,
angular tobacco masticating member of
the Legislature entered and said: ''Gov'enur,
Pm worried and down-hearted. This terms
! drawin' near its close and I've done nothin
to make my constituents think Pm great
| fellow, and I'm afraid they won't elect me
| again. Hang it, what can 1 do? There's
nothing particular any one can do. l wish
1 could think of something to do that would
set them aI1 talking about me-"
"Tll tell you what to do" said the gov
ernor. introduce a bill to enfranchise the
women That will make you ia iod about
all over the United States"
sBut what if it should passp' said the
noble SCION in dismay.
''Make it pass. You want it to pass re
piled the governor. ''Why, don't you know
that such a thing as that would advertise
Wyoming all over the world Talked about
Why, man, you would cover yourself al
over with glory"
The idea was so novel and astonishing tina
the ambitious legislator could not turn it
|
went home to think about it, In a day o.
two he returned, beaming and hopeful HI
had decided that he would do it, and h
chuckIed with satisfaction at the thought O.
the glory he was about to accumulate by
this masterstrolze of diplomacy. The gov
ernor drafted the bill, and when the nobl
lawmaker called for it he pocketed it will
the remark that after suffrage had beef
granted women, and the Territory haC
reaped all the advertising advantages which
would accrue therefrom, it would be easl
enough to ''take the ballot away from 'em.
The bill was introduced and talked up OF
the score of its advertising merits, and, a
we all know, it passed. Then when womal
suffrage became a fixed fact the very mel
| who had labored for it began to talk abou
repeaIing the bill ''But," said Governo
Lee, sit Is not easy to deprive a people o
vested rights" and they were obliged to &C
cept the work of their own hands, which L
this case was a remarkable instance OF tn
sfmysterious way in which God moves t
perform wonders.
Governor Lee also read an extract from
letter recently received from one of his sis
tiers, who is married and lives in Wyoming
She told a good deal about the previou
election and said, ''Allen (her husband) a
WAYS prepares my ticket. He knows a