Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-11-06
WOMAN AND HOME.
A RADICAL AND CURIOUS DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.
Hints on House-Cieaning- Air"
Philosophy Nerves, Dict and study
Familiarity breeds Beauty
Society Custorua


e signor Max in Detroit Free Prcssl
fhave many times observed the superior
tact with which woman adapt, herself to
circunstancea In Iced, her impulse in that
direction 1, instructive. II, must DO wi,e
man who shall teach ~ why that Is so. We
know the migratory habit OF bird. The
assumption Is that the Creator endowed
them with knowledge when to fly south
ward and Of the time to fly northward.
assume, also, that the creation theory Is APP
plicable to women, as explanatory OF her
natural desire to fly from base surround
ipgs Il Is not worth while to argue that
there are many debassd women. We all
know ii; but the reason for It n found In
artificial circumstances
Dsbasenent Is unnatural to woman
Even in that condition, however, she illus-
tratss kind Of superiority that seems to
me inherent The outcast Is, perhaps, reck-
ls Of her good fame lost; but 1t Is only In
the last stage Of her descent into the social
sheol that she becomes indifferent to thoss
refinements which make her attractive
Thu, Ito deal merely with the small facts OF
the easel she Is fond of appearing In pretty
clothes; she affects the am entities which pure
women practice; cleanline l. tho govern
ing article Of her creed; an | she has tho In
satiable stomach for conquest that the
world knew all about long before Delilah's
time.
The debasei man holds all refinement, In
contempt. Hs makes no sustained effort to
escape from his wallow. He Is vicious In the
degree that he Is debassd. He takes az
kindly TO rags az to royal raiment His
sresch, his thoughts, his acts are always
coarse. often british. Dirt. literal and
other, suits him best A bath gives him
moral hydrophobia- He doe, not care to
hide his sores under garment Of assumed
politsness In short, he 1, tho embodiment
OF treason fisd to british beasts"
Here, then, are two propositions that seem
TO establish q radical and curious difference
In the natures Of men and women. That
difference. as we And 1t illustrated in the
varying phases of every day life. must al
ways DO fascinating study to those who
seek for the philosophy Of things
Take the woman who marries above hor
station. At first thought many woui DO
inclined to say that she Is fatally misplaced
and that she mu { he a cause OF enl less
humiliutions to her husband. But no man
who has learned the alphabet OF the woman
nature could be mislsi by such superficial
tho ght as that Here is significant situa-
ton In which the womanly adaptiveness 1,
most strikingly demonstrated. True. she
comes from comparatively low station.
but instead OF being clog to her husbands
aspirations, and daily witness to his sup
posed folly in contracting a misalliance, she
steps into her new Office conscious Of its de
mands and early compels both respect AMI
admiration
Do you begin to SEQ that she thus presents
against her former low estate and all It's un-
refnements combination OF forces that Il
invinciblei Or course she wins tho victoryi
Genius for that kind Of generalship Is her
birthright Itiink I ought to add here
that sic does not use very noisy powder or
fght her lattles Of this sort to the sound OF
g0ngs.
Let man marry a woman who Is In sta
ton and accomplishments his superior, aud
then make your computation Of the time and
pains that must b, devoted to him bsfore
he gives the least sign of progress. You will
exhaust the re ,ouross vt arithmetic without
arriving at a satisfactory result havs
never known u man who was liftel out Of a
groveliny condition by marriage with u
woman whom he knew and the world knew
was his superior. Almost invariably 1t l.,
the darker side OF the picture that Il pre-
sentei. BY this mean that while on the
one hand the womin OF low surroundings
whom marriages removes 10 a higher and
clearer atmosphere readily accommo iates
herself to the changed order another
woman, OF better rearing, who marries be-
low her order Is quite prone to descend to
her husband's p.anc