The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-11-01
women's Rights - 5000 strong in

women's Rights - 5000 strong in
Boston.
Nh. EDITOR: We notice in your
columns that 5000 women have
been assessed for registration " in
that Hub center of cultivation
and refinement" If you will allow
Us to express few thoughts, we
would like to know who these
women are that constantly scream,
" Rights! More rights! Equal
rights, Woman's rights" As |
Sidney Smith says: Are they |
the women who violated the COM
mon duties of life, land gave pleasant
little suppers?" Here is our theory:
Why should women (wives and
mothers) ever " violate the common
duties of life?" Do we not build
the fundamental principles of good
and pure society upon the solid and
practical foundation of common
duties? Duties of home, wife and
mother. We believe the most
sacred duty of life to be a mothers
in moulding the character of our
nations generation, IN the early
bending of the twig, ENGRAVING
thereon habits of tilial respect. Is
it not in the faculty of noble, dis
interested, unselfish love that lies
the true gift and power of woman?
The power which makes us not the
equals of men 1--WE never care to
claim such a quality but their
equivalents, and in moral sense
more than their equivalents. | am
constrained to believe that the linn
itations of sex will not trouble wise
persons very much. Let US utilize
the rights and privileges we have
to our own honor; that we need not
blush for the words and thoughts
that ever fall from our tongue and
pen. The very nature of things and
experience prove to US that if the
| feebleness of the muscles in woman
forbid her to descend into the ply
steal labors of life, the qualities of
her mind, and the parts which she
ought to play in the struggling
world, more imperiously still forbid
her to make spectacle of herself.
Not that we need adopt "Hippel's"
theory, for he says: "Women who
do not speak much must be wise"
Crowley POLITICALLY gives us this
sentiment: Even if we look upon
woman as upon the rose, an eXqui-
site production of the summer hours
of life, it would be idle to deny her in
iuence in the making of those sum-
mer hours sweet" while "Herne's"
SO beautifully tells US that ga chaste
woman is the perfect workmanship
of God, the true glory of the
angels, the rare miracle of the
earth, and the sole wonder of the
world" What thought more in
spring or more worthy of recogni-
ton than the last mentioned. Let
US dissect it with keen critical
penetration. Is it because of the
5000 females who are assessed to
vote IN Boston, "the Hub of Cul.
ture;" is it because of few who
keep pace with the science of the
day, or because of those who
emblazon their names on the
heights of literature? We say no!
mol! Nol!l 1t is because she keeps
her heart pure-and she does this
by remaining in pure, wholesome
atmosphere. It has been an old
and is still q conceded fact, that
she is most in her element when
she is at home; we do not intend
this assertion to convey the idea
that we believe her mission to be
simply to bake and brew, far from
the narrow channel of such a
thought we feel sure heaven itself
has strung woman's heart in har-
monious chords which vlbrate
quickly and deeply to sorrows
touch, and has thus indicated to
her that her true mission is to be
in no small degree one of sympathy
and healing. Hence, her home
field may not always be in her own
dwelling, but in scenes of destitu-
ton and desolation let her make
herself at home. In short, whenever
she sees a cup of bitterness admin
istered to human being, she
should endeavor to lnfuse into il
) some ingredient of consolation, il
it lay in her power. In fields like
this, she may well earn the glory
of the angels" the sole wonder OF
the world and prove herself the
"rare miracle of the world"
Could there be a deeper, purer,
brighter, more radiant or exalted
Jewel for the crown and the adorn-
ment of age than the love of ones
youth proving a faithful helpmate
in those years when the dream OF
life is over when the heyday OF
passion has settled into the ripen-
ing fruit of friendly companionship,
and contentedly, in the realm OF
home-life, with its ever-new and
thrice-told happy tale of giving
and receiving pleasure frem prac-
teal realities, on the solid basis OF
blood ties in life consecrated to
home. When women wish to
astonish by their feats of mental
or physical strength, and to join in
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