The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-23
WoMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
salem Appears to he a Bad Name for
Town.

"O"NNO "OhCD IN PARAGRAPHS.
salem Appears to BE a Bad Name for a
Town.
The town of Salem, O., can very well
go along with Salem, Mass., Of infamous
witchcraft history, if late dispatch
tells the truth. If that dispatch is true,
then the town authorities u Salem, ..
are reincarnations of the old follows
who hanged witches in the Mas sachu-
sets town 200 years ago $his coming
autumn, for the town authorities Of Sa-
lem, o., have issued an edict out of their
own heads that no girls in that village
may walk upon the streets after 8 o'clock
in the evening. They probably did not
think of the name they were giving the
young ladies of their town when they IS
sued this order, for certain it Is that the
Salem young ladies are of such desperate
character that they cannot be permitted
on the streets, or else this ridiculous or
der Will not stand for q moment. 1t ia an
abridgment of personal rights for which
the Salem authorities can be and ought to
be arrested and fined heavily, as well as
forbidden to go on the streets at any
hour, night or day, till they learned a
little sense. BY their order, as given in
the dispatches menti )ned, no young
woman, however urgent and necessary
her errand, may appear on the streets
Of Salem after the hour named. If,
however, the order was issued for the
protection of the girls; if Salem is such
tough town that it is not safe for
young ladies to walk upon its streets,
then let these very peculiar town au-
thorities look to their young men. Let
the fellows who terrorize the highways
and are the real criminals be kept in
after 8 o'clock nights. But, no! The
girls were weaker, were helpless; there
fore on them is wreaked the punishment
these cowardly authorities dare not in
f1ict on the boys. Never mind! AS sure
us human progress is marching on, lust
so sure there will come time when
women will no longer endure such in
suits. So sure as grass grows there is
coming time when, for their injustice
and cruelty to women, will be melted
out to men judgment to the last hairs
breadth.
A handsome little year book comes to
me from the Spokane Sorosis. The
pledge the members take on ente ing
the club is borrowed from our New
York Sorosis. But l must say al
though do not like to, the subjec dis
cussed by these western women's clubs
are in advance of those about which
read papers in the east. Here
are some of the topics treated by the
Spokane Sorosis last year: Electricity,
aeredity, Mental Healing, Hypnotism,
Nationalism and Extemporaneou Speak
ing.
Mrs. Margaret Lemon is the regular
New York correspondent of the London
magazine Stationery and Bookselling.
The vice president of the Illinois Re-
publican association at Washington is |
woman, Mrs. Electra E. Smith. She is |
assistant chief in the sixth auditors de- |
partment.
Miss Kitty Wilkins, of Idaho, rivals |
Mildly Morgan in her knowledge of live |
stock. Miss Wilkins is a practical
horse breeder and dealer. She visits
the horse sales in the large cities of the
country and buys animals which she
ships to various points west Miss VIII
Eins is said to be very pretty girl.
1t was talented, industrious woman,
Mrs. Martha J. Coston, who perfected
The system of colored signal lights, as
now used on the ocean, in military
camps and along the seacoasts. Her
husband had the ideas, and had begun to
work them ont, when he died, leaving
her with the half completed plans on
ler hands. She patiently wrought out
he system and has ROW the satisfac-
ion of seeing it used the world over
Mrs. Coston lives in Washington.
Plymouth church, Brooklyn, was re-
'ently filed as it has been few times
since Mr.. Beecher's death, when Mrs.
Balhngton Booth, of the Salvation
Army, gave an address on the work of
he army in the slums of cities. DR.,
lyman Abbott himself invited Mrs.
3ooth to speak from his pulpit, and her
'loquence fully justified it. Mrs. Booth
ays that the Salvation Army women
must go into the slums unattended by
men. If men are along the women are
obliged to protect them.
Olive Harper, one of the brayest.
brightest and most industrious literary
women in America, has written a one
Ict play, I'm Lilac Time," which is to
'ppear upon the boards in May.
ELIZA ARcHARD corner. 6