The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-23
woMAM,s woaLO n PARAeRApAs.
Are There Any Newspaper Women Who
fake Interviews?

lHey StHu nome IiIebthtltu inter fiGfsp
with distinguished persons which con
tain not a word Of truth. They never
were invited to the distinguished per
sons house; they never spoke a word to
him in their lives. But the faxed inter
view is printed in American journals.
In course OF time it floats back across
the water. IL comes under the distin-
guished persons eye. Thenceforward
in his mind all American newspaper wo-
men are liars and INSCRIPTIONS hangers
on to the ragged edge Of reputable So
ciety, not to be countenanced anywhere.
have been told that this thing has been
done on numerous occasions by women
tolerably well known in journalistic cir
cles. ] hope for the sake Of journalism
and Of honest women workers every
where that it is not true. The wickedest.
most disreputable thing journalist can
do is to write lie. The more experience
| have in newspaper ranks the more that
truth is impressed on me. The one who
writes lie discredits all honest journal
lists and decent journalism, however
trivial the lie may be. Our real power
in journalism, of whatsoever kind, de-
ponds first on our ability to see the
truth, next on our ability to tell it. We
weaken our powers in both directions
when we write a single line that is false.
a thoroughly sincere person knows on
the instant when anybody is telling him
falsahood, and the journalistic fakir
must meet in time the fate Of all liars.
The woman fakir, if there is any, may
swim bravely for awhile. She will bring
up at length ruined in health and purse,
with not shred of journalistic repu-
tation left and not n newspaper in the
Union that will employ her. More than
that, she will do her sex almost irrepar-
able injury just at this moment when
we are struggling so desperately to get
worthy name among the worlds work
ers. She will help create an impression
that all newspaper women are liars and
sharpers.
1t is brave and eloquent tribute
which w. T. Stead pays in The Review
of Reviews to Frances Willard, whom
he calls 1.-The uncrowned queen of Amer
lean democracy" lie says that the real
church militant in America is the w. &.
L. u, and that the women belonging to
it havo done more to advance Christian
unity ard brotherhood than all the men
who have ever tried TO work along that
line. The w. G. r. u, if it was a little
broader in some respects and would adj
nit men as members, might stand for
the beginning of the church of human
ity.
Don't be al old fossil.
w. r. Stead says of Queen Victoria:
Broadly speaking it may be fairly said
that the queen would be acknowledged
by all her 1ninisters-Liberal or Con-
servative-to have more knowledge of
the business of governing nations than
any of her prime ministers; more expert
ence Of the mysteries and intricacies of
foreign affairs than any of her foreign
secretaries"
The leading floral decorator of Cleve-
land is q woman-Mrs. c. II. Wilson.
She began the business on Il small scale,
learning her way along as she went.
Now she has 10000 feet of greenhouses.
1t is n pleasure to write of q woman who
has head enough to conduct large bust
ness enterprise successfully. Floricul-
ture is a work particularly adapted to
women, il they are willing to observe
the conditions of success, the first Of
which is, as New York florist declares,
hard work and no Sundays"
Don't sleep a single night upon that
abomination, q draped and canopied
bed. Tear off the curtains and let the
air III.
AT the Episcopal convention in Balti-
more they finished the revision of the
prayer book, which had been hanging
fire for twelve years. They also favored
Christian unity when the Christianity is
Episcopal and settled various other mat
tiers. But | saw never line about
striking that monstrous word "obey"
out of the marriage service. How a
woman with spark of brains or self
respect can be member of q church
that retains the word ''obey" in its mar
riage ceremony is mystery. 1t is too
much for me-this trying to understand
the feminine nature. -.
Indians occupying farms in severaity
NOlbl 1OI HEtSlOSLb lOI TIC uI6G llIuS
this year. l commend to general atten-
ton and extended application the follow
ing extract from an able editorial in the
New York Sun on the red man with
vote: "'It used TO be said that the reason
why the Indian did not get his rights
was because he had no vote. Possessed
of d vote, he will find champions enough
in congress and in his district
Nearly all the temperance work that
can count real, permanent results has
been done by the W. c. 7. Z. and or
CARNATIONS of women.
To me the brightest CLEAN of hope
during the presidential campaign of 1892
was the interest women took in political
questions. They read, studied and in
vestigated. College girls formed debat-
ing clubs and thought out and discussed
tariff, labor, silver and immigration far
more wisely and well than many an old
hunks who has been voting forty years
could do. Girls who take interest in
subjects like this will keep their heads
on through life. They will never break
their hearts and commit suicide because
of 4 man.
Colonel Joseph N. Bennett has given
Two hou.es, valued at Sc, 900, for wom-
en- students to live in during their at
tendance at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. To this gift he adds check of