The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-08
WoMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
One Glass of Men That Are Good Friends
to Women.

WOmNNO WOhIO I'm FHhAG1AFF1S.
One Glass of Men That Are Good Friends
to Women.
Not that all men are not good friends
to women-don't misunderstood me
but there is one class of men to whom
our sex can turn in an emergency with
the certainty of help. I mean police
men. [ think perhaps we women are
not as appreciative as we ought to be of
what we owe to the policemen of large
cities. IF lady loses her way she is
sure of being put on the right track by
the bluecoat at the corner. Other men
might direct her wrong and lead her
into danger-the bluecoat never. He
will help her across the street, will tell
her all the places worth visiting in the
town If she is stranger, and will tell
her just where to find the railway sta
ton, the dry goods stores, the letter box
and the newspaper Offices. He does it
all 80 politely too. There are some ex-
ceptions to this, but not many. A
city business woman obliged to pass
daily to and fro in trains and
street cars learns to look on the bluecoat
as one who is really what all men were
meant to be, the natural friend and pro-
tector of women. The most brutaily
crowded spot on this continent is the
entrance to the Brooklyn bridge cars in
New York at the close of business hours.
1t is also the spot where is displayed the
most i'll mannerliness to the square inch
of any place on the globe. The big Off
GERS at the car doors plant their mighty
shoulders against the brute in trousers
who would knock q woman down that
he might get into the car ahead of her,
and the brute in trousers is powerlees
The officer quickly and deity, but gent
ly, crowds the struggling Office girl into
the car just before the door is slammed
in her face, and she does not have to
wait for the next train. This marked
kindness of policemen to women may be
in part owing to the fact that so many of
them belong to the gallant Irish nation.
But, be that as it may, policemen the
country over are among women's truest
friends, and take this method of thank
ing them.
There is one thing l would like to
know, and that is who designed the
spring bonnets. No woman did, am
sure. 1t was the work of man who
wrought his visions after night off into
|. a pattern for a woman's spring hat. l
am expecting daily to hear the street
boys exclaim, "Shoot that hat!'
Thomas Wentworth Higginson says
that the point most applauded in his
commencement Grafton at Harvard col
lege was written by his sister, who in
fact suggested the subject for his ad-
dress. That was in the days perhaps
when the girls in New England family
staid at home and strained all their re-
sources to help the boys through college.
1t is different now.
If women are finally refused admis-
sion as delegates to the general confer
ence this year, | wonder if any self re-
specting woman will still continue to be-
long to the Methodist church? wonder
what Frances Willard will do about it?
If you are a broken down ''gentlewo-
man" from a northern state, you can
have the privilege of painting match
scraper or baking cookies for the New
York Woman's exchange.
For the first time in history Worlds
fair, the coming one at Chicago, will be
managed in part by women. I am glad
my country was the one to take the in
itiative here.
While Congressman Clover, of Kansas,
has been upholding the banner of the
Farmers Alliance party at Washington,
his wife has been paying off the mort
cages on the farm at home. A good crop
last year, g, 900 her husband saved out
of his salary and her own splendid man
agement of the land have nearly cleared
off the debts. This kind of a Clover
brings fertility to the farm, in Kansas or
elsewhere.
In the civil service examinations, even
of the highest grades, where legal and
scientific knowledge are required, more
than twice as many women as men
pass, but more than twice as many men
as women get appointments. This is
because the men have one qualification
that the women do not-the voting
power.
The wife of United States Senator
Warren, of Wyoming, Mrs. Helen NJ.
Warren, has been voting for twenty
years. She says she finds it no more
awkward or embarrassing than going
into a church or theater.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.