Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-30


 banker, has been for years presi- dent of the board of education. In entire accord with the plans of his wife, Princess Bernice, he has supplemented her work, adding largely to the equipment of the school, and establishing a preparatory school. In the center of the school build | ings he has erected the magnificent Bishop Museum, to be opened as soon as the large l collection of Hawaiian and Polynesian antiquities can be arranged.
 Hawaii has been called civilized ! Americanized little kingdom" and under the workings of the treaty of reciprocity, established in 1876, has been, socially and commercially, much like an American l colony, or, as says MT. S. E. Bishop, in | the Review of Reviews, 'it has become an outlying sugar-farm of the United States, very properly enjoying like 1 protection with Louisiana sugar planters" /" The political condition of Hawaii, and it's relations to our country, are obviously of great and increasing importance. Why should we not have a hand in the training of her future queen in order that we may have an influential 'friend at court!" In other words, since Honolulu is now the 'tgreat Hotel of the Pacifc," being the nearest port from our western coast and directly in the track of our steamers to Australia, it is fitting that we should help teach the hostess-to-be how to run the hotel, and SO make sure that we shall al- ways be welcome and honored guests. TRUsTY SERVANT. A useful and obedient handmaiden is 'elittle Dinah," who will remain for hours on duty at the door, holding it open or shut as her mistress desires. Indeed, like Cas- abianca, she will not go even though the flames roll on and burn the house down.
 This quaint little guardian of the door is made of tall bottle filled with sand and tightly corked. A darky dolls head is then fitted on and neat print dress made that reaches the floor. A white apron is tied about the waist and folded square of muslin over her shoulders crosses in front fchu fashion and is knotted at the back. A gay bit of plaid silk or cotton wound around the head turbsn wise completes her costume. A strip of cloth sewed firmly around the bottle neck will support the arms, which may be round sticks or the arms of discarded doll tinted to the de- sired hue with little black vsrnish.
 IN LEAP YEAR.
 A queer statute published by the Scot tish parliament in 12SS reads as follows: ''It is ordaint that during the reign of her maist blessit Majestic Margaret, ilk maiden ladie, of bath high and low estait, shall hae liberty to speak to the man she likes Gif he refuse to take her to be his wyf he shal be mulct in the sum of one hundred pounds or less, as his estsit may be, except and always gif he can make it appear that he is betrothit to an other woman, then he shall be free" A later act of parliament allowed this privilege but once in four years Was not this to effect the better protection of persecuted bachelors, Many of them, probably, could not "make it ap pear" Ia canny phrase thstD that they were ''betrothit' to other women, and dared not refuse, were it ever so kindly, or even offer to be brother to her, for fear of the heavy penalty. Evidently this law was unkind and unfair to men, and we are glad that their unhappy condition has so far ameliorated that tor three years to- gether they might be free from annoyance. and exercise the right of proposal as they willed to do.
 But why this should not be equally a woman's right, every year, is a question for debate. We are told that every man should '1earn to say mo-" and this would afford excellent opportunities for some of them to learn to say it politely. Besides this submission to conventionality places woman on an enormous inequality. Says "A Speculative Bachelor" ''I have been wondering all my life why it is that, in the matter of initiative, coarse, unattractive young man should have the privilege to ask any unmarried woman in the whole world to marry him, while his re- fined and much more accomplished sister must make no motion toward any choice of her own, except to sit still and wait for some other girls mediocre brother to make proposal to her. If it be true, ss am assured, that the most attractive young lady cannot hope to have more than from six to twelve offers at the most in 8 lifetime, and practically must depend on much less than this number of eligible ones, then while her field of choice is pitt fully small, her brothers is absolutely un limited, amounting, in fact, to hundreds of millions"
 There is evidently something wrong in this Sticklers for women's rights ought i to see about it.
 FANTASTIC TORS.
 An odd fancy in foot gear is the hand i painted fancy-dress slipper or tie. Skilled artists are engaged in ornamenting them and the satin vamps are painted with flow CTS, landscapes, cherub heads, any design, in fact, that suits the shape of the surface to be decorated or the individual taste of the owner.
 A passage from some popular author, ones favorite motto, or even a text of Scripture are emblazoned upon the dainty toes, and it is said that these shoes are extremely pretty and ! 1-@ oS 4l1 Nf place. This may be true, yet good sense, "a thing in footing foot wearl indispensi- ble," hints that while a shoe admits of ornament, it should not be of showy or eccentric kind, since such would but make it conspicuous, and probably increase it's apparent size.
 Cherub heads, ruined chateaux, tiger lilies, or Scripture texts, would seem un- suitable for display upon lady's toes as she efoots it featly here and there," but this may be only the flame and impotent conclusion" of the ignorant looker-on.
 If, however, people must have notices, texts and poet!cal quotations to exhibit thus, here are few which are respectfully submitted to girls of artistic tastes anx- ious!y seeking new surface to "dec- orate:"
 What profit have we that we walk nournful ly9' Malachi
 .(s)he that walketh upriEhtly walketh surely. : | King Solomon
 None but the wearer knows where where b the ,, shoe pinches.' -Lucius Paulus
 "Walkihg and mincing as they go.''
 Isaiah.
 "A merry heart goes all the day,
 Shakespeare. "As the world leads, we follow"
 Seneca , See, then, that ye walk circumspectly." St. Paul. Numbers of other sayings, equally ap plicable, will be found with a little search ing by those in need of them, and thus ornamented as to the feet, we shall be able , to apply to the fashionable woman thu quotation:
 3 ssThere's language in her eye, her cheek, he Nay, hesi her foot speaks"
 . HILARY. OWED.
 2 Henry OMeara's recent code to Com ! merce" is a good thing, but it is impossible I ! to tell what is owed to commerce in a shor poem.-Lynn Item. d If man has nothing he must do some ,- thing to have anything. But if man ha @ something he needn't do anything to hay a nothing in very short time. -Cowlit @ Advocate.
 tt Teacher-We cut grass now with now ], ing machine; before that men used th l. scythe; what went before thatl Die }, s-Nebuchadnezzar used his teeth.- l. Brooklyn Life.
 l. Stranger-And so you believe in Profet