The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-21
WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Most Selfish Woman in the World.
Do You Know Her?


1t is the woman who is devoted to her
family. In her narrow little eyes her
children, her mother and father, her
brothers and sisters come before every
body else She will make any sacrifice
for them herself and will not hesitate to
make other people make any sacrifice
also. She will hide their fanlts; she will
refuse to see anything wrong in any
thing they do, no matter what. She will
break a promise or tell lie without the
least hesitation 70, them, and set at
naught all principles of honor and COM
mon honesty and pet herself for it be-
cause Of her womanly devotion. She
is so blind and silly that she believes
her own kin are wiser, handsomer
and better than all the rest of the
world. If one of her children should
commit crime this wicked, selfish
woman would permit another to go to
prison for it to shield her own, and she
would think she was thereby showing
her womanly love. There is no real love.
no womanliness in such spirit. 1t is
merely prodigious feeding of her own
idiotic vanity. There is no genuine love
TO comprehend the larger, sweeter, real
mother love which can take in the whole
human race and do justice to the Jones
children even at the expense of her own.
This little fool and the woman who be-
lieves all she is taught are the greatest
impediments to the progress of humanity
today.
Do not believe all that you are told
by persons who think they know more
than youdo. Think, do think for your
self.
The executive committee of the ma
tional council of women recommends
that ladies visiting the Worlds fair wear
dresses of short walking length.
l have read carefully the dinner
speeches of some of the most famous
orators in America recently, speeches
made at banquets where women are not
admitted. have this to say: In all the
speeches put together that l ever heard
from women there have not been SO
many stale old jokes perpetrated or so
many gray old chestnuts of stories fired
off at the audiences as l have noted in
the orations of these distinguished gen.
tlemen this winter
Girls, don't choose your sweethearts in
the offices where you are employed.
Don't let your outside sweethearts hang
around the offices where you are en-
ployed either.
In trying to estimate the woman of
today the average man should consider
that he is still saturated with the tradi.
tons and superstitions of the ages.
Have you noticed how much the later
portraits of Julia Ward Howe resemble
those of Queen Victoria? Only our
American queen is far more helpful tc
the race than the English sovereign is.
When merchant in large eastern
city went all to smash some time since
and did not seem to have spirit enough
left In him to pull himself together again,
his pretty and accomplished wife showed
that she was made of stronger stuff. She
had been noted before her marriage for
her skill in making bread, pie and dough.
nuts. She was u New England girl.
After her husband failed she quietly
bought out a little bakery and began
business. She furnished such delicious
pies, such sweet light bread, baked all
through, and such crisp, tender dough-
nuts, that in short time her success was
assured. She needed before long a de-
livery wagon for her goods, then another
and another. She is supporting the fam
lily handsomely and laying up some
thing besides She carries on her baking
business under an assumed name, how
ever. Why an assumed name? What
she has done is something to be proud Of
Mrs. Catherine Stearns was born in
Maine in 1900, but she has lived to vote
for members of the Boston school board.
Women are weak and cowardly, and
men are strong and brave. Yes. but
Anna Grouse, a girl in domestic service
in Indianapolis. caught a burglar in her
employers house not long since. In
stead of screaming and fainting Anna
Grouse snatched knife and slashed the
thief in earnest, cutting him so seriously
that he was captured.
So women are 70 be admitted to Har-
ward at last! AT least the thing is near
enough in sight to be counted on with
tOiefaDie certainty.
A woman is worth more than man
after she is dead, anyhow, SIS a woman
journalist reminds u.s. Her skeleton
will bring more than that of a man in q
medical college any day.
Mrs Caroline LIE Comte is state libra.
rian of South Carolina, with a salary Of
$2,100
Edith NJ. Thomas is said to be the one
author in America who can readily find
sale for all she writes. But Miss Thomas
had it no easier than any other writer
when she began to make verses in hel
early youth out In Ohio.
In the fire department of Kansas city
a woman is employed.
Learn to take people as they are not a.
you read about them in novels. Dom
expect an iron kettle to be silver cup
1t can't!
The worst of this retaining the wore
obey in the marriage service is that wo
men never do obey their husbands
) Where a woman seems to obey mai
she never does. She simply cheats him
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
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