The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-24
woMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPH.
GIN Skilled Labor We Are Destined to Con-
-..cr Sars Mis- PIernon.

the New Albany Ledger, has lately been
Amounted state organizer of the Fedora
ton of Labor for Indiana. a late num-
her of The Courier-JOurnal contains
delightful sketch of this young lady.
Gallant Colonel Henri WattersOn's pa
per has always good word for women
workers. 1t is the duty of Miss Pierson
in her new office TO travel from town to
town in Indiana, call mass meetings.
make speeches and organize associa-
tions Of working people. From The
Courier-Journafs sketch we find that
Miss Pierson has pluckily supported her
self at typesetting since the age or 10
She now supports her mother also. From
setting type many printers ambition
has scared to preparing the matter that
is put into type, and this aspiration has
struck Miss Pierson too. She writes
considerably for the press on labor ques-
lions, particularly those matters IN
which workers of her own sex are con-
cerned. She expresses it as her firm
conviction that in the departments OF
skilled labor women are bound to con-
uuer. So they are. But one statement
I regret to find this brave, bright girl
making. 1t Is that woman Is womans
worst enemy in the labor ranks, and that
when girl engages in a work hitherto
dome only bv men she Is hindered as
much as possible by her own sex have
not found it so, certainly. have found
that the dearest, warmest, truest sympa-
thizers with working women are women
themselves. Perhaps in that funny but
rigid system of caste prevalent In small
towns n printer girl would be looked
down on by lazy girls and married wom-
en- who call themselves the social leaders
of the ridiculous little missionaries they
ALWAYS set up, but in the great throb-
bling life of the city people of intelligence
are recognizing the dignity and worth OF
the woman who earns her own living.
Miss Persons statement about wom-
ems being against working women re-
minds me, however, of an experience OF
nav own in a certain funny little town.
Ii was a village of few hundred lnhab-
itants. Fate and my own adventurous
DISPOSITION had set me down there. de-
termined to learn typesetting at the office
of tie village newspaper. Two or three
women who regarded themselves OF more
Importance than the Vanderbilt and
Aston la9ies have ever seemed to do dis
anuroyed of the idea. / was waited on
and informed in due order that the Ladies'
would never think so much of me again
or care to associate" with me if | went
into that newspaper office. "Then ii
be sure to do it," answered, and did
1t amused me not little that society
was going to sit on me. 1t always does
amuse me when anybody, man or
woman, tries to sit on me. Moreover,
let me say this for the comfort OF tiInid
souls who fear to do some honorable
work ON which their hearts are set
for dread Mrs Grundy will frown:
Go bravely ON. Do your chosen work
royalty and splendidly, with all your
soul in it. Let nothing discourage you,
and by and by you viii make success
of it. Then Mrs Grundy viii come to
You and lay her choicest laurels at your
feet
1t gives one a feeling of pride and tri-
umph to know that every portion of the
beautiful building devoted to the wom-
ems department at the Worlds fair was
designed by women, its construction SUI
perintended by women and its contents
arranged under the direction Of women.
We do not hear the expression, "a
woman of masculine intellect" so much
as wedid any more. Women have come
TO that PORT in the worlds development
where they are allowed to have intellects
of their own
The late Mrs. F. G. Etting of Phila-
delphia made great success In the bust
ness of raising fresh eggs for market.
She went into it so extensively that
she spent 81 800 in incubators, chicken
houses, etc. but she realized over 2C
per cent profit on her investment annu.
ally.
Don't fall into that lazy, despicable
way of saying that men can learn thing;
and understand things that women can
not. Say always, can understand any
thing that a man or anybody else can
Mrs. Harriet Strong of Whittier, Cal.
last year raised 100000 plumes OF TIT
beautiful pampas grass so much used II
decoration and sold them nearly all. On
million will adorn the buildings OF tn
Worlds fair, and she exported 6JO, 900 t
Europe Mrs. Strong has been the frs
person to grow these pampas plumes ez
tensiyely in North America. Formerl
they all came from South America. Tn
last presidential campaign was lucky TO
Mrs. Strong, 100, 600 of the plumes bein
used in parades and decorations
Mrs Beazlsy, a Philadelphia woman
invented the cooperage machine whlc
turns out thousands of perfectly finishe
barrels every day. She is also the il
ventor of a life raft which may be tosse
into the sea in any shape, but will n
ways right itself instantly and float SAFE
". 1t contains pockets which the sc
cannot enter that are always filled -wit
water and provisions for use of the shil
wrecked.
The subjects chosen for public lecture
by Miss Cora y. Benneson, graduate {
Michigan university and member of tt
Illinois bar, show what women are thlnl
ing about One of her lectures is on IL
annexation of Hawaii, another abol
"Our Diplomatic Relations With Chi
and the Restriction of Chinese Immigr
ton"
The Arkansas building at the Chicas
fair was planned by a young lady, Mi
Jean Loughborough, who also had charl
of its construction.
The Marquis of Queensberry continu
his crusade in favor of a plurality