The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-04-29
WoMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
THE CosmoPoiis Ciub''-FataI Flaw In an
Otherwise Perfect Picture.

den's "Cosmopolis Club" in The Cen
fury Magazine? He draws a beauti-
full picture Of how the best people IN
every town and city Of the Union can
reform the municipal government if
they will. A doctor, lawyer, q
preacher, mechanic and various 9th
ers interested in good city government
form the Cosmopolis club They hold
meetings and appoint committees whose
work it Is to visit the city departments.
among other things, see how the money
Is spent and what the municipal officials
are doing 10 earn their salaries. An ex-
cellent part of the scheme Is that when
they find dens OF unlawful trade and re-
sort fourishing they do not prosecute
the keepers of the unlawful places, but
the officials whose business it is 10 sup
press such nests Of iniquity. OF course
it Is all story in a magazine, but in
time the Cosmopolitans suppress the bad
places and get the city government
honestly administered, and all ends
beautifully. There is one fatal flaw in
this fine scheme There are no women
citizens in it. am surprised at that, for
Rev. Washington GLADDEN. is generally
known as q good woman's rights man.
But certain it is that his plan could new
er succeed till women had part in it and
helped. Business men, DOCTORS lawyers
and carpenters are too busy earning a
living to attend night after night such
meetings as he describes, and quite too
busy to go around municipal buildings,
fire departments, waterworks offices,
health bureaus and street cleaning head
quarters to ascertain the facts necessary
to inaugurate reforms. The fact that
they have been too busy for such investi-
CATION is exactly the reason that city
governments have fall,n SO low. No, no,
Mr.. GLADDEN.! 1t won't do. You can set
this one fact down and ponder on it,
City governments will never be reformed,
the community will never have clean,
well lighted, safe streets, first class pub
lie schools, public sentiment in favor Of
morality, beauty and purity, till women
take hold of municipal matters, knowing
that the future of their children depends
on these things. Wake up the women
in our towns and cities!
The New York city board of education
-Tammany-does not want any women
on the school board. The members gave
vote to this effect in answer to re-
quest from Mayor Gilroy for an express
sion of opinion on the subject. In 1893
the lady mayor of New York city will
send communication to the members
of the school board asking whether, III
their judgment, it is wise to permit men
to serve on it. In answer the board
not Tammanyites-will reply that the
school board is not fit place for men
because they will not take time from
their business duties to attend to its re-
quirements properly. Then the board
of education will continue, as before, to
be made up of women.
Both the senate and house of the Penn
sylvania legislature have passed an act
making women eligible to serve as nota-
ries public.
1t is said that the reason the faculty of
the Columbian university, Washington,
decided to close the doors of the medical
department. to women was that they did
not like the conduct of one of the women
students. How would it do to close the
doors of our medical colleges to men ev-
cry time young man student misbe-
haved himself? How many colleges
would open next fall?
The Thirty-eighth Street Working
Girls club of New York city lately dis
cussed the question, "How to Tell q
Real Lady" Some club ought also to
discuss the question, "How to Tell
Real Gentleman" The first sign of a
real gentleman would be that he does not
spit.
If Mary Lease, president of the Kansas
state board Of charities, has her noble
way during her term of service, there
will not be in the state rotten charity
supply contract or spoils politician IN
public charity Office, neither brutal or
callous official nor fraudulent or able
bodied pauper. Hers is one of the Of
fees that wise women are especially fit
ted to fill.
1 have often wondered that more
women do not go into dairying and
butter making have known in towns
of few hundred inha bitants industrious
German women that supported their
families off the milk of two or three
cows. With 10 COWS full set of ma
chinery for butter making and cream
separator can be kept. The work is mod
erately hard, but much easier than sew
ing 70 hours day, much more healthful
than schoolteaching, and when the bust
ness is we'll managed it pays better than
either of these. In neighborhoods where
creameries are established and the own
ers will pay fair prices for the cream
to make into butter the labor of churn-
ing is avoided and enough received for
the cream to pay good returns, with the
skimmilk left over TO raise chickens
on. Milk so rich that 81 quarts of it
will yield from three-quarters of a
| pound to pound Of butter will pay
well to make butter from, even if the
cream is disposed of at a butter factory.
A milk tester is necessary to find out the
richness Of the milk
Harriet Hosmer is 81 years of age, but
| intellectual women never grow old. Miss
Hosmer never did better work than she
| does now She receives $15, 900 for her
statue of Queen Isabella, which is to be
| unveiled at the opening of the Worlds
| fair
I expect to hear that the women of
New York state are leaving the Presby-
terrain church by the hundred. The pres
bytery of that state has recently voted
against the appointment of women as
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