The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-15
womAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Twenty-one Years of Woman Suffrage in



button to the literature of the woman
question is contained in letter to the
New York Sun from Wyoming. 1t is a
clear and comprehensive summing up of
the results of twenty-one years Of wom-
an suffrage IN that state. We learn
from it that nearly every woman in the
state votes The ladies have their par
tisan clubs Republican, Democratic and
Populist. They take fully as much in
terest in politics as the men do. They
formerly voted the Republican ticket
mostly, but last year their sympa-
thies were aroused on the side of
the 'rustlers" as against the cattle
barons in the COW war, and they voted
almost to woman with the Demo
Gratis, because the Democratic platform
leaned toward the rustlers. l am glad
to perceive they have learned already
that you cannot law virtue and morality
into the human race. In this they are IN
advance of some of their sisters in the
east. The women of Wyoming concern
themselves particularly with the charac-
ter of the candidate who is to enforce
the laws already made, rather than with
the passing of new laws. A man who Is
a drunkard wife or child beaten, a
gambler or a corrupt politician stands
no more chance of getting into Office in
Wyoming than of getting into heaven.
One candidate was reported to have
slapped his wife because shirt she had
made for him was too small. "The wom-
en- vowed to make him feel so small that
he could use the little shirt for an over
coat, and they did it." The shirt story
will follow him to the end of his days
wherever he goes. AS to oficeholding,
the ladies do not seem to aspire after
that so much, though they get their pro-
portion of the places. The office of school
superintendent is by common consent
yielded to woman in all the twelve
counties. The pay is from 5000 year
to 81 500. Two women have been elected
justices of the peace. The correspondent
saws there are no women doctors or law
yers in the state, which is unfortunate.
There ought to be both. Finally after
twenty-one years of suffrage the Wy
ouing women have only to show as re-
suit in their state ''good, honest govern
ment and pure elections" What more
would anybody want, pray?
The way to achieve gains for our sex
is for women to stand by one another
through thick and thin. Do you remem
Der what Olive Schreiner said in one of
her 'Dreams?"-''I looked and saw that
all the women held one another by the
hand"
An enterprising firm of women tea
merchants have bought a large tea plan
tation of their own in Ceylon. They en-
ploy women in all the branches of their
business where it is possible. There are
women tasters, blenders and packers.
We are told that in Wyoming fine per-
sonal appearance and winning manners
go long way toward electing candi-
date of either sex Well, why not? Other
| things being equal, that is as it should
| be. May the day never come when the
| race will be insensible to the charm of
personal beauty IN either man or woman.
The Greeks were nearer right than the
| old church ascetics in this matter. Beau
| ty culture, through cleanliness of body
and mind, through physical education
and, above all, through developing the
sweet graces of the soul, is legitimate
and noble pursuit. I for one never yet
| met an individual repulsive in physical
appearance who was either good or gifted
And when 1 see upon public platform
as speaker woman with slipper slop
per shoes, a badly fitting gown, not ovel
neat and slumped over shoulders know
instantly that such woman has as ye
no conception of the noblest and mos
exalted doctrines of progress.
| When a married woman's HUSBAND
neglects her the poorest way in the worlt
Is for her to sit at home and NOPE ant
shed tears over it. Let her brighten u
and go and have good times too. Their
is much pleasure left in the world, eve
if ones husband is no longer in love wit
one as much as he used to be.
am so tired Of hearing about "woma
as wife and mother" that at times
would like to go off and live among th
Eskimos or some place where / did no
understand the language.
In Wyoming a married and an unmal
ried woman were opposing candidate
for school superintendent in one of tn
counties. The single woman appeale
to wife for her vote on the ground tina
the opponent was married woman an
had husband to support her. Instant
the woman voter, who knew how it wa
herself, replied: 'What of that? A mai
ried woman has harder time to &c
money than anybody else" My sister;
that married woman stated great truth
There is no way of getting money G
surely as to earn it yourself.
More interesting perhaps than at an
previous meeting were the speeches deli'
cred this year at the convention of til
National Woman Suffrage association
The address of Hon. Carroll d. Wrigf
ON 'Women in Industry" and that {
May Wright Sewal on "Municip'
, Housekeeping" show which way the W,
; man question of today is drifting.
1t is pleasant to think of that woma
in the town of Newburg, N. Y, who
superintendent of the street cleaniI
: and street sprinkling department. 81
is in exactly the right place. She b
: had the contract for number of yea
and made fair profit out of it, hirir
and experimenting her own laborer
This is better than it is in some of Il
cities of Europe, where 1 saw woms
scraping and cleaning the streets Wi
men bosses over them.
. Miss Elizabeth Utter is deputy Gle
: of the United States circuit court for t
western division of the western distri
of Missouri at Kansas City.
n A dried up old hunks has lately be-
t bemoaning the fact that women a