The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-22
woMANs WORLD N pARAeRApAs.
a Sensible Father aud a Brave and Useful
Little Daughter.

\ few weeks ago we had q carpenter
doing SOHO work in our fat. BE was q
kindly, intelligent man, not afraid that
he might possibly DO the twenty-eighth
part Of an inch more work than his con-
tract called for. We asked him for his
bill. he said he would make it out and
send It Some days afterward neat,
pretty girl, perhaps II years old, rang
the bell. II have brought fathers bill
for carpenter work" she said. We took
the bill, paid it and thought that was
the end. mo" said the young lady, 81
must receipt the bill She took out her
pencil and signed the name In q
most correct and businesslike hand.
She told us, in answer to some
questions, that she did her fathers
time 70 do it himself. / am not
sure indeed, from the looks of the writ
ing, that she does not also make out the
bills as well as collect them. She goes
to school faithfully, and out Of school
hours makes her rounds, gathering up
the money for her father. Most girls of
her age would spend their out of school
hours curled up on a sofa reading silly
novels. feeding their already exaggerat
ed emotions on the Glove" stories that
drive girls and women TO folly and ruin.
The carpenters bright little daughter,
ON the other hand, knows exactly the
state of her fathers finances and Is get
ting business education that Is quite as
good IN its way as that obtained at
school. Her father is teaching her the
care of money and the responsibilities
that attend its possession. Thousands
of wives and mothers have less l1nowl-
edge of business methods today than
this child has, and it is little to their
credit that it is so.
Jennie c. Wilder, Marshall Wilder's
young sister, is on the road this season
with her own company Of entertainers,
she being the comic recitationist of the
group. Miss Wilder has given much
pleasure by her Tecitations wherever she
has appeared.
Really, Mr.. Walter Besant puts one
out of patience. He has been uttering
another solemn dictum on the woman
question. he says he "believes," does
Besant, that if women were asked what
they would rather be they would all
say with one voice they would prefer
being the mothers of sons and daughters
than to be actresses, lawyers, doctors,
artists or typewriters, or engage in any
money earning calling. This is non
sense. Walter Besant, if he had his
way, would have married even Joan of
Arc to some clodhopper and kept her
digging potatoes in the intervals of pro-
ducing other clodhoppers rather than
have had her be so ''unwomanly" as to
ride forth gloriously in mailed armor
and iberate France. So far as human
judgment can reach, France would have
been British dependency this day only
for Joan of Arc. Besides, whether even
the ordinary woman would rather be
the mother of sons and daughters than
to achieve a successful business career
depends altogether on the kind of sons
and daughters. Can the mothers of Car
lyle Harris or Mrs. Halliday ever know
a glad honr? IF the mothers of slum
children have any human feeling at all,
can they be proud of the job of bringing
paupers and convicts into the world?
Finally. would Mr.. Walter Besant rath-
er be husband and father than to be
the author of Cali Sorts and Condi-
lions of Mem
The prize of $500 offered by the Ma
tional Conservatory of Music at New
York for the best opera hbretto was
won by woman, Marguerite Merring
ton, author of the play, Captain Let
tarblair."
Walter Besant would not even let us
women do as we please about marrying.
He would make us all be wives and
mothers whether we want to or not.
Ida Rose McCabe last year Travelled
through all parts of the Union collect
ing information about college girls and
the schools they attend, both coeduca-
tional and the institutions of learning
for women alone. The talented, hard
working and conscientious young writer
obtained a great mass of information,
which has been prepared in pleasing, pic
turesque style and published under the
name of 1.-The American Girl at College,"
In the history of educational movements
in America Miss McCabe's book will
hold its own place. The chapters on
physical culture among girls are espe-
cially valuable.
My sisters, let US work on. In CEN
fury from now mankind will begin to
take women seriously.
Miss Ray Frank of Oakland, Cal, will
be the first Jewish woman rabbi. She
obtained her education partly in the
state university of California and after
ward in the Hebrew Union college at
Cincinnati. Thus the grand old Jewish
race swings into line on the woman ques-
ton.
At this time when the country is in
the midst of the gravest crisis it has had
to face since the war, when hundreds of
thousands of our sex are out of employ
ment and many of them well nigh starv-
ing, ladies are discussing with profound
interest and excitement the question
whether it is proper to wear a street
gown to an afternoon tea.
Don't be putty woman, to just stick
where you are thrown and believe what
you are told, without thought beyond
eating, drinking and clothes and your
own relatives.
Emma Goldman, the girl anarchist,
could not vote, but she can share equally
with man the privilege of year in the
penitentiary for seditious utterances.
Mrs. ELEPHANT at the age of Go is doing
as good work in novel making as she ever
did in her life. She has written 60 books
in AZ years.
Here is a question l would like to have