The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-12
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
A Distinguished Editors Opinion OF WON
ans Courage.

1 NNANcA NiletAlcS Il Idlld OF the new
York sun guys our sex numerically 1T
times. Doubtless 10 a man of keen per
ceptlons ana with a sense of sarcastic
humor the temptation Is very great.
But at least half as often as he says
something bad about US he feels sorry
Tor 1t, and 50 turns about and says some
thing else SO exceedingly good that we
forgive him at once. For instance, the
Following brief editorial conveys the un-
Inistakable Impression that Editor Dana
heart Is III the right place, however ne
may permit his wicked old pen to stab
the bubbles of woman's little conceits. !
reprint the editorial because it expresses
truth that our sex ought to heed We
have been making sheep OF ourselves foI
the wolves to eat long enough:
We have within a few months printed re-
ports OF an unusual number Of cases In which
tho courage or women was put 10 the test.
There was the case In which a lonely woman
found burglar under the bed at midnight,
dragged him cut by the heels and flung him
down stairs There was the case in which a
woman walking through cross street near
the East river after dark was hailed by a foot
pad, who demanded money. She struck him
In the face with her umbrella, gave further
battle and put him to flight. Not one OF the
GASES has been more entertaining than that
or tho young woman who, Christmas
day, while riding in an Eighth avenue car,
had her pocketbook, which contained ST. 20,
stolen by a sneak thiCf-a tall, elderly man
who sat next 10 her. At the moment she
missed her money the thief jumped OF the car
and tcce 90 his heels She rushed after him.
crying stop thief" The chase was hot down
college place TO Nesey and through Vesey
TO Broadway, where the thief was nabbed by
a cop, who took him TO the Tombs to await
the processes of the courts. Miss Boyd got back
her money, and the tall, elderly sneak thief
Summers has got a dose OF the law.
Women like those OF the stories here told are
public benefactors- They illustrate the value
OF feminine courage. They give a first rate
lesson TO those VagabondS who think that all
women are timid, or even pusillanmous, when
IN the presence of danger. There are plenty or
women who are just as brave as any man in
creation.
Rightly educated young women do
not need a chaperon.
1t has long been favorite theory of
mine that the farmhouse and the house
IN the village can be and should be pro-
vlded with every convenience sf the
city home, except, perhaps, that of gas
and electric lighting, and even the cleo
trio lighting, it is certain, viii come in
time. l am glad TO find a confirmation
OF my theory III an ideal home planned
out and ont by a newspaper woman,
Edith Sessions Upper. In some mil
honaires' mansions that L have seen
there lacked the dainty beauty. the ar
tistic fitness and above all the home
feeling present IN this charming cottage
The deep window seat, the shining
green palms, the whole house flooded
with warmth and light, spoke TO
me of the gifted, gentle; yet daunt-
as novelist and newspaper correspond
ent. She also has the name of being the
most successful woman newspaper inter
viewer in New York. But was igno-
rant that her versatile gifts included also
the ability to plan house. She can do
that, too, however, and 1 wonder that
more women do not exploit themselves
in the same field. Mrs. Tupper's house
Is away from city gas and waterworks.
But there Is furnace in the light, dry
cellar, whose genial warmth penetrates
every part of the cottage. There is not
a stove or cold room in Mrs. Tupper's
house. The next question was how TO get
hot and cold water for the bathroom.
This was accomplished by means of a
tank in the garnet and heating hues from
the furnace in the cellar.
Eureka! We havefound it, and it is in
Africa. A traveller in the wilds of the
dark continent has stumbled upon ne
gro tribe where the men are kept merely
for their beauty and pass their days in
idleness. For generations the women
have done the work and bossed the men.
For generations these women have been
full of life, intellectually and physically.
In consequence of this process of devel-
opment they are superior TO the men.
What we want is a state of society
that will permit the development of all
the powers, physical, intellectual and
spiritual, OF both women and men.
Miss Katherine Davis. who showed at
the Columbian exposition how a family
of FIVE could be well fed on 81 cents a
day, is this winter lecturing on house |
hold economics. Her instruction in |
cludes not only cookery, but also ven
tilation, cleanliness and general santa |
ton IN the home.
Women In England have made dis |
tinct gain In Great Britain for the clos |
ing part of 1898. The bill giving them |
the right to vote at parish council cleo |
tons and TO be voted for as members of |
such passed the house of commons |
even against the wish of Gladstone. The |
other sign of progress is that the grating |
which walls off the wonen's. gallery |
from the rest of the house Of commons
is to be removed.
a friend writes me that though little
appears publicly in the Georgia papers
about woman's progress, and especially |
about woman suffrage, there is really
IN Of hr,fh
the women of that state. The Georgia |
Woman Suffrage association sent pc
cuniary aid TO Colorado in the contest
during the fall, and pecuniary aid is
what counts. The same helpful and sym
pathetic association also eent money to
Kansas to aid the women in their work