The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-20
wOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
An O.jeet Lesson tn Girls on Failing Ia
Love-"

think, goes down town with me in tho
same elevated train every morning in
New York city. She Is n fair, whole
some looking girl, but ignorant-how
ignoraut!-of real life, and with not n
grain Of common sense or womanly dig
nifty. She made the acquaintance of
some young fellows who went down
town ut the same hour. She did not know
them previously and had never been in
troduccd 20 them. Whether they were
worthy or the most disrcputable villains
alive she knew no more than she knew
Sanslrit, but her head was full of silly
novels. This foolish, unframed creature
could not forget her sex for one mo-
ment. In every youth she saw "a possible
husband, according 10 the gospel OF the
novels she read. The young fellows be-
gan ogling her, and She gave them half
sly glances under her cyelids liz was
plainly an invitation 10 them 10 speak
10 her, an invitation they were not slow
10 take advantage of. Men are not bash
ful. Finally il was the regular thing
for tho young men 10 talk and chat
with tho girl till she left the train.
Then they nudgcd one another, winked
in her direction and said things that
her tongue out if she had heard them
But she did not hear them. Finally
matters went q step further one Of
the young men began 10 sidlc up 10 the
girl every morning and remain with
her during the whole journey. The rest
fell back and left the coast clear. After
she left the train the one who had been
beside her Joined the rest, and the
nudSeS. winl,s and unpleasant talk went
ON more furiously than ever For weeks
this continued. The young fellow was
amusing himself. The girl had fallen
desperately III love with him. She
watched for his coming with longing
eyes and was unhappy and almost tear
full when ne did not appear. She evil
IDENTIFY thought she had made a conquest
and had found her affinity, such as the
novels she read had described. But
presently tho young fellow had fun
enough. He began TO skip her station
and get on different car at the station
above. He never had any intention of
being taken seriously. The girl watched
with longing eyes morning after morn
ing and grew pale and sorrowful, but
the adOrcd never came back. Now Il
broken hearted young woman rides lone
ly down town TO her task l am sorry
for her for being n fool. Bat how are
novel reading girls To know that men
who pick up acquaintance III public
places mean only harm 10 the girls and
amusement tor themselves?
The most unhappy woman Is she who
cares only for the admiration of men.
am more glad than 1 can express
Il, 81, IS Il Asl,l
have protested against the reelection
OF Breckenridge to congress But was it
not really little queer that resolutions
beginning, 1--WE, the women of the Ash
land district should be proposed and
put TO vote by men at a meeting called
TO order by men and presided over by
men? Have the women Of Kentucky nc
tongues?
The Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons has given its diploma TO Miss
Ina Cornall, who successfully passed its
severe examinations. Miss Cornall Is
going to India as a medical missionary.
I wonder how long will women be
subjected 70 such gratuitous insults
rs the following one, which has been
flung into our teeth by The Outlook,
posed woman suffrage amendment TO the
constitution in New York state has di-
verted public attention from other and
more Immediately important matters. -
Is there any issue more important, /
wonder, than the enfranchisement of
half the human race and giving it an
equal chance for life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness? If it We're men who
i = I 81 l.
put the matter aside like that? l have
hitherto believed Dr. Abbott 10 be a lib
eral minded and progressive man. That
editorial sentence stamps him not only
rs being narrow and ignorant, but also
unjust and cruel.
Woman will have to take an interest
IN public affairs Their consideration
will be forced upon her by regard for
her own safety and comfort and the fu-
ture of her children.
It Is most significant fact that Of the
women who are raising the cry against
suffrage for their sex in New York
scarcely one Of them ever earned dol
lar IL her life. They are merely appurte-
nances hitched on 10 some man.
Miss Harriet Adams has graduated
in surgery at the State Medical college
of Kansas and carried OF the first prize
from her young men competitors
The Vassar college girls have recent
II discussed a very solemn question at
one Of their literary society debates. 1t
was this: Docs the Higher Education
Unfit Men For 3Iatrimony:"
The Presbyterian church of Kentucky
has one ordained woman preacher-Mrs.
l. NJ. WOolsey Of Caneyville. She has
been conducting a vigorous revival
meeting at Dexter, No Did Mrs Wool
sey promise to obey" when she was
joined IN matrimony by the Presbyte-
rIan marriage service?