The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-12

IL and that all women
are timid creatures,
needing all sorts of protection and sup
port, shelter and encouragement from
man. who, according to st. Paul, sis the
head of the woman"
Perhaps he is, but 1 must say he does
not always keep ahead.
Now, my own theory is that this idea,
set up in the dark ages, when woman
was either a slave or a servant to man,
has, like many other respectable ideas,
become outgrown and artiquated. The
last so years have developed the nature
and capacities of woman with a good
deal of the instantaneous transforma-
ton seen in pantomine when the clumsy
hoyden suddenly develops into the fairy
queen, all pink gauze, spangles and dia-
mond tipped wand, or, to put it more
prettily, the effect upon a garden of
roses, which in one hour of hot sunshine
develop from half blown buds into flow
ers of glorious and fragrant maturity.
IF this poisoning goes on for another
century at the rate it has begun in this,
the women of the year 1000 will wonder
what those quaint old writers of the
nineteenth century could have meant by
Directing to women as physicians, law
Yers, preachers and legislators.
"Why, just fancy men trying to man
age the world without the advice and
direction of womenr' some fair student
Of that day will exclaim. And another
will add:
'sAnd electricity only in its infancy.
What vital force acos there in those
days to keep the world moving at ALP"
Now, one of the errors which time has
thus far perpetuated and now Is ready
TO abjure and contradict is this of the
cowardice of women and courage Of
men as distinctly opposed to each other.
/ don't say but what, in the case of a
mouse, a man is more courageous than
woman, and perhaps in that of lion or
Tiger, although in the matter of mad
dogs I recently had proof that the wom-
An is the more courageous. I was visit
ing a suburban friend lately when dog
began to show ominous symptoms of
madness just in front of the house. Ny
friend called from the window to the
man working on the lawn and babe him
go at once and throw pail of water
over the poor beast. The man dropped
his mower, came and looked at the dog
and fatty refused to approach him any
nearer. saying in SO many words that he
was afraid to do so.
My friend reiterated the order, but to
no effect, when of sudden a brawny,
red armed woman dashed around the
corner of the house, pail in hand, and
made for the dog, who, after one dread
full backward glover at her, rushed off
and was no more seen.
When the story was told at night to
the master of the house, he commented
on it by shifting his knee, laughing de-
and exclaiming: "Give me
poured over mad dog. They don't
know any better than to try it on. Ihope
you gave the cook 81, my DEAR"
Then I was present when sweet lit
tie curly haired thing, girl of some 90
years old, seized a savage bloodhound by
the neck and choked him off her pet kit
ten, which he had chased into the house
that is, l don't suppose her tiny dim
pied hands were really capable of chok-
Ing him, but he was so impressed by the
dauntless spirit behind them that he
dropped the kitten and ran. When his
master was told of the exploit, he turned
pale and exclaimed: ''My Godi That
dog has torn man to pieces before nowt'
The strongest spring of action in wom-
ans nature is love, and the perfectly
reckless courage she will sometimes dis
play must have its root in love. She
must feel the need Of saving or serving
some one whose life is dearer to her than
Is
lotte Corday, she must love her country
better than herself and despise the death
awaiting her in its defense.
In fact, the truth is that mans cour-
age is matter of calculation, and so
may be served to order, may be INDUCED
Or restrained, may be sold to the highest
bidder. and if a higher appear may be
and resold without injuring
it's quality in the least. This is not to be
taken as an i'll natured hit at mankind,
but a simple statement of fact as relat-
ing to mercenary troops and soldiers of
fortune, and only point out the fact as
opposed to that other fact just men
that woman's courage
springs only from the personal feeling of
The moment and has its root in love.
buG, d. tCI 1lI, ~ ID AOIO III Ilc IAOIdl
han the physical world that woman's
courage is most clearly shown, and also
mans cowardice, and in no direction
more plainly than in matters of the
leart.
Is it not SO even in your own expert
nee or observation?
A man and woman are mutually at
sched and are DESTROYS of further &C
Now, the theory is-a theory
established by man and consented to by
she, whether maid or wild
Nv. modestly conceals her preference.
,ot confessing it even to herself, and
all sorts of obstacles in the way
e her wooer, such as avoiding his So
.;ety. pretending not to understand his
advances. skillfully evading bis attempts
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