The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-01
wovAx.s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
one 80 the Instances &C U"w Cni,alrous-
ue~~ g. Woman Works.

In r. recent speech kCN. i'r. Theodore
tuvl,r called Cornelius Vanderbilt tho
vouu-.v q Christian railroad Yrcsi-
dent an glad ~ know IL. for ROW
MI Cornelius Vanderbilt viii SEQ that
1rsticr rs done to woman 20 whom his
road has mwitt,ugly done a wroug
Dr ChauuCev DcTcw was In Europe
whom the thing happened, or Il would
har,IIv have ocCurrcd The only wo,n-
an railroad ticket broker In the United
states was Mys Harriet Webb. Her
husband had boon I'm the business before
her. and she fell heir to 10 ON his death
He had boon known for his uprightucss
~ to the business If ticket ScalpinE-
wei. everybody gets railway tickets as
cheap a> bc can. y few months after
the death 90 Mr. Webb IL was found that
somebody was using stolen tickets on
Mr.. NanGcrhilt's road. The tickets were
honest ones. but after they had been
stolen a forged stamp Of the company
had been used 90 mark them. Where
jii the tickets come from: \ package
q Thorn WAS traced 90 Mr. Webb office
She had bought them III perfect good
faith. believing them e. hc genuine. and
sold them 10 travellers. Her only fault
was that she was ignorant that they had
been stolen and that the stamp upon
them was a forged one She was a lady
Il the highest reputation. Other bro
scrs had bought numbers Of the tickets
But here was "A woman. a widow. new
- her business and loft disconSolato
aud weak. For that reason apparently
the road pouuccd Upou har. instead of
Epou the I.Cu. 20 make an example OF
Ee- which should tcrrify ticket scalperS
II future. They arrested her Lv a de
GOV letter and threw her into prison be
fore she had time 10 get bail They
kept her from trial all summer on one
7rctcNt and another Each time the
ease came I'D il was published II New
York papers that the case Of the road
against NIrs- Webb had been postponed
This was kept up from July till the last
dav II the Worlds fair Then the road
announced that IL was sorry 70 have
made Mrs Webb 50 much trouble. but
u had 10 case against Ee-. That was
all II men are going To treat women
little worse than they treat each 9th
- they ought u drop the pretense OF
chivllrv and let n know IL. We do not
wish 10 be understood Is complaining.
We only want 10 know what 20 expect
that i all
Sixty thousand copies Of Olive Har-
pe~'s novel. Il Far Californian, - have
been sold
Miss Alice Z. Ives VIII probably have
TWO OF her new plays put upon the stage
N New York the coming season.
Miss Sophie G keenan, of the Pitts
burg Press is one of the rising news
paper women She writes sparkling
letters IN the way of correspondence and
takes her own photographs of scenes
that she desires 10 have illustrated.
Miss Keenan, studied drawing i'll Paris
and is thus well equipped for her work.
1t was not pleasant the other day 20
hear an experienced newspaper man re-
mark that rs a general thing women
were not worth their salt in journalism.
IF there Is justice III this charge, the
reason Is that women do not know
enough and are not interested III enough
things. The person with the true journal
istic instinct must gather IL all knOwl-
edge as the mill takes III grain. The
true journalist sympathies are q wide
- the field Of human thought and emo
tiOn. His knowledge Is as nearly uniyer-
sal Is he can make II. He must know
all things and be interested IN all
things It IS because women are narrow
both III their sympathies and their
knowledge that they fail in journalism,
when they do fail But when they sue
coed what a splendid success they make!
Those who fear that if suffrage were
granted women the influence of the bad
would more than cOunterbalance that
II the good need only be reminded that
T.s-- hon bad
ones always
Women ought 20 arrange Fourth Of
July celebrations Of their own where
there are no others provided for, with a
woman 20 read the Declaration Of In
dependence. "A woman 20 make the
patriotic address and sweet girls IN
white, blue and pink 10 sing The Star
Spau-led Banner and Columbia. the
Gem e the Ocean " Celebrations Of
both men and women are best, but IL
such mixed affairs the men usually carry
Dut all the programme themselves, let
ting women have no part IN u except 70
prepare the food 20 b. eaten at the pic
nc. Thu is not fair. II Is woman turn
now.
Tho Women Federation in Great
Britain has sent resolutions III favor Of
FUN parliamentary suffrage Tor their sex
20 kosebory, and Ro-eLary has placed
them before the British cabinet for con
-idcr-tiou Tho Ir.-pect D. that Englirh
women VIII he yoting for member Of
parliament before American women gen
orally arc voting for members Of con-
lre--.
Between the ages Of 8 and 100 IL Is "A
womau's duty 20 make herself rs hand
rCue a. ehe can.
DO not live for yourself alone. Help
ether people.
One woman, Mr.. May Phelps, grad
rated tins year from tho Kansas Uni