The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-08
WOmANS WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Comfortable Cvmpetencies In Occupations
Eminently Proper For Our Sex.


Some masculine writer bewails the
decline of womanly occupations among
women-such, for instance, as the cleans
ing of shining snow white inen-in
other words, work at the washtub. He
cites US to the princesses of old, who,
surrounded by their maidens, used TO
rise early in the morning and spread the
linen ON the dewy grass TO bleach, wav-
ing their glistening white arms mean
while. 1t is pretty picture Unfortu
nately, however, men have even taken
from us this eminently proper occupa
ton for women. Their steam and ma
chine laundries have turned out the
queen of the washtub 70 starve or find
something else TO do. But women should
not thus be turned ont. They can run
laundries, too, even better than men can.
| have heard pleasant story of hand
some, refined woman who suddenly
found herself forced TO earn living for
herself and daughter. She established
machine laundry, overlooked all its
departments carefully, counted the cash
and receipted all bills herself, and saw
that she was not cheated. Today she is
in possession of handsome competency
and able to educate her daughter in Eu-
rope. This lady took a special branch
of laundry work, washing the linen for
sleeping, dining and parlor cars. An
other noble woman whom l know
was left to make living for herself
and an insane husband. She bought
out a very small, humble Turkish bath
establishment They say that in the
beginning she did much of the mas
saying and rubbing with her own
strong brave hands. She watched every
thing with the eye of hawk and gave
all she could afford for the price she
charged. 1t took not long for her bust
ness to grow. In few years she opened
one of the handsomest Turkish bath
places in America, this time buying
outright the two houses in which the
business was conducted. Her hand was
at the helm, her eye everywhere. Be-
fore many years she made a neat for
tune and has retired from active work.
She, too is a handsome woman, with
refined, sweet ways, beautiful gowns
ard dazzling diamonds. l know one
village and country neighborhood of
some 3, 200 inhabitants where, for want
of laundry, all the collars and cuffs,
fine shirts, etc, must be sent to the city
90 miles away, and week must pass
before they can come back Numbered.
If an enterprising woman would start
laundry in that town, it would be sure
to succeed. There are thousands of such
towns in America too Women should
be both strong and gentle.
If woman suffrage fails in New York
state this fall, don't believe will
sea, after all. l shall be tempted to
to a state where shall not be
taxed without representation. Governor
Hughes of Arizona told me not long
since there was good hope that Arizona
would ere long permit women to vote.
Speed the dayi In the grand new states.
where we can have a voice in making
the laws that govern US, there is glo-
rious outlook for woman's future.
Lillian Russell declined TO see half a
dozen men one after another who were
deputiZed TO serve n legal process on
her. But she allowed a woman to serve
it. Perhaps that will start the fashion.
A woman process server is eminently
The latter half of the nineteenth CEN
tury will be famous in all time to come
for the breaking out of the women. And
men who know what goes to the per-
fecting of the race and the making of
happiness will help them TO
break out all they can. Women are nat
nrally timid and conservative. Men lit
tie know the agony it costs them to set
themselves against traditional preju-
dice. If men understood this, I am
sure they would never sheer at a woman
who was trying TO enter a new field.
On the contrary, they would reach out
4 brotherly hand TO her and give her
hail and godspeed.
Twenty-Five of the women who made
The boomer run for the Cherokee strip
have stood their ground bravely and
i've ON their homesteads. They have
built houses with their own hands and |
10 all their farm work.
Do not sit and sigh discontentedly |
.or larger opportunity. Make the most
the very most-of the small opportu- |
lity you have. 1t will be sure to bring |
he greater one Maybe, too, the grand |
opportunity llSs uACiSr your IeeG no"
md you do not recognize it.
Note that the Populist party of Kan
as and the Republican party of Cali |
ornia have put woman suffrage planks |
Il their respective platforms.
When you ride a bicycle, wear the |
,loomer bicycle suit. 1t is comfortable, |
light and convenient. 1t begins to be |
III the go now too.
The New York Sun says, can up |
own stamp agency of the postoffice has |
gently come into the care of a young |
and III politeness, promptness
nd care she is happy contrast to the
nan that preceded her" Glad to hear |
/. So it should be always.
Frances Willard speaks with a sort of
estate enthusiasm of the bicycle rides |
ne eniOyed over the long smooth roads |