The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-10-21

Ye-, here are the new tea-cups, and
they will be set out every saturday.
You will come often and stay for a
few moments, won't you, and We can
have a chat while you and | are sip
ping our isIand-grOwn tea. Do you
know what a fine aroma our Hawaiian
tea has We will have il here, but
We can have other kinds too. There
are 20 many subjects / shall be glad to
touch on, il only for a moment, and it
is an inspiration to brush up against
ideas that are original with the one
who ventilates them. Do imprison
your new ideas and hold them fast till
YOU can come and let them try their
wings here first.
Our informal tea will be capital
time to talk about our homes and our
servants, if we like, our babies and
our ambitions, our reading and our
thinking We are interested in fol-
lowing the trend Of what women are
thinking and accomplishing the world
over III this end OF the century. So,
OF course, we must talk of the new
woman. Don't you think that you
and ! are just a little more Interested
III what women are now attempting
than in what men are glOTiOusly
working Out-men who have been
ADDING for centuries?
/ confess To- "A feeling that wOman's
work should take its place according
to merit, not sex. / shall be heartily
glad when, especially IS workers,
women shall cease to be new, and
when the work, no longer the worker,
shall be considered. To me the
WOman's Building in the beautiful
White City was "a painful reminder of
our uewuess. But We are new. We
cannot help it Now IL transition
period, "A stage of growth in which we
are self conscious, occupied in many
hitherto UntrIed ways, and therefore
awkward. We make many blundeTs.
We are taking ourselves a bit too seri-
Ously, blunders and all. Men do not
understand Us, we do not understand
ourselves, and certainly we do not un
derstaud men But education will be
our balance wheel, aud experience
our safety valve. Pedants and pTudes,
blue stockings and amaZOuS may lie
the outrideTs of the forces of rational,
welI-equipped women to follow, but
they will not be the rank and file.
The higher education, which is to
bring the real new woman, and which
women are demanding, Is to
cultivate thinking. When reason
is our basis of action and not
impulse or convention or habit, where
the training l. adequate for life's
needs, and knowledge l. wide and ac-
curate, the higher life of mankind
will come Women will then make a
lust estimate Of life, will take life as it
l., and without being hampered 10y
ignorance and false pride, will, with
mans help, find practical solutions to
LIES problems.
NV definition of the new woman,
then, is the strong woman, educated
80 as to be equal TO every relation in
her life.
Nor vet 10 We know what the best
possible wife Il, and the best mother
and the best sister, for we have seen
only "A few, and they We're widely
scattered. We have no conception of
what life would be with Il city or a
State or "A country made up of women
at their best And so over the tea
cups we will discuss the new woman.
We will venture To say what We
think, and think "a freely as in US
lies. We will talk Of women and the
reaching interests of women. OF
course our talks will include men
whom the new women wish not TO
supplant, tut to accompany shoulder
To shoulder IN the march of progress
Women, and men, too, are slowly
coming To realize that men aud
women have each their work To do,
aud that il Is done best when men and
women are in harmony with each
other and with their Surroundings.
SYBIL.