The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-20

all you say rs II IL were the utterance Of
m oracle, the result will 10 that you
will presently begin 10 take II for granted |
in your own mind that you are q superior |
being You will strut aud take ON am
and dictatorial tone and become |
a very great bore TO people around you,
until somebody comes who pricks your |
balloon Of self conceit and ruthlessly sits |
down ON your pOmpous pretensions |
Then you feel very small Thousands Of |
otherwise good men, men fairly intel
lectual and reasonable, have been thus
ruined by their women folk. Women
make a joss, so to speak Of those they
love No matter how i'll favored, com
mon or ignorant the husband or father
may be, his women folk adore him and
burn incense to him. 1t is easier to lean
upon something else than to stand up
alone, even though you lean upon
scarecrow. Ministers and doctors are the
ones who most often assume the pom
pous manner and dictatorial tone that
make them such a bore and nuisance to
all right thinking people. The reason is
that women have adored them and ruin
ed them. have seen many an otherwise
excellent, good, commonplace, stupid
father Of family turned into q very
monster Of self conceit and disagreeable-
ness because the women of his family
| had fed his vanity year after year till it
was swollen to bursting. l never saw
woman so spoiled by men, probably be
cause women's opinions get more snub
bling than praise from men. But wish
women would cease to be such fools in
/ the matter Of man worship. l wish they
would have ideas and convictions of
| their own. And do not know worse
fate that can overtake brainy man
! than to be set down in the midst of a
flock of adoring women
The demand for space in the Woman's
building at the International and Cotton
States exposition has been much greater
than even the enthusiastic and indefati-
gable ladies of Atlanta expected it would
be. They have found themselves obliged
to ask for more space, which undoubted-
ly they have already secured. These
lovely southern women have accomplish
ed wonders with the means Mt their
command, and their northern sisters are
justly proud of them,
When man wants to get q little
cheap notoriety, he attacks the new wo-
man from pulpit, platform or in the
newspapers
fear too many women's knowledge
of parliamentary usage is confined to the
two words, II suggest. Worst of all,
they often pronounce it "sejest I"
have received copy Of the woman S
edition of the Columbia Is. c. State.
1t is great "a page paper, handsomely
printed and profusely illustrated. All
the matter was furnished by women,
and the edition was published for the
benefit of the Columbia hospital The
State is an outspoken woman suffrage
paper Long life and success to it lam
glad to see in its columns two prize pa
pers by women, Mrs. J. Strickler Coles
and Miss Marion Alexander Haskell, on
the care of the family COW. Women
could make a good living in the dairy
business l have long been persuaded.
A woman on bicycle wants no big
sleeves, baggy revers or fiyaway, butter
fly rigs. She wants her dress as plain,
light in weight, natty and neat as pos
sible, with no loose, Tapping goods or
flying ends,
The time will come when it will be
regarded as a deadly disgrace to wom-
an to marry man for his money.
Ten years ago a young New England
schoolteacher went to Denver. She took
up some homestead land not far from
the city. Now she has noble farm of
400 acres, green with luxuriant crops,
and owns it all herself. Before many
years it will be cut into town lots, and
the plucky New England teacher will
have u fortune