The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-23
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

A Dual Life-Boys Is Cooks-Faiiing Idols.
Women's Clubs, Etc.
A certain newspaper woman In New
York leads kind of dual life. To her
journalistic associates she is one Of the
hardest working reporters on the staff,
laboring just as many hours as any Of
the men. To another set she is a singer
in the church choir, industriously pur-
suing musical education. How she
finds time to take lessons and practice
several hours a day is a sort Of miracle.
But she is fitting herself for the operatic
stage and intends to get there The odd
part Of it is that none of her musical
friends knows she is reporter, and only
one of two Of the men on the staff ever
heard that she could sing Here is an
other woman who can keep a secret.
"Why take ourselves so seriouslyi"
protested a pretty woman at a recent
gathering when the conversation had
run into thoughtful channels. ooh, just
for change, answered another. "Most
of the time we take ourselves SO frivo-
lously."
A sample of the new woman in the
art world is Mrs. Katharine Almond
/ Hubert, who spends most OF her time in
the Berkshire hills, puts ON short blue
serge gown, tramps through all kinds of
weather, carries her own easel, stool
and sketching materials, paints when
it's cold enough to freeze you stiff and
thinks nothing Of walking six miles on
stretch.
A recent school examination in New
York of pupils trained in the culinary
art disclosed the fact that the boys were
much better cooks than the girls. Evil
IDENTIFY some of these boys are ambitious
to become chefs and gather in salary
about equal to that of the president of
the United States. Perhaps the lack Of
enthusiasm among the girls was because
they regard that they would have to be
o cook for some man with no salary at
all Another reason why there have been
so many poor cooks among women is
that for centuries nearly all women have
been obliged to be cooks whether they
liked it or not. If nearly every man
who set up housekeeping had been
obliged to make all the windows and
doors in his house and keep on making
windows and doors every day before he
went to the Office, there would be Just
as many poor carpenters among men as
there are cooks among women. Cooks,
like poets, are born, not made. When
you like to do thing, you do 1t well.
No wonder women do some things in a
poor, slipshod manner. They've been so
long forced to these tasks when they had
no heart in them. One of the great mas
tiers of art was intended by his parents
for pastry cook, another for a weaver
and another for keeper Of sheep. But
these boys had the courage TO rebel
against authority and do the thing for
which they were born. The girls who
wanted to run away never dared, be-
cause the world in those days would
have promptly taken them by the ear
and thumped them back in their places.
By all means let the boys who were
born to be chefs cook and don't i'm
agine every girl must make bread any
more than she must make her own shoes.
How fast our idols are falhngl viii
De Barras succeed in pulling down from
her pedestal the gentle Josephiner Well,
il she was no better than she ought to be,
Barras certainly was a great deal worse.
He may ultimately succeed in burying
himself in the ruins.
Nine Blanc thinks it impossible for
women's clubs in France to be the sue
cess they are in this country. She says
mo gathering of women in France
could leave the same animation or would
take such pains to be agreeable. ;" The
fair Gaul needs the presence Of men to
make her entertaining No observation
of this clear headed writer seems to be
OF more value than this. II indicates
one of the advanced steps Of our new
world civilization over the old. When
women give of their best to other wom-
en-, Vt is indeed sign of solid progress.
ALICE K iva