The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-05
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What Young Man Could po Mor. Than
This gifl Is- BONE


What Young Man Gould Do Nor. Than
This Oiri iIs- Bonef
A young friend ~ mine. Miss Edith
A. Roificrt. has lust graduated with the
degree of bachelor ~ laws from the
University Of tho City of New York mn.
der circumstances that do great credit
90 her intellect, courage aud porscvcr-
ance. Her father. scholarly German
gentleman, died some year. ago and left
n large family. On Miss Edith fell the
task Of providing for herself and help
ing the rest She had learned, a. most
young women Of German parontape do,
fancy knitting, needlewurk aud EN-
broidery. Her first move was to turn
this knowledge 10 account. She began
embroidering flannels and knitting
shawls and fancy articles In fine woods.
She sold these 10 the large stores. Pres
emily she hired other women to assist
her and made profit ON their work.
She still kept this business well in hand
while she herself proceeded to learn tel.
egraphy, shorthand and typowriting.
Thus triply armed she had no trouble in
securing "A situation as stenographic or
telegraphic correspondent whenever she
wished. She filed such situations while
still keeping up the little business in
knitting and embroidery. Presently it
occurred TO her that she would have "a
great advantage in business if she were
to study and graduate in law. Three
years ago she began this, working still
as stenographcr, studying evenings
and mornings. But that was not all.
While carrying ON all the rest Of the
work l have mentioned she has also
built a beautiful home in the suburbs
and is paying for it on the installment
plan. So here we have my plucky girl,
still young, able to earn her living any
day in the occupation named, a gradu-
ate in law and the owner Of handsome
house. Who could do more or better?
Professor Max Muller, with his Ger
man notions Of the housewife, was for
merly opposed to the higher education
Of women. But now like a man he con
fesses his mistake and says: 1T is real
pleasure 10 me to see the young girls so
eager to learn Young men do as little
as they can. Young women do as much
as they can-too much indeed. | wish
the men could be shamed and spurred
ON to further effort"
A writer says there are three planks
in the platform Of the wife Of Senator
Quay, and they are "home, husband and
children. These are all very well so
far as they go, but Mrs. Quay discharges
her dyties in life very poorly if she has
no thoughts or interests beyond them.
1t is this same "me and my wife, my
son John and his wife" policy for gen
erations that has made woman so mar
row and ignorant and emotional as she
too often Is. She has trimmed herself
down TO that pattern because she was
told by men it was the proper one for
her sex, and now the very ones she has
trimmed herself down to please turn
about and laugh her to scorn for being
illogical, ignorant and emotional and
not fit to be trusted with large affairs.
The men who have the domestic woman
on the brain are hard to please.
There is play running on the New
York stage which represents the new
woman in the character of western
sheriff. The author Of that play probably
did not know that there is in real life a
western woman who is a sheriff, at least
a deputy sheriff She is Miss May Simp-
son of San Francisco She has been pc
culiarly successful in managing insane
persons, and a large part of her duties
consists in conducting insane women
from the court to the asylum. In the
performance of this sometimes danger
GUS task she is singularly successful.
The most distinguished scholar in the
'95 class Of the California university
was a young woman, Katharine Conway
FELTON,, who received the award of the
gold medal for the year, which, however,
she declined, on the ground that students
ought not to work for rewards in that
way.
Miss Weeks was recently thrown from
her horse, and the skirt of her riding
habit caught in the horn of her saddle
The horse dragged her along head down
ward and finally trampled her under his
feet. II Miss Weeks had been riding in
the only rational way and wearing the
only safe and convenient dress for riding,
her horse could not have thrown her,
her dress could not have caught in the
saddle, and she could not have been
dragged along under the horses feet.
1t always gives me that tired feeling
to hear man laying down the law
about woman's sphere What does he
know about 1t? What can he know about
1t till he himself becomes woman? /
wish some men could be women awhile
There would be more fun than this poor
old world has ever seen yet.
The fashions change with such kalei
doscope rapidity that it gives one that
tired feeling to try to keep up with
them. Don't try. Just get something
good and becoming and wear it out,
fashion or no fashion, and don't trouble
any further about it. This is the only
way to be happy. 1t is time the Ameri-
can woman was asserting her right to
dress us she pleases, as well as to think
as she pleases.
am rejoiced that two young women,
Miss Cannon and Miss Hands. archi
tects, have undertaken to make spe
cialty Of planning apartment and tene
ment houses. 1t is only the comparative
~ rich in the large cities who can hav,
a whole house TO themselves. The rest
must live either in flats or tenement
rooms The miseries of fiat dweller.
have never been told When women plan
these apartments for families, they will
not make a parlor large enough for 80
people and miserable little dark bed
rooms not large enough for a cat. They
will also have kitchens large enough tc
put table into, besides putting the mir
ror and mantelpieces, likewise gas fix
lures, low enough for woman TO reacl
without climbing upon chair.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
Time Lost by an Overeoat.
He was AN eminent practitioner in Phi
adelphia, and one Of his patients notice
that he more often than otherwise cam
into the room with his overcoat on. Que
toned about It, the doctor said
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