The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-03
THE NEW WOMAN.
Military Drill ~ ~ Means of Physical Cui-
ture For Girls.

Military Drill rs ~ Means OF Physical Cuh-
ture For Girls.
On Memorial day. 1895, there was n
procession at Lockland, o A part Of 1t
consisted of girls clad in white, march
ing by tours. This was the most ad-
mired company in the parade. So much
enthusiasm indeed did il excite that aft
err the day was over number of the
girls met and decided to continue the
company and learn military drill. They
were in age from 10 to 18 years A
competent drillmaster was secured and
the young ladies began to learn and to
perform military evolutions AS mere
means of physical culture there is no set
Of exercises to equal this military drill
1t limbers stiff joints, straightens round
shoulders, fills ont fiat chests ard turns
numbering, awkward walk into free,
graceful, steady one. For this reason
alone it is worth everything to women.
If you notice you will observe that of
women not more than in 90 has a good
walk. They wabble in their knees and
wriggle their hips and look as though
they were tumbling to pieces If | had
20 daughters / should have them all
trained in the military drill. By and
by, after they had mastered the plain
exercises, the Lockland girls began to
learn graceful fancy evolutions and fig
ures, something like the famous and
beautiful amazon drill of the stage. A
veteran of the war presented them with
the flag of the Seventy o. V. l.,
which they use as their own. The girls
no. f,,l hn nd
physically that it was a delight to look
at them. They adopted pretty uniform
of blue alpine cloth trimmed with gold
braid and buttons. Best of all, they be-
came so proficient in their drill and in
tricate evolutions that people far and
near were anxious to see them and were
willing to pay to see them. Now the
"Y. l.. D. c." as they call themselves
Young Ladies Drill Corps-are Civ
ing exhibitions of their skill here and
there and are getting paid for it. They
are very pretty and lively company.
we'll worth looking at
Do not question even your dearest
friend or your own mother about her
private affairs 1t is low bred and inn
pertinent in the extreme. 1t is merely
the manifestation of a curiosity, so ig-
norant and vulgar that we ought to be
ashamed of it.
About the most idiotic thing one can
do is to worry. 1t never helps you out a
bit. On the contrary, it destroys your
power of helping yourself out. 1t makes
you old and blind and withered and
rheumatic. You are not responsible for
other people. Let them go their own
way. You cannot make them go your
way, and it is not right that you should
The rich, powerful and conservative
Republican party has progressed in this
year of 1895 sufficiently to insert into
its national platform, away down at the
bottom, like the postscript to girls
love letter, a plank constructively favor
ing equal rights for the sexes, suffrage
and all. 1t is not much of a plank. to
be sure, very little one, so to speak,
but it is there and that is much. This
is presidential election year. 1t is also
the year of the quadrennial assembling
of the Methodist general conference.
Perhaps by 1900 both the Methodist
conference and the Republican party
will have moved onward another peg
Perhaps in that year, the last of this
memorable century, we shall witness
both the Republican party coming out
full and strong in its national platform
for woman suffrage and the Methodist
general conference admitting noble
women delegates to sit in its delibera-
lions side by side with men and minis
ters To both these consummations l
look forward confidently
That gifted, sunny woman Kate San
born, who calls herself farmer and
butter maker" has found time at her
country home in Massachusetts to make
the acquaintance of domestic animals
and fall in love with them, as is proved
by her latest book, my Literary Zoo.
She does not say, as Ouida once did,
"The more 1 know of men the better l
like dogs" but she apparently likes
men and dogs too. Privately l am of
opinion this witty woman likes her
COWS better than either men or dogs,
however. The little volume gives charm
ing stories of the bird and animal
: pets of distinguished people. Miss San
born tells us that one of the favorites at
the country home of Hon. William M.
Evarts used to be donkey. On one &C.
casion Mr.. Evarts' little daughter wrote
to him: dear Papa-Do come home
. soon. The donkey is SO lonesome with
out you"
J Bright, gentle Mary Proctor, who IL
making for herself AN enviable as well
9 as profitable field as lecturer on as.
! tronomy, has gone to Norway with d
2 party this summer to witness the total
r eclipse of the sun. Miss Proctor gives
. lectures ON shipboard.
, 1t is not likely that Professor Edward
: Griggs of Stanford university quite en-
joys the greatness which has been thrust
upon him through Rev Anna Shaw's