The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-01-20
WoMAN,s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Is the world out Of Joint with Women
of To-day?

Is the World out Of Joint with Women
of Today
Last week ran away for two hours
and went to n parlor lecture. II was on
the PHILOSOPHY of the New Life" The
new life and its philosophy did not i'm.
press me anything like 80 powerfully as
the audience did. 1t was composed Of 40
women and two men. One Of the men
was there as matter of business, so he
did not count IL was, therefore, 40
women and one man. The ladies were
han dsomely dressed, as all New York
women of the we'll to do classes are
They wore rich silks and furs and mod
ish bonnets. There were diamonds not
few. The ladies were mostly middle
aged and elderly--at least they looked
so. saw only one young girl there. 1t
was the look on their faces that held me.
It was tired, nervous, distressed, I'M
happy look. A look, too, as if these
well to do women were seeking for
something they could not find, just as
they were doing. They were an epitome
of the world Of women today. They
bands, children and friends. They had
everything the world considers neces
sary for feminine happiness. They had
sounded the depths of woman's sphere,
so to speak, and found it wanting. The
lines in their faces, the gray hair, the
nervous eager, questioning look, the
worn, unhappy expression, told without
words the result of long ages of training
women to the pitiably narrow and con-
ventional domestic life, without other
hope or outlook. And yet people wonder
that women age more rapidly than men.
1t is wholly because of the wretched
narrowness of their lives, their lamenta-
BILE ignorance and lack of large inter
ests. They all have to be cut and trim
med to the same pattern, the pattern
the Mrs. Grundy of the time has set
down. II in the generations past wom-
an manifested the slightest tendency to
originality of thought or action, it was
depressed as crime. 1t might injure
her matrimonial prospect. To please
men was held up as her main object in
life, because she was dependent on men
for support The result is not much
more pleasing to men than to women.
The result was witnessed in the faces at
the lecture, faces that told of nervous
disease, of hopeless, broken lives and of
discomfort unfathomable. The REM
edy? The remedy is to give women lar
ger, fuller, sweeter lives. Give them
I participation in the worlds affairs, give
] them intellectual, moral dnd spiritual
development of the widest and deepest
The New Jersey Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION is still actively endeavoring
to wipe out the Anticipated laws that
hamper women in that state, saying
nothing of some Of theantiquated judges
that interpret the laws. The annual
meeting of the society was held at Eliza
beth, and Mrs. Florence Howe Hall of
Plainfield was elected president. Mrs.
Hall is one of the gifted daughters Of
Julia Ward Howe Rev. Antoinette
Brown Blackwell was made vice presi-
dent. The secretary of this live associa-
ton is Mrs. Irving Angel correspond.
ing secretary, DR.. Mary d. Hussey
treasurer Mrs. s. R. Krom; auditor,
Miss Susan W. Lippincott.
Women own $40, 000,0 600 worth Of
bank stock shares in this country,
chiefly national bank stock. A Thousand
women the country over are employed
in banks as clerks. cashiers and officers.
The number ought to be doubled and
tripled.
Three hundred thousand women il
this country earn an independent liv'
ing, not counting the millions of wives
and mothers who work and do not gel
paid for it.