The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-02

= that Americans pay Well Iney may
even profess to admire the courage, as
they call it, which prompts American
girls to go in parties to certain places
without a male attendant. The German
mamma may smile at the American CIR.
for receiving many calls from men, pro-
viGed she meets them in the regular
family drawing room. She may excuse
her independent way of going about
alone and enjoy her vivacious manners,
but in her heart of hearts she devoutly
thanks heaven that her own daughter
is not modelled after such pattern.
Some young American girls abroad
have their own private sitting rooms in
the family or pension, where they re-
ceive all their friends, men not except
ed. Europeans cannot understand how
a good girl can do this. Some go fur
Their and rent q suite of rooms, where
they live alone and enjoy unlimited
freedom in receiving and entertaining
their friends. A girl who lives in this
manner in Europe challenges public
opinion and cannot hope to bear an
enviable reputation however innocent
her life and intentions may be. Again,
certain girl may never have been
model OF discretion at home, although
all her friends have understood that she
was really good girl She takes
walk alone in shady park or a public
street of a large German city. A man
approaches and addresses her in "a play
full and familiar way. He is handsome:
possibly he is in the uniform of an army
officer. In any case he Is a man of po-
sition, for such offenders do not belong
to the common classes. She meets his
approaches half way. She knows very
Well that the proceeding is not in good
taste, but she anticipates great amuse-
ment from it. and she is sure that no
harm can result. for her new acquaint-
ance Is "such a gentleman" This kind
of girl is probably accustomed to going
about alone with men at home. and she
can see no harm in doing SO abroad
In fact, the restraint by which she has
been confined in the German pension
makes her willing to &c even farther
than she would dare do in America: and
then no one knows her, she argues, So
what possible difference can it make?
According to German notions a drink
Ing resort is a very proper place for A
young gil who is attended bv dis
Greet chaperon, so the girl decides that
there can be no harm in her going there
alone with this German man, But the
resneetable Germans look on in undis-
guised amazer,ent as they see the
young girl sitting there alone with this
man, who is drinking ard smoking in
her company in crowded public room.
Bv this act she hopelessly compromises
herself In the estima ton of all we'll
bred Europeans. ard the man knows it.
Her conduct is explained by the remark
that she is an American girl and that
all Anslo-Saxon women are so free. Or.
If she Is particularly foolish. her iudg-
ment may be led astray by such an adj
vertisement in a city daily: Wanted.
by a gentleman, private exercise in
English conversation from q bright and
lively Fnelish or American Young
lady" Some fair reader may exclaim.
Surely no respecta bic American girl
ever conducts herself anywhere in such
a coarse way" But the sad fact re-
mains nevertheless that many girls
who pass for respectable really do such
things when they are abroad. And
nearly all are to be classed among those
who intend no harm, but never stop to
think Of the consequences.
One such girl went abroad from Can
ada. Though not really cultured wo-
man. she boosted that she helonged to
a good family. ard OF the possession Of
degree from one of the leading nriver-
sites of her country. and her object in
going abroad was to study in a Ger
vantages she had enjoyed she was in
the habit of c1apdestinely meeting
strange students. thus wilfully subject