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of girl who took up library work just be-
cause she felt she ought to know how to do
one thing well, and who, within three years,
was supporting widowed mother and two
young sisters by her profession. Another of
girl who had always been dainty house
keeper, and who, when she was left widow
with couple of little children, made home
for them by the delicious preserves and pickles
she put up. Another of girl who had learned
stenography and typewriting, in case of ae-
cident," as she said and was thus prepared,
when the accident came, to take position as
secretary, and not only support herself, but
help put her brother through college.
PICK OUT THE RIGHT THING
But why should I go on with these tales !?
You all of you know many such, and can, If
you willard hope you will-glye me
scores of illustrations of the advantages of a
girls having profession, trade, craft,
business I appeal in the first place to the
girls in the sheltered homes. Have you any
idea, my dear children, how long they will be
sheltered? Of course, they seem sound as the
solid earth-but there are earthquakes, you
know, and volcanic eruptions that make the
ground under our feet seem very insecure
resting place 1t is well to have foothold
somewhere that one can be sure Of
So take an account of your stock, mental
and physical and try to see what you are fitted
for. Would you care to be dressnaker,
decorator, librarian, newspaper woman,
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Aged Women Who Swim

~ NCSLISH papers state that number of women who
r. have passed three-score of life took swimming
A lessons with great enthusiasm at seaside resorts
regard this as indicating general ten
dency part of elderly people to perform feas sucn
as would not have been dreamed of generation ago.
Deghton's walk from Land End to John O. Groats
of 6 the cycling tour from Lonoon to Berwick
back by octogenaran DR.. Harris and MI Mares
task yet fncompeted of walking 5000 miles though he Is
years age-hese enterprises that have attracted
considerable attention.
cited of woman nearly 10 years old, WIZ
regular exercise brings the peasantest
hours of her life member Of the English Alpine Club
now over co. has just reclimbed the Materhorn and
Welshman aged TO- not long since tramped over the nigh
est peak of Snowden along arduous mountain ridge
and some ten miles of undulating road.
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for her Put your wits to work. Look
about you, and see if there is not some
want near you that you can supply. Don't be
afraid of any kind of work. Do you know
enough to teach little, children, and can you
find a place as a sort of nursery governess'
Or are you clever enough with your needle to
make shirt waists and pretty simple under
wear? know sewing is hard work and said
to be ill-paid; yet when want dressmaker
I always find difficulty in securing the services
of one. They are all busy! Have you knack
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dear old lady who told I6-year-old maiden:
"Have as good a time as you can, my child.
You'll be an angel some day, but you'll never
be girl agar"
But | know there is something in each one
of you beside the desire of enjoyment. There
are the thoughts that come to you in the
twilight of Sunday evenings-and at many
other times-the longings for something
more, the desire to make the best of your
selves in every way, and to have the world
better place for your having lived in it. can
see your earnest faces before me while write,
and can hear your words-some spoken with
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this will seem rather absurd. Everywhere
one can find girl or two who is given
up to thoughts of the fun she will get out of
life and who turns away from other consldera-
ton. But she is the exception. The girls to
whom am talking are not of that type. You
like fun and jollity as we'll as the greatest
giddy-pate that ever lived you will tell me.
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You observe that nave not suggested youl
getting place in a store. Yet that may be the
best thing for you. have mentioned these
other pursuits because they would be, IN way,
less continuing. If they do not appeal to you,
try to get position behind counter some
where The great drawback TO that sort OF
work is that it is often precarious, and new
conner into business has to take it into account
that she may be laid of" during the dull sea-
son. 1t would be better if you could get some
employment which would not tire you so much
that you could not study at night. 1t you could
do this, you might learn stenography or type
writing. know the world is full of stenog-
raphers, but do you know how rarely one flnds
a good one? They are always in demand when
they are competent, and their pay is good.
LOOKING TO SELF SUPPORT
Whatever you do, my dear child, keep up
your courage. There is place for you some
where, and you will find it. Be on the look
out. If you can't find what you want, take
what you can get and do it so well that no
one could do it any better. Never let yourself
look on the dark side of things. It's always.
morning somewhere, and your day will break
brightly and surely.
began this by calling the attention of you
other girls to this letter Here is chance for
some of you to be of help. Those of you who
are in your own homes may know of some
form of work that will appeal to my brave
little correspondent. Those of you who are
out in the world taking care of yourselves
must surely have word of cheer and counsel
for her. Write and give it to me and let me
pass it on It will help others beside the one
for whom it is meant For this letter is but
one of many such that receive. Once there
was time when it was unusual for girls TO
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I wonder if you guess how wise you are,
you girls who mean to know how to take care
of yourselves, whether you are obliged to do
it or not. In this NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. age
we live in, girl never knows when she will
have to go to work for her living. could
tell you dozen stories to illustrate this. One
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the other. Every girl Should cultivate her
sense of humor as we'll as her sense eof the
seriousness of life. We need both in our
businessl
So make up your minds as to what the
business is to be, and let us talk it over and
see if we can't all help one another. Those of
you who are still in the home nest need adj
vice. Those who have spread their wings and
Auttered into the world are in a position to
give it. Let me hear from both of you.
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"THE GIRL WHO MUST WORK FOR A LIvIf

teacher stenographer, business woman, what?
In what direction do your tastes point If you have no
especial TALENT you have at least preference. That
may serve as an indication. What is it? Let if it
cannot be made stepping stone to something really
worth while.
l dare say there may be few of you to whom
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Of course, you do, bless your
hearts! You wouldn't be girls if
you didn't, and / would be the last
person in the world to wish for a
moment to rob you of the JOY that
every one of you has right to.
I have always agreed with the
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take it for granted that they
would earn their own living.
Now it is an everyday mat
ter. | don't think I exagge-
rate when I say that out of
every fifty girls at least
twenty-five expect to fit them
selves for self-support.
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with your fingers that would
make it possible for you to
trim hats? Are you at all
skilled in any kind of dainty
cookery? Or are you quick at
figures and able to do book
keeping?
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IA OST of us are given to criticising our
|" neighbor's clothes, with the feeling
= that son the amount she spent for
that dress, we'd have got something more
suitable" But would we, after all
There's only one class of people who are
really in position of choice as regards the
clothes they wear-those with definite set
tied income that is large enough to permit
their taste to express itself. They're the only
class that really are qualified for criticism.
Everybody else is more or less victim of cir
|cumstances.
How many girls there are who have practl-
|eally no mcconnell Girls who drag along with
an intense girlish love for pretty clothes with
|neyer chance to enjoy them.
One girl was in culver of delight because
everything she had on was new, and she had
never known that sensation before.
Take those girls, for instance, who come
from families whose income doesn't sufhce
for actual needs, to say nothing OF luxuries.
Or the girls that work hard all the week..
and spend most of their wages eking out the
family purse.
ATTENTION OF THE WRONG SORT
New clothes are rarity with them-the
intense desire they have for prettlness and
lnewness makes them choose something IN bad
taste for worker, but they can't resist the
dac;ra RI tsdrecc I'M -
Are they awfully to blame? Have you
girls, who can indulge in pretty things, room
to criticise these other girls?
It's bad taste, we know, for a girl to wear
IA huge, tapping 'picture-hat' downtown to
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By Christine Terhune Herrick

v WONDER if you girls who have happy,
sheltered homes know how fortunate
Il you are. Listen to this letter. 1t is
saI from girl of Io:
"a e'I write to beg you for advice, she writes
"My dear father died only month ago. lie
worked very hard always, but he never saved
much money. Now we find that there is barely
enough to pay for my mothers board. She is
an invalid l am the only child. We have to
give up our home, and I must do something
to support myself. have just finished my first
year in the High School. l had meant to be
teacher, but [ can't go on with that now.
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depth of feeling that is almost solemn,
others with a joke between the expressions of
the high resolve, but all standing for the same
thing womanliness, force of character.
Does it seem solemn, dears? Well, it is
solemn-in way. But as in everything else,
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you think? Please advise me. You must
know some way in which I can support my
self and my mother. I may say that am
very we'll and strong, and have never had
serious illness in my life"
You are plucky little woman, my dear,
and wish very much that could open door
that would lead to place that would pay you
good money. You are very fortunate in hav-
ing good health Do everything to keep that,
for it will be your best stock in trade.
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there is fun lying close to the
gravity, and we all of us, old girls
as we'll as young, work better be-
cause the merriness and the, gray
ity are such near companions. The
only thing to guard against is let
ting either one get the better of
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What can [ do to
earn money? The
thing l would love
best would be to make
a tiny home for my
mother. Can I earn
enough to do that, do
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business. But, before you judge her, consider
what her reason may be.
Plenty of those girls do it merely to attract
a bold sort of attenton-and that's all wrong;
but, too, plenty of them do it with as sure
sense as yours, that it's out of place, but wear
it because they must. Perhaps that hat was
cheap, and every extra penny was needed at
home, or perhaps it was gift from some
relative, better off in this worlds goods, but
sadly deficient in taste.
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mother comfortably, but to save money toward a
home for both of them.
Not every girl can do this, but there is some
thing waiting for you, dear girl, just as there was
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n Word about this nesv departure
n II gveek ago zoe opened this "e1V
III department just for girls, fg'l6
Mrs. Christine Terhnne HerrieS,
qyho is well knoggn to yon all, at the head.
Mrs. Herrick's letter this zceek deals f0ffH
one of the most difficult problems the young
girl has TO face-that Of finding out h0Ev s"e
can best earn her Oscn living, and, pefhap''
support some one else as yell.
From seek to qveek, she intends taxing
up other as difficult problems, yet she XII
fnd, TOO, plenty of room for Joys as yell as
sorrogvs and problems.
Write Mrs. Harick your o7on particular
needs. Write her your particular success or
pleasure. You 1oiH find her sympathy instant
" given, and feel qOith rs, that she IS fndsfd
zvoman very near and dear to girls.
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THOSE POOR RELATIONS !"

There are hundreds of girls to-day badly
dressed-that is, dressed in bad taste-who
have not been able to direct the tasteful spend
ing of the money on their own wardrobes.
Take another class-the class which suffers
most by being criticised; the girls who belong
to families reduced in circumstances; or poor
relations"
Why it is that rich aunt, or cousin, IN
yariably sends soiled fnery to the poorer mem
bers of her family, nobody will ever know.
But that's why many girl wears fancy
blouse with an old skirt, or dress-hat with
plain shirtwaist suit
One girl, who was criticised very harshiy
for her apparent extravaganza and over-dress-
ing, cried, and told, between her sobs, how
there was no money for her clothes after she
paid for her younger sisters support, and that
she was dressed by an aunt who considered
herself fashion expert.
Lots of our young girls make their own
clothes, and make as pretty and as Weil-Dred
looking clothes as any girl need want.
But how about the girl who works all day,
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THE STORY OF A BRAVE GIRL

I wish you had told me if you had any in
clinations to any special line of work. Let me
tell you the story of another brave girl once
knew. She was left in almost the same circum-
stances as yourself, but she lived in small
town, while your home is in a big city. She,
too, was just in the High School. She was
self-reliant little person, and she said nothing
to anyone of her plans. She had been in the
habit of using the library, and she wrote bold
ly to. the trustees of this, told them that she
thought an assistant was needed, and asked for
the position. She got it, and set herself to work
to study and devise library methods. This was
the beginning of successful work in this line,
and she was able not only to support her
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n H OST of us are given to criticising our
WI neighbours clothes, with the feeling
that 'son the amount she spent for
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-02
Shipping Notes.

The bark Santiago is lying alongside
the Hackfeld wharf.
The fish are beginning to desert the
banks discovered out near the Cham
mel wharf by the boat boys.
Tonnage in port now amounts TO
1907. This is the smallest that has
been known in the last four seasons.
Guy Kelly, port steward of the Inter
Island Steam Navigation Company. is
convalescing after several days of ILL
ness.
The steamer Mauna Loa will sail on
Tuesday at noon for Lahaina, Maalea,
Kona and Kau ports. She went on the
marine railway yesterday for a clean
ing.
The next mail from San Francisco is
due on Wednesday morning by the S.
S. Sonoma and following her, will come
the S. s. Gaelic on Saturday from San
Francisco.
The S. S. Mongolia which left here
last Tuesday is due in San Francisco
tomorrow. She took good sized
crowd of passengers from Honolulu
for the mainland.
The America Maru. will take mail
today to the mainland. Following her,
the next mail will depart on Tuesday
by the. S. S. Ventura. due Tuesday
morning from the Colonies.
The steamer Kinau arrived at 10
! o'clock yesterday morning. She made
a fast trip home. She brought only a
fair sized crowd of passengers and
had a small cargo of freight for this
port.
The ship Hawaiian Isles is waiting
the arrival of 2S00 bags of sugar from
PaauiIo plantation The sugar is COM
ing on the schooner Ka Moi. The ship
will get away for San Francisco on
Tuesday.
There is practically no sugar on hand
at the Railway warehouses. What
there is ready, is to be loaded into tn~
schooner w. H. Marston and the bark
Mohican on her arrival from San
Francisco.
Admiral Beckley, purser of the
steamer Kinau, which arrived yester-
day morning from her run to Eilo and
way ports. reports that less than 1900
bags of sugar We're on hand at vari-
Gus Hawaii plantations Friday.
The arrival of the S. S. America
Maru from the Orient with immigrants
yesterday, necessitated several of the,
island steamers making special trips to
Kauai and Hawaii ports, to convey the
laborers to the various plantations.
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AMERICA MARU
MAKES PORT

When Captain Going picked up Oahu
yesterday forenoon. he probably
breathed a sigh of relief. for his yes
sci flying the japanese flag, is prize
the Russians would give a great deal
to capture. The America made the en-
tire Oriental trip both outward and in
ward without sighting a Russian yes
sci and unless the auxiliary cruiser
Korea nabs her off the California coast,
there seems little prospect of the popu-
lar vessel being placed in any danger.
The America left Hongkong Septem-
Der 2 and Yokohama September %. She
was detained in the latter place for
four days. A severe typhoon ragged out
side of the harbor and, as it was diff
cult to work cargo, the America was
weather bound. The vessel had good
weather during her trip. She sighted
nothing. The vessel brought S54 tons
of freight for this port and carries only
AS tons for San Francisco. She has
only seven cabin passengers, none of
them for this place.
Among the passengers is Captain r.
NEG. Duncanson. He went out to
Japan as master of a British merchant
vessel that was sold to japanese pur-
chasers for the japanese government,
it is understood. He is going home.
DIR. and Mrs. James Roane are also
through passengers. He was formerly
a surgeon in the United States army
but has retired
Captain VIM. Kidston is we'll
known sea -faring man, having been
master of vessels in Alaskan and
Oriental waters. He is accompanied
by his wife and daughter.
f. S. Farnsworth, formerly chief en-
gineer of the s. S. Nippon Maru of
the Togo Kisen Kaisha's service, has
relieved Charles Thompson in a SINH
lar capacity on the America. Mr..
Thompson has gone on reserve duty
ashore where Mr.. Farnsworth has been
since last February.
On the outward trip of the America,
she stopped at Midway but learned
nothing of the presence of the Russian
Vladivostok fleet. In order not to risk
capture, Captain Going passed Yoko-
hama and put in at Yokkaichi, a place
between Yokohama and Kobe. The
vessel was held at that place for a day,
until the news OF the Russian cruiser
Novik being on the north OF Japan was
learned.
The America Maru will sail at 5
o'clock this afternoon from the Hack
field wharf, for San Francisco.
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R8RN8QR80N5RN8el582S 8 3 a88s NE
MORE GIANT
BOATS COMING

Tt is not unlikely that the Togo KiSen
Kaisha will have its two new vessels
built in Japan instead of England.
General Manager NJ. Shiraishi, accom-
panied by General Agent w. H. Avery
of San Francisco, is reported to have
settled negotiations for the raw ma
terial WITH British firms during their
recent official trip to England. This
raw material for the construction Of
the two vessels is to be sent to Ma
gasaki for the purpose of having the
two vessels constructed by one of the
japanese shipbuilding concerns.
Several years ago the special con-
struction engineer OF the steamship
company. was sent to England to ar
range prelininaries about the con-
struction of two 1900 ton vessels. The
recent withdrawal of the vessels of the
Togo Kisen Kaisha by the Japanese
government has crippled the company
quite seriously, as only the S. S.
America Maru is left for the San Fran
CISCO Oriental route. After studying
the general conditions, it was decided
by Manager Shiraishi that the TWO
vessels should be larger than was orr
ginally intended so that tonnage was
increased to $4,000. This viii make
them as large as the Mongolia ana
Manchuria. 1t is thought that they
will also be required to exceed those
vessels in speed. In order to secure "a.
mail subsidy from the Japanese gov
eminent, the steamers have, to make
an average of IS knots an hour timed
by a special surveying board of naval
officers. Inasmuch as the company will
probably desire TO continue deriving
the benefit of a government support,
the new vessels will be made to attain
this speed.
The news of this plan of the Japan
csc. company was brought yesterday by
was the annual meeting of the direct
ors of the company at Toxic several
days before the America Maru left
Yokohama. and while the meeting was
secret, some of the details of the plans
We're made known. At the same meet
ing, dividend of IL per cent per an
mum was declared. While the company
has not been making as much az
usual during the last nine months
owing to the withdrawal of most of it's
vessels by the government. there has,
nevertheless, been some return from
the government for the use of the vesz
sells. The company also has large re-
serve. fund and the dividend was no
doubt made UP with funds taken from
this part of the finances
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ARRIVED.

Saturday. Oct. 1.
stnr. Likelfke, Naopala, from Lanai.
Maui and Molokai ports, at a. M, with
90 calves, 20 head cattle, 121 pkgs. SUM-
dries.
stnnr. Kinau, Freeman. from Hilo and
way ports, at 10 a. M, with 153 pkgs.
sundries, Al kegs.
strnr. ]. A Cummins, Searle, from
Koolau ports, at noon.
T. K. s. S. America Maru, Going,
from the Orient, at 1890 p. m.
stmr. Niihau. w. Thompson. from
Kauai ports, 1880 p. m,
DUE TO-DAY.
stnr. Claudine. Parker. from Maui
and Hawaii ports, due early in morn
ing.
stmr. W. C. Hall, S. Thompson, from
kauai ports, due early in morning.
SAIL TO-DAY.
t. X. S. S. America Maru, Going. for
SAN Francisco, at 5 p. m.
HII.O.
Arrived, September 2s.-Ann. bark Al
bert, Turner, % days from Port Gam
BILE. a
Arrived. September so.-s. s. Argyll.
Gilboy, from San Francisco.
PASSENGERS.
Arrived.
From the Orient for San Francisco,
per S. s. America Maru, Oct. Cap
thin r. MEG. Duncanson, DR.. James
Roane. Mrs James Roane, Captain w.
Kidston, Mrs. Kidston. Miss Vera Kid
ston.
From Lanai, Maui and Molokai ports.
per stmr. Likelike, Oct. III. L. Hans
man, Albert A. Meyer, Henry Meyer,
S. N. Lukua, w. A. Clark, Capt. T. K
Clark, G. w. Carr.
From Hilo and way ports, per stmr.
Kinau, Oct 1.-CoL ]. Mcclellan, Col.
c. P. Iaukea, j. Manase. Mrs. NJ Ha-
nuna. Miss j. Hanuna, Miss ]. Moniz,
z. C. Brown. r. Cation, Kimo Pake, A.
]. Splitter, E. r. Mabie, Mrs. z. G.
Hitchcock. Miss z. Bohrenberg. j. a.
Smith, Mrs. L. Pickard, A. Anderson
X. P. Fennel. Miss r. Akana, Mrs J.
Pike, John Hind, Mrs. Henry Bell, T.
FREEMAN, A. W. Carter. j. r. Bergstrom
r. r. Greenwen, A. F. Lindo. F. J. Lin
derman, A. F. Tavares. c. Dudoit and
wife.