The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-29
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Women , and , ObGIS

character and ignorant in styl, their
sensual descriptions provide them a
popularity
What one living American woman
would you place at the head of an
American women as representative Of
a career of actual signal achievement
asks the Ladies Home Journal Then
what five other women. by the same
measurement, would you name next
making "a round half-dozen of the liy-
ing American women who have done
most for Womankiud2
Lists of this sort are invariably uu-
satisfactory Still 90 is always aurac.
tive Co compile one. Bearing well iu
mind, therefore. the basis on which
we are asked to make "a selection.
namely "a career of actual signal
achievement" we should unhositaung-
ly select for the one living American
woman apart from aIl others Miss
Jane Adams as the foremost living
woman in America today known tO us
as having accomplished most for WO-
mankind. and. for that matter. for hue
mankind
AS to the other five women we are
asked TO select. there VIII De. of ueccs-
sity a wider difference of opinion. n
is significant however. when one tries
TO compile such a list as this upon the
broad basis of actual achievement. that
the choice becomes narrowed to "a very
few, and that we must include. even
in list of six. one woman OF foreign
b birth. Mrs Booth. But her work has
been go splendidly and exclusively AM
ericau that we choose. for the moment,
TO forget the accident Of her birth:
]. Jane adams, for practical re-
form
3 Helen Keller. as an example Of
overcoming almost insurmOuntabie oh
stacles;
3. Helen Miller Gould, for philan-
thrOpy;
4. Maud Ballington Booth, for up
p lifting the fallen;
5. Julia Ward Howe, for the foster
ing Of PATRIOTISM
6. Frances Folsom Cleveland, for
the embodiment Of American wifehoOd
and motherhood.
Others there are, worthy women
with careers Of actual signal achieve
ment." But six we are asked for, and
r six it is!
. Is it impossible for women TO finisl
- their toillettes except I'm public an
before the eyes of men? Go into an
public gathering of women, and tn
vulgar practice of making a dressing
D room of a public auditorium immedi
ately starts in. One woman's hand
= invariably go to her hair, and eithe
e she extracts a side-comb and begins
comb some stray locks, or she real
: ranges her hairpins. Another starts t
4, fasten her placket: a third twists he
- arm to the back Of her waist and be
gins to fasten a recreant button. Tn
u hook at the back Of a collar is the goa
Of another: the back Of q belt is tn
+ point Of attack of her sister. And s
it goes, while men invariably sit
and wOnderingly ask: Why don't thes
IN women finish their dressing befOI
of they appear in public? 1t is not yer
s., eleyating, this habit to which wOme
=. are all too prone: this constant cal
, ing Of public attention to the myster
i of how "a woman is put together -
Is Ladies' Home Journal.
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Of That the American woman is col
10 tent to let politics and business alon
= is probably the result of the luXurioI
confidence in which she is steepe
e that she can always count on the Oh
~ valry and protection Of the lawmal
ne ers of America-a luxurious confidenC
he which is extremely becoming to h
Id personal appearance, and which pr
D. vents ones meeting in America,
IL least among the well-to-dO classes,
IN many of the harassed, furrOw-lined, II
- tense faces that one does among II
Ce women of Great Britain-while in jul
ID tice to the men of the United STATE
rs one must cOncede that, so far, wome
r. have had no reason to regret the COZ
hit fidence they have placed in them, Will
sk sincerity compels one to confess TN
% a certain doubt transcends when OF
=. for a moment contemplates what Il
- position of women in England won
SI be if they did not now and then mai
a dash for liberty.
The women of America will tell yC
ny that the reason they do not help the
he husbands and brothers in their DOlit
40 cal careers is because politics are Il
;, rotten, too corrupt, while the idea
4L assisting in their publication does n
70 seem to have occurred to them; ar
d. the men will tell you, even in the pre-
Is. ent day, that a woman who mixes
a politics is a lobbyist" which Is Ia
It. tamount to being an adventures viii
r they look in with amused toleran
ID and treat with mock Difference q
"a clubs OF women and that newly add
~ horror to the world, the club woma
We London Mail.
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as Among the really useful trinke
of may be counted the flexible met
I'M support for collars The newest
n these are shown set with diamonds
ur sapphires,
3D. In this form they make a decided
he satisfactory substitute for other mat
zee rails.
I'd, There is nothing more becoming