The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-16
Letters From
the People

Editor Advertiser Gilmore s
paper read before the College Club
marks departure from the routine,
conventional advice usually given
young women.
| just how this insistenee Mr.. Gilmore
| suggests would work out is problem
| the solution of which can be known
| only by experiment. However, this is
| an experimental age.
If there were more men than women
| and all united together in their demands
for higher ideals among men, the solu-
ton would not long be doubtful. The
men would meet these demands; and all
our social problems would be solved.
But there are more women than men,
If superior women refuse marriage, ex-
cept upon their own terms, would not
the majority of men accept inferior
womens And would not this tend to
swift degeneration of the race?
There are men who would not mate
with inferior women under any condi-
lions; and the same is true of many
women. But the fact is self-evident to
all that superior women have compro-
missed and accepted men morally I'M.
worthy of them.
however, whether men like it or not;
whether they will meet the new de-
! mands or not, the gauntlet has been
thrown by superior women. Only flu
ture generations will know the results.
Mr.. Gilmore has set an example that
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For ages men have held up one set Of
ideals for women and quite another
set for themselves. Now it begins to
look as though the best men feel this
injustice and will unite with the best
women in demanding the same stand
ard for all. | for one am sufficiently
interested in this matter to wish them
success.
Several years ago there appeared in
the Popular Science Monthly an article
on Race Suicide. The author claimed
that the tendency to late marriage or
to no marriage at all of superior
women was due to the higher educa-
ton of women. | Immediately wrote
the following in reply. 1t has been
lying IN my desk ever since, waiting
the psychieal moment to be offered to
the public. | hope that moment has
come:
Il say that much of this tendency
IS due to the under training or to the
wrong training of men.
There are many educated, refined
women who would give all else for
home and children. But they do not
marry. They are not waiting for men
who could offer them luxurious homes.
But they do not marry. They are even
wiling to assist, if necessary, in the
support of home. But they do not
marry. They may have had several
offers of marriage, Yet they do not
marry They may be approaching that
period of life when they must abandon
all hope of becoming mothers and they
wish to perpetuate their characteris-
ties. And yet they do not marry.
"Why?
Because they have ideals as to what
their husbands should be-ideals of
manhood, ideals of physical, mental
and moral qualities they wish men to
possess who would be the fathers of
their children. The men who have of
tered these women marriage do not
come up to the standard; so they do
not marry. They prefer not being
mothers to bringing into existence chill
dren with tainted blood or who might
be weak mentally or morally. And they
are right. They are sacrificing them
selves and their hope of perpetuating
their fine qualities for the sake of set
ting up an ideal for future fathers.
Let the young men qualify them
selves, physically, mentally and moral
y for fatherhood; and they will find
these women ready to marry and make
IDEAL homes. Such men will not be
asked the amount of their income. nor
tor unnecessary Injuries. Such women
nave other ideals than Injuries. -
U. THOMPSON.
June Is, 1909.