The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05

I reproduce the following good thing
from the Saturday Evening Post to
give it publicity. Writing in the
Post, Samuel G. Blythe says:
twenty-five years ago, the hotels
were for men. You rarely saw a wom-
an around hotel. She was expected
to come in, and go to her room, or,
after dinner in a resort hotel, to sit
decorously in the lobby for awhile. A
reception room for her was usually
on the second floor Now the hotels
are run for the women. Absolutely
for no other purpose Go into any big
hostelry, anywhere, and you will find
that the men have been crowded into
one small cafe-usually in the cellar
and all the restaurants, parlors, lob
bies, peacock alleys and other rooms
are monopoliZed by the women. The
hotel keepers cater almost exclusively
to the women. They fix up their bills
of fare for the women, serve tea for
them, give them the run of the place,
and father cuts no figure on any day
of the month except on the day the
bills are to be paid. Women predom-
mate; and father is filtering further
and further into the background.
which, | suppose, in order to avoid ar
guments, is the proper place for him.
These women are the women who pro-
duce nothing, do nothing; who have
no desire beyond the latest styles;
who have no ambition beyond being
seen and seeing in public; who crowd
hotels in cities, crowd restaurants and
theatres, crowd resorts,-there was
a hundred thousand of them at At
lantic City on Easter day,-and who,
thus, have come to be the economic
problem of the present time. Non
producers, they consume all that is
produced. Their demands are in
sistent and never ending. They are
directly responsible for the increased
cost of living; for most of them of this
class will do nothing to help their
producers, whether fathers or hus-
bands, either in the way of produc-
ton or in the economical use of what
is produced. The whole country is
now organized for the women; all the !
stores and about every line of human |
activity contribute almost solely to |
support the demands of this parasitic |
class-and those demands never cease.
Why they want to vote is beyond hui
man comprehension. They have every |
thing as it is without bothering about
politics."
That is pretty good contribution to |
current literature; in fact, the best I |
nave seen in months. Why is not
Samuel G. Blythe more prominent as
writer? l don't believe the News |
paper Boys like him; l seldom hear
OF him, except in The Post. Yet his
wonderful cleVerness cannot be dis |
puted, and the few lines I have quoted
from him would serve to found a Sc
ries OF Reform articles. There is real
Human Interest in what Mr.. Blythe |
says; no pleasant nonsense; it is
disagreeable and important truth. l !
believe we men are not very popular
with women; we have a reputation of
imposing on them. A few of us NAV
impose on a few women, but their
holder sisters are terribly avenged.
There are millions of men in this
country who are imposed on by wom-
en- in a manner that is pitiful. l ad-
mire Samuel G. Blythe so much, be.
cause of his bold protest, that l shall
send for his autograph.
(Note-My joke department this
month consists of the statement above
that l reprint the article from The
Post in order to give it publicity. They |.
say there is no real humor these days;
submit the above as pretty good.)