Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-07
SAYS women
DO NOT Change
in ESSENTIALS

There are no old-fashioned women.
human nature does not change. Only
things like manners and modes and
hats and wraps are subject to style.
Miliiners can Danish the stringed bon
net and introduce yard-wide Gainsbor-
oughs: beluff and beruff a market
basket, and over night exalt 1t into
vogue; furniture makers, as the fancy
seizes them, can order bandy-legged
what-nots into exile, send gold freckled
cabinets into oblivion, and turn half
the homes Of the land into arts-and-
crafts studios.
Wonderful personages in Rue de La
PAX salons may, at the urge of
within, shift the trimming of a skirt
from hem to waistband, tighten
sleeves, discountenance fabrics which
but a day before were the furore, by
mere nod alter the status Of ostrich
feathers from a virtue to q crime and
cause the millinery world to blossom
with flowers that never were on land
or sea.
Real Women the Same.
But women, real women, are just
as they were from the beginning
II happens that this is q spectacular
agean era OF florid Journalism. We
editors have laundering for those
phases Of life which offer the best
opportunity for q story. We are prone
at times TO fairy tales and apt to paint
tirab, unfmportant little freakish peo-
pie in lurid inks.
Because this Is. century of meta
morphoses and economic transforma-
tons, Of high spices, speed and spec
tacle, we became jaded with the con-
slant glitter and glare and glimmer
and CLINT and glow, and memory turns
70 yesterday as spent wayfarer
pauses az q spring, and In the dear
recollection OF gentle women framed
BY the dead years. we are inspired to-
protest against D century which has
brought revolution in the relation OF
the sexes, opened forbidden avenues
Of activity encouraged competition In
fields ancientIg RESTRICTED to men, and
taught our daughters ard sisters to.
be self-reliaht. self-supporting and In
dependent
But even although we editorially
scold and wall and uphold the fiEtion
Of new type 81 being within our.
htartf We know that You are 81 fine
and III l4Ir and IS kind and as under
standing and as wholesome, that you
have as much to give In affection and
devotion and sacrifice as the women
Of any age.
whenever you achieve we are
proud, and wherever you find fame,
we find Joy, and all our outcry and
blum and buster Is merely to hide
our fear that perhaps in time you may
penetrate the hoary delusion of our
superiority and learn that the great
world OF action over whose mysteries
We have 30 long drawn the curtain. is
lust place where we labor half as
bard as you drudge ct home, and
where Our worries and trials and trib-
ulationE are only half as great as the
burdens which you have always en-
siured with calm and serene souls.
We dread that you will find us out
and, once combating our thicker wits
with your subtle intuitions, take com
inand OF the universe.
And so in vain we seek to hold the
gate; but, alackl the key is already in
your hands. School and college have
at last yielded to your entreaty; edu-
cation has brought with II knowledge,
and with knowledge has come the
equal opportunity.
You will 60 far, you win climb high.
you viii bring broader humanity, a
saner charity into practical affairs,
you viii abolish child slavery, and rec
ognize<a human being in the lowest
mental
Instinct Persists.
But you win be. none the less, sweet
heart and wife and mother. because
deeper than any ambition is high, the
instinct OF the mate will persist until