The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06

cares of the household, while women
who think and who have ceased to be
resigned want their sex to profit by
all the rights that men enjoy.
CAS- a modern writer has pointed !
out, held apart from magnificent real |
tiles, so beautiful in their ugliness,
kept perpetually in a state of moral |
dependence worse than physical slav-
cry, leaving the control of the mother
only to come under the guardianship |
of the husband, brought up merely
with a view to marriage, transformed
suddenly from child to wife and moth
err, nurtured in prejudices which OPP
pose the development of individual
ity sacrificed in advance-women de-
velop normally only when they find
a being like the ideal they have elab-
orately put together in their obscure
consciences. And as convention does
not permit them to seek this ideal,
which for that matter is vague enough
and made up from novels, as fate en-
lightens them usually too late for them
to destroy economy of an existence
accepted through timidity or ignor-
ance or despair, bowed moreover, un-
der the control of society, they re-
main for the most part children re-
signed to their lot or creatures in re-
volt seeking misunder-
stools, in fact of all sorts.
Throughout the centuries men have
been denying the finest qualities of
women, which are boldness and pres
ence of mind, and most women have
come to the point of convincing them
selves that these qualities are not
feminine and are not even faults"
The Princess is of the opinion that
it is owing to the fact that women once
exercised the right to choose their
mates as they wished that men evolv-
ed to their present development
"In remote times" she says, "in
many primitive races the males were
chosen by the females, according to
their skill, their physical strength,
and their natural beauty. This selec-
ton brought about a fine evolution of
! he male among most races, and the
result was the production of the ideal
| .ype the woman had imagined to her
| self-Qf course vaguely and almost un-
| consciously.
But when women became the prop
erty of men, the slave destined to
work for the male, the development
Of the race ceased from the day the
healthful influence of the women's
,hoice was no longer free.
In 4 new society which, while main
tanning a moral education shall yet
give women complete liberty, the at.
traction of afinities will be victorious
and the power of a woman's ideal will
prepare the coming of new and Wig
orous races"
The essayist is most emphatic or
questions concerning women. for these
have come closest to her and have re
ceived her most earnest thought, bu
she has not confined herself merel!
to consideration of matters of tn
relation of the sex. For instance, sh
has warm plea for the equal educa
ton of all classes.
She thinks that ,-e equalization O
the classes is well under way, for nc
only have those beneath built ladder
to enter the domain that used to seer
the exclusive right Of the upper clasi
d es, but these, too, have not hesitate
e to leave the heights where prejudice
S of rank retained them and have il
d yaded the field of trade and con
9 merce.'
l. AS to the development of housekee
ing Infanta Eulala has ideas quite
y line with the most advanced though
e Many people live, she says, in SLAYER
n to their servants and accept the
e exactions under penalty of social o
Il tracism if they do not have attendan
IL about them. She gives an entertai
e. ing account of an Englishwoman WI
went to bed with her clothes on b
IN cause the maid would not come al
H. unlock after a stated hour, and
Nv somewhat similar adventures in Go
re many, America and France.
The observation of the lnfanta
he this state of affairs is not the co
ar monplace railing at the evil days tn
in have befallen housekeepers. 5
81, thinks that the old order has defini
or " passed and suggests cooperation
ce, a remedy for our ills. She would ha
"; service performed by the hour, a
he done by specialists who do not sic
in in the house, who have, in short
art the liberty they want and attend
their employers affairs when
ity where It may be arranged.
cen A last mention should be made
by a little essay on prejudice. Preiud
i've are things for which the Infanta e
liza can see no reason whatever. !
rye preiudice that keeps women from