Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-20
GIRLS MUST Be
CHILLED STEEL
IN THEIR LIVES
Life lust One Banana Peel
Hidden Away for Them
TO Step On
BY FRANCIS WAYNE

The modern girl, who is decent
.nl Wants 10 go straight taese days.
aust be 80 per cent chilled steel TO
titistand the shares and temptations
Il tor her undoing
T his view was expressed by Miss
louise Sterns OF Milwaukee, Wis.
Fad Of the national travelling library
commission. vice president of the Mil
Aaukee City Club. former vice presi-
dent OF the General Federation of Wo-
mems clubs. who is In Denver to
speak before the librarians today and
before the Women's Club tomorrow:
or all the peppy notables arriving
an Denver. with a kit Of ideas, with
which to regale the public. Miss
Stearns is the peppiest, the widest
awake, the most practical, the easiest
TO interview, Her sentiments are on
hair trigger.
Banana Peels Hidden
in Modern Literature
Witness the following:
Fer the modern girl every agency
Of life seems to be a disguised bana-
na peel. The young girls OF this
country never before lived In such a
period Life Is wide open to her and
she must Re the most tactful OF moth
ers who brings her daughter safely to
port. When the girl of today is ready
20 leave Louise Alcott what does she
lind awaiting her? Elinor Glyn, Rob-
cit Chambers, the unspeakas.e Cosmo.
politan or Eddy Brooks equally un-
speakable and inane Ladies' Home
Journal.
The purpose Of the Women's clubs
Of America should be to put these
journals cut CT business in the inter.
est of the safety of their girls, and
protest! PROTEST. : Protest!
mother thing the women's clubs
aaust turn their attention to is the
emQtioni picture.
What We need today Is more Of
he o-d4aShionad mother in the home
and tae oid'fashioRod girl sitting with
der
omen's cubs were the first agen-
- to give old age les walking orders.
There are no old women today;
not even old maids. ssss.,. -
Mothers Not Cheated
BY Failure to Wed
Unmarried women who have re-
fused to marry for home or to in-
sure support are not going to be
cheated out Of the joys of mother
hood because they haven't acquired q
husband. They are becoming moth
ers by way of the adoption route and
making the best sort of mothers at
that. Women are no longer left over
in the refrigerator of life.
The reason men refuse to marry
in so many instances is because ho-
tells and clubs make life so easy for
them; high prices make marriage so
uncertain and the extravaganza or
girls makes it too scarey.
One splendid thing have noted In
my travels" added Miss Stearns, rs
that the balance of political power has
passed from the so-calIed educated
LAST to the able and alert West, West
ern women hold the key to the situa-
ton in decency of government; they
have shown themselves deaf to scan
dal and independent OF parties and
party bosses. Hereafter the East
must look to the West for ideas and
ideals--and for candidates"
These things and many more Miss
Stearns said as she sat in the living
room of Mrs. Henry B. TelIer,s home.
II the women of the city really want
70 hear something worth while they
will go to the Woman's Club tomor-
row afternoon and listen while Louise
Stes rms tells of the Passing Of the
Bonnet