The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1871-03-29

APPEARANCE AND REALrY.-Nothng is more
rare in the world OF man than to find the form
and the spirit in accordance and to meet with
souls not in mufti The typical poet or artist with
his rundown collar and longhar doated wildly
to the winds his eyes full of fire and frenzy see
ing things which ordinary morals do not see.
hearing music of the spheres to which our grosser
senses are closed, is pretty fable that every now
and then finds an exponent more or less exact to
the ideal; but in general our modern poets and
artists are very much the same in outward ap-
pearance as other folks, clean linen being no
longer unknown among them, while tailors and
BARRIERS have their will of them as of their less
gifted neighbors And if they, the typical poet
and artist, have abandoned their old habit of pro-
claiming themselves from the outside, 10 whom
else shall We look And indeed the fact is as
we have said people are very seldom what they
seem to be, or show what they are. As Nature
gives mimic forms to helpless creatures to conceal
them from their enemies-witness stick and leaf
insects, and the like-so the soul seems to save
itself from being preyed on by the disguise Of
false presentiment, and the precaution of going
about in multi. Sometimes the multi is more
beautiful than the soul-sometmes less so. but al
most always like the lapwing, which makes be-
lieye to have broken wing, and cries out in her
grievous hurt, that she may lead you away from
her nest human nature misleads the observer by |
showing signs-of what it Is not.
Do you see that bright-eyed and demonstrative
or woman very dasbing, ioyial,
mpulsive kind of persona person with small .
square teeth shown literally in a constant smile,
With bright eyes capable of flashing pleasantly,
With the frankest, blithest. most inconseoueDt
nanuer-altogether an artless, selEunconscious-
ooking person, whose heartis on his or her sleeve
or DAVIS to peck at if they come that way. You
,ive your trust to that person; you open your
'wn heart to that great hosptable heart of his or
lers you are free to his freedom, confidential to
Ter expanslveness you accept the private valua
ion she puts on herself and you take him at his
.wn figure, which is a high one You trust him
'ecaFse he says he is Trustworthy; and you let
Ter take possession Of you while you seem to be
eceiving her into your own being, so was once
eiore enacted in that old tale of the wooden
orse which entered Troy and you translate
our feelings into deeds, and do as you are bid.
nd follow as you are led. Who would not. with
UGH an artless and transparent guide Ny dear
reature, you were never more mistaken in your
ie That impulsiye, gushing manner affected by
our friends is the result of the calmest and cool
st calculation. Every trilI of that unctious voice
studied the value of each glance of those
canning eyes is known and understood: the
aekWard fling of the head the very attitude of
lie hands 10 that suggestive throw which seems
mean, Il give, all is a matter of the most
'nsummate art and the whole play means hook
g you, you are good for anything when hooked.
Mrs. L. Lynn Linton, IN London Society.