Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-10-10

hllauea. suppose III is Su1nClcnt
praise to say that the beholder without
reference to his own knowledge of
artistic detail, finds himself at once
impressed with deep sense of reality,
while hours of study only adds to this
impression. The grandeur and SUBJ
Unity Of this representation of the
most wonderful of earth's mysterious
fires gradually take possession of the
whole being and sense Of awe, as
though in the actual presence of the
weird, unearthly lights, falls like the
hush Of night upon the spirit
Socially, everything moves in the
usual routine, with laughter and tears
ever near together; with marriages and
deaths in high and low life, JOY and
sorrow, shoulder to shoulder, brightness
and mirth and smiling lips without and
too often hearts full of bitterness
within.
The usual course of Startling events
has been varied by an event altogether
dreadful which may become a tragedy.
J refer to the frightful case of vitrio
throwing in which Mr. Martin Fuller
loan teller of the San Francisco Savings
Union, was the victim. Surely pun
ishment worse than death for any
wrong doing 1t is natural for hu-
manity. except in state of barbarism,
ITO syTmparnfze With woman when
deeply wronged, but when woman
stoops to so foul and unwomanly a re-
venge there is limit even to natural
sympathy. But what can be expected
when our school boys and girls are
daily seen devouring greedily all kinds
of light and pernicious reading matter
and young ladies too often degenerate
into that most useless of all human
beings an unsuitable novel readerl" 1t
is wonder when mind and soul are
starved on such food that such dread
full crimes are not more frequent
Besides our "highly original weather
there is another thing for which we of
San Francisco are noted, namely, when
any new craze strikes us, we are COM
pletely overwhelmed by it. Is it any
new shade in dress goods and ribbons
the eye is sooneither dazzled or COM
pletely wearied by it. Is it picture
or piece of statuary witness the
same results. For the past two years
we have been deluged with copies of
"The Diver" both possible and i'm
possible, and in every conceivable kind
of material. The distortions that
the poor girl has gone through
with should call forth our deep
est pity. And now that she
is beginning to sink into obscurity, it is
dogsi The first whisper of their
fashionable advent was waited from the
classic shores of the Atlantic two or
three years ago. Then followed dog
shows here, and now all our ''too utter"
class,seem to be giving themselves over
body and soul to dogs. 1t was bad
enough to have the heas alone, but
when one thinks of the results of the
happy combination OF innumerable
dogs and fleas, the look out is simply
appalling
We have still among US steady old
fashioned class who take pride and
pleasure in children, but among those
who wish to be in the fashion, or to APP
pear to be Somebody" there is no
doubt but that chilren are out of style,
and are given over to the nursemaid,
while dogs Of every degree of ugliness
are displayed in public on all possible
occasions. The ultra fashionable
woman does not care to emulate the
virtues of the "Mother of the Grachii,"
and her fashionable brother seems to
be much of the same mind, as he is
often seen carrying shvering little
animal in his bosom, while the first
thing couple who wish to be "some-
body" do, is to 60 for promenade,
leading a crazy little dog by ''silken
cord" OF course, this does not apply
to those whose love of pets is genuine,
but only to that class who will persist
in giving us dogs ''in season and out of
season" and because they fondly i'm
agine they are doing stylish thing.
In view of the pinched and little suffer
ing faces often seen in the poorer parts
of town, one cannot look with much
favor upon tampered dogs, though it
is question whether any of the little
ones for whom kindness and care
would do so much, would be any better
off in the hands of those who cult
vated dogs for the style of the thing.
There are few things more beautiful
than the honest love of children, for
pets, or the love and pride of parents
for and in their children, but it only
renders the more despicable by con
trast, the false and selfish pretense of
something good and genuine of class
who are incapable of a deep apprecia-
ton of either human beings or the
lower animals.
Without further remark Isshall say
for the present An re00v.
GINEvRA
San Francisco, Sept. aS, 1885.