The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-18

president of the United States and the
octogcnarian farmer entertained me until
IL o'clock at night, telling me what great
things he saw In his son 5 house at Wash
ingtun, and what Daniel Webster said to
him, and how grandly Millard treated his
father In the White House. The old mnn's :
face was illumined with the story until
almost the midnight. He had Just been
visiting his son at the capital. And | sup
pose 1t was something Of the same joy that
thrilled the heart Of the old shepherd as he
stood in the palace Of the prime minister
1t Is "a gcat day with you when your old
parents come to visit YOU Your little
children stand around with great wide
open eyes, wondering how anybody could
bo 50 old. The parents cannot stay many
days, for they are little restless, and cs
pccially at nightfall, because they sleep
better in their own bed, but while they
tarry You somehow feel there Is bencdic.
ton In every room in the house They are
a little feeble, aud you make Il as easy as
you can for them, and you realize they
viii probably not visit you very often
perhaps never again. You 20 to their
room after they have retired at night to
see If the lights arc properly put out for
the old people understood candle and lamp
better than the modern apparatus for IL
Elimination. In The morning with real in
torest in their health, you ask them how
they rested last night
The Aged Parents.
Joseph, In the historical scene of the
text. did not think any more of his father
than you du oI your parents. The prob
ability is, before they leave your house
they half spoil your children with kind
ness. Grandfather and grandmother are
more lcnicnt and indulgent to your chill.
dren than they ever were with you. And
what wonders of revelation In the BON
bazino pocket of the one and the sleeve of
the utherl Blessed is that home where
Christian parents como to visit! Whatever
may have been the style of the architecture
when they came, IL is n palace before they
leave. II they visit you 30 times, the tive
most memorable visits will be the first and
the last. Those two pictures will hang in
the hall Of your memory while memory
lasts, and you will remember just how
they looked, and whore they sat, and what
they said and at what figure of the carpet,
and at what doorsill they parted with you,
giving you the final goodby. Do not bc
II your father come TO town
and he have the manners of the shepherd
and if your mother come to town and thcrt
be in her hat no sign of costly millinery
The wife Of the Emperor Thoodosius said
a wise thing when she said Husbands,
remember what you lately were, and W
member what you are, and be thankful. -
BY this time you all notice what kindly
provision Joseph made for his father, ia
cob. Joseph did not say: Il can't have tn,
old man around this place. How clumsy
hp Nys.ttIl 1,nt- a.
stairs, and walking over these mosaics
Then he would be putting his hands upon
some NJ these frcscocs. People would won
der where that old grccnhorn came from
He would shock all the Egyptian court
with his manners at table. Besides that
he might get sick on my hands, and h,
might be qucrulous, and he might talk t.
me rs though | We're only boy, when
am the second man in all the realm OF
course lie must not suffer, and If there is
famine in his Cuuntry-and hear there Is
i will send him some provisions, but ]
can { take II man from Padanaram and in
troduce him into this polite Egyptian
court. What IA nuisance it is to have poor
rclationsl
Joseph did not say that but he rushed
out to meet lis father with perfect aban
don of affection and brought him up t.
tho palncc and introduced him to the en-
pcror and provided for all the rest of the
fathers days and nothing was too good
for the old man while living. And when
he was dead, Joseph with military escort,
took his fathers remains to the family
Would God all children were as
kind To their parcntsl
A Plea For Filial Affection.
If the father have largo property, and he
be wise enough to keep it in his own name,
he will be respected by the heirs, but how
often 1t Is when the son finds his father in
famine, as Joseph found Jacob In famine,
the young people make it very hard for the
old man! They are SO surprised he eats
with knife instead of fork They arr
at his antcdiluvian habits They
are provoked because he cannot hear rs
well as he used to, and when he asks II
over again. and the son has to repeat II,
he bawls in the old mans ear, Il hope
you hear thatr' How long he must wear
the old coat or the old hat before tl>cy -
him new one How chagrincd they arr
at his independence of the English gram.
mari How long he hangs ont Seventy
years and not gone yeti Seventy five
years and not gone yeti Eighty years and
not gone yet VIII he ever goS They
think it of no use to have doctor in his
last sickness, and go up to the drug store,
ard get dose of something that makes
him worse, and cconomize ON a coffin, and
beat the undertaken down to the last point,
giving note for the reduced amount.
whicn they never pay. l have ofliciated at
Dbsequies OF aged people where the family
have been SO inordlnately resigned to
Providence that felt like taking my text
from Proverbs, The eye that moclseth at
Its father and refuseth to obey its mother,
the ravens of the valley shall pick IL out,
and the young eagles shall eat it," In
other words, such an migrate ought 20
have flock of crows for pallbearersl
you II you have the honor of
providing for aged parents. The blessing
of the Lord God Of Joseph and Jacob will
be on you.
rejoice 10 remember that, though my
father lived In plain house the most Of
his days, he died In a mansion provided by
the fllial piety of n son who had achieved
u fortune There the octogenarian sat, and
the servants waited on him, and there
were plenty of horses and plenty Of car.
riagcs to convey him, and bower in
which to sit ON long summer afternoons,
dreaming over the past, and there was not
and there were musical instru-
'nents Of all sorts to regale him, and when
life had passed the neighbors came oGt
and eXprcsscd all honor possible and car.
ricd him TO the village Machpelah and
put him down beside the Rachel with
whom he had lived more than half a oan-
tury. Share your successes with the old
people, The probability is that the prin-
ciDlpS they inCulcatpd achieved vour fnr.
tune Give them Christian percentage
II kindly consideration. Let Joseph di
vide with Jacob the pasture fields Of Goshen
and the glories of the Egyptian court
A Good Word For Unmarried Women.
And here would like 10 sing the praises
of the sisterhood who remain unmarried
that they might administer To aged par
ents. The brutal world calls these self sac
rifloing ONES peculiar or angular, but II
you had had rs many annoyanoes as they
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