Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-09-23
ANNALS OF FMAKAPALABY THEsEA.
(XXIA.)
MRS. PHILIP FooK SING.
By ANNE MARIE PRESCOTT.
(COncLuded.)

Esau's land he took a present in
his hand. When Israel (Jacob)
decided to send his sons down in
to Egypt to buy corn, "for the ia
mine was sore in the land" he
said unto them: "Take of the best
fruits in the land in your vessels,
and carry down the man a present,
a little balm, and little honey,
spices and myrrh, nuts and al
monds." When the queen of
Sheba came to prove King Sol.
mon with hard questions she gave
to him "spices, and gold in abun.
dance, and precious stones.
Neither was there any such spice
a. the queen of Sheba gave King
Solomon" And lastly: When
the wise men came from the east
10 Jerusalem to find the king of
the Jews" they presented unto
him gifts; gold and frankircense
and myrrh. From all time and
among all peoples, barbarian and
Greek, Jew and gentle, heather
and Christian, this has been, and
is today, the fashion: Take
little present in thine hand" Call
it peace offering, call ita win-love,
call it what you please you can
not name it selfishness. 1t is an
instinct beyond our ken that
prompts tit is perhaps a little
spark of the Divine within us--a
deep theology handed down by
our forefathers. The Chinaman
understands its mystic meaning
none better. He brings his little
son to me and in one hand he
carries the lichee and in the other
a bottle of sweet wine. He tells
little Luke" to give them to me;
and be puts them down on the
step with the pleased bashfulness
of child.
We may not care for the lichee,
we were not brought up on them;
We may care as little for the wine,
it may make our head ache: but
we do care over and over again
for the love, the good-fellowship,
the entire unsel6shness which
prompted the giving.
And all this recalls a little
French story! A certain noble
man had a very lovely wife, as
sweet as new mown hay and good
as good woman can be; the heart
of her husband fully trusted in
her. The story goes that one day
Il gentleman sent to this lady by
his valet a nosegay of very costly
flowers just then propagated in
France. Likely you may know
how scientific the French are in
that respect as we'll as skilful in
making artificial ones. You can
read good deal of their work,
and of their success in gardening
of all sorts by perusing thenovels of
Hector Malot His books are mar
vels of beauty. mon Famille" is
one very fine one.
She showed the flowers at once
to her husband. Did he send
challenge? Not at all. He had
heap of uncommon sense and
why should he wish to fight and
perchance forfeit his life, and
make a widow of his wife. He
took no chances. He knew that
all the world could see that his
wife's face was more beautiful
than any flower ever propagated,
and that she was in no wise to
blame for that; and it was no fault
of hers that this was so. He sim
py ordered his head gardener,
the next morning, to fill his wife's
balcony with that same flower,
and created a small famine among
the florists of the precious bud.
Checkm tie! Mind over matter.
Happy. ha-ha!
A few papers back and we told
you all of the great wedding here
at "St. Paul's "-of philip and
On Lam We have received since
that most notable event in. Maka-
pala life several letters from Mrs.
Philip Fook Sing for On Ian is
very eager to keep on with Eng
lish and she is, taking her all
round, a very clever girl. Their
home, their work, their living, is
in one of the gulches. These
gulches are not narrow detiles nor
clefts between mountains, exactly.
They are wide ravines and there
is plenty of running water from
the mountains. On looking down
into one of them from the kings