The herald., 1896-05-31
WAIOL0LOA, THE WONDER OF HAWAII
BY j. M. DAVIDSON


In the olden times before prosy science
had robbed the myth of'its poetry, and
fable of it's charm, when the sylvan dell
was the habitat and the oracle the voice
of Divinity, when mystic characters con-
cealed priestly lore. and shepard kings
read their destiny in the stars, and
prophesied of lucky joys, golden tunics,
and happy days of peace, when bar
barrie hospitality made captive the Wan-
dering paladin, ana the allurements OF
beauty made him the plant thrall OF
love, then the renewal of youth was
requisite to exhaust the slowly recur-
ring events Of life, to enable the ad-
venturer to visit the confined limits of
the then known world. The thunder
cloud was then the fortress OF the gods,
and the dolphin of the deep, the vol
unteer lifeboat, that rescued luckless
victims of piracy and shipWreck from
untimely death; Jason, who wasted his
life in recovering the golden fleece, was
given back his youth by the enchant-
ress Medea. Youth has ever been attract
i've and when united with beauty ire
sistible. 1.-THE gods looked upon the
daughters of men and saw that they
Were fair" and even Jove was tempted
and truant to Hera, and in the guiSe of
a cygnet. to prove the power of love,
wooed Leda; from a god to goose ''facile
decenSuS" There is no instance of time
turning back on its fight to make wom-
an a girl again. She breaks SO many
hearts when guileless that the wisdom
of the serpent, concrete experience
is never united with the innocence of the
dove. But man could, by meritorious
deeds, propitiate the gods, and be re-
neWed, and live again to love to be a
again undone. In Palestine the Pool of
Bethesda, when touched by an angel,
was endowed with miraculous juvenes-
cent potency, but severely tested the pa
finnca nf 4 foit f,11 no.@
ancient believer said he watched thirty
eight years but some one more agile al
ways anticipated his plunge, and receiv-
ed the boon of youth. and health, with
which the water was endowed by the
ETHEREAL visitant, and this may have sug-
sested the ideal, if not the language, now
in such general use for purposes of illus
tration, like angels visits, few and far
between"
The fountain in which Salamis bathed
not only eliminated all defects, and
reflected from it's crystal surface per-
feet beauty but at the command of the
invisible presiding genii changed the sex
OF truant and aberrant mortals.
We are not informed by tradition Of
the dimensions of the pool, or whether
1t was Wllilom place of great resort
but what a place of concourse it now
would be!
In tnat age woman was happy; the
cHdlhs Wnlcn she wore were golden; she
reVered her Lord, and never aspired to
rivalry in the Nemean or Olympic games.
IN the forum, or in war. There must
have been something nobler in the man
mood tnat achieved heroic triumphs.
than that developed by the stock ex-
change, and the worship of mammon;
Or else enfranchisementa and progressive
advancement of the beau sex has been
productive OF discomfort and almost uni
Versal desire ito wear the kirtle AK ana
have a swashing and martial outside.
as many mannish towards have"
And now the shores of Lake Superior
would not suffice for the thronging null
titude that would abandon skirts and
even throw away its beloved big sleeves
to secure the desideration of sexual
charge, grow beard and be endowed with
the other tokens and symbols of man
hood
Our credulity is taxed to the utmost
by the numerous recitals in ancient
history Of transformations from old age