The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-27
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Observation-Disclosures

Have you ever taken the stage
ride from Pearl City to Waialua?
The train leaves you at Pearl City
and there, if l could have my way, the
brakemen should call out Manana-uka
it's real name. Perhaps you are the
only one to take the ride, so you are
soon climbing up the red road and
listening for meadow-larks. The road
rises and falls, and winds by gulch and
knoll till you mount securely the
calm stretch of table land f1anked on
either side by slopes with corrugating
valleys. Up, up you steadily proceed
till like the Greeks of old you cry,
THE sea, the sea,' as a blue line
stretches across from one spur of land
TO the other The exhilaration of the
mountains, the beautiful dipping TO
the sea, may do much to atone for
the iniquity of the blazing sun and
dusty road.
! When, however, the driver has given
all the information you can swallow;
when the first delicious taste of the
mountains is followed by steady diet,
turn to the horses for fresh medita-
lions.
The off-horse (for that's the proper
termD is the larger and more power
full. He is housekeeping and restless,
and wasteful of his energy in the
ceaseless tossing of his head, the need
less tension of his muscles and the I'M
necessary taxing of his sweat-glands
Evidently being a stage-horse is be-
meath his dignity, His mate, more
philosophic does his work more quiet
~ and easily, and more of it. He
wastes no strength in worry hurry or
display. The miles are to be travers-
ed-let them be well done. And so
they are. This difference is all in the
horses, for the driver loves his animals
and is equally considerate of both.
Now do you, my nervous friend, go
to the horses. Consider their ways
and be wise. Economic your energy.
Use none of it in warning against con-
ditions or in wasteful doing of your
work So shall you find satisfaction
in your laboring.
A word to brother Yale.
In reading your letter, l infer that
Gill lhtOlI GU III pei ms eii III
stitution founded by a man as mater
nal Now for centuries Alma Mater
has been a fit emblem of the fostering
influences of the university. You men
of Yale, therefore, must work a revo-
luton in classic terms. To be con-
sistent, the body polite of Yale will
vote sometime to style your college
the Almus Pater of its sweet boy
graduates. When that sweet by and
by becomes now, / will admit that
Mother Yale is a solecism, and not
Ia logical paraphrase of Alma Mater.
Meantime, when / see fit, l shall con-
tinue to say Mother Yale, and no dis
respect to the ashes of good st. Elihu,
eitheri
| Another word, Monsieur Yale:
| Speaking of inconsistencies, permit
me to point out one of your own, and
one delightfully."- feminine at that. You
doubt my authority, which you take
to be the newspapers of the United
States. Then later you refer me to
these very papers for information!
Yet l do not take you for a feminine
coed. No. The context reveals all
too plainly that you are lord and 70
lady. and you thank Heaven therefor.
AS a matter of fact, my authority is
unimpeachable. 1t could hardly be
more so if l were to come TO New
Haven and pose as a graduate coed.
My dense ignorance of matters Yalen-
sian is relieved at times by epistles
written by those who like yourself
will write Yale when they join the
University Club of Hawaii. My little
knowledge" gave me the charity to
hopa the "townies' were partly TO
blame. My regret is that they cannot
shoulder it all.
l understand the Yale 'co-eds" are
graduate students; as such they would
have little opportunity of tanning wild
freshmen and still wilder sophomores.
Juniors and gentlemen we suppose to
be synonymous, and seniors are pro-
verbally grave,-both classes needing
no softening. In passing let me assure
you that mine is no Sarah Grand in
tellect for l am partial to the Yale
blue,-a love-knot most inspiring when
it is bright as the hue of heaven.
SYRII.