The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-03-06
-sUBURB OF THE LIFE ELYs1AN."

Princess Kaiulani is dead. A bright
young life has been cut off e'er it fair
ly began to blossom. There can be no
one on the Islands who will not spare
a tear or a sigh for one whose lot in
life seemed to promise so brilliant a
future at one time, but around whom,
through adverse fate, the clouds had
rolled, glooming the PROJECTS and
blighting the promise. The history Of
royal families, it is true, presents many
melancholy incidents, where the inno-
cent have had to bear the cross which
their ancestors have framed, so that
the case of the deceased princess is
not unique, but it is sad, sadder now in
the isolation of Hawaiian royalty.
At her birth there was much prom
Use for her. 1t was in the early days
of Kalakaua's reign, and it seemed as
if the monarchy was firmly establish
ed. Kaiulani was the daughter of the
kings favorite sister, and the present
ex-queen had no children, the path to
the throne seemed a smooth and easy
one. For this position Kaiulani was
in a great measure educated and when
Liliuokalani became queen she was
proclaimed her heir Within a short
space of time, the throne had been lost,
and with it any hope of the future that
had been planned.
But it is no so much this side of the
life that strikes one, not the show and
glitter of the brilliant career. 1t is the
young girl personally, the bright, intel
ligent, high strung maiden, budding in
to womanhood, almost at the age which
is described as
standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!'
The effect of the glittering prospects
on the child mind the effect of their
loss upon the budding womanhood,
must have had a deep effect upon the
character. That their loss was born
sweetly and with dignity spoke vol
umes for the character of the youthful
princess. She will ever be enshrined in
the history of Hawaii as a pathetic
figure, one whose untimely fate the
sternest republican in theory may shed
a tear of sympathy. For it is human
ity that speaks to the heart, and the
most iron will and callous brain yields
its tribute when the heart is touched.
During her residence on the Islands
since her return from her residence
abroad, Kaiuani endeared herself to a
large circle of intimate friends, won the
love of her country men and women by
her kindness and affability, and
claimed the respect of all by the dig
nifty and self command with which she
bore the reverses of her fortune.
She has gone-gone to that unknown
to which we all must go, and which
we all regard with hope, that blessed
gift conferred upon mankind by the
all seeing wisdom. Without hope, life
would be despair and death a blank
horror. When stricken we must bow
the head in meekness. Why the blow
is stricken which cuts off the youthful
when just stepping into the gay gar
den of life, or the strong, when in the
midst of the busiest of affairs, when
the very handspring of many lives and
fortunes seems to be suddenly snapped
in twain, and spares the weakly and
the aged, we know not. All we do
know is that there is a higher and be-
nificent power which guides our lives,
and to whose will the haughtiest and
the lowliest must bow in reverence.
To those who remain, to her friends
and her heartbroken father, is left the
healing balm of remembrance. When
the first deep grief is DER, memories of
the kindly traits and the winning ways
will well up in the minds of the mourn
ers, and though
1.-The air is full of farewells of the dy-
ing,
And MORNINGS for the dead"
yet will come the living actually of
the young life so swiftly sped, and they
can in mentality realize that
when she had passed, it seemed like
the ceasing of exquisite music"