Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-09-30
WaiolOlOa, The Wonder of Hawaii.

robbed the myth of its poetry and fable Of its charm
when the sylvan dell the habitat and the oracle
the voice of divinity, when mystic characters con.
ceaed priestly lore and shepherd kings read their
destiny in the stars pfophesying of coming joys
golden times, and happy days of peace, when bar.
barrie hospitality made captive the wandering paa
din, and the allurements of beauty made him the
plant thrall of love- then the renewal of youth was
requisite to exhaust the slowly recurring events of
life to enable the adventurer to visit the limits of
the then known world The thunder cloud was
then the fortress of the gods. and the dolphin of
the deep the volunteer life-boat that rescued luck
less victims of piracy and shipwreck from untimey
death. Jason, who wasted his life in recovering
the golden fleece was given back his youth by the
enchantress Medea Youth has ever been attrac-
tive, and, when united with beauty irresistible.
The gods looked upon the daughters of men and
saw that they were fair and even Jove tempted
and truant to Hera, and in the guise of cygnet to
prove the power of love wooed Leda, from god to
goose face descenscus. There is no instance
of time in its flight turning back to make woman
girl again. She breaks many hearts when guile.
less that the wisdom of the serpent's concrete ex.
perience is never united with the innocence of the
dove; but man could by mertorious deeds propitate
the gods and be renewed and live again to love and
be again nndone. In Palestine the Pool of Beth
esda when touched by an angel was endowed with
miraculous juvemscent potency, and severely tested
the patience of the devout and faithful One ancient
believer said that he waited and watched thirty
eight years but someone more agile always antci-
pated his plunge and received the boon of youth
and health with which the water endowed by
the heavenly visitant in his like angels visits few
and far between"
The fountain in which Salamis bathed not only
eliminated all defects and reflected from its crystal
surface perfect beauty, but at the command of the
invisible presiding genii changed the of truant
and aberrant mortals.
We not informed by tradition of the dimen
sons of the pool or whether it was whilom place
of great resort, but what spot of concourse it
would now be.
In that age woman was happy, the chains which
she were golden. She revered her lord and
never aspired to rivalry in the Olympic games in
the forum or in There must be something
nober in the manhood which achieved heroic tr.
umphs than that developed by the stock exchange
and the worship OF mammon else the enfran.
chsement and progressive advancement of the beau
sex hiss been productive of discomfort and almost
universal desire Z" to the kirte AK and have a
smashing and martial outside as many mannsh
towards have"
And now the shores of Lake Superior would not
suffice for the thronging multitude that would aban.
don skirts and throw away the beloved big
sleeves to secure the desderatum Of sexual change,
to grow beard and be endowed with other outward
and visible signs of manhood.
Our creduty is taxed to the utmost by the
numerous recitals in ancient history of TRANSFORMED
tons from old age to youth by magic, by metaphy
steal aid and junvescent fountains. Yet mystery
has ever had its charm in way or another for
every grade of barbarism to civilization. The world
does not disclose all of its secrets at once. Science
unravels mysteries slowly and the pages of nature
like the Sybine books, only be interpreted by
the magi, the mysteries of far off lands be learned
from those whose wanderings have brought them
in contact with the occult physical forces of nature.
Without truth there can be no fiction, without