The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-31

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nOout the WoiOdunoou OF queen l'N'-
ria, has dominated the world, not her
Queenship. Her womanhood has been
akin to saintship but is true human
and therefore better Victoria and
womanhood win be Synonymous as
long as our language lasts.
Yesterday came the news of the death
Of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
ireland Empress Of India, and many
other titles Of honor and dignity. Be
fore the news reached us, in our central
Oceanic position it had been waited to
every end of the earth by the magic
wire, and flags had been put at half
mast and signs of respect had been
shown by every civilized government
on this globe. We show our official
respect as we have opportunity.
This respect and courtesy would have
been shown upon the demise of any
great ruler of any great nation, but
there is a higher, a grander respect,
which has been earned by the deceased
Queen. 1t is not the bare official cour-
tesy which meets the announcement Of
this death, it is the unanimous express
sion of sympathy and sorrow which is
shown for the departed woman.
1t is a grand thing to be able to lay
down ones life, tired and wearied with
the burdens which life brings,-for life
either to the monarch, or to the wharf
laborer is a time of trial and burden
it is a grand thing for any one but
more for a person who has been a
beacon light, to be able to say when
the last summons comes. II have
fought a good fight l have finished my
course, l have kept the faith" This
Queen Victoria on her death bed could
have repeated, and the words could be
echoed to the confines of the civilized
world
What do we look at in the woman
who has passed away? A feeble body
which had passed the three score years
and ten and yet had reached that period
of beyond when they are but labor
and sorrow" No Do we look at and
consider the grandeur of her position?
she who was the ruler of millions of
people, to whom millions of many ma
tioralities looked for protection and
hope, she who could, at a word move
armies, and make and unmake princes.
No!
We of the world looked upon Queen
Victoria as the eXemplar of woman
hood. The grandest and greatest lady
who ever graced a home and a throne,
and as such she will go down to the
remote ages which we know not of.
There have been great Queens, there
have been great Expresses. Their
memory is in our histories Some are
remembered for their political ability,
some for their crimes. But none has
been or will be remembered for her
virtues both in public and in private
life, as will be the Queen" known
pre-eminently by that title in almost
every country on the face of the globe.
Could there be a grander titular ex-
preston. Between man and man, re-
publican or monarchist in the Anglo
Saxon tongue, "the Queen" meant VIC
toria, Queen of England.
: When one looks back upon that life,
that span of near on to eighty-two
years and over sixty in the active work
of a great ruler one wonders at the
keenness of the mind which so early
learned to grasp great subjects and
held the grasp for well two lifetimes
of work. But if one wonders at the
keenness of mind one still more Won
- (lers at the womanly tenderness of
spirit which could drop the Queen and
Empress and become the gentle and
loving mother, lowering over the bed
of her sick baby, or the sympathetic
mistress of a household that would
sally forth and carry comforts and
kindly feeling into the cottages Of her
poor The Queen really never needed an
almoner. She was her own almoner,
and saw that here benefactions We're
carried out as they should be.
It would be easy to cite the great
events Of Queen Victoria's reign, Easy
to show what great advancement there
has been made in science, in mechani
cal work, in industrial progress and Sc
forth. 1t is easy to show when She
came to throne how little we had, anC
how much we have now, usually will
which we are dissatisfied, But this il
not the aspect of the Queens reigI
which is called for now.
what one should rather thlnh OF Il
the woman, placed by birth above thu
ordinary vicissitudes of mankind, anC
realizing that birth and wealth wer
but accidents, and power a weapon t.
be used and not msused. No one cal
come forward and say that Queen Vic
toria ever misused her power. Thou
sands and probably millions can sa,
that she used her influence for the pre-
servation of peace, when popular whin
was for war.
The example of a true domestic home
which Queen Victoria set TO her sub
jects,--and later her influence sprea'
outside-is incalculable, 1t was no
thought possible when Queen Victorii
came to the throne that court coul,
be clean and pure. Victoria made he
hnc no n