The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-06-21

bereft of all she holds dear. or, ac-
companied by the loyal minstrel, makes
her way to the unknown Kings castle
to intercede for her fathers life, she
is the fearless. devoted daughter Of the
Douglas whose soul
Though feminine and weak,
can image his: cen az the lake,
Itself disturbed by slightest stroke,
Reflects the invulnerable rock
Then there Is the beautiful Jewess.
Rebecca cannot look to her father with
the admiration held by the Scotch
daughter but with pride, she boasts
Of the ancient glories of her race:
such, were the princes of Judah, now
such no more!...........9et there are
those among them who shame not such
high descent. and of such shall be the
daughter of Isaac!"
We greatly admire her fortitude and
self-reliance in rising above the posi-
ton she was again and again placed IN,
by the abuse and indignity shown to-
ward her people. Situated as she was
in the castle of Front de Boeuf, powers
less to command help, barred from all
means6f escape, and threatened by the
Templar, with high and firm resolve,
and dignity almost superhuman, she
prepares to plunge over the precipice.
Life may be sacrificed but honor never
In making a character so worthy, so
lovable, and so possible, Scott was the
first writer to speak for the despised
race and to show that even Nazareth
may furnish a prophet. Hitherto, IN
poetry and in prose, the Jew had been
represented as worthy the hatred and
persecution of the Christian world;
since, have followed portraitures, If less
beautiful, at least attesting the hui
manity of the Hebrew and the long
tragedy of his race.
Edith boards the lion in his den, hurls
defiance in the teeth of fierce King
Richard, yet she will yield the activity
that her proud spirit loves, and go into
a convent rather than violate feminine
delicacy and reserve. She is proud, but
very gentle.
Diana Vernon is as fearless in the
chase as her huntsmen cousins, leap
ing fences and bitches, and racing with
the foremost. She is as safe In the
Council as her Jesuit cousin, guarding
state secrets that risk her life and
nearly wreck her happiness; yet, she IS
as playful as a kitten, as sweet as a
rose.
The Fair Maid of Perth Is intelligent
beyond her time. She has a martyr
like resolution, a royal delicacy and
fineness of nature; STILL she is obedient
and humble, and has no ambition above
her lowly station.
Anne of Guirstein climbs the noun
tain like chamois-hunter, leaps from
rock to rock like the chamois itself, yet
in womanliness is behind none of the
others.
Jeanne Deans, the best of SCOTS
heroines, is hardy and sturdy and
homely, stubbornly resolute, stubbornly
conscientious, yet so tender, so large in
heart, so thoroughly a woman, that a
Duke does her homage; Queen, over
come by the eloquence of love, makes
the very law bend to the prayers of the
peasant girl.
These instances may serve to illus
trate the type of womanhood Scott has
given to us, type that combines
strength and beauty, and which, in the
union, makes a just balance of qualities
that seem opposite. In real life there is
a tendency to the development of one
side of character at the expense of the
other side. The firm are stubborn, the
independent are violent, the conscien-
tious are severe, the soft are weak. The
good are too often ungracious; the
gracious are too often bad. To Scott
it seemed that these things ought not
so to be- and he has given us pictures
of rounded and radiant perfection.
As a last word, / wish, classmates,
to suggest that this perfection lay in
the cultivation of body, mind and heart.
After your years of life together, we
weakly, meanly give up our right-our
birthright-if we do not strive to make
our own those ideals of poets and prose
writer's which we have come to know.
Nov is the high tide of the year:
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not
how;
Everything is happy now,
Everything is upward striving,
'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true
blue
'Tis the natural way of living"
God grant it may not take us until
the winter of life to learn that it is
Not that which we give, but what we
share"
Goodbye is never easy. Punahou has
meant too much to us to say the word
lightly-it has meant home and friends;
it has meant work, to be sure, but it
has meant plenty of play; it has meant
of the beauty of knowledge,
and the beauty of service, a vision of
those
Truths that wake,
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad
endeavor,
Nor Man nor Boy,
Nor all that is mt enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy"
And to the friends who have helped
us to get these truths, to the trustees
who have provided them, to the teach
ers who have lived them as they have
taught them the Glass of 1904 aNnrassps