The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-04

A careworn looking woma, with eight
children, stopped a street car. AS the
eight children filed on to the car the
conductor turned to the woman and
said, good-naturedly: Are these all
your children, madam, or is it a pic
nIc?"
"They are all mine," she replied, land
it is no picnic!'
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King Oscar of Sweden is a poet of
no mean order, and his sonnets have
been translated into most of the IAN
guages of Europe. He is an accom-
plished musician, too, his nautical
songs, set to his own music, being very
popular in the Swedish navy. He has
written histories and dramas, trans
lated classics, and is the author Of
some hymns which enjoy the highest
popularity. Finally las a tenor singer
he is always welcome at concerts.
| The silken frock in some one or an
other of it's many fascinating phases
reigns supreme. Taffetas, louisine, one
seamo crepe de chine, chiffon, and silk
null are all used, and one sees all va
rieties of formality in dress represented
in these. The debutante and the dow
uger seem to select the very same ma
terials, and there is but a trifiing diff
ference in the fashions which Madame
La Mode dictates for each.
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Rubbed up daily with a pad of It's
sue paper mirrors keep in beautiful
condition. To cleanse them if neglect
ed dip a cloth in methylated spirits
and then precipitated whiting, and rub
this well over the glass, being careful
however, not to touch the frame with
it or to let it get under the frame, as
that it not easy to remove. When dry
rub up well with a chamois leather or
pad of clean old soft newspaper.
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1t is said that in Arabia there are
people who ply trade called gossiping.
latest news and all the best jokes and
stories, and go from house to house,
| spinning the yarns they have gathered
at so much per hour. They are called
gossips and they make plenty of money.
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The Countess Festetics, granddaugh-
ter of James B. Haggin, lunched the
other day with her step grandmother,
Mrs. Haggin, and her aunt and niece,
Mrs. Richard Lounsbery and Miss
Edith Lounsbery.
The countess was frocked in a black
wolfe costume, with lace white stock,
guimpe an6 lower sleeves, topped by a
black hat.
The hat was decidedly Partisan in eff
feet, and unlike many of those having
the exaggerated forehead tip and the
ultra-raised back, was an especially
effective chapeau for its wearer. t
was narrow in the front and tilted
downward, rising at the sides to tbs
back, where it was of eXaggerate1
height but did not stand out far as do
some of the latest and most outre OF
recent French importations. Large,
black ostrich plumes rising from the
sides and dropping over the high back
formed the only decoration.
The gown had trailing skirt, having
several deep tucks as trimming, I'd
was gathered at the top. The bodice
matched the skirt, and was cut out at
the top to show a round guimpe OF
} white lace over chiffon. The sleeves of
} less than elbow length were gathered
and had tucks, giving a ruffle effect
The undersleeves came nearly to the
wrists, We're fluffy at their tops ana
scanty at the bottom.
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A little bric-a-brac well chosen is be-
, ter than much poorly chosen. With all
, due respect to a good old custom
, Christmas is to be blamed for more I'M
sightliness in the average home than
/. any other cause. For the sake of the
J giver" is made the excuse for many
/ decorative atrocities; dear friends
with miserable taste and the best in
tentions in the world send around re-
markable collection of junk during hol-
iday time, and common decency forces
the recipient to give it standing room
for awhile. Blessed, indeed, is the par.
lor maid who annihilates some of the
gift vases and plaques. The woman
with many friends should have "pres.
ent" room, into which these odds ant
ends of decorative errors could be pu
and kept.
since Denman Thompson first appeared
in his famous role of Joshua Whitcomb
in THE Old Homestead"
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J Some men are very vain. Some meI
are so vain that had they been borr
women they could not be vainer.
barber shop or a saloon finds it impos
4 siIIa 10 do businass without unirrors