The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-28
KILOHANh
STORIES
Prize Winners Read
at the League
Rooms.

liC pI IT, W kiIillIlS STORES recently de-
cided upon by critics chosen by the
Kilohana Art League We're read yes
terday afternoon in the league rooms
in the Young Block, before an interested
audience. Prof. Philip Dodge was the
reader. He prefaced the reading of the
stories with the statement that the
honor of reading them to the audience
had been placed upon him but an hour
or two before the meeting, and he did
not consider that he had altogether
grasped the subjects as he should Mr.
able reader.
| The first one was entitled Caroline
written by Miss Rhoda Green. The
story dealt with the hidden mysteries
of a maiden's heart as she pursued the
daily tenor of her life. AS in most
stories the plot deals with love, so it
was with Caroline While not alto
gether original. the plot served for the
narration of a home story woven about
Caroline" the heroine; Judge Burton,
his aged grandma" and a servant
trained nurse in the care of grand
ma" the housekeeper, and secretly, and
known to none but herself, her love had
gone out to the judge. He for the pur-
pose of the story, failed to recognize
this important fact, and finally Caro-
line" firing of her duties toward The
decrepit and querulous grandma
takes advantage of the Judges request
that she spend a needed vacation away
from the home. Angered somewhat by
his manner, which does not indicate
of what is in her heart, she determines
to make the vacation a permanent one
And she goes away. The Irish servant
girl. without heart in her added duties.
does not take the same interest in
"Grandma's" comfort as did Caroline;
the Judge finds that with Caroline al b.
sent there is something lacking in all
their lives, and finally when Grandma
loses herself in the big house and Caro-
line opportunity appears upon the
scene. the Judge learns something, and
then all ends well.
The second prize story, entitled LAS
the Day Follows the Night" written by
Miss Vancouver, is something of
problem story, dealing in the abstract
with the panorama of life as it fits be-
fore the eyes of a woman dying of
fever far from home and in a foreign
land. 1t is a philosophical treatise on
life and. death, and has a touch of the
osophy in that part of the plot which
tells of the dying woman's resume of
her past when she sought a kindred
soul. There is not so much story in
the effort of Miss Vancouver a
treatise on the philosophy of life, with
the dying woman as the center of it
all.
There is a pathetic side to the narra-
tive. The woman had to struggle in her
early womanhood. In a great city she
was able to maintain her standard of
ideals despite the surroundings. This
ideal of life carried with it the convic-
ton that some day she would cross the
path of some kindred soul of the OPP
posite sex. Keeping herself morally
clean she one day became aware that
the man whom she deemed to be her
kindred soul was a great man. She !
never knew him personally. He died, |
and she felt then that her life was a |
vacant one. She read his writings on /
public questions. Later on, however, !
she married, but the lives of herself and |
husband did not run in parallel lines. !
and when he died she felt relieved of |
burden that had rested upon her soul.
She then travelled, and sickening of
fever. died in lonely place.