The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-02

printed in red in this years literary
calendar: Mark Twain reached seventy.
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The big social leaders in the three
great cities where social supremacy
must be fought for in order to be at
tanned, in Paris, in London and in New
York, are adopting an individuality of
style becoming to their genre. A GER
tain shape hat for instance, Mrs. x.
found most becoming to her last win
ter. This summer, instead of discard
ing this shape because she had worn it
all the winter she ordered several hats
made UP in that becoming shape. And
this winter she will retain that same
shape that she wore last winter, be-
cause she has found that that hat IN
the most becoming for her.
The story of Mr. Belasco's new play
for Miss Bates, 1.-The Girl of the Gold
en- West" would indicate that it pos
sesses all that is necessary of both
heart interest and attractive romance.
The central figure is that of a young
girl of the mines, the patron saint of
the miners. A child of the Sierras, she
tells you that she is happy as the keep
er of a gambling place and whisky
saloon, because her father and mother
were in the same business before her.
To this girl the rough miners give
devotion that is ideally beautiful. 1t
forms the background of the one in
cident of the play that is dramatically
tense all through. A road agent
comes to the girls saloon for the pur-
pose of robbing it. He is the man of
fate, for the two have seen each other
before for a brief moment. The girl
gives her love with all the freedom and
unconventionality of her kind, though
she keeps herself, as always, unspot-
ted The road agent is suspected
identified, and tracked to the girls hut,
on the mountainsde, where he had
gone upon her invitation for quiet
supper together
This act holds the dramatic climax
of Mr.. Belasco's story. The climax is
poker game, played by the girl and
the sheriff who is also her declared
lover. The stakes are herself and the
life of her lover, who has been wound
ed and lies half conscious across the
table The background is drawn fine
down to the scraps of paper the litter
the floor of that truly Western cabin
with an Indian squaw and her papoose,
the dim light of the tallow candles, and
| most awful snowstorm in the very
height of the love making.
J All these things lie there behind the
great moments when the sheriff with
tense hands and furtive eyes throws
down his third hand, declaring he has
won because he has three kings. The
girl has secreted in the bosom of her
robe an ace full and wins. Dramatic
ally it is a moment of intense interest.
1t sweeps the audience off it's feet.
From this point onward the story
falls first into comedy, then into an
other few moments of tense tragedy
and then fades beautifully and tender
| ly away across the distances of the
plains, whittier the girl" and her re-
formed lover go to find a new life. The
finale is said to be another splendid
achievement of Mr.. Belascos stage art,
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In street costumes contrasting colors
are greatly used. A Partisan costume
just arrived is in heliotrope colored
broadcloth, having a bolero with an in
sertion down the front, the elbow
sleeves being finished with cuff bands
of palest blue, embroidered in pale
lavender and still paler blues.
A black chiffon broadcloth has cuffs
and a collar of scarlet cloth overlaid
with soutache braid in both white and
black, and so it goes. The more con-
sentative, however adopt less vivid
contrasts particularly if they be not
especially rich, for the woman with
few costumes necessarily If she have
good judgment, selects those that,
while of equally good material and
style as those Of her richer friend,
avoids pronounced contrasts and start
ling effects that invite attention.
Black in all sorts of materials and
for all sorts of costumes will be eX-
tremely fashionable this winter, as it
has been this autumn. Nothing looks
cheaper than black in poor qualities of
materials and nothing richer in hand
some goods.
If you have run a pin into your
thumb or received a bayonet thrust at
Port Arthur precisely the same thing
takes place, A myriad of these tiny
, first aid' cells (the "phagOcites'')
from the surrounding blood vessels
and Ign 1hatic glands at once come
/ hurrying to the rescue. They begin tC