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

clean up Whatever wreck there has
been made in the skin and muscular
tissue. They eagerly absorb into
themselves or cluster opposingly about
all foreign matter that has been in
troduced into the wound. Then they
proceed to pile themselves tier upon
tier around it like so many little sand
bags about a broken bastion. Later
they gradually join together and solid
ify into the layer of new skin which
appears beneath the sloughed-off scab.
They are at once workmen and repair
ing material.
Miss Grace Weatherbee of New York,
daughter of one of the proprietors Of
the Manhattan Hotel New York, a
beautiful and gifted girl, who had all
the advantages of education and So
ciety that money brings, is now living
on the Shoshone Indian reservation
the wife of full-blooded Indian.
She dresses as a squaw, carries a
pappoose on her back, is careless in her
manners and Indifferent to the conven-
tions which govern white society. But
she is regarded as a saint by the In
The romance of Grace Weatherbee
and Sherman Coolidge is one of the
prettiest the west has produced. Six
years ago Miss Weatherbee came to
Fort Washable, eighteen miles of Lam
der, to visit the family of ]. K. Moore,
post trader here. She met and imme-
diately fell in love with Sherman
Coolidge, a full-blooded Arapahoe In
dian, tall, straight as an arrow, with
piercing black eyes, supple body and a
mien and voice unusually earnest for
even an Arapahoe Indian.
He was then, as he is now, engaged
in mission work on the Shoshpne re-
servatiOn. He called several times to
see Miss Weatherbee and openly press
ed his suit. She was not slow in con-
senting, and after all her friends real
lied that she was determined to be-
come the red mans bride, and would
elope with him if need be, they gave
their reluctant consent and the cere-
mony was performed.
Since that day Mrs. Coolidge has lost
many of the graces of the white wo-
man of culture and education. but she
has look of supreme happiness in her
eyes and seems entirely contented with
her earnest, grave-faced husband and
the brown, black-eyed baby she carries
on her back.
On the reservation she is an angel of
mercy, visiting the sick at all times of
the day and night, helping the unfor-
tunate and giving her husband the
greatest help in his work of educating
a NJ mil
hers of his tribe.
One of the most remarkable women
i'm the world, who disappeared from
public view for a time, has just reap
peared in London. It is Mrs. Ella
Rawls Reader, who is only thirty-one
years of age at the present time
When in her twenty-fifth year she was
in a great measure instrumental in as
sisting a large firm of British engi-
neers to obtain a millon-pound con-
tract to build a railroad for the Sultan
of Johore.
The thing which won for her inter-
national fame and renown was wher
as fiscal agent of the government OF
Santo Domingo in the United States
she almost carried through a treaty
between the governments of the two
republics. Opposition arose at the last
minute and the negotiations were
broken off, President Roosevelt going
over Mrs. Readers head in this matter
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A well known writer says: I would
suggest taking a single author and
sleeping the mind with his works
Have a Stevenson winter, for example
or a Carlyle winter For Robert Louis
Stevenson, in whom there is so much
variety, versatility and "deep-veined
, humanity" a winter is not too much
| He is the modern successor of Sir Wal
, ter Scott, and the predecessor of the
writer's of romance who have latterly
been prominent. The novels of wild
adventure and hair-breadth escapes and
, desperate daredevil recklessness, that
have partially illustrated authentic his,
tory owe their inception to Stevenson
who set the pace.
Read kidnapped" and David Bal
four" first; then read prince Otto.'
''The Story of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.
r Hyde" Treasure Island" and so on
Read the wonderful stories OF travel
: and the subtly fine essays and crti
cisms and, last of all, invertng the or
der in this case, read Stevensons owl
S grave life, as told in his biography.
g You viii find you horizon broadened
o your Imagination fred your vocabu