The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-30

that both sexes hold dear. Her finan-
cial achievements, worth while even in
the world of men, have been wondrous-
ly mixed up with friends, influence
and magnetism, besides that greatest
of all things that can happen to wo-
man, being swept off her feet by love,
and having the husband she would
choose from all the universe.
The only policy that this hard-head-
ed business woman admits out of all
her purposes and impulses is that of
never missing a chance to help.
IT always believed that If I once let
a chance to help go by my good luck
would desert me-" she says.
Few realizes the divergence of the
two roads which frequently have their
starting point in the chance to help.
With the mind to grasp the fact that
the helping or not helping is the first
of two PROFESSIONS Of events, there are
few so lacking in the superstitious in
stancts-or the divine wisdom-as not
to feel a wish to get on the road peo-
ped by the little gods of Precipitation.
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A certain WluOWGT luOuBnl SCI IOuSly
of marrying again. An obstacle stood
in the way, however, inasmuch as he
found it difficult to impart the news to
his offspring in a manner that he
thought would be perfectly clear to
their juvenile comprehension. After
; thinking it over for some time he final
ly told them that he intended to buy
them a new mother. Shortly after this
he welded the lady of his choice and
brought her home, and the chagrin of
the bride can be better imagined than
, described when the youngest boy of
{ the flock, after surveying her critically
, candidly remarked:
Pop, you've been cheated"
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| Peacock colors are going to be very
l fashionable this year, and to some peo-
t pie they are very becoming indeed.
= With a clear skim fair complexion,
I light hair and blue eyes, they give a
e charming effect. On the contrary,
= however with a dark complexion and
e eyes, peacock green is very trying and
nos becoming.
For some unknown reason peacock
feathers are considered unlucky, and
. consequently a hat that is ornamented
; with them might be avoided by the
: superstitious
The peacock toque shown me the
= other day is quite small and looks not
i unlike the Jockey hat and feather" of
a fifty years ago. 1t is made of a queer
l shade of peacock colored silk-green
= and yellow being the shades. The silk
: is all hand shirred and made to fit the
L. nr, gfgN
d are three or four peacock feathers
very jauntily set on, giving the hat &
i very smart appearance. 1t should be
i worn well forward on the head.
y :. : :.
A woman, known and loved in {
small town, was during all her life {
{ tower of strength h her family and
friends. She cared for an invalid anC
= at the end mentally incapable moth
. er; she took charge of sick brother;
II she was always ready to nurse, to help
=" to cheer her neighbors and intimates
She was unfailingly and simply cheer
e full When all her work was DONE anC
y the end of her own not very long lif
. drew near it was found that for year.
she had been carrying the burden of I
slow, incurable cancer, of which n,
. one knew but her physician and her
self. Yet if she had been told sh
- was a heroine, she would have protest
ed genuinely against any such idea
Her humility was as heroic as the res
of her qualities.
What is a hero? has been answered
st "A Soul which rises up to face lif
e squarely-to comfort it's grievous cir
Ia cumstance and conquer it." With al
re the improved conditions that womel
d. have today, with any conditions tina
the race can attain, there must Away
~ be multitudes of women oombattin
grievous circumstances. Women live
~ so deeply in the lives of others, Civ
themselves so unselhshly by their yer
nature, that fate necessarily demand
from them the heroic qualities-sel
"a command, self-effacement, courage an
~ sacrifice. The daughter who renoun
!, ces all personal ambitions to ministe
80 to the helpless age or infirfnity of faith
err or mother; the wife who shields an
strengthens an unworthy or weak hus
a. band; the mother who sacrifices her
n self absolutely to support and educat
= her orphaned children-the world is M
m worthy OF these, and yet we have thel
ar always with us, witnesses of a diVin
ner life than most of us know how I
en- live.
n The hero protects, rescues, fights *
an and If need be dies for others. rrie
lg by these tests, how many daily here