The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-22
AN ANT1sEPTTC TRAGEDY.

full, beatifc and uncivilzed abandon
dwelt a people once who knew
Naught of modern ways and fashions,
for their quite untutored passions
bade them do the things their faith
ers bade them do;
And they dwelt there all serenely till
one day a storm quite meanly cast
upon their peaceful island from a
shipwreck out at sea
A most scientific being with a critics
eye, allseeing, who was up on mod
ern methods and as bumptious as
could be.
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In a far-off modern nation he had
studied sanitation, and he told these
peaceful people of the germs and
things that grew
In their food and air and water; ana
he wed the chieftain's daughter and
declared himself anointed to make
health conditions new;
For the chieftain, little thinking but
of eating and of drinking, paid him
only slight attention as he went up
on his way
Overseeing and advising. boiling,
steamipg, sterilizing, fumigating and
believing things with antiseptic
spray.
And he made them boil the water till
their wrath grew hot and hotter, for
they loved their simple privilege of
dying as they pleased;
But it seemed to them that boiling
was the burden of their toiling, and
the public disaffection at hts orders
much increased.
For he went about until he had them
boiling, willy nilly, all their boilable
possessions, telling them he'd sooner
be
Paralytic, epileptic than not to be anti
septic, and that germs in boiling wa
ter were as harmless as could be
So one time with rites quite mystic
and a bit canabalistic did these sim
pie people seize him at the closing
of the day,
Put him in a caldron seething, smiles
their simple faces wreathing, as they
boiled him all the evening in an an
tiseptic way;
And his antiseptic resting place is
there today, suggesting that reforms
with simple people mast go cauti-
ously and slow,
And that wisdom prophylactic should
be not at all didactic, but more truly
diplomatic, as this little tale will
show. j w. Foley
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Meeting a negro, a certain Southern
gentleman asked him how he was get
ting on.
The negro assumed a troubled look
and replied:
''Oh, so fairs physically goes, I'm
all right; but I sure do have ma trou-
bles wifi ma wife"
"Well, Sam, I'm sorrS to hear that
What seems to be the matter?"
"Shes thinks money grows on trees,
I reckon. All de time she keeps pest
erin me fob pinch O. change. If it
amt a dollah it's a half or a quarter
she wants"
What on earth doeA she do with
the money!"
81 dunno. Amt nevah give her none
yet"
4 4 \ \
Clyde Fitch has announced that a
new comedy, called "Yhe Truth" and
a dramatization of the House OF
Mirth," in which he has collaborated
with the authoress, Miss Edith Whar-
ton, will be the most important thea
trical offerings next season. "Mr
Frohman seemed we'll pleased with my
play for Mrs. Bloodgood, "The Truth,
said Mr.. Fitch, "and with regard tC
my decentralization of The House OF
Mirth, L would only like to say thai
whatever else it is or is not it will bC
a faithful copy of the novel without
any interpretations and hardly an incl
of dramatic license. For this reason
at all events, it ought to prove a no.
velty, for you know as we'll as I dc
how far the average decentralization
manages to stray from the novel II
was inspired by.
4 \ 4 4
The fad for cut flowers has taker
possession of our country and with il
has come exquisite vases from the ia
nous glass manufacturers of England
Austria, Italy and Russia.
Newest among these are the artistic
creations in English radium glass, a
semi-transparent glassware which dis.
plays all the delicate variations OF
color seen in mother-of -pearl. Every
type of ornamental flower holder is
made of this, from the tiny fluted bow
just large enough for a boutonniere tC
the slender 8 iral vase three feet high
or more, intended for the reception OF
long-stemmed roses and chrysanthe-
NUNS. The most popular design, how
ever, is the Vatican flower basket
with it's gracefully curved body, long
slender handle and latticed flower re.
tainer of gilded wire.
This basket vase is to be found In
every kind Of glassware and ornamen-
tai pottery, and it is a decided acqui-
eft Ion, IL, he H.. .1,1