The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-29
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is by no means averse to contemplating |
his manly charms as reflected therein.
A woman frankly confesses her inter-
est in the alluring combination of glass
and quicksilver, but the man, while
voicing his scorn, proves his superior
vanity by his concealed and secretlVe
study of it. He jeers at his wires
cheval glass, but was anything more
entirely provocative of human vanity
ever invented than the many-sided
shaving glass!
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II all the good resolutions to turn
over new leaf" with the New Year
take effect there is bound to be
mighty rustling through the length and
breadth of the land as the last night of
1906 wanes and the clock ticks out the
moments of the dying year.
For the house mother, who is at
heart conscientious, faithful and true
as steel in all big things, there are no
great statutory faults to be confessed
and uprooted, but oh! what an inftni-
tude of the little foxes that spoil the
symmetry of the pleasant household
vinesl Impatience, nagginess, nerves
and worry, false pride, extravaganza
disorder, dilatoriness, white lies and a
predilection for idle gossip that puts
one in the same boat with the Navajo
woman whose name is a reproach to
her "Esthana Chuthly," "the woman
who talks too much" Fortunately no
one of us has all these faults of a
patty pam order to combat, else we
might give up in despair. AS it is, let
us each look our own special failing
square in the eye, determined that the
New Year shall find us striving after
better things. So '1et us grasp with
energy the homely, everyday practi-
cal possibilities within our power, and
count that we have done no small
thing toward the general good when
in a oleanly, honest, home, living with
in our incomes, We are bringing up
our children in love and wholesome
simplicity. Let us make our small
neighborhood bright with cheerful en-
Al. ergy, and if the world moves onward,
ct us rejoice that our shoulder is
PRESSED against the wheel OF It's pro-
'ress with life-giving force Not a
woman of us all but has her work to
10. Let us do it with will"
A teacher in one of the schools wa,
giving lesson on the circulation Of
The blood. Trying to make it clearer
she said:
Now, children, if I stood on nv bea,
the blood as you know, would run int,
it, and I should turn red in the face
u Now, Jimmy" continued the teach
en- Addressing a small boy, "what
want TO know is this: How is it tina
IWhile l am standing upright in the or
dlhary position the blood does not rul
INTO my feet and turn them red"
why, because yer feet amt emptvr
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Mary Mannering has just presenter
). her new play by Rida johnson Youno
Glorious Betsy" This new plav ba
T. Tor It's central figure that radiant bell
d OF yesterday Betsy Patterson who's
beauty and ambition made for her on
n OF the most remarkable careers eve
= attained by an American woman. Fror
d the position of a Baltimore belle, who's
e wit, pride and rather daring indt
$, pendence made her the admiring com
Is ment of all fashionable society in An
d erica, she sprang suddenly into inteI
r. national notice by her marriage wit
Y Jerome Bonaparte, the brother of Ma
} poleon, just at the time when he wa
-e proclaimed emperor of the French. |
y writing GLORIOUS Betsy" it's authC
90 fp,fo
Betsy's life, but deals with those day
when her name was the toast of ever
II gathering of note from Baltimore
i'd New Orleans. 1t hanks BACK to tn
ID old Sweet Springs of Virginia. whe
or that resort was the gathering plaC
lie for the best in wealth and culture an
Dr beauty of which America could boas
lg 1t is at the springs that Betsy fir
k meets Capt. Bonaparte, who, weary
I'd the endless round of entertainment
err has received as the guest of the An
ne erican nation, has travelled to this ou
MS of-the-way resort incognito. Jeron
tn becomes infatuated with the reigniT
belle, Betsy Patterson, and manages
al have himself employed during her st;
of there to give her lessons in Frenc
Sc, Betsy becomes intensely interested
he her tutor, but her pride and ambitit
al fights against acknowledging that s.
IS could love a man in such an inferi
er position
to She coquettes with him, however,
tie she does with half dozen others. BE
d. sy leaves the springs ignorant of Jer
on mes true personality, deeply offend
a with him because of his refusal to
Oh company her party to Baltimore, whe
in great preparations are being made
ret the reception of Capt. Bonaparte
nv is here at an elaborate fete given
his honor that Betsy first discovf
that her tutor and the much-talked'
id- brother of Napoleon are one.
we They are betrothed and the resi-
RS. the play deals with the efforts Of \
70 noleon's agents to prevent their mi