The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-16
THE HOUSE BEATTGF1rr.

BY Richard Nixon
HE who would build house for all
to see,
In honesty should dig the foundation
ways,
And lay the cornerstone of love, and
raise
The wallis of steadfastness; and then
should he
Bedeck the walls with song and pocsy
And keep the fires of sweet content
ablaze;
The windows hope, the ascending ga
bles praise,
And over all the roof of charity.
Then let the tempests rage, the fires
consume,
Times self is impotent to seal the
doom
OF such a house, where wanderers may
find
Carven in gold above the open portal:
Who enters here leaves hopeIessness
behind
The true home is the heart and so i'm
mortal"
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The ambassador who has spent his
money most lavishly for the glory Of
America is Charlemagne Tower, now
representing us at Berlin. His fortune,
made by his father in Pennsylvani,
anthracite, is said to be $100OOO 900, and
it is alleged that he gives Mrs Tower
an allowance of 100000 a year just "to
keep Americas end up" While rep
resenting us in Vienna he occupied the
oF a nd It11ya pf
his dinners there he laid plates for 200
guests In st. Petersburg where he
was ambassador for a time. his wealth
dazzled the Russian court, where he
appeared in cooked hat, court sword
and gold embroidered court uniform.
This outfit, required by the court cham
berlain, was reproduced by Mr.. McCOr-
mick his successor, the state Depart
ment permitting them both to wear it,
just as it allowed Mr.. Breckenridge,
Mr. Cleveland's ambassador to appear
a the Cars coronation in a court cos
tune, including knickerbockers. At
Berlin Mr. Tower has kept M the
same pace i'm the famous grant,
Pringheim Palace, the first American
embassy at which the kaiser is said
to have ever dined, and for which Mr..
Tower pays $4,000 per year. It is said
that at a recent court ball Mrs Tow
err wore a gown covered with gold
spangles, costing $3.50 per spangle, and
lined at the neck with golden bees with
ruby eyes It is said that on this oc-
casion even the empress felt herself
outshone by Mrs. Tower, who sat at
the right of the throne on a dais in the
ball room.
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great English doctor, Sir Lauder
Brunton, calls attention to the fact
that among paupers living in work
houses great number are beyond the
age of eighty-fve or ninety. Foolish
people are wondering whether it would
not be a good idea to learn what the
people in the workhouse eat, and iml'
tate their diet.
1t isn't what the people in the work
house eat that makes them old. 1t Is
the things that they don't eat and the
things they don't do. They live regular
lives, don't sit up late, don't STRAIN
their nerves, have no responsibility MOI
no need to worry.
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DR.. A. w Scott, principal of the
Girls High School in San Francisco
has, he believes, solved the sorority
problem by a process of peaceful elm
nation
Where eight Greek-letter societies
once fiourished, none is now in evil
dence among the five hundred girls il
attendance.
Asked how he had subtracted Sc
many soroities from the sum total OF
girls, Dr. Scott replied:
when 1 came to the Girls Higf
School three years ago l inherited
eight sororites My office walls were
adorned with their charters. At the
end of six months l decided that 8
change must be brought about
Il ascertained the names of the
sorority girls in the school, about eigh
ty in all, and called them before me.
told them that | objected to sorortie'
because they We're un-American il
spirit tending to create caste stand
ards. Sororities We're the cause o.
heartaches and petty jealousies an(
We're therefore a disturbing factor il
school life and school work I showed
them where the unkindness ana Unfair
ness lay, and they saw 1t for them
selves.
II gave them to understand tina
while did not ask them to remove
their charters from the office walls, i
would be a qualification to me if the!
decided to do so. 1 told them tina
thereafter 1 should not recognize an!
sorority; that meetings could not b.
held anywhere on the school premises
nor space be given to them in tn,
journal. 1 could not consistently coun
tenance or encourage any organization
that did not include the whole school
THAT was the beginning and tn
end. The charters disappeared. At n
time was there any difficulty, or an,
harsh measures taken. From havinj
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