The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-02
CHASING THE RAINBOW.

ed out to make
My first vain chase for rainbows we
can never overtake.
Dull truths nave come with feeting
years,-Im wiser now than them
ct after all a boys strange thoughts
resemble those of men.
We're children Of a larger growth, and
love to chase, in truth,
The same delightful phantoms that be-
guiled us in our youth.
We miss the honest beauty that may
hide in homely facts.
The while vague, romantic hope our
longing gaze attracts
And none of life's dull certainties can
in our heart awake
Such dreams as do the rainbows we
can never overtake.
Thus we pursue the witching tints OF
every hue and kind,
Filled with an eager hope that we
shall fame and fortune find;
While kindly opportunities unnoticed
pass us by,
Since all our thoughts are centered on
the bow across the sky.
Just over there we'll grasp the prize!
A little way it seems
To where the bow of hope comes down
to gladden. all our dreams.
And not until life's sun is set shall
one of us forsake
The rare, Elusive rainbows we can
never overtake.
Nixon Waterman.
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M ISIS Marie Cahill chose the chorus
va girls for her new play, Marry
ing Mary" by measurement. The Ber-
tillon system was employed.
by this excellent system of meas
urement," said Miss Cahill, the other
day, zone gets, in a chorus girl, the
real thing. Mirage, is avoided. You
know what a mirage is? Quite sure?
Well, at any rate, I'll point out its
meaning to you with a story:
"A boy looked up from his book one
night
Father he said, what is a mir
age?'
! "The father answered glibly from
behind his paper:
The union of a man and woman
till death or the law them do part
But, said the boy, that's mar
riage, amt it?'
Same thing, sonny; it's the same
thing replied the father. "A man i'm,
AGNES he sees wonders and delights
where there is nothing, Fight Shy Of
'em both, my boy"
TT is bad enough to be ugly, or, as
L some people say, plain, but its
rather rubbing it in for a mere mar
to tell us it is fault for which women
should be shut away or banished. But
there is such an unfeeling creature
DR.. Oldfield, who says that beauty is
the heritage of every woman, but toe
often the woman gives it for mess OIL
pottage.' He continues: Women who
are ugly are so entirely through theiI
own fault, and the fault generally is
laziness or selfishness. Beauty, like al
other good things, is the reward anC
crown of goodness and toll, and 1t il
given only to those who work as wei
as wait Dyspepsia is the curse O
beauty, and good digestion is the
secret of a brilliant complexion. II
my opinion beauty is within the react
of every woman who will work hare
enough to gain 1t. Happiness is al
essential part OF the good work. A
bad-tempered, fretful woman soon ere
ates lines and wrinkles and pose.
which are ugly, and the Oftener she
! gives way to her fault in private the
sooner will she lose her apparent
beauty, A woman grows older sooner
tnan a man because she frets over tri
vialities, and every fret leaves a stat
on her transient beauty. If a woman
wishes to be beautiful, let her con.
sCientiously lay before her a type Of
beauty which she thinks IDEAL don't
mean the Gibson girl which at the
moment is every shopgirl's pose-and
soon or late the plainness will become
instinct with charm, and the goddess
OF her ideal will emerge in glowing
beauty out of the old ugliness like the
glorious butterfly out of the repulsive
caterpillar
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NO news from Washington Of late
~ has created greater anticipations
of mirth and pleasure among the Am
erican people than the announcement
that WI Ting Fang, better known as
Just "Mr, WI" will return as Chinese
Minister to the United States.
1t is undoubtedly as a critic Of Am
erican domestic life that Mr. WI has
made his deepest mark
81 find much to criticize in the Am
erican woman's Dress" he once re-
marked. 81 think that the women