The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-03-23
HOMECOMING TROUBLE.

We hdget and worry, lamenting and
sorry,
In the grasp of expectancys thrall.
Apprehensive forebodings cucumber
our souls.
Depression weighs down like a pail,
So we wear a long face with a very
poor grace
And then nothing happens at ALL
When we prophesy storms it is sure
to clear Off
When our moneys gone. something
comes in
And the thoughts of those bills which
have given us chills.
Every month shouldn't make us
grow thin
For they fly down the vast like the
leaves on the blast,
We settle up, somehow, and why
DO we bother and fret over what we
forget
Before many days have passed by?
We were not carried or by that terri
BILE cough,
| And in fact, .twasn't much, come to
think
All our pains and our aches and our
dreadful mistakes.
why, they too have slid over the
brink
OF the gulf that forgets; yet we still
wiring our hands,
! Predicting some ruinous fall
Approaching disaster we hail as our
master
And then nothing happens at all.
Elliot walker, in Spare Moments.
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! The age of overfurnishing is dyin5
the death, and even in fats, those inc
vitable -crackeries, as Howells
christens them, the hideous, era of dec
: orative art seems to be at an end. One
! sees vistas of delightfully."- clear mantel
spaces with one or two candles in
sticks bereft of architecture, bit of
good china or bronze, and the effect is
restful and pretty after the memories
Of crowded shelves, lambrequins and
"hand-painted" horrors that used to
deck our homes.
And that frightful thing, the cozy
corner no longer appalls us with it's
miscellaneous collection of antiques
armor and Oriental hangings from the
same East, entirely unsuited to the rest
of the apartment There are no more
tides, bows or scarfs tied on the fur
niture, the plush portiere has been torn
down, and space and light and some
times a flower in bloom, fill the places
made hateful by overcrowded ugliness
a few years ago.
We have advanced to the blue china
stage, and if we never get beyond it
we still have much to be grateful for
that the cozy corner the folding bed
and the gilt cabinet have passed out
of our lives
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Langdon Mitchell it will be remem-
bered, adapted Becky Sharp" which
Mrs. Fiske played with such success.
His latest play, THE New York Idea"
satirizes present day metropolitan life
in the inner circles of society, whose
frivolous, hippant views of the realities
of existence are illustrated. More than
that, the play makes an effective expo
sition of the results of the confused
state of our divorce laws, which is
doing away with any appreciation of
the permanency of marriage. Cynthia
Karslake, whom Mrs. Fiske imperson-
ates, has been brought up to consider
marriage as meaning automobiles, a
yacht and other luxurious things She
is young and attractive and equals in
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energetic, big-hearted lawyer, whose
racing stable divides attention with
his practice. In a moment of temper
she leaves him and secures she thinks,
South Dakota divorce. But that
doesn't end the real love they have for
each other, nor do the frequent meet
ings that the smallness of society
brings about lessen it, During the
progress of the play it grows stronger,
and it asserts itself when Cynthia is
about to contract a second marriage
with a judge, whose ponderous nature
is quite unsuited to her volatile one.
At the end, by a surprising turn Of
events quite likely in these days of I'M
certain divorce DEGREES, Cynthia and
/ her husband are reunited
! The play tells this story with delight
full satire, and Mr.. Mitchelrs illustra-
ton of the evils Of divorce under the
present system is all the more forceful
because the domestic complications in
volved are of an amusing nature. The
plot is a clever piece of stagecraft and
in the dialogue are some of the best
lines heard in any modern comedy. The
action is brisk and the interest is held
to the end. AS the heroine Mrs. Fiske
puts all her talents for comedy into
play and acts with captivating spon-
taneity and charm.
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= A business man was telling some
e one of the trials of his wife, an excel
! lent housekeeper with reference to the