The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-12
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modesty for the welfare of her fellow
townsmen Coventry held grand
pageant, in which a woman. clad in
heshings, rode through the city in the
manner of Lady Godiva That ride,
the most famous ever undertaken by a
woman, and more celebrated than the
later gallops of Paul Revere and Of
Robert Browning's three who carried
the good news from Client to AK"
has inspired many story, song and
play, but none more interesting than
the drama written by Frederick f..
Schrader and Lloyd NJ. Bingham for
Amelia Bingham.
In this play, indeed, Miss Bingham
performs no equestrian feats. She por-
trays an English noblewoman who,
ander stress of uncomfortable circum-
stances, poses for a painting of Lady
GOdiva, thereby bringing undeserved
scandal upon herself and almost alien
ating her from her husband, who she
adores. The play is distinctly mod
ern and is a faithful reflection of GER
tain social conditions of the present
time, but the reference to the medic
val heroine is such as to give a touch
of piquant quaintness.
Wherever Miss Bingham and her
strong company have given the play it
has met with unqualified success. its
absorbing story and realistic present.
ment making it fare of the kind most
eagerly seized by lovers of vital AID
vivid drama.
NORTHERNERS have an invincible
IN tendency to assign virtue or good
ness to the fair complexion, wicked
ness or falsehood to the dark. If one
could rely upon the test of novels it
might be argued that this prejudice is
weakening-for the villain. whether
male or female, is sometimes blond
nowadays and the heroine brunette.
One might almost venture to say that
it was never so formerly Perhaps
there is no sound reason for thinking
that the blue-eyed are truthful. honest
and loving-in the sense of affection
and constancy-rather than the brown.
But the striking reports on the as
ISOLATION of complexion and disease in
hospitals which Dr. Beddoes suggested
long ago and DR.. Scrubsall, foremost
among many, now is carrying out have
a certain bearing on the point. They
prove that dark hair and eyes are sup
planting the light in this country-a
fact which all thoughtful persons have
observed. But also they demonstrate
the reason-which is, shortly, that the
blond are constitutionally untitled to
endure the conditions of town life,
and actually perish in the foul atmos-
phere and the barbarism of the slums.
Adults enter the hospital in proportion
tar too great and children die. They
must have fresh air wholesome exer-
else and decent surroundings to keen
in health. But these are the condi-
lions of rustic life, which, as univer-
sal experience in all ages agrees, pre-
serves If it does not generate such vir-
tues as simplicity, truthfulness and
honesty, which town life, favored by
the dark, corrupts.
Upon the other hand, the brown
eyed peoples assert that the fair are
treacherous and cruel. This is a com
mon belief in Italy, where it might be
traced to a popular Renaissance of
the blond northerners who ravaged
that hapless country from generation
to generation. But it is much older.
Plutarch cites a contemporary epigram
passed upon Cato the Censor, who was
red haired and gray eyed, which shows
that it was current event then. And
it is an article of faith all through the
east.
MOST of us might and ought to find
III in our household much more than
we look for 1t is necessary for those
who would live happily together that
they should try to show their best to
one another.
They should try to show the best of
their minds. All things should be IN
common. Every pleasant experience.
it be of books or Of life, ought
to be shared.
Existence is maintained at a much
lower level of happiness than it should
be, simply because those who are
bound by the closest natural ties do
not know how to make each other hap
py-grudge the time that should be
given to the arranging Of the soul.
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HERE is no girl so prosaic that she
L does not indulge in an occasional
lay dream. Some girls waste far too