The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-08

To feel, when ! falter, the clasp divine
OF your tender and trusting hand in
mine
Beautiful hand! more dear to me
Than the tenderest things of earth
could be.
Sometimes, dearest, the world goes
wrong,
For God gives grief with his gift Of
song,
And poverty, too! but your love is
more
To me than riches and golden store;
Beautiful love, until death shall part
1t is mine-as you are-my own sweet
heart
!. + j.
ID EAR Admiral Robley d. Evans,
IL Communicated of the great
fleet that is making the cruise to the
Pacific, recently spent a brief vacation
at his historic old home in Washing
ton
To many newspaper readers through
out the country the announcement a
few months since that Admiral Evans
had left the flagship Connecticut to
spend an interval with his family
came as a distinct surprise. Few pub
lie men have attained the prominence
that has come to Admiral Evans dur
ing the past decade without the pub
lie being taken into confidence regard
ing their family and home life. In
deed. the silence that has been main
tanned on this score fostered a wide
spread impression that Fighting Bob
was a jolly old bachelor, welded to the
sea and caring little for feminine So
ciety.
Possibly one explanation for this is
to be found in the fact that Admiral
Evans has been so continuously en-
gagged during recent years in active sea
service as to have little opportunity for
, home life as the average citizen knows
! if. But a more potent reason is dis
/ covered in the studied effort of the
women of the household to keep out OF
the glare of publicity. Mrs. Evans
( comes of an old southern family and
characteristic conservatism impelld,
( mother and daughters TO keep out OF
the public eye, until finally now that
/ the admiral is at the very climax OF
/ a notable career pardonably curious
public has found them out.
The Evans home at 1924 Indiana
avenue almost under the shadow OF
/ the Capital, although it is not pointed
out by the lecturers on the sightsee-
ing automobiles nor exploited in the
! guidebooks is in many respects one of
! the most interesting old houses IN
! Washington. A great, square, red
brick structure, it was built some time
prior to the civil war, and was long
known as the Taylor homestead For
all that its association with Admiral
| Evans grew out of his marriage with
Charlotte, eldest daughter of Frank
Taylor, the historic old mansion has
been most intimately linked with the
/ life story of the man who ranks next
to Admiral Dewey as the nations
most popular naval hero.
| In this house his romance began.
Here he was married in 1871, standing
between the two windows overlooking
! Judiciary Square, and this has been
home to him ever since his earliest day
in the navy. And, by the way, it was
a very pretty romance of which Rob
ley ID. Evans was the hero in the days
following his graduation from the
Naval Academy ahead of time in order
that he and his classmates might par
ticipate in the civil war. 1t was the
old story of a college friendship, the
chums visit to his roommate's home
and the meeting with his companions
pretty sister, with the inevitable re-
suit.
Robley d. Evans, the son of coun-
try doctor in Virginia, had gone out to
Utah to acquire the legal residence
necessary for his appointment to the
Naval Academy from that territory;
but most of his boyhood had been
spent i'm Washington, and therefore II
was but natural that when he entered
the institution at Annapolis I'm 1860 he
should strike up a warm friendship
with lad from the District of Column
bia-Henry Clay Taylor the late
Rear Admiral Taylor. The latter in
vited his friend to come home with
him for a visit, and so young Evans
was introduced to the house which is
now his home Here he met Miss
Charlotte, and later when the young
Virginian became desperately i'll at the
home of his chum it was she who nurs-
ed him back to health. The sequel, Of
course, was a naval wedding, and from
that time the house, with its spacious