The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-15
LEAP YEAR SONG.

l III Teduy, BOOuuSSS hhOMo'
My little shy, consenting ways
My willingness disclose,
And yet they do not seem to mind
Why don't the girls propose?
Why don't the girls propose, papa?
Why don't the girls propose?
Three years I've waited wistfully
Among the bellies and beaux,
But now a kindly fate might put
An end to all my woes,
If only some sweet maid would pop
Why don't the girls propose?
Why don't the girls propose, papa?
/ almost want to cry!
Just think if leap year should elapse
And they should pass me by!
MY heart goes pitty-pat, papa!
This fateful year will close
In only eleven months from now
why don't the girls propose?
-Somerville Journal,
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7 ACK of the conspicuous is perhaps
IL the most marked feature of this
seasons fashions. Good taste in color,
material and design characterizes all
models, whether for morning, after
noon or evening wear and not for
many years has there been shown
such evidence of the appropriate for
all occasions Never has the walking
suit been more severely simple and
severe, yet a plain tailor costume new
er fails to be peculiarly smart. For
afternoon there is a richness of color
in all cloth and velvet costumes, but
nothing brilliant or glazing. Long,
trailing skirts, with sweeping, grace
| full trains, are seen on all reception
gowns, while the jackets also are long
and fitted to the figure just enough
J to obtain the best and most becoming
| lines. In the evening at ball or opera
white is once again much in evidence,
while the soft, pale shades Of yellow,
pink, green, blue and mauve make up
together an exquisitely delicate and
artistic color scheme. Perfection OF
details is of great Importance this
year, but more necessary than any
thing else is the fit of the gown or
coat. On these two points depends
the secret of all the charm and the
good style of this winters models
A BOUT the most interesting revela-
n ton made by a writer lately is
that the Empress Eugene is the
granddaughter of an American. True,
he was a naturalized American, but
there are few families of any kind in
the United States which can claim re-
lationship with a real, live empress.
The history begins with William
Kirkpatrick. He was small grocer
in Belfast and as thorough an Irish
man as ever lived. The best of his
countrymen were emigrating to the
United States, and so kirkpatrick sold
out and embarked for the golden west
He settled in New York, took out citi-
zenship papers, went into business
made a fortune, became a politician
and was rewarded with the United
States consulship at Malaga, in Spain
1t was there that he met a Belgian
grocer of wealth named Grevigny. The
eldest daughter of Grevigny became
Mrs. Kirkpatrick and grandmother OF
the future empress. Mrs. Kirkpatrick
sister married De Lesseps, father OF
the famous Ferdinand.
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1rAUDE ADAMS has been invited tc
Iu give two performances at Har'
ward University next June. Miss
Adams is to be congratulated on the
honor, bnt there are also some con-
CALCULATIONS to be given to the uni
versity.
VIZ ITH all the modern talk of the
w bondage of woman to he tyrant
man, the abundant admonition and ex-
hOrtation to the effect that all women
should live their own lives, firmly put.
ting aside the love which might hind
er, the ties which might hamper them,
the indutiable fact is that marriage is
and ought to be the chief end of wo-
man in general; that her primary mis-.
sion in life is that of wife and mother
True, it is not her only one; there is
much room, and more work, in the
world for women who have neither
husbands nor children. For only sup
pose all the women were married, by
whom would superfluOus babies be
cared? Where would be the kind aunts
who would knit all the stockings, and
nurses to do up the trottings and rock
ings?"
To be sure, modern science has abol-
ished the cradle as pernicious to in
fantile health of body and wind, and
hOme-knit hosiery is a thing OF the
past, nevertheless the principle is the
same, and the lines may be accepted as
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