The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-22
, scene in the midst of the city

The wee clinging fingers frightened
And the blue eyes widened with fear;
But roughly the man treasured her
In words she could understand:
There amt nuthin goin' to hurt you!
Amt papa got hold O. your hand?"
But all thro' the petulant fondness,
Impatient, rebuking and stern,
The fatherhood rang like an anthem;
/ And this is the lesson | learn
For l am a child like the toddler
/ And I'm hearing the Father say:
Fear not any steep of the journey
Or pitfall along the way!"
And cen as the little one feared not
But held all the closer and fast
Serene with a sureness that trusted
| So clingeth my faith to the last.
His shield and His love are around me,
All dangers to safely withstand.
What harm shall ever befall me?-
The Father holdeth my hand!
Maurice Smiley.
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! II ashton played as large part in the
L everyday life of Egypt in 1900 B.
c. as it does in the goth century in
the midst of the social whirl," said
Prof Max Mueller, Psychologist, in a
lecture a short time ago.
"The women had their hair tonics
and their cosmetics, and considered
them even more important than such
things are considered today. They
had their fads and fashions of head
dress and hair dressing, and even the
modern pompadour and Marcel wave
were well known to Egyptian women
of style.
"The modern woman would consid.
er herself tortured indeed if she en-
dured the terrible wigs and head
dresses of the society leaders in the
time of Moses and Aaron. Both male
, and female vanity caused such suf-
fering as even the most ardent adj
mirers of the French corset and other
modern refnements of cruelty now
put up with.
"The Egyptians had a God of Cos
metics, whom they worshipped more
| than the sacred white cat. Painting
! the eyes was very important thing
in producing beauty but there is only
one case on record of woman paint
! ing her lips This is a caricature by
man who hated a certain girl so
much that he drew pictures hooking
| her.
"a great luxury of the age was the
smoke bath for women. This was talk
| I, or I,A hoo
and then bending over a brazier full
of burning Goals until as much smoke
had been absorbed as possible. The
Egyptians thought that smoked ladies
had a beautiful odor One enthusiast
tbs lover eXclaims in verse:
20 that | could be the washer of the
headcloth
Of my beloved.
For that l would take no pay; not
even for month.
when Bernard Shaw makes Cleo
patra recommend hair tonic to Gaze
sar the dramatist commits no anar-
chronism. They had many kinds of
hair restorers. The fat of a black
serpent was very good, while the
ground tooth or hoof or donkey boil
ed in oil was very powerful. If treat
ed with cooked dogs foot and dates
stones the hair would always grow.
The blood of the black OK cooked with
oil was especially recommended.
There was also known patent
medicine to make the hair fall out,
This was used by many women to
make their rivals bald, and the intri-
CUES in which this nice trick figured
would furnish plots for many a novel.
Fashions changed then as often
as now. Sometimes long sleeve were
worn. Then these went out and long
skirts instead of kits came in. 1t
was only the society ladies who dress
ed la mode Their garments were
very thin and the bodies shining
through were greatly appreciated.
ROOF GARDENS AND BEER.
Egyptian husbands were very
good. They liked to go to parties and
take their wives with them, and drink
ing was the favorite pastime. They
had their roof gardens. where they
drank beer, although this beverage
was not so popular with the elite as
wine or else the beer imported from
Assyria. Aside from going to after
noon teas and other parties the ladies
had very little to do. They placed on
their musical instruments, dressed
their hair and talked to each other
on frivolous subjects much as mod
ern ladies are sometimes known to
do
Fat was abominated by the Egyp-
tian women as much as it is admired
by modern Orientals. They did not
calculate beauty by the pound. Fat
ladies were not at all the rage. The
life the women led might have made
them fat if they had had decent food
but they were not at all spoiled in
this respect.
Beer was the national drink of the
Egyptians, who had their saloons just
as we have today in America, There
are many poems about the disasters
of the drunken man and not a few
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