The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-15
SOCIALEVENTS OF THE WEEK

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Maud Muller threw her rake away
Just as the judge was passing.
Said he: This work of raking hay
Is far below my CHASING.
I'll start a 'get-rich' school today
And advertise for scholars"
She did, and now instead of hay
Wise Maud is raking dollars
Chicago News.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has been the
hOnored guest at many mansions in
Honolulu since the celebrated writer
and Robert M Wilcox, whose wife Is
Ella Wheeler arrived in the Mongolia,
and the impressions the noted poetess
has gained will live long and favor
ably in her memory
Much as Roosevelt might enunciate
"dee-lighted" Ella Wheeler Wilcox
pronounced "s-s-splen-did' on return
ing to the comfy Hawaiian Hotel cot
tage from a visit to Mrs. Governor
Frear: Shes Splendid
Then Ella, sometimes referred TO as
"Our American humane poet and writ
er" found Princess Kawananakoa a
humane worker of great enthusiasm.
Truth to tell, the diaries of the Will
coxes are likely to contain much of
happy interest concerning impressions
received of Hawaii's charming Prin-
cess and others of the aristOcraCy.'
Colonel Samuel Parker, Mrs. Camp
bell-Parker, Governor Cleghorn, and
I 1T Z .ars
recorded as aristocrats.
| One of the first days here Mr.. Will
| cox called at the Office of the Hawaii
! Promotion Committee and on return
ing to the hotel cottage gave little
dissertation on the beautiful types Of
Hawaiian loneliness he had seen there
at Going further into details he de-
cared that the young ladies whom he
found in charge had impressed him as
exquisite examples of Honolulu beauty.
Of course Ella Wheeler had to go and
take a look see" She went she saw
and she was conquered
Ella Wheeler is very much in love
with Hawaii, as is Robert NJ. and they
have been gathering pictures to i'm
mortalize their impressions. OF course
they have taken in the sights on this
island and have been much entertain
ed.
1--WE have had good opportunity,
says Mr. Wilcox, for a real study of
early missionary work here, through
the people we have met" And then
he inquiries if there are any mission
aries here now, meaning, of course, as
he explained, whether Hawaii is still
considered a field requiring missionary
endeaYor.
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a playwright
as we'll as a poet and writer and her
latest, which she terms a curtain rails
er, goes under the title of Art Versus
Cupid" Lillian Randolph Desmond, a
sister sof Nance O'Neill appeared in
the playlet in Los Angeles and there
is a prospects of it being produced here
for some charity or humane work at
least there are many who are request
ing the author to put It on in Homo
lulu.
A few chosen Honolulu friends have
had a peek into the latest book of
verse by the Intuitional Ella, THE
Love Sonnets of Abelard and Heloise. '
These, as a noted critic says, are "the
immortal missives of the immortal
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox. a volume that is
at once a pleasure, satisfaction and a
demonstration that Ella Wheeler Will
cox writes today verse more subtle
and beautiful than she has written be
fore
Versatile is a feeble word to describe
the sweep of the Ella Wheeler Wilcox
pen. Read her "Abelard and HelOise'
and then listen to her declare that I'VE
need a new religion which will make
it impossible for self-respecting men
and women to go away from their
homes and leave dogs or cats with no
provision for their comfort No Won
der she is liked!
The elaborate preparations and the
interest taken in the arrangements for
the Fair being held this afternoon at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
J. Lowrey on Lunalilo street makes it
certain that it will be one of the great
est successes of the kind ever held in
this city The worthy object of the
undertaking Ito assist the milk fund
of the Palama Settlement has called
out the most liberal contributions in
time and painstaking handiwork on
the part of the ladies who have the af-
fair in charge
The fair will continue this afternoon
and evening. AS before indicated the
proceeds are to be used in the fund by
which a pure milk supply will be Sc
cured for infants of the poor, it being
recognized that through impure food
for infants, hundreds of little lives go
out annually 1t is one of the most
humane undertakings which the char
table people of Honolulu have ever
taken up.
The various departments of the Fair
are in the hands of the following com
mittees:
Ice Cream Mrs. Wells Peterson
Mrs w. e. Brown Madame Angus