The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-04
THE Iron AGE" OF PUNAHOU

one of the smallest, youngest and most
humble Of the splendid lot of Punahou
boys and girls with whom [ associated
at school some years ago.
- was shown the Blue Book few
days since, with the remark: we
girls. were always tender about om
ages, and you need not expect that
any of the old girls who We're of you1
age or older, viii attend the re-
ception of any old Punahou boy. /
replied: The boys and girls of Puma
hou never grow old. and are as young
in their hearts as ever
- | am quite willing to concede, as
I have probably experienced more
snowbound winters than anyone here
that / am the oldest of the crowd
present, but 1 am not Rip Van Win
kle, as | have brought my wife with
me- The old days of Puma hou in which
we lived were IN the Iron Age, and
+, when / meet or hear of the boys and
girls of that age, [ am filed will
wonder and admiration at their posi-
ton and success. They stand like the
Cedars of Lebanon or the Tower OF
Heshbon.
To Be Proud Of
owe are all proud of President and
Mrs. Alexander, who have just enter
ed into their Golden Age; Of the elo
quent and sanity Henry Parker, who
leads and guides the oldest and most
important Hawaiian body of Christians;
of Judge Dole, the former President
and Governor, the first and foremost
of our statesmen and politicians, who
reminds us. by his wisdom, of his
sanity father, the founder of Puma
hon School and Oahu College; of Mr.
I H. P. Baldwin, William r. Castle, S
NJ Damon, George N. Wilcox, Albert
s. Wilcox. Edward p. Wilcox, Dwight
Baldwin. Titus Munsun Coan, George
Dole, Nathaniel, Justin and Joseph 5
Emerson. James NJ. Alexander. Alber
+ Clark. julius and James Dudoit, Dl
, Blois Penhallow and William G. Irwin
and Reverenda John and Orramel Gu
+ lick and VIM. Gulick, and many othe
/ equally Well-known successful business
men, ministers, lawyers and statesmen
who are fitting representatives of tn,
! Iron Age of Punahou.
oOUlG are MISSED.
~ miss, too, many men and women
belonging to that age, who have beer
leaders at home and abroad. among
whom are Gen. Samuel c. Armstrong
Chief Justice 4. f. Judd, Samuel I
Alexander, Joseph p. Cooke, Henry NJ
and Rufus a. Lyman, Thomas Thurston
Henry NJ. Alexander, William w. Hall
Harvey Rexford Hitchcock. w. G. Hitch
cock, Henry r. Macfarlane. John NJ
kapena, Porter Green. Samuel Emerson
Theodore and Thomas Gulick and 9th
ers. We can say of all that they Tough
the good fight and finished their course
and left the impress Of their lives ]
this and other parts of the world W
especially miss our dear president, "
G. Beckwith, and his brother, Prof. Gee
Beckwith.
eve had coeducation in those dav'
and the most lovely and beautiful girl
in the world The Misses Judd, Patti
Cooke Alexander, Emma Smith Dilling
ham, Sarah X. Clark Lyman, Clar
Armstrong, Lucinda Severance, Juliet
Cooke Atherton, Mary. Annie and Emil
Alexander, Cornelia Hall Jones. Emil
Baldwin, Ellen Armstrong Weave
Emma Metcalf Nakuina and many oil
ers equally able and attractive.
The Work They Did
''When I left the Islands most
, our dear fathers and mothers were ally
and doing God s work with their abilit
and vigor which made the Hawaiia
nation a Christian nation, the motto
which was, "Ta Mau Ea O ka An
] IA Pono.''
. Il find on my return only one {
that noted band living, namely, de;
, Mother Rice, nnety-four years of ag
f who, with her faculties intact, ST
; prays for the peace of Jerusalem al
7 reioices in the progress of the worl
With this single exception, every OF
of our fathers and mothers who we
, living when I left Hawaii. and who co
! secrated their lives for the redempti,
| and salvation Of the Hawaiian peopl
now rest from their Iabors. I fiji
: everywhere the impress Of their liv
: upon the people of Hawaii throug
Il their sons. daughters. grandchildren al
great grandchildren.
= My Native Land.
] ~ am asked daily. How do the ]
k lands look to you on your returnq' N
! answer IS, they are perfectly lovel