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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-25
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THINGS ORIENTAL


japanese women are serene, smil.
ing and happy because for them fash
ions never vary and they have no brio.
a-brac in their homes. The Japanese
maiden has a cultivated sense for hue,
and her eye for color is carefully edu.
Gated by an intelligent contemplation
of the beauties of nature. She is
never at a loss or i'll at ease in society,
for her etiquette teachers have train
ed her to be perfectly self-possessed.
AS for her home, it contains only
those things which are very beautiful"
This is the opinion expressed by Mrs.
Marian Bacon, who recently returned
from a trip to Japan, where she has
been studying social conditions and
the art of the country in the Pitts.
burgh (Pa) Press. She says: when
you start furnishing your house, ELI
inmate all but the necessary and the
beautiful. Then go over all your
goods and chattefs and put away
everything except those objects which
unite the two requisites of real work
and artistic value. The American
people have started to pattern after
the Japanese in building their sum-
mer homes, and especially in furnish
ing the bedrooms. Many fastidious
people are having their bedrooms fit
ted up with such simplicity that only
the presence of a brass bed, a thing
not found in the Japanese house, be-
tokens the Western owner The Jap
anese lacquered floor is replaced by
highly polished tiles and the walls
are tinted a delicate soft color and
are painted in such a way that they
can be washed down from top to bot.
tom. A triple mirror and table or a
ohiffOnier replace the old-fashioned
bureau On this is the lacquer box
for brush and combs, which is FIRE.
quently made for the Japanese beauty,
and comes from abroad. All Japanese
women have these little boxes, usually
about foot long and two or three
inches deep. In this they place the
implements of their toilet and their
makeup; wooden combs, scissors and
pincers, camellia oil for the hair,
rouge for the lips and o-shiroi (beauty
water) of which they use more even
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-25
from The orIentaI Revlew.

than their Western sisters. One beau.
tiful print or picture of the moon is
feast for the eye which used to stray
over the weird assortment Of old-time
pictures, gradually finding their way
from parlor to bedroom in the evolu.
ton of the family taste"
Chinese Athletes.
That the Chinese as athletes must
hereafter be reckoned with by their
Occidental brothers is a fact that is
becoming more and more obvious. At
the Seventh Annual Conference Of
Chinese students in America, in Prln.
ceton IN. J.) on August cath, the en-
tire afternoon was given up to athletic
sports, and the Chinese boys played
various American games with skill
and enthusiasm. The feature was the
baseball game between the Princeton
High School nine and a Chinese team
composed of the delegates. The
American boys won by the score Of s
to G. The appearance of nine Chinese
ball players on the Princeton Univer-
sity athletic field was a signal for
loud applause and cheering from both
their fellow countrymen and the large
crowd of Americans who packed the
grand stand. Up to the sixth inning
the Chinese nine led, , to I. The
twirling of Il. w. Cheng, of Harvard,
was a real Chinese puzzle to the Anne
ricans. 1t was the erratic support and
weak hitting of his teammates that
spelled his defeat. NJ. Chung, who
played on the Yale 1913 team, was
easily the star of the game, driving
in three of the six runs with a "hom-
err and repeatedly killing Princeton's
chances to score by brilliant fielding.
The Chinese oratorical contest was
held in the evening Fifty dollars, the
gift of +. b. Drew, went to the two
best speakers. The contestants and
their subjects were: c. Wong, Els.
sence of Chinese Civilization" S. f.
Sun, Perseverance" S. p. Wo
Union Is Strength" T. G. Khan, AN
Appeal for Democratic Form of Gov.
ernment;" p. C. King, How to Els.
tablish Closer Relationship Between
China and America" Miss Y. J
Chang, of Welles College, who won
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-25
A MINNEAPOLIS EDITOR OWNS
A RARE COLLECTION Of BOOKS

newspaper a paragraph announcing as
ish Museum had secured the last let
ter written by Charles Dickens to his
most intimate friend, Charles NJ. Kent,
editor of the London Sun. and it de
scribed the qualification of the British
public over the preservation of such
valuable and interesting souvenir 1t
occurred to me that the first letter eN-
changed by those remarkable men
would be much more interesting and
significant than the lasN ones, SO in
structed a gentleman who often does
scouting of this kind for me, to see
whether he could obtain them. He
found Mrs. Kent, widow of the editor,
and persuaded her to sell not only the
first letters her. husband received
from Charles Dickens, hut several 9th
ers that had been carefully preserved,
including more than 100 autograph
acceptances from the most famous
men of that day to dinner arranged
by Mr.. Kent as a testimonial to Dick
ems on his departure for America in
1867 1t is curious that Kent hap
pened to preserve them, envelopes
and all.
Beginning Of Friendship.
The beginning of the remarkable
friendship between Charles Dickens
and Charles NJ. Kent was a communi-
cation of which Mr.. Jones showed ne
the original, which is addressed 70
the Editor of the Sun, Sun Office,
Strand" And the postmark is april
10, 1S4S, Thayer Street, Id paid" The
top of the letter is marked private, 4"
and reads as follows
'Mr. Charles Dickens presents his
compliments to the editor of the Sun,
CONTINUED on page nineteen)
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MAKES BRAIN SURGERY EASY

DIR. Charles l.. Danna, the we'll
known alienist, who is chairman of
the board of health committee of the
New York City club, sailed on the
Mauretania from England recently,
after an attempt to make some study
of the municipal government of Lon
don from health point of view. The
word attempt is used advisedly, as
he found an intricate system from
which it was almost impossible to
learn anything of value for New York
City.
ITO begin with the data found he
said, there is no board Of health
here, its duties being divided between
the London county council and the
Metropolitan asylums board, the lat
ter of which has charge of infectious
diseases, but some way or other Lon
don is run very well. l think it is be,
cause the people have such unusual ad'
ministrative skill and are honest.
81 found the administration of Lon
don so radically different from that
of New York that | do not think we
could learn anything from it, We GER
tainly could not adopt their system
for it is one of long growth.
Perhaps the thing th9 interested
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-25

me most here is the splendid work in
experimental physiology work done by
Sir Victor Horsly. He has a certain
intricate and skillful device by which
he can thrust an electric needle into
any part of the brain he wishes, there,
by being able to irritate and then
destroy any little cell he wants to,
thus working out certain functions of
the brain we never knew anything
about before and enabling us to local,
ize diseases of the brain. He has
been doing most brilliant work for
years past, giving many hours daily
to research, and now he is rewarded
with splendid results. Another great
work of his, and one which will inter,
est the medical profession all over the
world, is his discovery that the famous
anatomical landmark at the base of
the brain known as the Willis Circle
does not circulate at all.
While on the continent DR.. Danna
who is a great lover of pictures, visit
ed all the famous galleries and salons
coming to the conclusion that the best
young artists are in America, THE
young art of Munich is just pitiful as
compared with that of America" he
said.-Philadelphia Public Ledger,
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were what are today called "pterodac
tyle.' There were by far the most
perfect flying machines ever devised
by nature, being in this respect incom
parabIy superior to modern birds
even to the eagle or sky searching
condor. They had wings resembling
those of bats, with a spread in some
species of twenty-five feet or more;
their huge heads were hollow and
their bodies weighed so little that they
may be said to have fitted through
on fish, and lowered over the waters
with vibrating pinions while in pursuit
of prey.
Today the sea serpent is regarded
as a fabulous animal. In the age of
monsters, however, it was by no
means such. The mosasaur-a lizard
seventy feet or more in length. flercely
carnivorous, provided with huge pad
dies for swimming, and with lower
jaw so attached that it could open its
mouth enormously wide for swallow
ing-was veritable sea serpent. In
the cretaceous seas it ruled supreme
And one should by no means suppose
that it was a rare animal. A govern
ment palaeontologist, passing through
a valley i'm Wyoming. came across the
remains OF seven. all in sight at one
time; and Yale university at this
minute has bones representing no few
er than 400 specimens.
When a few years ago a life size
cast was made of an ichyasour-an'
other marine mesozoic reptile-for the
British museum twenty-siX men com
fortably sat down to dinner inside OF
the huge mold.
Having thus referred to the marine
reptiles inadequately, one naturally ar
rives at a discussion of the huge am
phibious creatures. such as the bron
tosaur which in that epoch inhabited
the river mouths and adjacent shores
of the Sea of Laramie.
Seventy-seven Feet Long.
Any visitor b the Museum of Nat
ural History in New York may see a
brontosaur-the skeleton a full-sized
speciment. that is to say. With the
addition of long whiplike tail a new
discovery. by the way, it probably is
seventy-seven feet long 1t occupies
nearly the whole of an immense hall
producing in the mind of the observer
CONTINUED on Page 22.)
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THE DAMAGE TO
NIAGARA FALLS

The millions of friends of Niagara
Falls who fear that water diverted for
the Erie canal and power purposes
will interfere with the grandeur of
the scene, will be interested in the re-
port of United States army engineers
to be submitted to Congress at the
coming session. This report shows
that the natural action of the water
the grinding away of the soft rock
shelf at the toe of the famous Horse
shoe-is what threatens most to dam
Iage the appearance of the falls.
The engineers, appointed by Mr..
Taft while he was secretary of war
under President Roosevelt, report that
according to scientific measurements
the entire change made in the crest of
the American falls owing to water di-
version amounts to a lowering OF the
sheet of water by .O.52 of a foot, the
lowering of the crest of the Horse
shoe being 3 of a foot. In figures
more ineligible this means that the
crest line of the American falls is
lowered five-eighths of an inch out of
an average depth of twenty-four
inches, the lowering of the crest of
the Horseshoe or Canadian falls be-
ing six inches out of an average depth
of seventy-two inches-a decrease so
slight that neither the keenest eye
nor the most delicate camera can OBJ
serve it.
The damage which the falls have
done to themselves is in the very
middle of the Horseshoe, where the
water has gouged into the soft rock a
twenty-foot deep V-shaped notch. This
acts as a channel which draws away
water from the shallower ends of the
falls and which is eating its way up
stream at rate of more than five feet
year
The report recommends that the
governments of the state Of Ne York
and the province of Ontario plan a
sunken V-shaped dam above the notch.
The swift-rushing water, striking
against the apex of this concealed
dam, will be DETECTED toward the ends
of the falls, and the falls will thereby
regain something of their original nat
ural appearance.
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new YORKS new GATEWAY

The port of New York is a costly
and inconvenient one to do business
in. 1t is old-fashioned. Wharf charges
are high, compulsory pilotage is ex.
acted, much drayage and lighterage
through congested streets and crowd
ed river are necessary. In Manhattan,
where the thrifty burghers of a cen
fury ago laid out exterior streets so
that the piers might belong to the peo.
pie, they have passed into private
control In old Brooklyn, where there
are no waterfront streets, freight is
more cheaply handled, but by ware,
house trusts.
A modern port such as Hamburg.
Buenos Ayres or Antwerp has abund-
ant wharfage space where any ship
can lie alongside a freight car of any
line and cargo can pass direct from
one to the other. New York has only
now taken the first legislative step
toward such improvements in the
Cullen Harbor act, which permits the
board of estimate to construct proper
water terminals as distinct from mere
docks. Next this bill in importance
are the canal terminal act providing
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-25
BY HELEN GREEN.

Annabelie--1ome dolls been calm
Gawge Weldon all mornin, which l
know in my heart Gawge has gave
her no encouragement ceptin' his
bein naturally alurin, an many of
us is that a'course hello? No, he
has not came in. l dunno. He was
last night, maddim, but that's got
nothing to do with who he's with to-
night, yunno? What? l am not
neither passin my province by gettin'
so familiar, also lemme tip you right
here that with my dyin' breath I'd
counsel Gawge to withhold notice
from a party with sech pettish ways.
The ideer!
Law, dearie, 4 hope l blow this job
soon, fur rully I git that bored by re.
plyin to EN- l got no intrust left in
life. A CELL degenerates inta per-
feet old cluck eff she stalls around
one these drums while. What's dom
with yer lip, dearie? It's all cut?
Myrtle-Aain't it dretful? ! was
took ridin' in Mista Walbaum's moo
sixty last night, an talk about speed!
He had me pullin' leather before we
hit Jerome avenoo, an we was throw
ed completely out comm home Dog
gone the luck, Everybody round the
shop thinks Bill hit me. but leave 'em
think eff they wanta, only hate bein'
placed where l look like a cheese
don't yuh?
Yuh kinnot keep nothing sacred in
this here burg, not eff yer promnunt
an suttenly my position since they
gimme lines is bound to get the spot
but a CELL oughta have some privacy
An it kinnot be.
Annabelle - My dream is bein
caught up with by Russian Duke OF
sumpin, wearin' a heavy black beard
an the mystery of the frozen steppes
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THE TROUBLES OF
TWO WORKING GIRLS

in his cold proud face an when I amt
drivin' my team of moujiks down the
Nevski Prospekt I'll be dealu vodka
to the pore oppressed peasants of his
great estate an wonderin' who was
divorced last week in dear old Nyawk.
oh, where is the brave bold days Of
yore, when knights was friskin ladies'
fur their gloves an hidin' EN- clost
to manly buzzums? We could got
some pleasure outa Twin stead Of
feelin like nothing but layin' Oh a
sofy an havin' yer highbalis plped
in! want sumpin' stirrin, sumpin'
upliftin', dearie. in place OF these
Broadway rumances beginnin with
the seckind pint an dyin' when the
day shift of walters is comm on
watch.
Fur all to me is sere an yella,
though 1 did git a letter yestiddy
where Frank said rather would he
wander with me, lotus eatin' through
the asphodel meadows, beyond which
glints the hyacinthine seas, an in a
fur, dear land encounter peace.
Acourse it makes a swell bunch eff
yer shown it TO any one, but he's
only DRAWN thirty a week an got his
mothers fiat rent to pay, an COney
islands the only asphodel meadows
he kin buy a broad to. DO yuh s'pose
theys any opulent prospectors left
in Alaska, dearie?
Myrtle-Ef they are, yuh gotta pay
duty on 'em to the Guggenheim broth
ers before startin outside. An it
takes s'long to mould one them sour
doughs inta what we're ust to that
yer liable to git sore an put a pill
in his cruel some eveuin. No, Bella,
I've gave all them schemes reelection,
an more an more realize what Ned
Green's up against.
Annabelle-Itd be soft enough to
Continued on Page 22)
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(From the washington Starr

(FTOm the Washington Starr
ct was Mr.. Curtis habit to prepare
his matter ahead of publication, the
result of necessity, inasmuch as he
was often travelling, sometimes in far
distant lands, and with untrustworthy
communications behind him. 1t is a
tribute to his careful method that his
copy" never failed, and now at the
several letters prepared and revised
by him and supplied in advance of the
dates assigned for publication in &C
cordance with the custom of years.
The Star feels that these letters be-
long to its readers and that they
should be printed just as though Mr..
Curtis were living. 1t will therefore
continue until the end is reached the
publication Of this series of Curtis
letters" despite the fact that death
has fallen so swiftly to put an end to
a career that has few parallels for
usefulness.)
(By William E. Curtis.)
was talking about rare books with
H. V. Jones, editor of the Minneapolis
Journal, when he suddenly whirled
around in his chair, assumed the atti-
tude of devotion before large safe
and began to twirl the knob of a com
bination lock one way and then an
other. After he had opened a mas
sive door he drew from an inside com.
partment a thin, black volume beau.
tifully bound, regarded it reverently
for moment, busted it with his hand.
kerchief and handed it over, saying:
81 take, more satisfaction in that
than in anything else in my collec
ton, both for what it is and for the
way happened to get it, About four
years ago / noticed in an English
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-25

the first prize last year. was one of
the judges.
The Dwarfing Of Trees.
In Japan the nursery trade is dvid-
ed into two great sections, one for
the cultivation of plants for export,
which are grown on the same prin-
Ciple as those in this country, and one
for plants for home trade, which lat.
ter are of an entirely different class
The art of dwarfng plants is little
known in other lands. Pines, which
may be considered as the most i'm
portant OF the trees Of Japan, the more
popular being the Pinus densifora,
Pinus passifora and Pinus thunbergii,
are dwarfed thus: Generally grown
from seed, great care is taken to Sc.
lect the choicest specimens. In the
spring of the second year, when the
seedlings are about 8 inches in height
they are staked with bamboo canes
and tied with rice straw, the plants
being bent in different desirable
shapes. The next autumn they are
transplanted to a richer soil and well
fortified. In the following spring the
plants are restaked and twisted and
tied in fanciful forms. This mode
of treatment is given until the seventh
year, when the trees will have assum.
ed fairly large proportions, the branch
es being trained in graceful forms
and the foliage like small clouds OF
dense green. The plants are now
taken up and potted. Every succeed
ing year great care must be taken OF
new shoots, which must be kept pinch
ed back After another three years Of
this treatment the trees are virtually
dwarfed, there being no visible growth
after. The dwarfing of bamboOs is
managed thus: Three weeks after
bamboo shoots begin to grow, and
when the trunks, measure about eight
inches in circumference and five feet
in height, the bark is removed, piece
by piece, from the joint. After five
weeks, when the plants get somewhat
stout, bend and tie the stem zigzag
and after three months, when the side
/ shoots grow strong enough, cut then
| all off five or six inches from the mali
J Continued on Page 22)
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Strange Monsters That
Once ROamed The West

NEW YORK, Oct 30.-Recent addi-
tons to the New York museum OF ma
tural history go far toward completing
the picture of life in the far west dur
ing the age of monsters.
Transported backward over 10000
600 years Of intervening time, the OBJ
server finds himself standing on the
shore of the Laramie sea, in locality
which today might be Converse coun.
ty, Wyo. He looks out over a seem
ingly limitless expanse of water, above
the surface of which rise many isl.
ands.
The Sea of Laramie, indeed, is shall
low, and might rather be termed a
string of vast brakish water lakes eX,
tending northward from Mexico far in,
to Canada. AS yet there are no Rocky
mountains The climate is like that OF
the middle eastern states today, with
green forests and a luXurience OF
other vegetation.
1t is the epoch of the dinosaurs, the
strangest creature that ever inhabit-
ed the earth. They were not merely
a species or a genus but whole order
of repties-some of them as much as
eighty feet in length and weighing
forty-five or fifty tons, while others
were no bigger than modern house
cats. The dinosaurs which made the
famous fossil bird tracks" in New
England sandstones must have been
about the size Of setter dogs and
walked kangaroo fashion on their hind
legs.
Reptiles Ruled.
Reptiles ruled the whole of North
America in those days. They roamed
the land, swan the waters, and even
flew in the air What makes the Lara
ME sea especially interesting in con
nection with them is that its shallow
waters swallowed up great numbers OF
them, and it's muddy bottom, eventual
1 ly transformed into rock, preserved
their remains for the wonder and in
struction of a later age At the pres
ent time in Wyoming certain exposed
strata running for hundreds of miles
along the mountain cliffs are found tC
be filled with dinosaur bones. These
strata, known as "dinosaur beds" OF
Laramie beds" represent the silt an
GENTLY deposited on the bottom of the
/ braltsh Sea of Laramie,
1t is hardly necessary to say thai
the reptiles which flew in the air
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money to live on. If you do find such
a man his success has been greater
than you, who have had to work, for
he has had greater obstacles to over
come.
The president decried the spirit of
intense partisanship in college sports
and pleaded for applause for the good
plays on the other side. He said he
loved baseball, but he disliked the
professional games to see the visiting
team made the victim of boots and
yells and cat calls in order to put them
at a disadvantage. President Taft
said that American colleges did not
cultivate as they ought a study of
manners. Americans in this respect
had much to learn from the Latin
races, he declared; they feel they have
to be outspoken and even uncourte-
Gus. .ru,-, e.
Heaven save me from candid
Friend" exclaimed the president, amid
lughter. Life is not made up of
rand stand plays. A man cant be a
Zero in his family u the time. It's
he little details that go to make up
your value as family companion"
The program for the presidents en-.
tertainment here included breakfast
at a local hotel and luncheon with the
Young Mems Republican Club.
A unique decoration at the break
fast was a live eagle in a tree, direct
ly opposite the presidents table.