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4 F. Letson. Mrs. Phoebe Hill. Mrs.
Ella F. Osborne, Mrs. Anna Hustace,
Mrs. Robert y. Corbaley. Mrs, Edwin
Farmer, Mrs. Lawrence, Mrs. Wood
ford. Mrs. E. Faxon Bishop. Mrs. Jen-
ME E. Gurnsy. Mrs. Iwalani Dayton.
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One of the largest benefit entertain
ments OF the winter will be next week
when the Players All-Star Company
will appear for the benefit of the army
and navy relief fund. Mrs. Wilmot
E. Ellis is the chairman OF the COM
mittee for Fort Ruger's contribution
TO the fund this year. Monday. Tues
day and Wednesday nights the Bijou
theater will be decorated for the occa-
sion The little uniformed boys from
the Honolulu School for Boys will be
asked to assist in the ushering and
selling OF army buttons attractively
tied with the artillery colors. Among
those who have kindly consented to
act as patronesses are:
Her Majesty Queen Liliuokalani,
Mrs. G. B. T. Moore. Mrs. ". Fl. Car
ter, Mrs Charles Bromwell, Mrs.
Francis H. French, Mrs. ]. B. McDon-
aid, Mrs. +. +. Reynolds, Mrs. Gerrlt
=. Wilder. Mrs. c. B, Cooper, Mrs. L..
T. Peck, Mrs Walter Dillingham;, Mrs.
Walter F. Frear. Mrs. c. Montague
Cooke, Jr., Mrs. f. D. Tenney. Mrs.
Helen Noonan, Mrs. Charles Chilling
worth, Miss Helen Alexander, Mrs. D.
& Case, Mrs. c. Hedemann, Mrs. Ar
thur Wall, Mrs. A. Lewis, Jr., Mrs.
William Montrose Graham, Mrs. Harry
Macfarlane, Mrs. Gustave Schaefer,
, Mrs. Harrison Hall, Mrs. A. l.. Castle,
Mrs. G.. w. Case Deering, Mrs. A. F.
Conklin, Mrs. II. r. Hayselden. Mrs.
+ NJ. Swanzy. Mrs, Charles S. Crane,
Mrs f. R. Ayers, Mrs. H. Mckay Har'
| riSon
x - -
1t is emphasized that the benefit en-
tertainments OF the Fort Shafter and
the Coast Artillery branches of the
Army Relief Society are entirely sepa
rate, though the proceeds are devoted
to the same general purpose.
The Coast Artillery's entertainment
takes the form OF performances by the
Players All-Star Company at the Bi
jou theater on the nights of Decem
Der %, 20 and 30.
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Army Relief Benefit at Fort shafter.

Army Relief Benefit at Fort shafter.
The Fort Shafter branch Of the
Army Relief Society is making great
progress with its plans for the blg
masquerade ball to be Siven on jan
uary II at the post hoproom for the
benefit Of the funds Of the society,
Col. l.. W. V. KennCn has most kindly
promised the ladies' in charge OF the
ball the presence of the fine band of
the 25th Infantry in full strength ana
the md infantry band will be On hand
with a program of dance music that
will include the very latest mainland
successes. These two bands will alter
nate in playing and the dancers Will
have their fill of splendid music and
the two rooms for dancing will accom-
modate the large number that tht
advance sale Of tickets assures will ne
present. Airs. Francis H. french, at
the head Of the management has APP
pointed her committees and the per
sonnet of these important groups IN
cludes the most energetic Of the ladies
at the post Mrs. B. Walker Atkinson
heads the important supper committee
ana MIS-. MICndSl j. Lehman " III i'iN"
age general arrangements OF rooms
and decorations, while Mrs. Erneste V.
Smith will have charge Of the d1strI-
button and sale Of tickets. Each OF
the heads has enlisted the services or
numerous ether matrOns and girls OF
the garrison so that all may have a
chance to aid in the outcome. The
management will actively aid the ar
tilfery ladies in their proposed theat-
rical offering and will in turn expect
Ruger, De Russy and Kamehameha to
be present en- masse at the Smarter
bah. While the object of both affairs
Is the same, the Fort Shafter branch
desires that it be made known that
the parent society expects each branch
to accomplish its efforts singly and
therefore Shafter people are counting
on the novelty and general opportun
ity for pleasure Of their ball to ap
peal to all their friends. The ladies
in charge of the supper that will be
served continuously throughout the
evening have insisted that the supper
be included, lin the admission price fol
the ball and as that price has been
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BIG NIGHT AT
WAIKIKI INN ON !.
CHRISTMAS EVE

Special arrangements have been
made for; a donce to be giv-
en- at the Waikiki Inn on the evening
of December "a. Special privileges
have been granted. permitting the gale
ties to extend past the usual closing
hour. There will be special music.
Orders for the reservation of tables
for the eyening should be sent in now,
as the management expects a large
numhl n Of patrons on this occasion
Adv
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ENDORSED CHARITABLE
SOCIETIES SHOULD CALL
AT CHAMBER FOR CARDS

A large number Of the charitable
and benevolent organizations In Ho-
nolnlu have received the Endorsement
of the Chamber of Commerce as being
worthy societies. The endorsement
cards now are in possession OF Ray.
mond G. Brown. secretary of the
chamber, who requests. through the
Star-Bulletin, that they be called for
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The Library of Hawaii viii be
closed Thursday evening and Christ
mas day. The reading room will be
open from 2 to p. m, on Saturday,
but books viii not be given out.
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as early as possible by the organiza

as early as possible by the organiza-
tons. g.. - ....
The only organizations which have
received their cards are the Palana
Settlement and the Honolulu School
for Boys, which have been endorsed
for $4,000 and $1,000 respectively.
These amounts represent the money
needed by these organizations to COW
er their expenses from now until the
end OF their respective fiscal years.
As result of the European war, toy
factories at Birmingham are running
twenty-four hours a day. !.
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Another Moana Dinner-Danee.
Announcements have been sent, out
fer another .dinner-dance to be given
at the Moana Hotel on Saturday, the
18th of December. Society gathered
at the first Of these affairs two weeks
ago and it was so enjoyable that again
they will flock to see Marco Wolff
and his dainty and entertaining sis.
ter, Fanchon. perform. e..
j -..-'- - - .@--4
The beautiful home of Mrs. Charles
T Gulick On Quick avenue, Kalihi,
was the scene of the renewing of old
. friendships yesterday afternoon, the
+ occasion being the fiftieth anniversary
of Mrs. Gulick's arrival in the islands,
when she came as the bride of her
first husband, J. Thompson. H. i.
Miss Agnes Mcintyre and Mrs, w
| A. Bryan were hostesses, having in.
vited number of Mrs. Gulick's old
| friends to tea. Baskets of roses and
' maidenhair fern were artistically ar
ranged in every nook and corner until
the home was perfect bower, and
i the same flower was used on the tea
tables which were placed on the large
lanai. Mrs. A. F. Letson and Miss Ku
lamanu Ward assisted Mrs. Bryan and
bliss Mcintyre with the refreshments
Among those who called were Hel
Majesty Queen Liliuokalanf, Mrs
Walker, Mrs. V. Ward, Mrs. Robert
Halstead, Mrs. A. H. Lakeland, Mrs
Robert Lishman, Mrs. Agnes nj
Creighton, Miss Mary Lishman, Mrs
Andrew Fuller, Mrs. George Ewart
Miss Agnes Judd, Mrs. L. L. McCand
less, Mrs. A. H.. B. Judd. Mrs. James
is McCandless, Mrs. o. II. Gulick
Hiss Julia Gulick, Mrs. j. NJ. Atherton
Mrs. B. F. Dillingham;, Mrs. Clare
Williams, Mrs. William Emory, Mrs
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Benton-the japanese venus-on little
island. Merry crowds were fiocking by
chattering, wondering at the vast IL
Elimination, and 1 stood by the little
temple to watch them, something
love to do, so much honest. simple en-
joyment I find on their faces and so
much that Is touching in their family
groups.
heard the rattle of coin, the sound
of the gong, the Jingle of the bells and
there before the shrine with hands
clasped and head bowed stood woman
OF middle age. In an instant sh, was
gone, had fled across the crowd to her
own little group that seemed hardly
to have missed her. What woman's
wish had she laid before the goddess?
At Port Arthur 1 stood by the
| supremacy touching shrine to the $4,000
Japanese dead who fell before the for
tress in the great siege. Their ashes
lie under the stones you tread upon.
1t was a morning Of balmy air and
floating mist that wrapped the hill
around and made a circle of airy wraiths
that scanned crowdlng to shut 1t in
from sight OF the valleys below.
The tramp. tramp Of heavy boots fell
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not intensely and stimulatlngly national
like Shinto so it had to suffer priva-
tons in line with its original severity
of sacerdotal abnegaton. 1t grumbles.
but 1t has taken to proselytizng with
| some vigor In places on the lines, curl
| ously enough. of the Y. NJ. C. A.
| SO. between the two religions, often
lintermingled, Japan looks after its soul.
II have seen two votive shelves, one
Shinto, one Buddhist, in the same hum
BILE house, both carefully tended. For
Shinto, one of the great eXpounders
Hirata, wrote: Learn to stand in awe
| OF the Unseen, and that will prevent
you from doing wrong. Cultivate the
conscience implanted in you then you
will never wander from the Way"
And that, at least In theory and largely
in act, is the base OF the japanese
mans attitude 10 his religious beliefs;
| the women are more given to precision
in tenets and to oopiousness and fire.
quency in prayers and invocations.
| OF the higher Buddhism not many Of
the mass of Buddhists of Japan are
laware. AS Lafcadlo Hearn in effect
puts it: "There is but one Reality. The
consciousness is not the real self. Mat
ter is the mass of things that we see
and feel created by force of acts and
thoughts. All existence is made by
Karma-the present the creation of the
past, and present and past together
make the future" And then there is
the succession of lives and the hope Of
the attainment Of Nirvana. which Is not
a heaven but an eternal passionless
calm.
No, they have little Of this in popular
| To- Ia a rinhar
belief In the light of the Eternal
Buddha. which is a godship to which
they themselves may attain by force Of
good deeds
| When we remember as one should
constantly in thinking of the japanese
people, how they were for centuries
dragooned into law and order and
habit and custom under repressve
sumptuary edicts, all created for making
safe and easy the iron rule of the
daimios, we may see how they would
| take refuge in a religion that gave them
the keys of the next world. With this
crushing pressure removed and law and
order placed on self-supporting bases a
change might be expected. 1t Is found
in a growing agnosticlsm prevalent
among the pupils of the colleges and
higher schools. All but the ancestor
worship is weakening in young Japan
That clings because of its appeal to
national hope and desire. and Is indeed
a mode of subtle self worship.
| But there is plenty of outward dis
play of religion. l have instanced the
pilgrims. To Ise. the master shrine OF
Shntoism, where the Emperor goes on
occasion to worship his ancestors-tht
gods-go also perhaps a million pill
grims in a year. There is whole towr
, that lives on entertaining them and
selling them mementos. The pilgrimage
. may largely be sightseeing inst!tu
ton, but It Is a faith feeder as well.
One summer night at Uyeno Park II
Toxic, where the exposition is now hold
: ing. the whole landscape-grounds ant
|, buildngs-one blaze of electric lighting
, came upon the shrine OF the goddess
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parents, for instance, are godlike spirits
devoted to a constant care for their de-
scendants and must be worshipped and
honored with offerings every day for
the good they are doing for you, and to
fend off the harm they may mete on,
to you II offended. They can be terrible
when they please. these family gods,
so forget not to pay due homage daily
1t has a great array of subsidiary gods
the elementary gods-fire wind, thunder,
water, with many home keeping kindly
deities who are invoked and honored
with thought, the seven gods OF
felicity. the god Of good women. the god
of the oven, the god OF the fields, the
rice god and whatnot.
Shinto involves no moral code. 1t pre-
supposes morality in the worshippers
Morality Is a civil affair. It's temples
and shrines are simple of construction
Without, at a little distance, Is the tori,
a typical two pillared gate with two
crosspieces at the top, one just the
width between the pillars, and the Other
wider and curving slightly upward
within, a single bronze mirror in the in
ner chamber that only the priest sees
and emblematic of truth and purity
In the outer hall, a drum, a gong, a
rack on which are paper strips telling
which gods are particularly honorec
there. Very simple of ritual, too.
1t has nearly 200 900 shrines, great ant
small, in the empire. In every village
there is one. It's little court playground
for the children. Often in the country
one notes clump of trees in the fields
with a small tori at the edge and the
caves of a little temple showing. Thithel
the people go in the summer evening
to meet and amuse themselves for an
hour before the early bedtime.
Buddhism came to Japan some LOO
years ago 1t took over Shintoism In
way: has manifold ritual. and Is ricf
in moral precepts, has gospel OF mercy
and life sparing. and high philosophy
of life with temples full of statues, en-
blems and adornment. 1t enriched
Japan with art from India, China an'
Corea, gave a warmth to life, even II
| its own degeneration, and Its taking on
many gods and goddesses like kwan
non the merciful and the terrifyine
| Deva kings, who are anrighting TO eVi
spirits only. and the two guardian dog
OF Fo with curly tails. one with IN
mouth open and the other the moutf
| shut, i have learned not ~ iauS" "
any sincere religion. but sometimes on
discreetly smiles-a la Japonaise.
Since the Mikado came to his own II
1868 Buddhism has been disestablishe'
as a state religion. 1t must live upoi
the offerings of the faithful or the pro
ceeds of its own property by sale o
rental. Some of its temples remail
wealthy. but the majority OF Its owe
90 900 edifices are much reduced Il
means and consequently in monks
nuns. priests and attendants. At MIX
a nice old priest asked me II l woul
not like to hire a little temple for tn
summer-"very cool and roomy wit
running water on the premises and nc
very dear"
II Buddhism. besides being absorbent Q
too much material riches. was not IN
religion for q militant people. II wa
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Between Two Religions, Shinto and
Buddhism, the People Look After
Their Souls--Many Great Temples

happy they standing there should be IL
called on to follow them.
SO they stood for perhaps ten seconds
profoundly stirred. Then they moved
slowly to the edge Of the platform and
looked down the slope while the officer
explained some thrilling step in the
mighty conflict OF ten years ago. Here
was Young Japan making its vows of
patriotism afresh.
One morning in May I was at the
Kudan shrine of Toxic, sacred to all
the dead of all the wars Of the Meiji-
comprehensive shrine indeed. 1t is a
mighty, impressive fame. with the great
est of all tori in bronze before 1t. You
look through the first temple across a
quadrangle to a great structure beyond
only those related to some one who has
laid down his life for his country can
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highest authorities, as at Use for the
Emperor himself. In the Buddhist tenn
Piles there is on the contrary wealth
of carving and coloring. The under sides
Of the caves are painted daintily in
many colors, light green prevailing.
but the carving and decorating without
and within have no limit
The great bells, indeed the temple
bells Of all grades, are things that have
their part in the religions OF Japan.
Many are very large; most OF them are
very old. There are no chimes; they
| do not ring as we think of ringing.
They boom. One loud, long stroke that
| sings and thrills on the air and dies
down to a murmur as OF bees; then
silence, and then, and only then,
another boom. At the sound all within
Its reach will pause and listen for 1t
speaks to them in language they
understand; tells them of time and tide
or circumstance. 1t must mostly soothe.
| for most men and women smile little
when they hear ii. Only when 1t sounds
an alarm are the strokes close together:
| then the whole town arouses.
OF the modern Shinto temples the
Heinjin gu at Kioto was built twenty
years ago to celebrate 100 years of the
| c!ty's history and in honor of the En-
perOr Kwammu, who made kioto his
| capital. 1t is very vast and bare. The
pillars are red. 1t has fine gate called
Otimmon. and the temple itself is calle
Daikyokuden. IL is set on the plain an
depends on its dimensions for its mai
esty.
But the great beauty of the temple
shrines Of Japan derives in large part
from their hillside location. No such
lofty structures as the Gothic cathe-
drais OF Europe are to be expected. The
religious architects of Japan wrought
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the eldest. the youngest, the pet of the
family? God knows. 1 turned away,
for tears were in my eyes too.
At Nikko | had another and differing
experience of popular piety. 1t was on
n second visit TO the Iyeasu Honden.
Well talk Of that shrine hereafter.
Our party noted signs of preparation
for service. Priests were going and
coming. bamboo screens were rolling
up. We chatted with a priest whom
we had met on our first visit. 1t Is an
inner portion of the temple to which
smart admission price is charged
priests must live.
party Of sixty pilgrims, well to do
merchants from Osaka who had made a
handsome lump Offering. were expected
every minute, and they were to have
the best. All the preparations were
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your behest, or at least take 1t under
consideration, II you wear certain KIM
of string around your neck and little
tablet tied to 1t. Superstitions natural
ly abound under such conditions, ana
the roster OF the queer things the peas
ants will or will not do unless every EVIL
influence is ont OF sight would remind
us at once OF the similar things that our
own people regard as lucky or unlucky.
1t all marks back to an earlier day, when
these LETT handed peliefs went the ROUND
of the world In the wake OF the worship
OF sun, moon ana stars. III Is, OF course,
certain that Japan worshipped the sun
and the moon. but they seem only TO
have differentiated the milky way from
the rest OF them.
Religion, however, In its true services
able sense, Is alive In Japan. Those from
the west who miss the regular gather
ings for Sunday services may think
otherwise. but they are mistaken, as
little observation will show.
A mighty witness to the live religios-
ity of rural Japan exists at Kioto. The
Higashi Hongwanjl temple has been re-
built within twenty years. 1t was known
that ropes of the very greatest strength
were needed to lift and hoist the great
'OiuiiilS anu IOOPVTte tlinDtTS into
place. and some zealot proposed that II
be OF human hair, which makes the
strongest rope OF all. The response was
enthusiastic, and 10000 women Of a
single province sacrificed their beautiful
dark tresses to the needs of the great
Buddhist shrine.
The rope that performed its task
without n break Is shown on the temple
grounds to-day. 1t is closely woven, 221
feet long, 10 inches in circumference
and over four inches in diameter! One
| touched its lustrous coils with rever-
ence; 1t meant so much sacrifice; so
many wishes from the deeps of the hui
| man heart went with It. You can see
| the woman kneeling before the family
Buddhist shrine, the shining length of
her dark locks lifted in both hands and
on her lips the prayer 80. Eternal
| Buddha, in thine enlightenment will
thou not see for me and find for me
the way of my hearts desire!" And
10000 such women, so praying in one
province: think of it!
| But the temples themselves, which
stand ever open and invite the way
farer, how do justice to them in half
an article? You do not do II in a dozen
articles, but one may lay down a few
general, brief observations, then tell
something of few that one has seen.
have been over temples and looked
into shrines almost without number, and
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Know nothing jollier than a crowd
Of japanese pilgrims on their way
to one of the great shrines or
temples. There may be from so
to 200 Of them OF all adult ages and both
sexes. They are generally villagers
from one or group of contiguous VII
lagos.
They are dressed in their poor best
they are all scrupulously clean, and
arc having the time of their lives. They
travel third class on the railroads, led
by one elderly bellwether of the flock
one who has made the pilgrimage be-
fore In al else but the railroad trip
they 60 afoot for miles and miles. taking
the loy" valley paths or climbing the
plentiful hills ndifferently, and do II
all rayrrfuly.
They put up over night at the poorest
inns aud I've on the plainest food, and
Whatever coin they carry 1t includes
goodly supply Of the very smallest coins
-thuS" ot one-tenth of half an Ameri-
can cent. These are for the temple Of
ttr.nS- recalling DR.. Johnson's sarcas-
uc-aud probably unjust definition OF
the hHlf farthing-one-eight of a
penny "a coin designed to enable
Scolchm.u TO subscribe to charitable in
Sutunuus"
In front Of all shrnes and temples
Shn'" Hr buddhist, Is large contribu-
ton box with wooden gratings on the
top. 10 90 is a Shinto shrine the pill
grim '"-."s in his or her coin, takes
h"lH OF dee gong rope and rings, then
OF Tho mall jingler bell rope and
SOUNDS .f claps hands to attract d.
,Ar attention, joins palms and bows
h'"i u""ling the proper pious invo'
'al"r u' wish, and it is all over.
d. '.r * ukagu hillside shrine at XII
o." OH. ".al priest was explaining its
Nf3. '1 "A crowd of about a hundred
P's'W. The coins were dropping and
'"' . was ringing continuously
Nhrn tf the rear a local guide, wh'
W.-'. fr"Ncrcntly be called the barker
Oh '" ,.y place, suddenly called out:
III 'u want to see the Lover;
Leap whore the two honorable lover
P'hi hand in hand to death, conn
over '..s side"
Ih 1 'Winkling the whole crowd hat
N''''. 4 the shrine, and were gains
IN RAPTURE down the cliff. Their re
"+''a s.. nevertheless, ingrained, what
'l. ' may he, and it ofrenest combine
Hu.'.' with one Of the sects OF Bud
ui.H n involves little ritual on the
p"'. ". 'No people. The priests atten
TO '. That, and the Buddhist priest
I'.. 100 uncndng series of offices tC
pert Im
'".. the Way Of the Gods-is tn
cult of Japan. 1t is founde
-" 'or worship. 1t derives fror
''' h '1ddcss, whose direct descend
an ' n'lod the Mikado throne sine
'"' ".r ancient times and who als'
.. .'i1cr of the entire Japanes
prur..
!" '.np therefore the past mem
ny'S .. ..v race are all gods (Kam) an
'0i ular way ones own fore
''0'7' o"rs deceased parents and grand