Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-18
Dr.. Francis E. Clark is Not So
Sure About Pot OF Gold, But
He Loves the Islands

would you find the end of the
rainbow? Then you must come to
Honolulu. Indeed, you might find it
In almost any one of the Hawaiian
Islands"
This is but one of the many glow
! ing tributes paid to Hawaii by. DR..
Francis E. Clark, founder of the
Christian End6aSor movement, In ah
article which he has written for the
Christian Herald. DR.. Clark recently
spent several months in Honolulu
and was guest OF honor at a number
of affairs. He later went on to the
Orient
His article, in full. is as follows:
81 viii net warrant that you will
also find the pot of gold that is said
to lie buried under the foot of the
rainbow; but almost any day during
the rainy season 1.-THE late fall and
winter months) you will see the bow
Of promise, and very likely. If you
are among the hills, you will find
yourself right in the rainbow, or that
its seven ribbons of color are such a
very little way off that you could al
most stretch out your hand and pluck
them.
Il am writing from Honolulu, and
as look off towards the hills Of the
Pail, that wonderful ridge of sharp,
green-clad peaks that separates sea
from sea, or up the beautiful Manoa
Valley, or over to the Tantalus hills,
| often see my rainbow, the same yet
ever new harbinger of hope. Some
times It is in the sky, sometimes ly-
ing low and hugging the foothills; and
IL 1 walk or ride in that direction /
can 90 right through II and come out
on the other side. The little showers
SO frequent during the rainy season
are often scarcely wet enough to
make you anfurl your umbrella If It
is tightly rolled up, and every little
downpour, Ii the other conditions are
right, brings out just as glorious an
arch as old Noah himself ever saw.
"But this isn't the only reason why
l call Hawaii Rainbow Land for
men and women Especially women) ),
boys and girls ESPECIALLY girls, flow.
ers and fruits, trees and shrubs.
clouds and sunset skies, seem to catch
the prismatic eolors,, of Noah's bow.
and reflect them back again.
1.-THE men and boys, it is true, are
scarcely rainbows, though our own
somber blacks and grays and browns
are often, and, in summer generally,
relieved by white cotton duck Or PAIN
Beach suits. Even ministers in tho
stateliest pulpits dare to preach in
spotless white instead of Immaculate
black The multitude of soldiers IN
gray-green khaki, the sailors in baggyI
white blouses and trousers, and the
German middies from the interned
warships-the sprucest and trimmestl
of all the many young warriors | see
upon the streets-all add their touch
of color to the scene.
But the women and girls! Ma
wordi' as my Scotch friends say,
aren't they rainbows? There go two
Chinese families of the richer class,
two, mothers, two older sisters, and
four little girls, and l counted seven
eolors among them, though each wore
but one. Dark blue and light blue,
lavender, orange, pink green and yell
low, all in one little bunch on the
sidewalk, and all clad IN beautiful
silks.
And there, on the other sidewalk,
is a Japanese servant girl no less bril-
liant, only all seven colors, and more
too, are in the big figures of her cot
ton dress and her gorgeous obi. Yeti
she doesn't look barbaric or loud, as
she goes Gathering along on her wood.
en- clogs, but perfectly in harmony