Show THE PASSING OF OFA BY ELLA WHEELER EELER A PRINCESS WILC WILCOX X I L Th There re Is one name which spoken en In Honolulu or indeed in any part of the Hawaiian Islands brings a t ton ten n- n dor dol look to over every fact facia a look which Is like the reverent lifting of a hat That name namo Is 15 Kaiulani Born lorn of ot wealth and station reared with every advantage ad beautiful and beloved Princess Kaiulani passed early to the ro royal al mausoleum to sleep with her ancestors I walked one day in wide spreading ground under tho the shadow of lord lordly palms where here her childhood was spent Tropical vines in audacious colors flung bold arms about unresisting ing ng trees and mado aj oC r. r s strange Bloom Splendid peacocks cocks sw swept t down the spacious pa paths beside the e handsome white-haired white host as ho came to greet his guests Soft fountains played and refreshed the tho air with cooling sounds sound The month was February the tho weather Jol July Ve We r sat under a wonderful banyan tree made mD historic 1 by y the pen o of Robert Louis Stevenson Later we sipped tea te teIn In Jn a great room filled aith portraits of kings queens princes and princesses rulers and po potentates potentates po- po s all Interesting from a historical cal point of view but one oft ort repeated from childhood hood to young oung womanhood was WIS of ot peculiar and nd pathetic Interest Kaiulani l. daughter of our stately host Governor Cleghorn and his hh wife o sister of the late king Kaiulani was heir hell apparent to th the throne of Hawaii and she had grown from childhood to young womanhood thinking of oC herself as o 1 future queen I Governor Cleghorn had made I tl lH I magnificent estate what he deemed d a a. suitable home for tor the coming queen and he lie had s sent nt Kaiulani to Scotland and und England and France to educate her hera heras heras a as I befitted her position While she he hC was abroad tho the great reat change came to tho the Ha Hawaiian wallan Islands which turned them thom from a kingdom to a territory ot of I Ithe the United States Kaiulani was only a II young girl she sho I IWas was not a n philosopher or a a. deep student student stu stu- dent of ot altruistic forms of government and so the tho blow fell upon her with severity It destroyed her dearest hope h her r most cherished ambition and ond one year after annexation she sho died Everybody d tn n n Honolulu an anti and h In th I Hawaiian Islands Island loved 1 Princess Kalu- Kalu haul lani When sho she went away to Scotland Scot Scot- I 1 Jan land 1 to attend school Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in her album Forth from her land to lo mine she goes I The Island Islan maid the Island rose Light of or heart an and bright of face fact The fhe daughter of ot a double race I Her Islands here In Southern sun Shall mourn their Kaiulani gone I An And I I. I In her dear hear banyan shade Look vainly for tor m my little maid I But our Scots Scot's land far away SnaIl SHall glitter with unwonted da day An And 1 cast for once their tempests by Lr To 10 smile In eye ore And to these pretty prett lines lInos Mr Ir Steven Stoven Stevenson son appen appended ed this exquisite bit of prose more poetical than his poetry as al always always always al- al ways was wa h his Is prose Written in April to Kaiulani In the April of her hei- age and at Van Waikiki within with with- in easy walk of Banyan When she comes to my laud land and her fathers and the rain beats upon the win window o as aD I fear It will let lot her look at Gt this page It page it will be like a weed gathered and pressed at home and sho she will remember her Islands and the shadows of the tho mighty tree and she will hear tho the peacocks peacock's screaming In the tho dusk and tho th wind blowing In tho tie palms palm and she Zhe will think of h her r fath father cattier r I silting sitting there alone I That Thal was written ritten in In and 1389 1389 and the I father of ot Kaiulani still sits there alone As s wo we walked under the great banyan banyan ban ban- yan van tree and anh down the tho avenues bordered bordered bor bor- I dered by b wonderful palms and every specie of tree and mine and flowering I shrub grown 1 In 1 tho the tropics G GOvernor Cleghorn said softly I selected all aU these trees an and arran arranged ed these I for Kaiulani I wanted tho the domain to tobe tobe tobe be a n. rest home for her and these walls walks I to give Alve her cool shade hade In iii her prom prom- enad es I But only visitors walk now where slender feet trod for tor a a. few tow brief years I She dle died 1 of rheumatism of the heart her father said a year after II tho the annexation of or Hawaii You see lee I she site had been educated with the Idea J Jand and expectation of or becoming queen Sho She i iwas I J was the nearest In line lino and had been officially announced heir hell apparent arent It was hard hurd for all nIl lians to accept I the tho passing- passing of ot the monarchy even cven those who realized that it was Inevitable inevitable lt Ine able and for the tho best It was particularly particularly arh hard hartI for tor Kaiulani who ha had 1 been reared with the expectation of ot becoming becoming becom becom- ing our queen It might really be said that she of annexation Her Interest In life liCe passed with tho the monarchy I Everywhere were portraits of or Kalu- Kalu lanI She was beautiful as are almost all these daughters of a n double race The Polynesian blood bloo mingled with f that of or the English Scotch American or Irish Irian produces a peculiarly attractive attract attract- lct- lct lye ive typo type of or beauty beauly nn and education and andI culture ha had added their refining charm charm- to the young princess I As we walked down time the long avenues and out of ot the main thoroughfare followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by tho the haughty peacocks who seemed to want convincing proof that we were not loitering In the grounds s a n penetrating melancholy permeated the sunshine of or the tho brilliant da day and never did life lite speak more moro clearly of ot the transitory nature naturu of or happiness which Is based on human ambitions Later In tho the day we stood tood by the royal 1 mausoleum where Princess Kalu- Kalu lent lani lies burled buried beside her hel mother cn end and 1 her uncle the late lato king of ot the Hawaiian Hawaii an nn Islands and other members rs of ot the royal family and again tho the words of ol f th the P Persian poet came to And this too shall pass away Yet somewhere I am sure the sweet spirit of Kaiulani has realized Its dream arid and and somewhere she Is ascending thrones For each cach of or us In Gods God good time mu must t be given our hearts hearts' desire |