Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 11, 6 Ianuali 1902 — Queen Dowager Kapiolani's Birthday. [ARTICLE]

Queen Dowager Kapiolani's Birthday.

January 31st was our most beloved Queen Dowager Kapiolani's birthday. The day was remembered by all those who loved her, who took up wreaths, of the ilimas and hala and maile and carnations, and several baskets of flowers to decorate her roystl casket. That was a sorrowful day in deed, for she had been a loving mother to all who knew her, and was always sweet in her ways and manners, and was always ready to help people who wanted aid, and she was the one who put up a large building for the people called the Maternity Home, which was one of her kind doings for her people, and this kindness will never be forgotten by them. Those who went up to pay their respects were Princess Kalanianaole, Princtess The-resa-Kaohelelani, the High Chiefess Keano, and Mr. J. F. Colburn, Mrs.'Colburn and children, Mr. Carlos Long, Mr. and Mrs. Keohokalole, Mr. Lilikalani, Mr. and Mrs. John Wise, Mr. Kaulukou, Mr. Hart and daughter, Mrs. Niau, Mrs. Muolo Laanui, Afr. Taylor and ot&ers. Most of her 0U 4 retainers were also up there with leis and flowers, and were chanting old historical meles. When she was a Princess, young and fair, She took up a royal crown, She never laid the diadem Of wife and mother down. The virtues of her womanhood Shall keep her memory green, When time has crumbled into dust The tomb of Hawaii's Queen. In every land, on every sea, The tears of Hawaii fall For her who takes her royal rest With pomp of plume and pall, Where splendid banners in gloom Display their silken sheen, The Queen and Mother of Hawaii. T. O. K. Mrs. Robert Wilcox is working hard for the Cable and also for a Hawaiian Revenue Cutter. The Home Rulers will hold their regular Thursday meeting at 7:30 at Foster Hall, Nuuanu street, Jan. 9, 1902. Mrs. Robert W. Wilcox is an -favor of bringing in Chinese for agricultural purposes, and she will work hard and send rcsoluticns to Congress through her husband, Delegate Wilcox. She will write a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt and explain to him the necessity of the Chinese laborers, and she will also write several letters to her numerous friends in Congress to aid her bill.