Desecration Of Papeete
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Beauty Spot
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, June 2.
rEE-LOVERS of Tahiti are broken hearted over the cutting down of a circle of beautiful, healthy, flam boyant trees that stood about the Pro testant Church at Papeete.
The more so, because these trees were planted 60 years ago by the Reverend Vernier, and were a stately memorial of that venerated patriarch of the church in Oceania, and of his three sons who car ried on his work with devotion and great honour.
Alas, however, there has been let loose on the islands an icy, Arctic spirit which looks with baleful eyes on all things beau tiful, as enticements of Satan to lure the unwary into the quick-sands of sin and eternal damnation.
That glorious circle of flaming splen dour resembled a garland—a scarlet gar land!
Scarlet, of course, suggests carnal abominations and recalls to memory that horrible woman of Babylon.
So the trees had to come down.
We are to be consoled by a more de corous adornment to be erected on the place of the martyred beauties: a drab and hideous wall of cement and rubble.
The engagement is announced of Cora Young, daughter of Mrs. Christine Young and the late Mr. Rupert Young, of Norfolk Island, to Lieutenant Albert Kleiner, United States Air Corps. Miss Young, who is a direct descendent of Edward Young, midshipman of the “Bounty,” will eventually make her home in Los Angeles.