The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-02
DISSIPATION.
(From tie CAicago Tri6une.)

(FrOm the Chicago Tri8une.)
want TO see an EDITOR said a slim
young man who wore very tight pants, a hat
about the size and shape of a peanut shell,
and a collar that seemed to be always reach
ing for his chin without quite getting there,
as he opened the door yesterday afternoon.
-" If it's anything about a delightful re-
capti0n was held last Thursday evening at
the residence of our well known fellow
citizen John Smith, or Miss Beatrice Per-
kins will spend the autumn in Mukwanago,
you'll have to take it into The other room,"
said the horse reporter, because the society
editor is out editing a chicken fightthis after
noon. and the orders are to turn all the
social Cruel over to the janitor. Tomorrow
is window cleaning day."
al came to see." said the young man,
whether any of the editors would have any
objection to giving me some advice on a
matter in which am deeply interested. !
may say that"
You are in love. aren't your asked the
horse reporter. = know you are, anyhow"
he continued, without giving the visitor a
chance to answer. .tThere is q nervous,
hesitating. cat found-in-the- wrong-back-yard
air about your actions that gives you way
at once. What's the trouble Girl gone
back on you z"
IS | think not" replied the young man.
" | cannot believe that any one has usurped
my place in her affections"
Done what ~
II say l do not believe her love has
faltered
talking" said the horse reporter. Z. or we
shan't be able to get along well. The girl
hasn't weakened, you say
mo
How's the old man Have you cor
rallied him ?"
Do you mean the young lady's father -
asked the visitor, a look of mild astonish-
ment passing over his countenance.
- Certainly | do" responded the reporter.
GLOW do you loom up in the parental
horizon 2"
The father of the young lady does not
object to me- was the reply.
"Well, then, what's wrong You have
the girl on your side, and her father is
agreeable. 1t looks to me like a walkover
for the money"
Il hardly think you understand the mat
ter said the young man. my trouble is
that the young lady does not seem fitted to
become the wife of a man who wants a help
meet. She does not seem to have any
practical ideas regarding life"
Sort of a giddy girl, isn't she ?" sid the
horse reporter, {" always talking about the
ideality of the ideal, and all such mush as
that, and wants to know if the silvered PEN
cillings of moonlight among the verdure-clad
trees are not weirdly beautiful. I've seen
that kind. They're daisies--to keep away
from"
81 think you have the idea," replied the
visitor, " although your way of expressing
it is somewhat crude"
ITS a pretty tough case,'' said the adj
mirer of Maud s.. These girls that are so
e~ternalIy asthetical are generally frst-class
feeders. though | have noticed that. The
siIvery moonbeams never seem to take away
their appetite. [ guess you'd better try the
reckless dissipation racket that ought TO
fetch her"
Try the what 2
The reckless dissipation racket. The
next time you call on Myrtle, or whatever
her name is, you want to plant yourself on
the sofa with a sort of weary, man-been-
reading-a-Milwaukee-pape look. and put
your hand up to your forehead. Then,
when she asks what's the matter you say
that her manner of late has been so cold
that it must be that it is she does not love
you, and that the thought of losing her WAS
so maddening that you have been INDUCING
in reckless dissipation. If she doesn't
sling herself around some then, and say
that she will never, never leave you, and
how could you ever doubt her love. and all
that, I'm no Judge and the horse reporter
assumed a Benjamin Franklin 10 k.
Il will act on your suggestion said the
visitor. taking up his hat, and looking cut
in a friendly way over the high-water collar.
How much dissipation do you think | ought
to indulge in to produce the proper effect? ;
WELL replied the horse reporter, i
should imagine that If you were to ply
about two games of billiards and drink a
strong lemonade it would constitute for you