Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-29
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often scc en- odd old coupo trundling
over the throuVs, streets In q saucy sort "
horuughc much morv up with the times than
themselves The man b corpulent aud rod
nosed, though harborcd and tailored equal TO
the Marquis Dc louvillc lie Away sits
leaning forward AMI looks as though no was
undergoing pcnancc-thc ride = something
be has TO endure and he suffers in silence tie
makes lue think of E,meraldaS father In tho
play "Esmerplda," though vulgarrr sort Of
person The woman is the brca,hing, real
life image Of Esmerdas mothtf She sits
bolt upright. arrayod in fashions finest
feathers. and says, by attitude and ex,,rtss-
ton This Is happiness this Is what |
toilcd sixteen hours day Tor thirty years
ago
saw theso funny figures 50 often that my
usually dormant curiosity was aroused, and I
inquired tiil learut,i al about them. Their
story is good enough to have been the invcn-
ton Of pickcus. IL has is painful side, too
They are both common clay, poor souls, but
have been very useful carthen pitchers in
their day, and | think they still are, us fright
ful examples Of certain method Of chasing
happiness The woman began life by keep
ing duughnut stand at railroad station,
the man was a hustler at the single tay ern OF
the place He courtcd her over the steaming
duughnuts, which she briskly dispensed at
two for cents They were married aud
they were industrious. Time and toll
opened up the way and the hCstler became
the innkcepcr Both worked like slaves and
the little inn became n big inn, and finally
they reigned In hotel i'll city Then
they lott oil scrubbing and dickering, and
wore good clothes, and tried to talk good
English
In this, the greatest effort of their lives.
they failed. Finding themselves getting along
In years, they concluded-at least the woman
concluded, and she led--that they would re.
tire from business and enjoy themselve 90
They have plenty Of money and the daily,
SNOWY rides which ara SO painful to the old
man, are Part OF the process called enjoy
ment" The woman gets through easier 1t
! is enjoyment to her, because Il is the kind OF
| felicity she has dreamed of and worked for
and now, that it is n reality, she enjoys it as
a matter OF triumph. \ thousand times
| when she baked her doughuuts, with sleeves
/ rolled up, in the smoky little shanty at Gray's
! Gulch, has she pictured herself arrayed in
silks and laces, and driving on Fifth avenue In
New York. Now that the dream is reality
| she is in Heavens near TO perfect hapli.
| if>1 ~ Htl NNINllN sIiilI Nhu OVER Ntile.
But the old mamie pays the penalty of hv.
| ing grub's life sixty years aud then ferCely
.etting out as butterfly He is cut Off from
his old ohums, and the new people he meets
| are not like himself They make fun of him.
and he is sensible enough To know it, He has
| plain tastes and old-fashioned ideas OF hap
pines.
Sometimes he has been known to break his
bonds and tell some sympathetic listener how
| miserable he is Once he said TO me: Gap,
tain, II could go out to the gulch again and
work all day with just "a shirt and pants on
| and then sit on the porch and spin
| yarns with the boys in the even
ing, I'd be perfectly happy But
can't even do that Once | sneaked
back without mother and thought I'd heN
good time like | use TO- But everything
was changed Even Jim Jenkins and Tom
| Holland, that | used TO bo as thick as thieves
with, SHE'D oil from me because was so well
dressed didn't seem nachural to them. They
wouldn't take easy like TO me, as they had
when we were all poor devils together, and
none Of us ever set up to be fine They acted
like they was paralyeed when | tried 10 bJ
friendly with them and so l came away with
| a heartache Somehow | fesl out Of my
spear. I've earned my money honest, and
I've a right to spend it as please; but il
brings me no enjoyment this way. I've
had time 20 study over things lately
and I've concluded that 1t isn't havin
money and spendin' of it, that makes happi
ness; its the earnin' OF it The work we dc
brings reward better than the money, aftel
all aint 'fraid OF dying, even, because 10
lieve that somehow after I've dropped TIL,
body, that my soul can go back TO the gulct
and be round among my old chums and bs
happy, even II they don't see me- It's mis-
take, captain, a great mistake, for worSin
people with plain tastes 20 set up for fine
Now there's mother; she tries to make her
self believe shes happy in that big carriag,
and our fine house, bug know she lint, III
hard work for her She really works al
happiness; goes at a sort o theoretically, lik,
she used TO get up it meal Sometimes
wisht somethin' would happen to my money
then I'd have TO go 10 work, and by Geor @
I'd go back 10 the beginning thankfully. AM
I'd see some pleasure yeti
Isn't this a trayesty or misplaced ambition
The miserable old man shows Suppress.
wretchedness in every attitude. His fac,
has look Of longing in it, daily GROWN.
mon pitihble He turks around the fashion
able cafes and picks up odd acquaintance
sociable men from the wild west, and other
who have some fresh life in them, and $
transports himself in thought back 10 the oil,
days, and always, always, he is u creature L
be pitied. And the poor, deludcd old woman
even she il not T. be laughed at, foolish a
seems her hunger for wealth. She has only
lived up 10 her IDEAL Mourniul, indeei, |
It that the ideal is 40 mean and hollow, bu
her efforts TO reach it are worthy Of honor
think, like the Old man, that sho "has made
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