The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-20


1t will seem odd 10 you at frs, Mr.. Presi-
lent, after the affairs Of the nation have
Ueen put aside for the day and the govern
Tent fireprOof safe locked up for the night
70 20 up to your boudoir and converse with
a bride with one corner of her mouth full Of
pins A man may write a pretty fair mes
sage to congress, one that will be accepted
and printed all over the country, and yet he
may not be fitted to hold conversation with
one corner of a womans mouth while the
other is filed with pins. To some men it Is
given to be great as sta. esmen, while to
others it is given to be fluent conversation
aIists under these circums tances.
Mr. President l may be taking a great
liberty in writing TO you and touching upon
your private affair, but l noticed that
everybody else was doing it. and l have
nerved my-eIf up TO write 10 you, having
once been a married man myself, though
not under the same circumstances. When l
was married l only a plain Justice Of
the peace, plo1ding quietly along AMI str.v-
ing to do my duty. You was then sheriff
of your county. Little did We think in
those days that now you would be a freshly
married pre- silent and l the author OF sew
eraI pieces which have been printed in the
papers Little did we think then, when l
was a justice of the peace in Wyoming and
you a sheriff in New York, that to-day your
timothy lawn would be kicked all TO pieces
by your admiring constituents, while l
wou d be known and loved wherever the
Engl sh language is tempered with.
SO we have risen together, you TO point
from which you may be easily observed and
fayei alive by the newspapers, while l am
the same pleasant unassumng, gentlemanly
friend of the poor that was when only
Justice Of the peace and comparatively
known
/ cannot close this letter without ex-
pressing a wish that your married life may
be a joyous one, as the paper of Laramie has
said, land that no clOul may ever come to
mar the horizon of your we lded bliss. " This
sentence is not my own. ! copy it YER
batim from "a wedding notice of my own
written by western journalist who is now
at the . d Woman's hOme.)
Mr. President, hope you viii not feel that
l have been too forward III writing to you
personally over my own name. l mean to
do what is best for you You can truly say
that all 1 have ever done in this way has
been for your good Ispeak in a plain way
sometimes, but don't beat about the bush
see that you do not want to have any
crossed bills sent TO you for a couple Of
weeks That's the way ! was. / tod all my
creditors to withhold their engrossed bills
during my honeymoon, as l was otherwise
engrossed This remark made me a great
many friends and added to my large circle
of creditors. 1t was afterward printed in a
reign paper and explained in a supplement
of eight pages.
We are ali pretty we'll here at home l
may 60 to Washington this fall if l can sell
a b ock of stock in the Pauper's Dream a
rich gold CAIN of mine in + X mountain. 1t
is a very rica claim, but needs capital to de-
velop it This remark is II 1t original with
me. quote from exchauge.)
II do come over 70 Washington do not
let that make any difference III your plans
Remember that l have not grown cold
toward you just because you have married
You VIII find me the kind of a friend who
viii not desert you just when you are in
trouble. Yours, "a heretofore,
BILL NYE
P. 81 send you today card receiver
1t looks like 81 yer Do not let your wife
bear on TOO hard when she polishes it. !
was afraid you might try to start into KEEP
ing house without a card receiver. so !
bought this yesterday. When l got NM
ried l forgot to bIy a card receiver, and
guess we would have frozsn % death Oeior
We could have purchase / one, but fri-4l
were more thoughtful, AMI there were MIA
of them among the gifts. II You deciIe
it would not be proper for you TO rev
presents. you may return the card T-csi
10 me or pay it in the ceilar-w way till [ com
over there this fall b