The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-04-23

autocrat he is in all domestic concerns,
Perhaps he is, aud perhaps all CHAT he
has said is true, but how disagraeable he
makes himself with hs big and little
U, and how glad yon are whoa no goes
away OF allows you 10 do So.
Akin to the Ponpous Man and the
Selfish Woman is the Human Squid, ta8
person of either sex whose ten5acles are
always waving about to catch whatever
is going and draw it selfwacd. Talk TO
one of these cyclists upon whatever sub
ject you like, and you will presently find
| that the conversation has come round 10
his or her own personality. You remar.G
at is very warm today" aud the re
ply is: Eyes, and feel the heat very
much. Last week was out in the sun,
and really was afraid Of a suustroie."
Or you say, "The emperor Of China is
very i'll" and your Squid answers:
"Is he? Well, | never cared much
about China; when | was at school /
never could find the Chinese cities, al
though was pretty good scholar, eJa.
The Squid comes in some day and
finds you suffering from the neuralgia,
or from Ia grippe, or some other com
plant demanding sympathy, but 1t has
none to give
Neuralgia? Oh, l used TO have it
dreadfully some years ago; the doctor
said he never saw any one have it so
badly; was perfect martyr, and moth
ing ever relieved it; but then nay nervous
system is very sensitive, you probably
couldn't begin to suffer as did
Or still more aggravating is, "Neu-
ralgia? Oh, that's nothiug Nobody
ever dies Of that, you know. Now, If
you had had bronchitis rs | had three
no, let me see-three, four, why yes, five
summers ago, when we were at the
White mountains, should know how to
pity you | suffered everything, can
assure you, especially one night when
my husband had to wiring out hot
cloths to put to my chest eight hours
without once sitting down
"Rather hard on him." you spitelUlly
suggest, but the Squid only stares.
"Oh, well-of course when | was so
sick he couldn't think about that. Wen,
l won't stay and bother you since ygu
don't feel well. Goodby; / hope your
cold will soon be better"
Then there is the lilgety Person, who
never can sit still and be aqaiet a minute
| Perhaps it is a woman, and she can't bear
the draft from that window or door CT
if you will excuse her, may she lower
the window . little SO as to haya tae air
from the top; OF she can't sit in d low
chair, or may she have a hassocll; and
where is her fam ana her vinaigrette.
Oh, yes, she has dropped them; and she
must throw off her wrap in the house
and keep on her scarf; and dOnJ you
think the perfume OF 50 many flowers is
unwholesome; and she does want you
to try taking hot water before your
meals, and you must test it with q tbor-
mometer; if not too much trouble she
will have some now Instead Of glass
Of wine or tea, and so on.
Or it is man, and he roams around
your rooms Hike d wild creature in a
cage, taking up every book and every
ornament, turning it over and ASKING
questions about ii and laying it down III
another place; pushing the chairs, the
easels, the little tables the footstools out
OF his way, tipping taen over and pick
ing them up again, towing vita the tas-
sells Of the curtains and cushions until he
twists them off or unr3vel5 them, and if
he does at last subside into chair,
twisting it and himself about until the
legs creak and the castors rebel; il the
chair has lace and ribbons upon it's back,
it is needless to say that the flgety man
never rests until he has destroyed their
symmetry if not themselves; then his
fingers stray to the table, pick upa pearl
paper cutter, and in the earne5tneas Of
conversation bend it and bend it until
when the snap comes it is almost a re.
lief to your expectant nerves; if there is
a vase of flowers at hand he pulls them
to pieces, and you are lucky ii he does
not pull over the whole business and de-
luge your book of water colored sketches
with more water than the colors can
carry off.
This kind of person may and often
does have almost all the good qualities
under the sun, but for trying your TEN
per, straining your good manners, up-
setting your nervous system, and max.
ing you long to becondemued to solitary
confinement, commend me to the Fidget.
Then there is the Counsel for the On.
position. the person VINO ALWAYS takes
the other side from yours upon every
subject under the suu, who involves
YOU, in vour own despite, in perpetual
argument and controversy. until in his
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