The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-24
HE HAD THE SYMPTOMS.
The Editor Reads the Advertisement and
Answers Its Queries.

The Editor Reads the Advertisement and
Answers Its Queries.
Look at the questions that some special
lists fire at people through the advertising
columns Of the great dailies.
Are you nervousW
We can be on occasion Sometimes our
Jaw wags without any apparent cause or
reason, and sometimes our right arm goes
out in front as IL we were hunting for a
John l.. Sullivan. Sometimes we kick high
and unceremoniously and are surprised at
the cobwebs and dust that come down on
us. We never knew before it was all due
TO catarrh
Are you dejected?"
Sometimes. In fact, most Of the time
This is hard world in many respects, and
our path is often as stony as the Appian
Way in Rome. The laundry bill comes
regularly; board bill, too, and rent, and
subscriptions to the papers, and car fare,
and wages ETC., while-but there is enough
In this world to make US detected without
having the catarrh.
us your stomach weak2"
Now If that is an invitation to have some
thing, count us in for a devilish weak
stomach. Weak Well, we would smile
II we could Why, our stomach just now
wouldn't hold gill of rotten apple cider.
It's too weak to rest our case on for relief
from the country board, and that's saying
good deal. If somebody can make a ia.
tai case of catarrh out of weak stomach,
he can't begin too soon for our comfort
Have you lost ambitionP
Doggoned if we haven't. Hardly know
what it is. Don't even have the sand to go
out after dark and shake fists at the moon.
But we had rather attributed it to the fact
&La% .
In which we were carrying this city with a
whoop and hurrah and an overwhelming
majority-until election day, when it seem
ed as if we had been throwing all our in.
huence to the other fellow. If it were only
catarrh that takes away our ambition, we
should be too ready and willing to confess
it. But it isn't. It's a plain case of disap
pointment.
us your breath offensive?"
just come around and smell it. if you can
get close enough. But remember that we
are nervous.
"Do you have roaring in your head"
Roaringl Goodness gracious That is
no name for it, Why, when we actually
begin to think and to pour out rivers Of
language the roaring in our heads is tire
mendous, it is appalling, and good many
people call it rumbling, thinking an earth
our head ever since we began to do think
ing for the masses of the people and pre-
sumo that is why we don't get rich-it
scares the prey away. But if this roaring
business is merely disease of the mucous
lining of the head, throat and stomach we
want to submit at once to an operation that
will remove disease and membrane at one
sharp slash.
do you get confused in your ideas?"
Some people say we do, sometimes. For
instance, when one of our reporters found
that the Cinnamon were being inventoried,
and the compositor set it up being wet and
dried" almost anybody would be safe in
saying that we do sometimes get confused
in our ideas, especially so as the reporter is
also the compositor, proofreader I'D editor
in chief. If it is catarrh that ais him, we
are willing TO give him his discharge at any
time if somebody will undertake to cure
the confusion. There are lots of other ques-
tions we might answer with equal affirma-
ton, but we have no right to intrude the
symptoms of SO disagreeable a disease on
our readers for nothing, no matter how
many of them we may have.-Superior In
land Ocean.