The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-15

He Was So Afraid OF Microbes That |
They Were Continually Being Guarded |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Allow Her to Wear
the Pretty Gown.
Young Mrs. Boggs heaved deep sigh
ps she handed her dainty pink and white
rup across the little tea table to her bosom
friend, Mrs Tubets, for "iust one more
lump of sugar" and helped herself TO an
other wafer
Mrs. Tublets was startled. "My dear.
est Laura she exclaimed, "what can
such heartrcnding sigh mean on the lips
of bride but just returned from her hon
eymuon;'
IL do not mind admitting to you, dear
Marie said Mrs. Boggs, putting her now
empty cup upon the table, THAT l have
already found out that the fate of n doc
tors wife is not in all respects an enviable
one"
"Why, Laura, what do you mean? You
can IA yet have had no experience of inter
rupted dinners, midnight calls and bad
bills
CAS- you know, dear Marie" replied
young Mrs. Boggs, tive started immedi-
ately after our wedding for Chicago, and
my first trial began the very evening of
our arrival. We reached the hotel about
/ 8 o'clock to find that instead Of the fine
| suit of rooms we had engaged only one
| rather shabby bedchambcr had been
| saved for MS. OF course it was too late
| to change our quarters that evening, even
surprising th.t we could do better mt one
| of the other hcts4. | felt very dusty and
1 made up my mind that n nice warm bath
| was the thing needed, and so ] rang the
] 4, 4
/ ing the order, Mr. Boggs turned to me
/ with look Of horror upon his face.
/ "'Do you mean to say he cried, that
] you would actually take a bath in II pub
I lie tub in which anybody who pays few
cents can bathe?'
Certainly | replied, when l have
not Il private one. must keep clean
80 Laura cried the doctor, do you
not know that Il number of dreadful dis.
eascs may be communicated in that very
way2 You really will have to cOuntermand
the order. | am very sorry to disappoint
you, but not for thousands of dollars
would have you run such a risk
"And so of course | had to give up my
much coveted bath"
"poor Laura, =" said Mrs. Tublets, a very
little smile of amusement curling the cor
ner of her mouth. But Mrs. Boggs did
not see it and continued sadly:
"Most people had trouble in getting
their luggage, and we were among the un
fortunate in that regard, but | cousoled
myself with the idea that the next day /
could easily go to one of the dry goods
shops and buy some clean clothes. Il shall
not mind the Inconvenience Mt all, | re
marked cheerfully to William, because
you know, | can try them on and be sure
that they fit nicely Alas, poor little
me! | seemed destined to shock what
call his preiudices.
"'Of course you must be joking he
cried But | assured him | was never
more serious in my life. Then he looked
actually grieved at my Ignorance and re-
marked that shopkeepers who allowed un-
dergarments to be tried on ought to be
subject to arrest and fine, if not actually
to Imprisonment. OF course none but
thoughtless, careless persons would dream
of wearing ready made underclothes until
they had been Numbered, considering the
fact that they are commonly made in tene-
meut houses full of dirt and bacteria, but
to actually go to shop where people were
: allowed to try on such garments, thus
propagatinG disgusting skin diseases, one
must be simply mad.
"Of course | was very angry ut being
called mad, and then and there we had
our first quarrel.
"YOu might have supposed that this
would be q lesson to him not to interfere
with my personal liberty, but not at all
Hardly two weeks had passed when one
chilly morning, when we were going to
breakfast in the little sitting room which
e. we had finally secured, l slipped on a
lovely wadded japanese wrapper of pale
blue silk most deliberately embroidered in
canary colored floss, and as | took last
glance at myself before leaving my bed
room felt that l looked very nice indeed
"When | appeared ut the breakfast TIA
BILE, however, | saw II shade Of displeasurC
cross my husbands face as he looked witt
marked disapproval at my pretty wrapper
Laura he said very seriously, have
you ever worn that gown before?'
"'No,' | answered, wondering wha
was coming next.
" Then do me the favor to take it of
and never put it on again. Yes, my dear
= | know it is exceedingly pretty, but "A
1 likely as not the person who worked al
, that elaborate embroidery was a leper o
- the victim of some cutaneous disorder
Those orientals are so prone to such dis
eases, and | cannot allow you to run tn
- comfortable as it is
II "Of course after that could never tax
any pleasure in the dress, even if he ha
not absolutely forbidden my wearing il
was so disappointed that | cried as
changed it for plain American tea cow
OF cashmere"
an early September we went to tn
y mountains for couple of weeks. W
were at such a nice hotel! One of the frs
things that charmed me was the fact tina
every evening we found in our room
nice pitcher of ice water The doctor ha
ascertained shortly after our arrival tina
the water was safe to drink, and | wa
enjoying glass of it in my room on
evening, when William entered and said:
"'You are not drinking water with ice /
it, trust
Upon my replying that was, he aske
if no one had ever explained to me tn
danger of ice in country places. &C
course he added, ice is not easy to PR
cure in sufficient quantities TO last a
summer for large hotel, and SO they tax
c any ice they can find, and much of
comes from ponds of stagnant watel
Many cases of typhoid fever can be direc
ly traced to the drinking of ice water mad
from such ice. The latter Of course melt
very quickly, and so it is as if you wei
drinking the unhealthy, stagnant watt
direct
'"From day to day found that on var
GUS preteXts most of the luxuries of Ii
were being cut Off one by one, There WI
some plausible hygie!ic reason to urge
every instance. When we went to Ne
York, we spent great deal on cab hir
because William objected to my sittiu
~ IL. Il
pie in the horse cars. Save for the e.
psnse | was resigned to that restriction