The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

and Aunt Lizzie knows 1t full we'll; and
this lends zest to her pastime of get
ting off good stories. When Aunt Lizzie
likes, she loves indeed, and when she
hates she's a three-Volume- novel enc
my. Aunt Lizzie likes Frank Unger,
so they say. His company just suits
me; we get along perfectly jolly to-
gether," she has asserted many times,
but until lately nobody thought to ques-
ton in what capacity. When Frank
Unger laden with floral leis stood
upon the deck of the steamer and
waved good by to Hawaii nei, on his
last visit to the islands in 1897, he felt
that the girl he left behind him was the
only girl deserving of a training that
would give her the proud distinction of
rivaling the owl in all night wake.
fulness, preliminary to his welcome
home from a Bohemian Club links.
And as the steamer slowly sailed out Of
the sunny harbor of Honolulu, he I'M
tWined lei from around his hat and
threw it at the feet of Helen Wilder
with an aloha which rang with all the
intensity of a poetic temperament.
After a few months correspondence
Frank Unger announced his engage
ment to this belle of Hawaii He babe
farewell to the Bohemian Club and to
all the COMPANIONS of the red room:
and the owl room and to all the adj
junctS Of gay Bohemia, and he gave
his last bachelor dinner and he set sail
for the coral reefed shores of Hawaii
for the waving cocoanut trees and the
palm lined avenues of his future home
And the wedding. day was set for June
10, 1898. The Bohemian Club sent their
congratulations and handsome pres
ent, and the happy couple were too far
away to realize the accompanying sigh
for a weak and straying comrade.
The courtship Waxed. apace. Frank
Unger declared that in the originality
1aN no oh ,ioI,
placed her at the head of all the girls
in all the lands he had visited. in his
various trips around the world as pri-
vate secretary to Harry Gfllig.
An heiress can afford to be original
and Helen Wilder has $500 a month in
her own name. She is boyish in man
ner boyish in appearance and hoyish
in action. Her hair is cropped close,
she walks with stride and often. an
accompanying whistle, and she wears
mans hat without quill. Besides
she is abrupt and she calls. a spade a
spade with frankness almost alarm
ing.
A lovely cottage at Waikiki was built
for the young couple; the Invitations
were out and then Helen Wilder took
a professional nurse and sailed for San
Francisco. .,--: = =.
The months passed and Helen Wilder
did not return.
Hell OIlc -udy OuB0I. us
covered mine in Mexico, He told
Aunt Lizzie" that he would go and
work the mine. And when he married
he would not have to feel that his wife:
was supporting him.: And Aunt Liz
zie" smiled and sighed; the. smile was
for his ambition and the sigh was for
his loss.
Once more Frank Unger stood upon
the deck of the steamer and waved
adieu to Hawaii nei, and at the feet of
Aunt Lizzie" he threw lei of the
sweet scented maili.. Aunt Lizzie"
picked it up and she carried it home
and sprinkled it until it was hopelessly
faded and then she dried it in the sun
and treasured the faded souvenir. 3
Frank. Unger is, with. the mine in
Mexico and San Francisco, from where,
it is said, he carries on aslively a cor
respondence with Aunt Lizzie as the
steamers to Hawaii will permit.
Helen Wilder explains that she: does
not love Frank Unger any the less, but
only she likes independence the more.
Aunt Lizzie" says that Helen is too
delicate to go to Mexico; that she her
self needs a trip; that she will. not
persuade her daughter to marry: any
man, no matter how congenial he may
be to her. Everybody knows that
Frank Unger is a prince of good fell
lows, and Honolulu Winks the other
eve.