The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-04

1T is singular story, you know, when
man hears it for the first time" said 1. |
little sharply perhaps, for at that mo-
Inent l felt much more sorry for Scar
lett than for ner.
oh it's singular enough replied Mrs |
Potwin; anybody would say that But
when you call it singular, that's a kind
of half polite way of calling it disgust
ing l supposed you'd be Disguised when
told you the story on board the steamer
last year, only you didn't like me enough
TO care anything about 1t one way or the |
otner; but it disgusts Frank: anybody
can see that easy enough. There isn't
any cottage up there. He's j6st gone off
to cool down. that's ALL"
That is quite likely" said T. 1T can't
Halter mans vanity much to have Te
mehichi for a rival"
1T is so hard to make you EngIishmen
understand crieo Mrs. Potwin. with
US, peoples ideas are so different. You
can't expect it to be any other way. There
are few people in New York and in
baltimore and one or two other big cities
VINO bring up their children on the Eng
fish plan, but good many people laugh
at them for it,"
And you were not brought up on the
| English plan?" / asked
No. said Mrs. Potwin II wasn't NV
father was rich, and of course he had a
splendid position in Washington: but he
thought all those old-fashioned European
IDEAS were ridiculous, and 1 guess NV
mother thought So too It's awfullv hard
TO explain 1T, but If I could only make YOU
understand. you wouldn't blame me half
so much. Why, you take 1t there in Cali
fornia; nearly all the old ladies whose
husbands have so much money now-the
old ladies that everybody looks up to-
they worked with their hands thirty or
! &C crn -
wants in anybody else's houses. but they
were servants in their own houses. any,
how They worked like servants. they
ate like servants, they talked like SER
wants, and they thought like servants
According to our American ideas they're
lcommoner than the ladies in the East but
don't see but that it is just the same
everywhere. / have been up. when 7 was
a little girl, to stay with some cousins of
mine in Nermont-people who We're as
proud as could be-but it was farm
and the ladies used to do most of the
cooking, themselves. They had only one
hired girl, and they used to have to get
the mems dinner ready hired men and
all, and wait on them at table too Do
YOU suppose that when a child sees sucb
things. that child will grow up with Eng
fish ideas about social distinctions ana
all that? Why, those old ladies I'D in
Vermont would have thought any such
}
would have said it was downright wick
edness. They had a kind of Puritan
IDEA that one person was just as good
as another, and that ii was wrong to be
worldly, as they called it, That's the
way all our grandmothers were in Amer
, lea. And we grow up to be worldly as
, can be, and to want to spend lots of mon
; eys and to wear good Clothes and ev-
r erything like that, but we still have their
ideas about one person being just as good
as another 1 know I was wrong to en-
courage Temehichi to think about me, but
if had been in earnest 1t wouldn't have
, been wrong. according to the old Ameri-
! ean idea of things. You English people
7 think it's awful bad manners for girls
to flirt, in the joking kind of way our
= girls do, without trying to hide 1t; but
i, guess English girls brought up the way
o we are-girls in what you call the mid
7 die classes-are just the same. 1t ISM
+ fair to judge me as if / had been brought
o up like your sisters. We don't have gov
a ernnesses tagging after US when we g.
y out to walk: We go around alone, and o
o course we don't grow up so prim. 1t i
o very well for you Englishmen to be sur
;. prised at our American ways but l hav
v seen Australian girls come to America
d and they carry on with everybody just a
7 American girls do. They are not a hi
e more proud, and yet they are real Englisl
" stock, aren't they? 1t isn't a mixtur
J., of Germans and Italians and French an
a everything else, as it is in America. The
If are all of them English enough but Lad
- Scarlet would find their manners an
n everything else about them just as quee
, as anything l do"
TX THAT may all very well be-" said
but you must remember that the youn
- ladies from Australia have not had jus
to the sort of fathers and grandfathers tina
he women like Lady Scarlet have had. The
fcl, ala 11,,t th.r,
TX very different sort of English, and
I'll sort of English we don't know. A goo
ct many of their grandfathers We're trans
ported English convicts, and for that maj
It. ter most of the men who go out to tn
re colonies even nowadays are a WORTHLESS
a shiftless lot, or else are the sons of wortf
t? less. shiftless people in England. If the
ng We're well off they'd stay at home. Tt
nd emigration of the unfit is incidental
at the survival of the fttest."
Vn well" said Mrs. Potwin, 'if you con
se down to that / suppose 1t was the san
" way with our grandfathers who went
OF America. If they hadn't been paupel
IT, or criminals religious cranks like Il
ry Salvation Army or some other kind of n
IN account people they wouldn't have gon
u. And how can you expect me to have Il
no same ideas that an English lady has wh'
all her people have been taken care of Ill
'e- the gardens at Dunkin House for gener
ton after generation?' And Mrs. Pc
zee win, turning her head away, and nestlii
down in the cushions, added:
Mt II wish you would go and look at tn
'ut cottage. too. I'm a little bit upset, a
ad I'd like to be alone for while
stepped out of the punt, and as / walk
re- up the green slope of the bank ] hea
BILE her crying softly.
ole Scarlet was already far ahead of n
an, skirting the edge of field of corn.
at cottage was in sight. He had march
to off, as Mrs. Potwin said, because he wal
to ed to be alone. | was thoroughly u
she comfortable. There was wall at [
lit farther end of the field and when he cal
vas to il he put his elbows on it, and sto
of there with his hands crossed under
me chin and his head bowed. AS I came
in behind him, l said
ter You had better come back to the pu
ar old chap. She feels just as bad as y
ing do, and it's not very civil to leave
to there all alone
the why didn't you stay with her. ther
ack asked Scarlett. II wanted TO be quiet
or five minutes. I was afraid L might
ked something / would be sorry for aft
II. wards. It's a beastly story-a beas
bod story.