The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-04-27
a FABLE UP TO DATE.
Concerning the Wise Pilsor, Who Had
the X nd Of calk That Went.

a SIX and tbree.quarters Hat and
bad been 80 busy staviug off the
People who needed it right away
because they had some Bills to
meet that he never found time to sit
down and absorb Culture, Yet he
had to 60 out and meet those who
wore Specs and had these high
Mapsard Foreheads, Sometimas
he found himself in the Front
Room where every one was expected
to discuss Literature, Art, Music
and the Difficulty OF getting good
Kitchen help. 'N ''
This Man was Pin Head in a
good many Respects, but he was as
wise as Serpent. A man does not
have to he stocked up with Inform
alton in order to hs Wise This
man was what E imund Clarence
Stedman would call 8 Piker. A
P.ker is one who gets intn the
Game on Small Capital and Lets
On to be holding back a huge Re-
serve. A Piker is usually Safe when
he sagatiat+s among the Well Bred
becauses they are too Polite to cali
a Bluff.
A Pkar b as his entire Stock o.
Goods in the Snow Winaow.
When it came TO Music, the P,ker
did not know the difference between
Fugua aud Cantata. Such
knowledge OF Literature as he could
boast was picked up by realizing the
Posters ia trout OF Book Storee.
The average Kalydid had about as
much Art e lucation as be could
have Spread il it had come to a
Show D)wp, but he never allowed
it to come. He had about "a much
! Buspess in An Asssmb' age Of cult
waited Cbautau9naus as man with
a ragged two dollar bill would have
IN Wall Stree. Yet he managed / O
cut Figure E'ghts on the Thin Ice,
aud he had the Mans Of being one
of the Bfaiuiest Gentlemen that
ever accepted an Invitation t, the
Evening Session OF ths olympia L
Circle Of Hans, r.,
ln la u 4 hn Of Il,
Stock Phrase. And tbs way he
could raise Dust and dodge out
of Tight Place was little BIZ c.
All Right
Ona evening the Pikar went tc
call on Mrs Hs9tef Kazlm, author
of many uupuolished Poems, aud
the boss Diana Of the Tut, Hunters
At the kazam Home, watch is
rugged up with Red Blankets snC
Green. Lamp, so az to be Oriantal
he bum pad iuto Henrietta Huute
Haw, who will be remembered a
the Young Lady who poured at tbs
Afternoon Reception to + Hopkin
son Smith.
Miss Haw reJlined at half length
10 the Turkish Cprner and asked
the Piksr what he thought OF Sien
kiewicz The Piaer knew that /
had heard that name sprung some
where brfore, but if he had tried t
Prouonuce it he would have gone t.
the Floor, He didn't know whethe
Sienkle Ticz was the author O
"Loyers Once but Strangers Now
or "The Gentleman from Arkansaw.
However, he was not to be- Feszec
Hs knew the kind Of Conversations
Parsley that ia headed to Gsrnish
full blown intellectual Vacuum, an
he passed soms Of it to Henrietta.
: He said he hasd Sans, SO far a
the Psychological .ualysis was cor
cerned, but it som-times occurre
to him that there vas lack OF Ii
sight and Broad Artistic Grasp.
That is the Styis Of Vapor calcu
lated to keep Young Woman al
chorsd right in the Turkish Coroe
aud make her brlieys she has me
the r sal y and 'ru'y Gazip.
The Plksr pNree'ed a little MOI
of the saule Kind. II ssid that tn
Elaboration of laced Mt showed
certain Modicum > Sail, but ther
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