The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-20
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GROCER
But He Wasn't Just
the Man She
Wanted.
ROMANCE OF A
RA|SIN BOX
Mr. Hender OF Honolulu Nay Get
a Belle if lie Doesn't
Wear Grass
Especial to the Advertlaer.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11-Miss
Jennie serradeIl. one of the prettlest
girls of Fresno, Cal, wants to marry
a healthy and wealthy, good looking
and young planter of Hawaii.
Just before Thanksgiving day. Miss
Serradell. who is employed by the
Phoenix Packing and Raisin Company,
Of Fresno, was, with the other fair
maiders of Fresno, filing boxes with
raisins for a daily wage. 1t is quite the
proper thing in Fresno to dabble in
raisins. as almost all the money of
the section is made by selling dried
grapes, and so Miss Serraden, who
moves in very good society. was doing
pothing out of the ordinary in sorting
the raisirs.
The raisins Of Fresno are sent out
either loose or in elegant boxes with
colored chronos and lace paper, and
Miss Serradell being an expert and a
favorite of the manager. was assigned
the task Of handling the very incest
raisins and the most beautiful pictures.
Miss SerradeI Is black eyed, rosy
checked, and with a very beautiful
!
several rings upon them, but none
placed there by lover or husband. AS
she and her companions packed the
raisins before Thanksgiving, they talk
ed Of love and other things. Just for
a joke they decided to put in some box
packed that day by each one, a card
asking fate to send each a husband.
Miss Serradell marked her card as fol-
( lows:
Miss Jennie Serradell. an old maid.
who is looking for a widower with nine
children.
object. matrimony.
! Fresno, Cal, 1851 C street, Novem-
Der 20, 1901"
! The cards were put in the box. and
the boxes were seized by the husky
young men and nailed up. Miss Sierra
dell never thought that she would hear
from her card, but sometimes in the
long evenings, she dreamed Of a pos
sible. sutton in some far distant Cline
who, reading her message. might cast
his thoughts upon her. Two days ago
she found out that her card had reach
ed a man, and to her. sorrow 1t has been
disclosed that he is beyond help on
her part.
| His name is C. J. Day, of C. ]. Day
! & Co., grocers, In Honolulu, and as
Mr. Day already has a wife and
certain number of children, 1t VIII be
Impossible for him to answer the card.
However, Miss Serradell has been IN
formed that Mr.. Day Will keep the New
/ Year card as a memeuto of faraway
Fresno.
| Miss Serradell, when told OF Mr..
DAYS find said: II had a letter yes
terday from a gentleman in Honolulu,
who signed himself Mr.. Hender. He
says that he Is young, handsome, and
a planter. 1 suppose that all planters
in Hawaii are rich. and that Mr.. Hen
der has got the goods.
! Miss Serraden was occupied at the
time in placing punches Of raisins one
on the other, IN nice, neat boxes, Just
az she was before Thanksgiving day.
when she sent her hopeful message.
She took her hands out of the sweets
for a moment, when the Advertiser
man questioned her. and said furtheF'
Mr.. Hender wants me to send my
picture to him, but thlnh ne SA'0"'N
send his first, and I'm not going 10
send mine until he does send his
want to see just what he's ike io'
1 saw pictures in the Illustrated papers
of the Hawaians who were at the
Buffalo Exposition, and they wore
nothing but grass clothes. don
propose to get into correspondence
with a man who wears grass, and
want to be sure that he Is real
planter, and has some Hawaiian mon
ey, which 1 suppose is just as good as
ours
Now let Mr.. Hender come to the
front. If not, let some other young
Hawaiians respond. will answer for
1t that Miss Serraden IS beautiful, good
natured, and can handle bunch OF
raisfns with as much adroitness and
grace as any girl in Fresno.
FREDERICK O'BRIES.