The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-06

seeing the clouds gathering over poor
Jim's hopes, she added, quickly: New
er mind, Jimmy, we've held on together
too long to- give up now. Trust me
to see the dinner through" And as
Jim strobe out of the cabin he carried
his head higher than it had been for
months while Mrs. Jim flung the
things back into the trunks, rolled up
her sleeves, slipped into her gayly be-
. dizened slippers and set to work to
transform her 'parlor'' into banquet
hall"
IF Mr.. Hopkins suspects we live like
| tramps from necessity, the Ten Strike
| will lose its fascination for him. she
remarked to her battered likeness on
| the wall.
| But poor Jim, when he returned that
| evening, tired and worried, did not
| catch her enthusiasm nor appreciate
| being sent off to the hills in search Of
| fir boughs and pine cones Hopkins
doesn't want to buy the shack" he OBJ
jected, .tif he offers a round sum for
the mine we will throw this place in"
But Mrs. Jim was firm, so off he went
Also Mrs. Jim was inventive, and when
by night the work was done she might
as judged by appearances, have been
i>Pocahontas in her own sylvan bower
''Oh, yes, it's all right If you like it,
I suppose Jim assented, reluctantly"
but there are too many bugs and ants
on all this tomfoolery to suit me-.
But the tomfoolery, translated into
ferns and azaIias. was necessary to
disguise the flaws in the table-cloth.
so far, so good,'' Mrs. Jim sighed to
herself. surveying her work, but was
forced to admit the decora tons would
have to be garnished with eatables be-
fore it could be called a dinner. But
again her woman's wit saved the sit
uation.
MANY an adventures has been ar
rested who is no worse than I am
she said to herself, in conscience
stricken mood, as she sat and smiled
with her neighbors in her round of
calls that afternoon.
When Hopkins entered the Potters'
| home he was greeted by surprises of
all kinds, but the greatest of all did
not go, down IN his report. But Mrs.
Hopkins was RECALLED with a glowing.
description of the charming people
from whom the corporation bought the
new mine. "They had come out here
for their health, you see, he explained,
and lived in the pine doors in a most
1dyllic way. Everything was SO
charmingly original, beginning with
the beautiful Mrs. Potter herself. 1t
seems she had grown so fond of the
people and association that she wanted
them represented in this last dinner
among them, so each course was a
representative national dish, and you
would have been amazed at the senti-
ment and poetry we got out of these
common dago and Irish and Slav min
ers''
But the O'Rourkes, and O'Hallorans
and Speghettis, ct al, never suspected
the part they had played in this
"charmingly original dinner. When
they met over their back fence as usu-
al, after the departure of the boss
and his wife, it was Mrs. O'Halloran
who was loudest in her bewailings.
TT do beat ALL" that worthy soul
began, what swate and unpretipdin'
ways she had She come to my house
the day before that Teller come up
from the city. an she says to me when
l was takin' my bakin' out of the
stove, fYe do make the most illigant
bread, Mrs o'Halloran I would give
anything in reason if could make it
as you do she says, an SEEM she
admired it so much I just made her
take a nice big loaf right along wild
her, bless heri"
We'll she was long time Iearnin'
to cook" put in Mrs O'Rourke, eff she
couldn't make bread, but I suppose
them city folks don't get much time
to cook. She stopped into my house
on her way home, and she says. viii
you please tell me. Mrs. O'Rourke. how
GU make that lovely "mulligan"? I