Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-27

where ! am. He wished to know how
we run elections on the HO.Hans Ho.'
When ! told him that candidate for
a governmental office never obtained 1t
until he passed one of three very DIFF.
ilCult literary examinations in our nine
classics, and that there were thousands
competing for the office, he was 'paral.
yZed'-that is, he said he was, and
volunteered the information that he
ould not be in it in China. thought
so myself but did not say so. Many
governors in China do not have the
same power and influence as this
man."
Heather Chinee: 1t is very dull
this week, Miss -"
Young Lady, sententiously: Bum
| Heather Chinee: I hope it will be
/ less bum SOON
Young Lady: It's all off with me
all right. If it don't change soon, and
don't you forget it,
Heather Chinee: I wish ! could
do something
/ Young Lady: Well. you'll have to
get move on you, as | go back to
school tomorrow; then therell be
something doing
/ Heather Chinee: Have you seen
- latelyT
young Lady: Yes. and isn't he a
peach? All, he's peacherina, and
don't you forget it,
! young Lady (passing a friend)
'Ah, there! Why so toppy? Nay.
nay, Pauline,' This in reply to re-
marks from a friend; then turning to
me, Isn't she a jim dandy? Say, have
you any girls in China that can top
her?
"These are only a few of the slang
expressions which occur to me-" con.
tlnues the anonymous writer of AS
Chinaman Saw U.s." recently pub.
lished by the Appletons. II inclines
ing boarding school afforded the
young lady such thorough and init.
mate knowledge of slang.
The book consists of TRANSACTIONS of
letters written in Chinese by an edu.
Gated Chinaman to a friend ut home.
II would be interesting TO learn the
Chinese equivalents for "Ah. there"
and "toppy," and "bum."
The politicians we have with us al.
ways. Some of them, when dead, be.
come statesmen through a process of
popular canonization. Then we easily
forget that a statesman was ever a
politician, that he had a machine and
ran II to his own advantage. Reading
The Letters and Addresses of Abraham
Lincoln. a recently published Unit
Book, we realize that Lincoln has be.
come a canonized politician. He was
a cleareyed judge OF human nature
and because he was wiser than his
contemporaries he is regarded as a
statesman by this generation. We
ought all of us to acquaint ourselves
with his words and deeds. The Unit
collection OF his writings In the most
available. 1t has been approved by
the Presidents son, Mr.. Robert T.
Lincoln, and by Miss NiCOay. Ii may
!shers OF The Unit Books at l West
"a street, New York.
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