Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
Territorial Messenger 0srviss-Uniso
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MUSIC.
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Miss E.. everybody said, was no lady.
She kept up the appearance of one
but she certainly was not. She was
overheard in the street saying by
Gosh" to a person she was driving
with. She did say 1t. but In quotation
marks, as 1t were. She was speaking
of a character In novel, and quoted
her literally.
Mr.. F.. who Is naturally a very
cheerful, lively man, has the reputa'
tion Of being sober and silent because
on the one occasion which brought,
him into society he was sorrowful,
charged with the sad news Of letter
I he had just received.
Ignorant servants are great
source OF misunderstanding about PEG.
pie. Such folk talk, and Judging from
the construction they are apt to place
upon the acts Of their employers, they
| are generally wrong in their infer.
ences. Especially is this true of for.
eign servants here, japanese, Chinese
and Portuguese.
A new servant coming to house
tells his mistress about the former
boss" or mistress. Generally to dis.
parage them and show how much he
knew Of the intimate life of the PEG.
pie he worked for. The man was a
cross man who took too much whisky,
or the wife was stingy or a scold. or
a good, temperate friend OF ours their
servant said, "He all time drunk" OF
another family In which the only Jars
were those containing sweets, a dis
charged servant said they all time
observation-disclosures they argued
at table and took sides on opposite
questions which they habitually dis.
cussed with enthusiasm. OF course.
intelligent, experienced people do not
listen seriously to these tales, but
they are generally enough distributed
often to be annoying, and they have
before this injured the reputation OF
good families. Every man has enc.
mics. open or hidden, from whom he
expects bad opinion, and every man
has luke-warm friends" as well, who
viii countenance a story OF the sort.
Sometimes, however, child will
start one of these social illusions"
Mr.. G.'s boy said to Mr. H., who was
visiting his father, that his mamma
said Mr. II. was the biggest eater she
ever saw. The boy made this up out
OF whole cloth, and why he said 1t no.
body knew. He said he didn't know
why himself, but perhaps IL was be.
cause Mr.. II. took such big mouthfuls!
Mr.. !. and his wife were two of tho
happiest people the writer ever knew.
They never had word. But one
evening they were rehearsing a play
for home entertainment purely. IL
was called Birds of q Feather" and
III 1t was an alteration in which the
man attacked the woman. Just at the
supreme moment when the man stood
menacing. and the woman trembled, a
servant appeared. He at once at.
tempted to interfere, and would never
understand. To him this was a chap.
ter In real life; and the community
knew all about 1t in a few weeks.
or course, many persons believed
it-those who quarrel themselves and
think everybody else does also. Those
persons who vigorously condemn in
others their own habitual practices.
] know OF an occurrence in my own
family which is illustrative. Our boy
has a vivid imagination. he draws on
his fancy quite freely and doesn't like
to be beaten In story. So one day
when friends child told him that his
father hit his mother over the head,
our boy did not even look surprised.
Like sportsman with compensa.
tory fish story, he said: my father
and mother quarrel all the time and
my father shoots at her with revol.
yer and uses knife" Then, repent.
ant, he came home and confessed his
tale with tears.
have no doubt that even this story
found credence. but, of course, we had
no means OF finding out, and did not
care. So 1t Is. HUMAN.
Lahaina, II. T., Oct. 6, 1904.
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