Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-24


Reflection of the Morning After" BY
Herman Lee Meader Cloth
l4X6Ain. III PIP. Dressing gown
edition, a. cents. Limp ooze calf.
$3.50 II. NJ. Caldwell Co., Boston,
Mass.
A cute" little bool; made up on hun
paper and printed from special type.
with end papers, label, frOntispieCe and
decorative page borders by the author.
The binding is odd yet attractive. more
suited to the text In the dressing.
gown" than in the limp ooze calf
binding.
Divided into eleven sections Of wise
sayings or reflections with such
titles as THE silly Set" "Naudlin
Rot" "OUr Former Ribs" and so on.
The author Is very clever indeed both
a. an artist and as a philosopher, but
the refined reader will have to over.
look tendency to Coarseness in two
or three instances. The "Foreword"
is in very had taste, as bad as the
prC-reilcCtiye condition that induced
the reflections of the Morning After"
The authors idea Of book may per.
haps be found in his opinion of q man
"A man without a few evil inten.
tions Is like lingerie without lace-un-
interesting"
At any rate his book Is quite in.
teresting and may be made to fertilize
many a leisure moment, the mauvais
quart.heurc when man Is waiting
for lunch, the carriage or the boat.
The following selections are made
at random:
Rotten apples are the easiest to find;
so worthless friendships are the easiest
TO form.
Light headed men are welcome at
afternoon teas, because they never
make the rest of the company feel like
idiots.
The less a man has in his skull, the
more he needs in his pocket.
Why waste your time coloring a
pipe when you can have so
much more fun tinting your nose?
The man who works hard all the
week for twenty dollars to blow in on
Saturday night certainly deserves a
good time.
1t is a heap easier to row down
stream than TO pull against the cur.
rent. At the end Of your journey you
will find that you have gone a lot
farther.
They say whiskey in6ames the
stomach, beer produces Bright's dis.
case, brandy ruins your kidneys, bur
gundy brings on the govt, and absinthe
destroys the brain. Now we know
typhoid and malaria Turk in water and
tuberculosis in milk. so what is .
thirsty man to drink?
atn 80 ,hapnL, al
but the gruffest have lock of hair.
o lace handkerchief. or a faded photo.
graph hid away somewhere.
An entertaining man may be much
sought after when a song or a story
Is wanted, but he is as likely to get
any serious consideration from his
friends as a fox Is to get a welcome in
hen coop.
The man who has everything enjoys
nothing, and the man who has nothing
enjoys what he has.
An old maid is like fiddle without
bow or strings.
People who make door mats of them.
selves must expect to have feet wiped
on them.
Life Is a good deal like a seesaw.
and II pays to be decent to the fellow
who is down. for he may be up tomor.
row.
A pipe smoker is 20 his fellow men
what skunk is to the lower animals.
The sarcastic girl that man loves
to sit next to at dinner Is the last one
in the lot he would pick to preside
at his own table.
Matrimony is like fish pond The
fisherman with the biggest bait catches
the biggest fish, but now and then a
woman, like a greedy trout, swallows
a hook with nothing on It,"