The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-09
FAMOUS MATURE MAN" AUTHOR or NV
OUTDOOR CULT ARRIVES hALF-NAKfD IN HONOLULU
!. W. Darling Makes
a Sensation by
Appearance.

Il
existed in the days of Adam, arrived
yesterday on the steamer Alameda from
California, in the person of E. w
Darling who calls himself the Mature
Man. without offending the good cit
liens of any place the Nature Man
endeavors to live as close to nature as
possible, wearing no more clothes than
the law insists upon.
When the Mature Man. descended
the gangway of the Alameda his APP
pearance almost caused panic. He
was instantly surrounded by curious
crowd, and what they saw justified their
surprise A man about six feet in
height, wearing only a tattered red
sweater, a pair of faded knickerbockers,
and no more. He wore no hat, his head
being covered by thick name of tow
coIored hair which has not felt shears
for year. His face was covered with
thin beard and noustache and he
wore no covering for his legs and feet.
He looks at first glance like wild
Man of Borneo," but his first words
disarm the scoffers. He has pleasant
voice. and in every sentence indicates
that he is an intelligent, weIl-read man.
with only a crank idea to make him
man out of the ordinary run.
Whenever possible the Mature Man"
discards clothes and lives in the wilds
with the squirrels. In fact the SOUR
rels have given him all his extreme
views on natural living. He has studied
their ways, and observed that they
thrived well on nuts, lived well in
ground burrow and that their fur was
strong and glossy. Their natural lives
far from the haunts of man, taught |
Darling that he too could thrive best in |
the natural state.
From a puny. consumptive, anaemic
man weighing less than ninety pounds, |
Darling now is a stalwart, strong, hard /
rnuscIed man of 160 pounds, his skin
tough and able to Withstand the cold
est wfntry blast. In spite of his ex-
trene views on his cult, Darling Is |
pleasant conversationalist and to use
slang phrase. Can make monkey out
of any one who would ridicule him.
His first meal in Honolulu was con-
tanned in a "hand" of bananas. and
these he munched yesterday at noon IN
the Advertiser office where he was In
teryiewed and posed for picture. AT
that time he was wondering just where
he would pass the night. Il will sleep
somewhere in the country. and it won't
be in a house. 1 will sleep with the
stars overhead for my ceiling. Mos
auitoes had not been thought of by
Darling. II
While waiting for the Advertiser
artist to arrange his camera the Ma {
lure Man took comb from his hip ]
rocket and proceeded to comb out his
fresses. He showed his one great
ni+v IN. this process for his sunburned
hair was well groorned. "one might
az well look neat ard sweet, he re-
and then You're ready for the
street., he added to complete the
.,,,y,ne Always comb your hair to-
ward the crown, not away from 1t as
zine out of ten do. That was the way
,ature intended the hair should De
,rushed." When his hair was arranged
. suit. his fancy the Mature Man
-, on ATTITUDE but continued to
nunch a banana
r,,a mature Man. met Detectives
6cDuffie and Renear and accompanied
hem to the Police Station to meet the
rob sheriff and the Deputy High
sheriff. Darling said he always made
r,ands first with the police in every
nv and they in turn generally became
is best friends.
several years ago I lost my health
"a 1va;pbed less than ninety pounds
nd had pneumonia and consumption
was expected to die because my lungs
- 90 weak. 1 then went out into
- woods. lived in a five-acre lot near
o-,,ana and began a natural life. 1 I
NJ. all my clothes off and went naked
nd followed the manner OF living Oh
s,,,irrels. I observed that my
.a1+t was better. In 1899 after INV
aaltb was restored I took my bike ana
,de south to stanford, where had
zen previously. There I continued my
,urse in medicine. had a forsaken
,use and spent a good deal of my
,anty supply of money in making 1t
,mfortable. Then when the weather
emitted / went back to the hills with
V books under my arm, and with only
lie sky above for my study room,
Y upon the grass with the sunshine (.