Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-15
Books, BOokish
People and Things

We are glad to publish ISLANDERS
letter on illusions. II 1t serves to
keep only one person from mlsjudging
one other person Il will do noble work.
We are all inclined to believe the un.
favorable about the favorably report.
ed; and the higher a man Is perched
In the esteem of the public the more
spectacular his fall appears. Let us
be there to see!
ILLUSIONS.
| i read few days ago a very inter-
esting article on optical illusions. The
writer went on to show that what we
see may not be what we see after all
that the other man may see some
thing different, looking at the same
object.
The shorter line often looks the lon
ger; squares appear as circles. A Sc.
ries OF objects change form as you
look at them intently. and some oh
jects do not appear to you as they dd
to the onlooker at your side.
II is the same with the sense OF
hearing; with that Of comprehension.
Psychologists are revealing to us our
infallibility, in such directions, and we
may not be sure Of anything we are
positive about. But while optical illu.
sions are OFTEN amusing and always
innocent receptions. the others may
be fraught with injury not only 10 our
selves but to our neighbors.
My reason for writing this letter Is
to emphasize this fact. and to call the
attention OF conscientious persons to
the danger. You say I'VE know that"
Yes; but We forget Ii. That Is why
the sign Look out for the Carsl" isn't
taken down after everyone has read
It once; we forget.
Mrs. A. was overheard by a neigh.
Dor (who happened to be near "giv.
ing her husband fits" She said every.
thing a lively tongued woman could
think Of, and the poor man never said
word. He was henpecked hus.
band, and the neighborhood began to
pity him. What was the truth?
That Mr.. and Mrs. A. were most con.
genial. Mrs. A. never scolded, but
that one particular day when she was
overheard she was reproducing for her
husbands amusement the TRADE of a
wellknown virago!
Yet nothing would ever convince tho
neighbor that Mrs. A. hadn't bad
temper and a worse tongue.
And although Mrs. A. might hear
about the report, II was of such a ma
ture that she could never pay any at
tention to 1t.
A father Furnishes his boy. The boy
makes most "dlsproportionate"
noise, yells blue murder even before
he is touched.
The neighbors say that Mr.. b. Is q |
cruel father; that he treats his child
And yet Mr.. b. is an I'm.
dulgent father, trying to bring up his
boy In the way he should go.
Somebody overhears Mr.. b., Mrs. u. |
and, in fact, the whole family. making
q great uproar, shouting, stamping,
yelling, pounding. It Is dreadful The
father was drunk no doubt. He was
cutting up, and perhaps the others
were defending themselves from his
The fact was, Mr.. b. was having one
of his occasional good times with him.
self and his family. No one would
suppose that the reserved, dignified
Mr.. B. ever could do such things;
therefore they knew he couldn't.
Mr. @. is scrupulously particular
about paying his bills promptly, and
yet a report goes around that he is the
reverse because, forsooth, he once for
got a small item for which he was not
dunned. Such things will happen. So
a new community that did not know
Mr.. G. got an impression of him that
was the exact reverse Of what he real.
ly was.
Mr.. ID. is a rough talking man, they
say, because some one heard him
swearing at some cats one moonlight
night. He actually threw some heavy
object at the inoffensive musicians!