The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-18

the table is a glass flower vase of the
present time, were some of the other
incongruities that made up the "illus-
trated" part of the sermon"
The sermon itself was mawkish in
tone, puerile in argument and in
ordinately boastful and egotistic in
style.
If had carried out my original reso-
luton of going to hear Walter G. smith
l should at least have escaped this.
"I'm supposed to stand up every
time that is played" said His Britannia
Majesty's Consul r. de b. Layard the
other day when on the anniversary of
King Edwards birth he was holding
the usual reception and Captain Ber-
gers band was playing God Save the
King out on the lawn. The consul
stood up, as did a number of American
naval and military officers who were
present.
That reminds me-" said one of the
officers after the pleasant little inter-
national incident. at reminds me of
friend of mine who invented a musical
attachment for his bath room. He
the bath and when any person stepped
in for their tub the musical box would
play appropriate airs.
We'll, this friend of mine had an
English acquaintance of whom he
thought a great deal and the English
man was stopping with him. In honor
of the occasion the musical box was
fixed for the Britisher. He went into
the bathroom in the morning and was
there a long while. Finally he came
out looking very mad
Well, how did you enjoy your
BATH asked my friend when the visit
or emerged.
:" Not a blooming bit said the Briton
In point of fact 1 was quite unable to
take any bath. Every time l got into
the water, that COMPOUNDED music box
of yours started to play God Save the
King and Of course 1 had to stand
up"
) > > >
What a wonderful difference there is
between our Supreme court of today
and that of a couple of years ago Who
does not remember the days of the
Frear-Perry-Galb court and its
fierce dissentions? In about half the
cases it decided in those good old
scrappy days, there was a dissenting
opinion and in about the same proper
tiOn of cases the circuit court was
turned down. And the dissenting
opinions were not always very mild.
They gave one the idea that the three
justices must have held some very live
ly sessions before they agreed to diff
fer and hand out their own opinions.
Galbraith as a dissenter frequently ap-
peared to dip his pen in vitriol and
harsh indeed were some of the things
he wrote about the controlling opinions
of which he did not approve. A year
and a half ago there came a reor-
ganization of the court and 10, there
has not been a dissenting opinion since.
Every decision handed down has been
unanimous.
= = &
A couple of year ago The Star pub
lshed some comparative tables, show
ing that Hawaii's Supreme court al
most led the entire country in the pro-
portion of dissenting opinions and of
reversals of the lower courts. In all
the list there was no state or Territory
without some dissenting opinions, so
that Hawaii has at one jump gone to
the head of the whole list, unless others
have likewise improved. 1t is re-
markable change.
8 3 & e
SO that naval tramp the Lena has
arrived in port She came here as UNI
expectedly as she went into San Fran
cisco over a year ago. She went to
the coast on the principle that he who
fights and runs away will live to night
another day. When she was first re-
ported off the harbor yesterday 1 sup
posed that she had come here on ac-
count of munity but this sensational
theory was soon exploded Her pre-
sence in the port has been hailed with
delight by our heavy weight drinkers
and they are legion-fOr they see the
opportunity of drinking some of that
vodka, the Russian national drink pro-
vded the supply on the Lena has not
run dry. l have been given to under
stand that the officers of the Lena
were a gay lot of fellows and that they
made things hum in the Red Light
district of San Francisco. While of
COURSE we nave no SUCH llllllB III IlOllO-
lulu where we are all good people, still
the balmy breezes of Hawaii may be
freighted with skis" and witches"
when the Russians get to mingling at
sundry luaus Now that the war is
over there is a chance for us to enjoy
the luxury of an international mixed
drink jag, the Russian vodka and the
japanese saki ought to make a fierce
combination and after the departure of
the Lena. 1 expect to be ntertained
with numerous stories of what the
sensations of the international jag
were.
= 4 & 4
I have been credibly informed that a
new apparatus which will cause people
to get bigger appetites will shortly be
introduced to the islands. It is a dish
washing machine. The promoter was
stating the other day that one reason
the people here did not eat more was