Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-09-01
BY EDWARD W. TOWNSEND,
Author Of "Chimvnie Fadden."

Copyrighted. 1906, by the New York
Herald Company-All Rights Re.
served
DEAR MAMMA--Thank you for
sending me the arnika, the court plas-
ter and the bandages. You always
told me to love my enemy and that
enemy certainly did need those things.
I was glad to have them for him. for
now that we have had II out J like
him very much, and he says he Is my
best friend. u Is only when boy |
have had n little run In with says he
IL my best friend that feel sure that
he has got all that was coming to
him. But. dear Mamma. will not
say anything more about this. because
! know Il makes you feel bad to have
me quarrel and | won't do SO any
more II all the boys do all that ! tell
them to and don't talk back. Aunt
Jane nearly had fit when she heard
that I had had dispute with the
boy who said my name was to laugh.
She sled and said that II you had not
married broker | would have been
a different boy. Unkle Tom, he said
he didn't know about that, for If ever
boy was his mothers own. l was
that boy.
Why do not the people here like
brokers'? I asked Cousin Bob that,
and he said II was really question
In jcgrafy. The people out here. he
said, wonder what the Now Workers
do with all the money they separate
these people from. and In New York
they wonder where these people got
all the money they are separated
from. But ! don't see where the jog
rafy comes In. Cousin Bob told me
that his father. Uncle Tom. once took
a header into Wall street by the way
OF Dads office, and when he struck
ground he was SO WOODY he didn't
even know how to excuse himself to
Aunt Jane, and she has had her opin.
ton of dear Dad ever since. asked
Cousin Bob what that opinion was.
Int he said he had promised Miss
Mary to give up ,the use OF strong Ian
guage. so he would have to keep from
me the true opinion Aunt Jane has OF
my Dad. don't see any sense In
that. DO you? as.a..'
like Miss Mary very much. She is
o. day dream at making lemonade and
picnic gave the fellows of our base
dear Dad sent me In his last kind let
ter. ! bought the oranges and the
candy, and Miss Mary made the lem.
onadc and the ginger cake. and Cous-
In Bob came along to see that the
snakes didn't bite us. Miss Mary said
we didn't want him for any such am.
blance purpose. but he told her to
ask me. and he passed me a quarter
under the table at the same time, SO
thought he would like me to say that
] wanted him to come along and |
said sure. He told me aftcrward that
] was my mothers own boy. and knew
how to jolly game AZ well as II you
had instructed me In the art. didn't
know what he meant by that, but he
says a lot of things Just to say them.
and people who are that way are mic.
er to talk with than people who never
have anything to say and don't say It,
He said that when you were a girl
here you were known from one end
OF the county to the other AZ one who
must be taken along on every sleigh
and straw wagon ride II the occasion
was to be lit up by anything besides
the stable lanterns. He said you led
all the songs and dances and could
even make church mite society
fum. He said all the boys thought
you an angel and quite n bunch OF
them had gone TO rev York and even
worse places to drown their sorrow
because you married Papa. He said
that IL ! mentioned this I'd better do
1t In a personal letter to you and not
to Dad as Il might interest you to be
reminded OF your happy. happy child.
hood, but as like as not II wouldn't in.
terest Papa, as he wasn't brought up
in the country.
Dear Mamma. now that I am writ
ing to your personally. take my pen
IN hand to say that II you happen to
have a dollar and forty.fve cents the
iceman didn't need you would favor
your loving Ham by sending II to him.
Il 1t costs no more to send 81 by the
postofice than a 5 and forty-fiye cents
YOU might 'conymize by sending the
two. ] have a use for II. Cousin Bob
also said you were his favorite Aunty
land he never likes people unless they
are very pretty, and he says that
when he was school boy and feared
to introduce heart failure into his
own family by writing home for mon
~ you used to supply him with funs,
sometimes as much as So and half
at time. ] said knew you were the
most kind Mamma in the world. II It
would make you feel bad to send me
less than you used to send Cousin
Bob. ! will try to take care of the
same amount. Two dollars and a
half, he said II was.
But | was going to tell you about
the picnic. The lunch basket was
pretty heavy, for we put in, besides
the lunch told you about, bottle of
French pop Cousin Bob sent to town
for. which he said was needful in
case OF snake bite. lie got bit Just
before We had lunch and opened tho
bottle, which went of like a firecrack.
er. Miss Mary took little glass, for
Cousin Bob said the snake got away
and might come back for another bite,
and you never could tell which OF the |
party he would berry his fangs in. |
asked for some of his pop, but he said
that the American brand was best for =.