The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-07

OF course 1t never could have been
accomplished at all, the delicate pro-
cess Of 1ranspIanting, but for DR.. Sing
whose motives possibly were mixed
but the genuiness of his intentions was
proved beyond doubt by the relinquish-
ment Of his queue. After the affair OF
the queue it was perhaps natural that
the wave of his popularity, rising
higher. should land him in a decent
brick house on Nuuanu Avenue.
Before the advent of the Sings, there
lulu; but It must be confessed there
had been a somewhat fabby reluct-
ance in the right hand of fellowship as
extended to DR.. All Sing when he pro-
posed to become one of US atSt. Johns.
But the donation of a marble font in
year when sugar stocks had fallen
and withdrawn their support was not
to be ignored. In short, we finally
consented to save DR.. Sing, brand
plucked from the burning. And when,
like a gentleman, he announced the
advent from pagan shores of a hither-
to unsupported Mrs. Sing, we began
at once to feel responsible for her.
1T may seem a trifie bizarre, but
you know it's DONE" I declared, the
day when over my teacups in my bum
galow porch we finally decided Mrs.
Sings social fate. Think of the Yum
Wing girls. You know how well they
married. Everybody receives them, in
fact everybody is glad to-" We had,
as a matter of fact, come very near
being patronized by the Yum Wing
girls, but the argument as such was
unassaila BILE.
But they We're educated in Eng
land" expostulated Mrs. Devin. ''They
understand music and French, and
their waists are no bigger"
Dear Mrs. Devin,' interrupted Mrs.
Drixell with laugh, cannot grasp
the idea of a correct inward and spir-
itual state, unaccompanied by conven-
tional outward and visible signs"
Il discovered her this morning" an |
nounced Mrs. -Devin, passing her cup
for more tea, "innocently and inquir- |
ingly holding up to her lord "a. Mrs.
Devin ended in a whisper, but we
gathered that she referred to a pecu- ;
liarly feminine garment with a kind !,
of lattice work down the back.
HE must have examined rather far
back into our civilization to have ar
rived at conclusions even in regard
to his wife's intimate garments"
sympathized, passing Mrs. Devin the
cream. He told you to send all those
clothes, didn't hep"
Yes indeed" Mrs. Devin answer
ed in an injured tone.
"But we mustn't forget the marble
fontr' exclaimed the frivolous Mrs.
Drixell.
And so the matter rested.
Insulated as she was with Chinese
decorum, you never could have guess
ed from her manner, that first morn
ing at church, that Mrs. Sing had not
the longer catechism at her tongues
end, or the lesser fact that her gloves
pinched her hands. Just how indeco-
rous the little lady would have
thought it to show surprise at either
the litany or the millinery about her,
will never be known. Certain it is,
her soft, almond shaped eyes rested,
during the whole service, either on the
rector and choir, or demurely in her
lap. She was very, very young, we
could see that. and quite plainly had
never before been away from her
native roof and tea-garden.
Thereafter she seemed to fall quite
and unobstrusively into our
ways
Circling about the edge of our activ-
tiles, as it were. shopping in French
heels, giving mildly initiative luaus,
which you attended sif you wished,
learning to ride horseback-the diff
culties We're complicated by an Eng
lish riding habit-Mrs. Sing was in
harmless enough; but Mrs.
Sing whirling about in that vortex,
even presiding at the flower booth in
the church fair on Beretania Street,
was a quite different and much more
figure.
Precisely how" I inquired of Kittie
Drixell bringing a lorgnon to bear on |
the Chinese lady behind a bower of
Ell ilimas and males, did she manage {
20 do it? Aren't you aware that is