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


| very desirable booth: that the
! Goodwin girls and 1 fought over il
! last year. and they got it only because
| they threatened things about their car
nations? ?"
| "She is there" vouchsafed that lady
| through the influence of Mr.. Castle
| ton whom DR.. Sing has cured of dy-
| spepsia or something, you know. He
] is really quite wonderful; processes to
combine the wisdom of the Orient
with the skill and methods of the New
World. He cured little Tommy Martin
of the rheumatism, the child's mother
refusing TO believe in the doctor until
afted he'd cured the cat of something.
L don't know just what, but I believe
of having been hung on the doorknob
while Tommy went to look for a lost
ball or something. Naturally the
Castletons and Martins swear by the
DOCTOR
shes rather appropriate among the
chrysanthemums, I suggested.
Yes, with Oriental clothing; but
just see how her dress fits!''
Which was somewhat unfair of Mrs.
Drixell, since she herself belongs to
an age and country in which women
are made to fit their clothes, rather
than their clothes to fit them; whereas
a Chinese lady's clothing fits nothing
but the ages.
Whether it was just then or later
I saw Charlie Bent lettering near the
flower booth, L don't recall.
When he caught my eye he hasten
ed up. Charlie and I used to be good
friends before the superior attractions
of Mr.. Glover Whitley caught my eye.
There was, however, a circumstance
which rendered our present friend
ship innocuouS, and that was Beatrice
a beautiful and accomplish
ed "half-White" girl-her father was
an Englishman and her mother Ha-
had doomed on Charles
horizon, a consoling, ravishing figure,
about the time of the waning of my
Col. Hargrave held vast
coffee interests over in Hawaii. but
Kona being a desolate place, his
daughter made frequent visits to Ho-
nolulu. Like all Hawaiian English
girls, Beatrice danced and rode to per-
lection, and was the most vivid person |
[ ever saw. |
Just now Charlie looked sheepish; l |
couldn't imagine why Then I observ- |
ed a white carnation in his buttonhole, |
and my looking at the flower critical |
~, and then raising my eyes to his |
very deliberately, produced an odd eff |
feet.
DIR. Sing wants her to go in for |
and church and ping
pong and charities, and all that" he
explained with somewhat breathless
yagueness, "and-and, by thunder, the
title woman wasn't equal to it quite;
showed me a bad wrist which she got
rom too much golfing and a wrong
way of holding her clubs, and II
howed her just how to bandage it."
you might have left that to her
I should think" I responded
omewhat drily.
"Oh we'll, felt sorry, you see. And
ONE of the women aren't just nice
O her, though she is awfully clever,
hink; picked up our language a
Ieuced deal quicker than we could
Iers!"
You are very enthusiastic
We'll, you see, it was this way: At
he links the other day, the fellows
hied Off
'I can imag-'
"Shied off at being her partner or
aging her attention, and II came
onward"
"Oh, yes" I declared with a sar-
asm which had an undertone of adj
niration fer his fearless kindness,
you always did,
And showed her the game. You
ee," he went on quite manfully, 1.-The
vomen who aren't taking her up and
making regular fools over her, are
her That's the way with
on women, you know!" Charles
British honesty amounts to bluntness
ometimes.
The little Chinese woman bent over ,
~ flowers. Approaching, asked her
pr a dozen purple asters. 1 tried to
elieve myself sympathetic rather /
han curious. l had met her only
cry formally, heretofore, and had
ound linguistic difficulties an effective
ar to any thing like a satisfying ex-
hange of ideas, and wondered how
harlie got on.
81 not know your money SO velly
MAN, MOnOaOMOnOAOMo