The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-12
Town TALK
By The Man About Town.

81 wish L had been in San Francisco"
said a friend, with gloom in his eyes.
1T was chance missed" He ground
his teeth and his eyes cleaned
"Once," he continued, as l waited
for the rest 81 went to a Hammam
bath in San Francisco. II was glO-
rious, and emerging from the slumber
that followed l took suitable refresh
ment and felt that the world indeed
was a fine place. | had but one trouble
and that was an ingrOwing toe-nail.
At times its torture was terrible
tried all doctors and finally used to do
the best l could with it myself. In
! the baths l was informed, on mem
tioning my one trouble, there was a
| chiropodist who could remove such af-
| flictiOns. l met him and he told me.
! 1t wouldn't hurt a bit, he said,-I used
cocaine even when l treated it myself
but he said no drug was necessary. 1
felt gloriously happy and in my con-
! fding frame of mind, l believed and
placed myself in his care.
! What did he do? | do not believe
| that hell can hurt me more than that
! flend did. l did everything but faint.
! The perspiratiOn streamed out of me
| and l groveled and writhed. ToOthache
! is picnic, rheumatism a delight and
neuralgia a lullaby when compared with
! that demons method of treating an in
| growing toe-nail. l couldn't stand on
my legs when he got through and had
to take another Hammam before
could stop trembling enough to hold a
! glass. And he had said it wouldn't
| hurt.
THE horrible toe-nail was gone, how
ever, and l paid him, after cursing his
method till the steam rose blue in the
! hot chamber of the baths. Would
you believe the final result? That toe
nail grew again just the same. That
unearthly chiropodist had simply cut
| it into slices and pulled it out. 1 can
feel him at it yet and / always SHALL
That is why 1 would like to have been
! in Frisco when the earthquake came.
could have got gun and killed him
and no one would have known"
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| When the cablegram from Morgan
asking for 100000 first came there SEEM
| ed to be considerable secrecy about
! the affair. No one knew exactly what
the amount was that Morgan asked
for although it was generally known
! that he asked for some definite amount.
The range of the guesses were from
$50, 900 up to 100000. At last one of
my friends came along and stated de-
| hnitely that he had found out what it
was that Morgan had cabled for.
What is At" asked another friend
who was standing in the circle.
why he cGbled for a barrel of poi
so that he could entice the kanakas
there to come to him for money" was
the answer.
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A friend writes me from San Fran
cisco and after a recital of his expert
ence in the fire, he adds:
There were other sights which 1
did not think funny at the time, but
which appear ridiculous now. Dur
ing those awful hours we had forgotten
that there was anything funny in the
world.
Il saw one big fat man calmly walk
ing up Market street, carrying a huge
bird cage, and the cage was empty The
man was self-possessed as if he were
completely dressed and seemed to en-
joy looking at the wrecked buildings
Another man was leading huge
Newfoundland dog and carrying a Kit
ten in his arms. He kept talking u
the kitten.
"On Fell street noticed an old lady
half dressed pushing sewing ma
chine up the hill. She would progress
a little, and then become exhausted
and rest That sewing machine was
her world.
when I got to the park man
came in carrying a large carved wood
en-, japanese statue. That was all he
had. and he laid it down carefully on
the grass, as if it had been his wife OF
child.
1T seemed as If every other person
was carving a monograph with the