The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-17

"I seem to be losing all my friends"
said the acting governor just after his
return. Just as soon as 1 turn my
back and leave, they all go to pieces.
/ wish l could have stayed and pro-
tected them Here is Arthur Wilder,
for whom l always had the greatest
respect getting married. would
never have thought it of him. 1 shall
never get over my disappointment.
Then there is Judge Lindsay. No one
could have convinced me that he was
not a man to be depended upon Yet
as soon as l go he must needs get en-
gagged 1 have pleaded with him, but
without result. Berg has done the
same as the others. And as Dooley
would say there We ar-re' Three of
my best friends hopelessly LOST"
The acting governor proceeded to de-
clare himself a misOgynist and to de-
claim his opinion that women We're a
waste of time, a cause of outrageous
expense and ought to be avoided by all
right thinking men. BY this time he
had reached his office. 1t was Feb
ruary IA, and as he turned to his pile
of mail he picked up a beautiful valen-
tine, sealed with a most sentimental
collection of little silver hearts and
impregnating the circumambient at
mosphere with such a delightful odor
as could only come from one source
And so the lecture on misogyny ceased
and doubtless thoughts of great mo-
ment were in their currents turned
awry and lost the name of expression.
g G G. G.
l was fortunate enough to be invited
to attend a practice of the Elks' min
strels the other evening and 1 have no
hesitation in stating that the show
will be a huge success when it is pre-
scented. 1t cannot be oths rwise for the
actual amount of strenuosity and mere
physical force expended would make a
success of a grand opera.
There were forty and more hot pers-
spring Elks SITTING in a big semicircle
i'm the handsome lodge room. At one
end was VIII Adams who presided at
the piano and at the center with a
look of gloom was A. E. Murphy the
interlocutor. In thu vacant semi-circle
Jimmy Dougherty the director gave a
most enthusiastic representation of
how directing should be done.
Nearly all of the boys were coatless
and most of them had discarded collars
and ties also. With the end men this
was an absolute necessity for if ever
any eight men worked hard, they did
They were O. Guy Livingston, ]. Wal
ter Doyle and A. Henry Moore, the
tambos, with their necessary compile
ment of j. Hastings Rowland, j. Char
les Johnston and r. William White. As
watched their gyrations 1 couldn't
help wondering how much they want
a night to do it regularly.
A cruel task master is your uncle
Jimmy Dougherty for he drilled the
chorus with song after song and des-
pite the fact that they are practising
without the music the Ministries made
fine show. Certainly thsre were
many mistakes but then that is not to
be wondered at for the start. The sort
of grueling that Director Dougherty
is giving the boys will make them let
ter perfect before the curtain rises.
And then the jokes and gags True
didn't hear all of them but few
were impaired to me in strict con-
hdence. Now there was one about the
lady who broke her leg! Well upon
my word. I had almost forgotten the
injunction for secrecy! However the
jokes are good and if they do not make
you laugh on the opening night, you
had better go the second time l am
going up to the Elks' practice some
other evening. They have the incest
tea and lemonade M there that I ever
tasted.
9 G 9 G
I was talking the other day with a
military officer regarding the PROPOSE
tion of the United States government
locating a force of from $1,000 to 10000
men in these islands as a sort of mid
way reinforcements for possible hos
tilities in the Far East. "The prOpo-
sition is simply ridiculous" he said.