The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-26


gers Mr.. and Mrs. f. M. Bechtel-Mrs.
Bechtel being the divorce of the week
before During the few hours the
steamship was in port the marriage
was arranged-if it had not been ar
ranged before. A license was procur-
ed, minister found and the marriage
ceremony performed. IS. f. Town
Talk.
The College Club meeting held last
Tuesday afternoon at the Normal
School was attended by over thirty
women who are interested in the plans
of the Club in the matter Of making
serious study of some up-to-date mat
ters. The meeting was attended by
many who are not members of the Or
ganization, and in this study which IS
to be undertaken it is the hope of the
Club that all women will feel perfect
ly free to take part.
1t had been intended to take up as
start the subject of city government
and also of the Japanese question T.
simultaneously classes to be carried on
in each subject for a time, but there
was such an evident interest in BOth
of the subjects suggested by the same
persons that it was thought best to
consider one thing at a time in order
to give all a benefit, and so the city
government class will be the only one
launched, at least for a time
The first meeting was for the pur-
pos of perfecting a plan of working,
and it will not be until the next meet
ing which will be held next Tuesday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the Nor
NAL School, that the actual study win
begin. Mrs, Weaver will be the lead
err of the class in this subject, but it is
expected that all will take a part and
bring the benefit of their reading and
experience into the common forum
The leader in this movement state
positively that they do not aim at run
ming Honolulu, or debating to the
powers that be, but propose for their
own enlightenment simply to take up
the science of city government in
general way and to learn what has
been accomplished by the experiences
of the municipalities of the world.
The plan is one which is decidedly
worth while, and should be one in
which much interest is manifested.
8 =
Society is still talking of the "disin-
fectant card party" which a prominent
hostess gave recently. The guests
themselves, after the first thrill of sur
prise, thought it a delicious joke but
with the pungent odor of peppermint
and strong antiseptic still clinging to
their frocks and coats and hats they
are not all a-grin over the episode
! The hostess is the mother of two beau
tiful children and she is always on
edge over their welfare. Having lent
an ear to exaggerated reports of the
| sanitary condition of our city she be-
| gan to worry over the possibility of
one of her guests carrying a concealed
microbe and her first idea was to re-
call the invitations. Then some one
suggested disinfectant and a large
quantity Of it was bought AS each
guest entered the front door a butler
with imperturbable gravity flashed an
atomizer and sprayed a few drops of
colorless liquid at the astonished
guest, who was hastely conducted into
a dressing room by an equally impla-
cable maid who gently but firmly lift
cd their skirts and sprayed their petit
coats and stockings. The rooms were
decorated in quantities of sweet smell
ing bloom but the fragrance was COM
pletely swallowed up by the more
powerful odor of the disinfectant The
hostess was numerically bantered
about her precautions, but secure in
the belief that she had successfully
discouraged the most energetic microbe