The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-21
TOWN TALK
BY THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

AbOOA 4OWAN ii
Friendly Firebugs, and an esoteric con-
ference of the Holy Order of Anal
gamated Beach Burglars and Wife
Beaters"
After making these remarks and
leaving me my friend suddenly re-
turned There's another case" he
said, (which l forgot to mention. It's
a divorce. The parties wanted it kept
out of course, and they began trying
very hard to keep it out. Suddenly
the wife in the case. who had been
granted the divorce, encountered a full
grown, typical Honolulu rumor. 1t
informed her that her husband had
divorced her for adultery. She lost
no time in hunting up her attorneys
and telling them for heavens sake to
have the whole proceedings published.
Rumor is very often worse than the
published report, almost always so,
responsible and the published has to
be correct or suffer consequences.
There is a moral in this" added my
newspaper friend. 1T reminds me of
a talk l had with Lionel Hart, when
his troubles were beginning and he
was playing bluff of innocence. L do
wish, he said with an air of greatly
injured innocence, that you would
keep my name out of the paper
am vain enough to think that my an
swer would apply to a lot of kickers
against publicity. If you will keep
your name out of the courts, I will try
to keep it out of the papers, said"
The mask ball at the Seaside was
profitable to one visitor. at least. he
is a member of the legislature and may
pass a law against men about town if
l offend him, so 1 won't give his name
or describe him surther than 10 say
that he is prominently identified with
local observance of the Sabbath With
a friend he went to the Seaside and
was met by ticket man selling tickets
of admission at 50 each. He dug into
his pocket and handed supposed five
dollar piece. In return he got four
dollars worth of tickets and Sc change.
you've made a mistake he said TO
the ticket-selleT, who was a young
Chinese. Il gave you only five and
only want one dollar change" Re-
turning the $5 the legislator, entered
with his friend Later in the even
ing, the Chinese met him on the
grounds. Il think mistake" he said.
Il short five dollar. [ think you give
me nickel instead of five dollars" q
gave you S. was the answer. "Once
I corrected mistake and returned five.
Pau now" The Chinese left and the
matter was ended. but later in the
evening the Sunday man bethought
himself to investigate. He discover
ed, counting the gold in his pocket,
that he had given a twenty-five cent
piece and had got in return "a worth
VI llChSIS anu 9l
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Miss Annie Marie Prescott has a
kick, and it is so thoroughly justi-
fable that 1 very much sympathize
with her, and even at the risk of in
curing the enmity of some typesetting
operator, who may some time take
summary revenge by treating me as
he treated her, want to register her
kick, Miss Prescott, as everyone knows
is the authoress of numerous short
contributions to the local press lnIs
morning she had one in the Advertiser
which ended with the somewhat pc
culiar statement that govt was one OF
the consequences of being underfed or
badly fed. Miss Prescott is nothing if
not original, and the statement may
have been supposed to have been one
of her own ideas. But it was not
She does not think that bad food or
lack Of food leads to govt / have it
on the highest authority that she wrote
it "degout," intending to use nice
French word to indicate disgust. But
the printer wouldn't stand for French,
and govt was good enough for him.