The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-12
IN THE MINTER-

IN THE WINTER.
Let others sing Of summer, with it's
airy fairy maze,
And the blue waves idly tapping on
the shore,
But give me old December with its
bluff and hearty ways,
When the winter comes to meet you
with a roar
When the turkey bird invites you. and
the wonderful mince pie
Your gastronomic gladsomeness div
ides
With the buckwheat cakes and butter
that are piled before your eye
And the maple syrup running down
the sides.
There may be some fun in frying on
strip of sandy beach,
But give to me the blessings Of the
Fall,
When the kinds Of food I'm fond Of are
in season and in reach
And their odors come to meet me in
the hall.
There's the smell of turkey stuhng and
the cabbage, strong and true,
And 1 greet the good old steak and
onions fried,
And best of all the griddle cake, with
butter oozing through.
And the maple syrup running down
its side.
Don't give me jams and jellies or the
health-promoting food
I want the good old filler mighty
QUICK;
The stuff that keeps you healthy isn't
likely to be good,
And so 1 think I'm willing to be sick.
No evanescent fodder but a good,
square meal for me,
A solid, simple something that abides
Like the good old-fashioned griddle
cake. with butter flowing free,
And the maple syrup running down
it's sides.
-CLARICE w. RILEY.
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Extravaganza and Overdressing have
become so fragrant an offense to good
taste and good morals that a play
wright has been moved to preach an
object sermon on the subject in the
drama which is known as Clothes
With an inconsistency of result that
is amusingly human, the women in the
cast are so fetchingly gowned that half
the feminine part of the audience will
be so busy taking in the points of the
clothes displayed that they will miss
the moral.
This is Charming Pollock's, the auth
ors idea of clothes. More time, mon
ey, and attention are wasted on clothes
than on any other one thing in the
world
The man who has nothing whatever
in his head is never satisfied unless he
puts everything obtainabe on his body.
Women are worse still Clothes to
them are far more than mere clothes.
Dress serves as their topic of CONVEX
sation, their reason for sacrifice, their
object in life.
There are two extremes IN the mat
ter of apparel The first Is wearing no
clothes; the second is wearing too
many. Whoever adopts the one is
known as a savage chivalry forbids
the classification of the other.
What is your own opinion of the per-
son who drills holes in her ears in order
to suspend pebbles from the wounds
Is that woman civilized who wears c
dead bird on her head the skin of a
dead animal about her throat, and
pieces of beaten metal around her fin
gers?
The man who dresses perfectly can
have very little time left for other
things. I know a young fellow who is
an absolute authority on propriety in
garb His only difficulty is that he
isn't able to earn enough money to put
his theories into practice.
People with brains are notorious fCi
their carelessness in dressing. George
Bernard Shaw always wears a flannel
shirt. 1t has occurred to him that
starch is simply a particularly unclean
mud, utterly unfit for being applied to
linen.
Neither sex feels that comfort is a
desideratum in attire. The woman who
would scream a. sight of a strait jacket
encloses herself in a corset.
The man who considers the pillory a
relic Of barbarsm dons a collar three
inches high because his acquaintances
do the same thing.
There is nothing sillier in the world
than evening dress. A man puts on a
with a hole in It to prove
that he is a gentleman, while his wife
reveals a third of her person in order
to establish the fact Of her being a
gentlewoman.
There are two good reasons for
clothes-prurient mindedness and cold
Neither of these reasons
makes necessary tailors, modistes, and
changes of style What Is your COM
ment on mental conditions which make
possible In America the publication of
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