The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-11-23

are also known. lHey are dCCOulDdu-
led by the husband and father, Charles
Wilson, an extensive real-estate oper-
ator. and this trio of fans has travel
ed the country over, in training and
trips, missing only two
games at the Polo grounds in three
years They have been photographed,
caricatured, and roasted for their
extreme fanaticism, all o. which mere
" amuses Mrs. Wilson, because, as
she told the writer, Except for base
ball l should not be alive today"
-Four years ago." runs her story, Il
was quite ILL., threatened with con-
sumption. At the same time Mr.. Will
son suffered a heavy financial loss,
and with eight children to rear, things
looked desperately blue for us We
were not in a position to take sea
voyage, and no other sort of diversion
appealed to us, until one day l hap
pened to see the following verses:
Lets get a bag of peanuts and be
boys again and shout
For the men who lam the leather and
line three-baggers out: .
Let's 60 out and root and holler and
forget that we have cares,
And that still the world has markets
that are worked by bulls and bears.
Every year they tell us that baseball's
out of date,
But each spring it's back in fashion
when they line up to the plate;
When the good old, glad old feeling
comes again to file its claim
When a man can turn from trouble
and go out to see the game.
I'VE forthwith resolved to turn from
our troubles in this way. The result
of our experiment sounds like a pa
tent-medicine testimonial, but it is
true that l recovered my health, Mr..
Wilson his cheerfulness, and soon at
ter everything prospered."
1t is unfortunate that she who was
Miss Alice Roosevelt did not continue
her patronage last year of the Wash
ington club and thus set the fashion
for women fans Instead, Mrs Long
worth attended only enough to get
the name of rooter. A little more per-
sistence and see what would have hap
pened! Throughout the length and
breadth of this broad land you could
not have found a nagging matron nor
a maid with nervous prostration
For" says a philosopher, "health
contributes most to cheerfulness, anC
to remain healthy one must have the
proper amount of daily exercise.
When people can get no exercise a
all, as is the case with countless mum
bers who are condemned to a seden
tary life, there is a glazing and fata
disproportion between outward mac
tivity and inward tumuH. For this
Ceaseless internal motion requires
some external counterpart. Ever
trees must be shaken by the wind, i
they are to thrive" Fans, bugs, anC
rooters are shaken and therefore
thrive by baseball The game furnish
es the required external counter
part"
ONE of the very few reasons VIII!
" anyone should wish to leave this
Paradise of the Pacific and go East il
the winter season is given in this an
nOuncement:
You will be interested in the new.
made public in New York of Director
Conried's acquisitions for the Metro
politan Opera House in the coming
season and his plans. Among those
engaged by the director are Bertha
Moreno, the dramatic Wagnerian so,
prano; Alessandro Bonci, Nine. LEI
Northumberland, soprano of the Berlin
Opera, and Theodore Chaliapine, the
Russian bassO.
The New York season opens on No,
vember IS. There will be 20 weeks Of
opera, including performances OF
Thursday evenings, a new departure
The personnel of the organization will
be about as follows
Sopranos-Bessie ABBOTT, Lima Cava
lieri, Emma Games, Geraldine Farrar
Marcella Sembrich, Rita lie Fornia
Olive Fremstad, Johanna Gadski, An
ma Girard, Martha Leffler-Burckhard
Lucille Lawrence, Lucy Lee Call, Ma
rie hatfield, Bertha Moreno, Mari,
Rappold and Marion Weed.
Mezzo-soprano and contralto part
will be sung by Louise Homer, Jose
phine Jacoby, Frida Langendorff anC
Nine. Kirkby-Lunn.
The list of tenors includes Julius
Bayer, Alessandro Bonci, Alois Burg
staller Carl Burrian, Enrico Caruso
Andreas DIPPED, Heinrich Knote, Ric
cardo Martin, George Lucas, Giovanni
Paroli, Albert Reiss Charles Rouse
liere and Giuseppe Tecchi.
For the baritones Bernard Begue
Giuseppe Campanari, Eugene Dufri
che, Otto Goritz, AdOlph Muehlmann
Antonio Scott, Franz Stiner, Riccard,
Stracciari and Anton Van Rooy hav
been engaged. In 5asso roles will ap
pear Raffaee BarOcchi, Robert Bias
Theodore Chaliapine, Marcel Journe
VittOrio Nevarini and Pol Plancon.