The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-08-09
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THE HUMoRIsT MEETS NEW YORK
INTERvIEwERs IN CHARACTER
dSTIC MOOD.

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NEW YORK, July %. Mark Iwair
arrived home this afternoon after his
six weeks stay in England. The dignity
of his oxford degree of doctor of lite.
nature, for which he went to the Eng
fish seat of learning, does not appear
to weigh heavily on him, although
with merry twinkle in his eye, he
Isaid he wished that his American
friends would understand that from
now on he is Doctor Clemens with the
accent very strongly on the Doctor
Just how many old friends are go
ing to get away from calling me Mark
is something they will have to work
out for themselves" he said, land when
those see me in my new cap and gown
they will be bound to fall"
Mark Twain was as usual, the center
of an admiring group of women when
the reporter greeted him aboard the
Atlantic Transport Company, steam
ship Minnetonka at Quarantine upon
her arrival this afternoon. He came
over in cabin 49, but said it had no
significance and was a poor joke.
How do you like American" the re-
porters all asked at once.
II was afraid | would be asked that
question:" began Doctor Clemens, but
before he got any further another was
fired at him.
"Have you seen the Statue of
Liberty?'
Il decline to commit myself, young
men; you cannot trap me into dam
aging admissions"
Getting down to his stay in Eng
land, he was asked about his dinner
with King Edward.
Did you enjoy the dinner very
much?"
The King did"
What did you think of the King?
When Tim Sullivan returned a short
time ago he said Eds all right; | like
him. He is the goods"
Il am not competing with Mr. Sui
Ivan" replied the humorist.
Doctor Clemens was asked about the
handsome Ascot Gold Cup which mad
disappeared shortly after his arrival
in England and which the English re-
pOrters had humorously connected with
his arrival.
oh, yes; l have the cup on board,
and hope some of you reporters are
slick enough to help me smuggle it
through the Custom House. 1t would
be too bad to give it up after getting
so close to home with it. But didn't
get the Dublin jewels. With the char.
acter they gave me over on the other
side should certainly not have left
the case. would have taken both,
he added
Doctor Clemens said that it was all
a mistake that the English could moi
understand joke. 81 had not the
slightest trouble in getting mine
through their heads" he said.
Asked about his appearance in the
lobby of Browns Hotel, in London in
his pajamas and bathrobe prior to
walking across the street to the bath
club, he said:
When a man reaches my age he
has certain privileges that young men
cannot have. l did that and there is
absolutely nothing improper in it,"
Are the English women as attrac-
tive as those in American" was another
question.
THAT is too leading and refuse to
commit myself" was the diplomatic
reply.
DR.. Clemens said that he had enjoy
ed his trip abroad immensely, and
that the people had treated him royalty.
Informed that the old Clemens
homestead in Hannibal, Mo-, was soon
to be Sold Mr.. Clemens replied that to
his knowledge the old homestead had
burned down four times. Pressed to
tell the best joke he had heard in Eng
land, Mr.. Clemens declined to tell any
jokes he had heard, saying that he
could get 80 cents word for them and
that there were no night rates.
A woman is never happy unless