The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-04
TOWN TALK
BY THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

asked permission to talk with the
young man, and after doing so gaze
him her card and address in Chicago,
telling him to come there when his
sentence expired, and promising to get
him a place at bookkeeping where lie
could begin life over again.
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If all the inspiration, perspiration, and
bombast
That the dear reformers sling about
were only made to last,
I'd like to buy and bottle it and sell 1t
out for lotion
To grease the bottoms of the boats that
navigate the ocean.
But speaking sensibly and fiat, and
argument defying,
l have a scheme that is a dream and
really worth the trying:
If all the cranks forgot their pranks
and turned their whole attention
To killing mosquitoes and rats they
! might NC WI I'll d ultuJlOu.
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1t happened at a rather elaborate
afternoon luncheon The hostess had
been called from the room for a few
minutes, and the bevy of ladies form
ing the party continued their discus
sion on the good things before them
and things to eat in general.
We'll" said one, I'm not so aw-
fully fussy as some people about the
meats | eat, but there is one thing that
/ cannot eat and that is cold storage
poultry. And you always can tell it
too"
Everybody was perfectly in accord
with this, and there was a general ex-
preston of disgust at the thought OF
eating a fowl which might have been
killed last year, for all anyone could
tell. The subject had been pretty well
threshed out and everybody had taken
a crack at the refrigerated chicken
when the hostess returned.
20, Mrs. Blank" gushed one fair
matron, as she helped herself to a
third joint of beautifully Drowned
fried chicken on the supply of which
the whole party had made deep in.
roads. This is positively the most
delicious fried chicken l ever ate; St
tender and juicy-we've all been eating
so much that I'm sure we'll all be sick;
but it's good! Inever can get chicken;
with the flavor of this. You must tel
us who supplies you"
20, yes, you must" chorused every
one at the table.
Yes, isn't it nice?" innocently reptile
the pleased subject of this flattering APP
! peal, "and l do think this is a littl
: better than ordinary. You know Mr.
Butcher, of the Cosmopolitan Market
always puts aside for me several q
2 the choicest broilers of every shipmen
they receive from the coast. Thes
came down in cold storage on the Ala
media just this morning, and l had m
; Jap waiting for them when they wer
= brought up from the wharf, so | shout
! have them cooked in time for this ait
ernoon. buy all my poultry read
dressed You know it's ever so muc
better than that raised here on tn
islands, and don't you know believ
that the cold storage really improve
the flavor of any meat"
The hostess didn't catch even tn
= flicker of an eye-lid as her guests al
2 most fell over each other in thel
S haste to agree with her on the su
= periority of cold storage chicken, bu
S one lady in telling of it afterward dc
/ clared, 81 thought I'd die for a minut
I until I got a grip on myself"
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There was a young lawyer named Al
. kinson,
! Who was voted the head of the Ant
e Saloon,
But he said, in a speech,
s 81 practice, not preach!"
And great was the mourning in BABY
e lon.
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= AS l understand it, the incident OF
Cured in one of the local clubs when
i E. Pinkham, Admiral Very and JAG
t Atkinson were present. This is a trl