The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-23

said:
t'I have barred to you the most
sacred feelings of my Utmost heart May
| | ask that You will never reveal to
| living soul what has passed between
us2'
"'I am not a gossip, Lord Reginald,
the girl said haughtily.
But promise me-, he continued.
Give me your solemn promise
't'I PROMISE she said But why,
Lord Reginald, are you so PERSISTENT
" Because he answered, signing
| with relief, / purpose tomorrow to turn
my attention to your older sister
At the Chicago convention Senator
Penrose said one afternoon to a re-
porter:
tfYou boys write very well indeed for
your papers, but l miss the old time
vigor.
.sThe old time vigor7" said the re-
porter gloomily.
eyes, said Senator Penrose-f'the
tang, the power. We used to have, for
instance young editor in Philadelphia
who possessed the old spirit in full
measure. If you put up for mayor or
coroner a man obnoxious to this young
editor, he would sit down to his type
writer and click off some such vigorous
paragraphs as this:
Dash, the opposition candidate for
mayor, is already a marked man in this
community, and between running his
campaign and keeping out Of Jail he
viii have a busy time of it from now
on to election day.
Gustave Eberlein, the famous German |
sculptor, said the other day in New
York that in beauty of face and figure |
the American women excelled all others
that the American type of beauty ap- |
preached almost absolute perfection.
In intelligence as well, the sculp |
tor resumed, "the American woman ex-
cells. But now AMI then she has the de-
feet Of the intelligent: she is overposi-
tive, she is overconfident. In that case
| like to see her taken down.
4" once met beautiful and brilliant
American woman on shipboard. She
talked splendidly, but she was very
positive-positive indeed.
9 am good reader of faces she
said one day at luncheon. EOn first
sight of person / form my opinion of
that person s character And / am
never wrong. l am positively never
wrong
Z" Mother her little boy called
shrilly from the other end of the long
table, where he sat with his nurse.
!" Well, what is it, my son9' said the
mother, indulgently.
And we all turned to hear what the
little fellow had to say.
g Mother he piped, Il want to
know what was your opinion, mother,
when you first saw mel -
Francis Wilson, the noted comedian,
apropose of certain eurios whereon he
believed he had been duped, said with
light laugh:
''The collector, as he pursues his
hobby, grows in knowledge. Then, re-
viewing his collection, he sadly finds
many an instance where he has been
duped.
1'The one drawback to knowledge is
that it reveals SO many dupes and swim
dies to us. One summer, for instance, / |
was doing Switzerland
SIN the neighborhood of Geneva,
where the Swiss talk French l climbed
little peak one fine morning, and on
my arrival at the chalet at the top IL
heard the pretty handmaiden call into /
the kitchen in excellent French:
'''Quiek, mother, quick! Here's a |
tourist. Put some milk on the fire /
You know they always like it warm
from the cow
Oh, yes, Senator La Follettere luetant
~ admitted of a corrupt politician, Il
suppose the man has some sense of !
honor. Where won't you find some
sense of honor, thought You know the |
story of Judson of Madison.
''Judson of Madison was showing his
country cousin the sights of the city.
But there are crooks and blaeklegs !