The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-17

on a chair all the time as If one were
being presented before the judge.
And those corsets and shoes!
They seized me mercilessly.
l said l would spend a few hours
in Japan style, reclining on the floor
like an eloped angel.
1 brought out a Grape kimono and
my giTdle with the phoenix embroid-
cry, after having locked the entrance
of my room.
"Koteu,, kotsu, kotsu!"
Somebody was listing on my door,
Oya, she was Ada, my Rose of
Frisco" or Butterfly OF Van Ness"
Avenue. the most elegant street of
a whole bunch).
She was springhtly as a runaway
princess. She blew her sunlight and
fragrance into my face.
was grateful that l CHANGED to be
acquainted with such a delightful
Meriken lady.
20 no, Japanese kimono! If might
only try. it on!" she said.
told her she could.
''How lovely!" she calculated.
We promised to spend a gala day
together.
I'VE will rehearse," l said, "a one
act Japanese play entitled Two Cher
ry Blossom Musumes.'"
assisted her to dress up. She
was utterly ignorant of Oriental at
tire.
My physical state is in poverty.
1 was wrong to believe that the
beauty Of woman Is in her face.
1t is so, of course, in Japan. The
brown woman eternally sits. The
face is her complete exhibition.
The beauty of Meriken woman is in
her shape.
pray that my body may grow.
The Japanes theatre never begins
without three rappings Of time-hon-
CURED wooden blocks.
knocked on the pitcher.
Miss Ada appeared from the dress
ing room, fluttering an open fan.
How ridiculously she stepped!
1t was the way Miss What's-her-
name acted in "The Geisha," she said.
She was much taller than little
me. The kimono scarcely reached to
her shoes. 1 have never seen such
an absurd show in my life.
I was tittering.
The charming Ada famed and gig
gled necessarily in supposed-to-be
Japanese chic.
What have to say Morning Clio
ry?" she said, looking up
Then we both laughed.
Ada caught my neck by her arm.
She squandered her kisses on me.
ct was my first taste of the kiss).
We two young ladies in wanton
garments rolled down happily on the
floor.
2nd-If l could be a gentleman for
just one day!
/ would rest myself on the hospit-
able chair of a barber shop-barber
shop, drug store and candy store are
three beauties on the street.-The a
prince of leisure, and dream some
thing great, while the man is busy
with a razor.
1 am envious of the gentleman who
may battle in such purple hour.
l never rest.
American ladies neither!
Each one of them looks worried as
if she expected the door-bell any mo-
ment.
suppose it is the penalty of being
a woman.
Srd-My little heart was flooded
with patriotism.
1t is our Mikado's birthday.
sang 1.-The Age of Our Sovereign
1 shouted "Ten thousand years! Ban
zai! Ban banzai!"
My uncle and l hurried to the Jap
anese Consulate to celebrate this
grand day.
4th-The gentlemen of San Fran
cisco are gallant.
They never permit the ladies-ever
a black servant is in the honouraDle
list of "ladies"-to stand in the car
If Oriental gentlemen could demear
themselves like that for just one day
1 should not mind bit if one pro
posed to me even.
love a handsome face.
They part their hair in the middle
They have inherited no bad habit o
biting their finger-nails. l suppos'
they offer a grace before each meal
Their smile isn't sardonic and thei
laughter is open.
have no dispute with their mus
taches and their blue eyes. But l an
far from being an admirer of thel
red faces.
Japs are pigmies. fear that tn
Americans are too tall. My futur
husband is not allowed to be over tiV
feet five inches His nose should b
of the cast of Robert Stevenson
Each one of them carries a Nig
look He may be the President at tn
mean that only one head is in d.
mand
A directory and a dictionary ar
kind. The 'Merican husband is lik
them, I imagine.
/ have no gentleman friend yet
To pace alone on the street is
melancholy discarded sight.
What do You do III your shoe-striu