The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-07

Claude was reclining on a lot Of soft
sofa pillows, and all about the room
stood Castillian furniture, the kind
usually found in the wealthy Spanish
homes.
Caudes inspection of the place was
suddenly interrupted by the tread Of
tiny feet.
Are you longing for anything, sir?'
asked a sweet feminine voice
Yes gasped the injured young
man, 81 am longing TO know how l
got here"
"In tell YOU" responded the pretty
woman, seating herself on a costly
tiger rug beside Claude.
Day after day from my latticed
window | have watched you laying
bricks on yonder skyscraper. Strange
as it may seem, my heart went out to
you. | became infatuated with you.
Perhaps my loneliness helped for, you
know, my husband is a coffee salesman
and HES himself to our coffee planta-
ton eight months out of every twelve.
But he has been away so long that
fear ne will never return Yesterday,
at the thought Of this and in a fit of
dependency, | wanted to throw my
weak form to the cold pavement be-
low; bat, on reaching the window,
caught a glimpse of you My horrible
intention was arrested. Upon realiz-
ing that | had committed near suicide,
| let out a hysterical Shrek The
shrek startled you. | saw you step
back suddenly into tub of mortar In
endeayOring to eXtriCate yourself, you
made a fatal misstep and went down,
down, down through the forty snort
stories, as a magazine reader would
say. On seeing this | lost no time.
Changing my clothes and putting on
all my rings, hat, and furs, ! rushed
down to the street just in time to"
See my mangled form lying on the
architects blue print on the ground
floor" interspersed Claude.
NO; but just in time to place where
l thought you would fall this-my
powder puff 1t saved your life"
How can I thank you" began the
rescued man. Perhaps if am allow
ed to remain here"
mo, no, no." almost shrieked the
woman, 1t is impossible. My husband
is of a frightfully jealous disposition.
He once threatened to kill a doctor for
looking at my tongue. l am certain he
would kill us instantly should he enter
and find that l am sheltering you a
stranger
For our safety, then, | will stagger
away But | beg of you permit me to
take with me just one little token of
your kindness; something that | can
remember you by"
But what can l, the wife of poor
millionaire, give you?"
"A kiss" Claude whispered these
two words nervously, anXiOusly.
You forget! l told you my husband
is liable to return and kill us both"
But, my dear, he is thousands of
miles from here"
There was a few moments of death
like silence. Then, after looking eau
tiously all about her, the sweet little
woman bent over Claude, and her lips
were just touching his when the door
flew open, and there, eyes filled with
jealous rage and fingers twitching
murderously, stood-Claudes wife!
The end.
Now, honestly, didn't you think il
was the woman's husband?-F. P. Pit,
ger, in Harper's Weekly.
WHY SUFFRAGETTES WIN IN
ENGLAND.
1t is rather interesting to compare
the different attitudes of English anC
American women towards the genera
question. | do not know that Ameri
can women have added anything to the
stock reasons in favor of womens suf
frage. Like vegetarianism, the subject
is one on which all that can be said
for and against, has been said. Blu
American women have certainly add
ed new point to the old arguments
They have made resistance to them ar
gumentatively more difficult for the
men of America than it is for the meI
of any other country. America, they
proclaim, declares herself to be the
only land of equal rights, yet she give!
to one-half of her population a privi
lege which she withholds from the 9th
er half She boasts that the very key
stone of her system is individual rep
resentation, yet when it comes to poi
teal rights she divides her people moi
into individuals but into sexes. AND
the sex which she excludes, to com
plete the irony of the paradox, is, OF
the whole, the better educated Of the
two, has been granted the most ex.
tensive civil and legal rights, and is
freely admitted to the professions anC
to almost all avenues of business. Am,
erican women control the education
and culture of their country almost tC
the point of effeminization. The di
vorce laws from Maine to California
impress a foreigner as being specially
framed to meet their convenience