The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-11
TOWN TALK
ny THE NAN ABOUT town.


edge and. started cutting mp the islets
To pass around
lie cut all the islands except Lanai
and handed that whole 10 Ex-Governor
Carter
Have a piecc?" he asked John Em-
meluth
Thank YOU. Isle take Sandwich"
said John
Carter laughed 50 hard that he chok-
ed on Lanai and his temporary distress
was like the bowwow Of the barking
sands
There's something epidemic here
said Link McCandless, his hand press
ed I'm the region of his vest, and /
must resign the chair in favor OF HI
Henry.
What's the natter cried several
# eat too much of the Punahou sec
ton Of that cussed cake" said Link.
"Auwe," said jeremiah w Doyle,
great political news-Punahou's gone
solid for Link"
Iii Henry had no sooner taken the
chair than Billie Cooper and his silk
cared poi-purp, with the anti-luau con-
victions and an appetite for newspaper
clippings and paste entered the cham
Der
iii at once wanted to know If the
dog was licensed and Cooper declared
that Sheriff Iaukea had licensed his
pup.
"Iaukeas licenses don't go" said
Henry you'll have to get my certi-
ficate'
Il don't believe in hi license" said
Cooper
"Bow-wow!" agreed the Promotion
Pup.
IF ] can't be obeyed, perhaps you'd
do better in the chair" said Hi Henry
Cooper took the chair and the pur-
pie purp took the Turkish rug at his
neither extremities.
I'm promoting a publicity cam
paign," said Cooper, and | want you
fellows to lend a legible hand to the
good woik, see!"
"Specificate!" said Booster, just wax
ing up and lighting an Arab
We'll | want you chaps to give me
your photographs and your biographies
and I'll scatter them among the coun-
try papers of the mainland for the
edification of the dear mainlanders and
tho N ~ IIo,uoii
Giving pulled his photograph from
his hip pocket and presented it at the
mourners' bench.
Nothing doing" said Cooper, Il
saw your picture in Leslie's and that's
about enough from you for the present.
They had you labelled as a strong
supporter of the Chinese movement in
Hawaii, when they should have billed
you as a Carrie National nuisance and
put your face in the Police Gazette"
Booster handed in his photograph,
explaining that he had better one
contracted for, if Cooper would only
wait
I'm not looking for social leaders,"
said Cooper! II want captains OF indus
try.
That settled it, and Detor of the
Union Grill, the Flagman of Fort
street, Lawyer Atkinson, Frazier of
the Panhandle Advertising Company,
Honorable Plumber Quinn and Chiffon
Ter Jim Quinn all had their photo
post-card-Dortraits accepted as being
those of the men of Honolulu who are
making all the money
A bell-buoy entered on silent and
manicured feet and deposited on the
Chief Decidents table a magnificous
cluster of blossoms, fresh plucked from
the gardens of the Lei Syndicate Crrust
Buster Breckons please note)
Immediately the botanists commenc-
ed playing "botan botan, who's the
best botanist?"
She loves me. she loves me mott"
whispered Outright and Any More to-
gether, both plucking at the same sun
flower from opposite sides.
Just then one of the pistils went off
and More swore out a warrant, think
ing he had been shot by a tug-captain,
IT'S all right" said Olbright, 1t
wasn't loaded"
What wasn't loaded? The flower
or the tug --" said More, speaking
the last word so low that 1t could not
be disgustinquished.
Shut up!" cried Loag Ann,
'Its not closing time, yet said
More.
Sure It is" said Booster, the belle
of the Iroquois just struck one"
But the botanists were still examin,
ing the beauties Of the nosegay pre-
sented by the Lei Syndicate.
This is a Paradise Peony," said one
And this" said another is a Lite
rary Lilac"
Here INsee Reportorial Rosary
remarked b third.
And | have IN my hand a waikiki