The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-09

in the made-over lodge of their big
place. Explanations by mother as to
what constitutes sfgood society" are
demanded as soon as two sturdy indig-
nant legs can convey the scorned one
home, and instructions will be given
just as promptly by mother "not to
mind what that rude little Isabel said,
but just not to care to play with her
when she next comes for you to go out
with her.
INITIATING "GROWN-UPS.
That the child's remarks are only
the parrotlike repetition of what is said
in her home can readily be understood
by the elders of the family, and more
pity than any other feeling will be
theirs toward the purse proud young
ster, for, knowing the ways of the
world, they realize what this selfsame
daughter of fortune will have to endure
when she makes her plunge into some
set that her parents are straining every
nerve to break their way into.
Perhaps the. newcomer has lived in
freedom on some large estate, where
all about her as far as eye could reach
was to be her inheritance until a fate
full day decreed otherwise, and the
family moved to smaller house in new
surroundings. In the brief days she pass
boughs, was her castle, each rock her
pirate ship, and a delightfully."- built ar
Dor in very very large tree was her
playhouse when the ground was too
damp, and her careful governess for
babe such joys as good mud pies or
houses of moss and twigs down near
the brook. On coming to her new home
the few trees are surely found and
scanned as to adaptability for land resi-
dence or seagoing purposes, and the
first raid is made by bandits or free
hooters chosen from among the little
neighbors, who are delighted to test
their skill in reaching the topmost
branches in their flight and pursuit.
But the day after will behold only a
straightlaced procession of yesterdays
comrades. who cannot again Irvine their
feet among the boughs, because
"Mother says that little ladies do not
climb trees, and we have no common
clothes like yours to play games in. -
On the occasion of a first spend-the-
day with the cold inhabitant' clothes
will be the chief subject of discussion,
and larded in between such announce
ments as 81 only wear silk stockings
underclothes will be "What kind of
bath soap do you use? | have only the
most expensive French SOAP and 81
eat only So-and-So's candy. | hate
cheap chocolates, and mother says [
must have only the best of everything.
I can t see how you can eat candy like
Blanks. Tt costs so little For nur-
serv luncheons the same child quotes,
owe like only simple little things, like
squads and scrambled eggs and salad.
We always order what we want and
when I am sick / always have a little
champagne in one of fathers best Rus
sian silver cocktail glasses, that are
almost all silver, only glass where You
pour the wine.' The discussion over
the various things that II can afford
and YOU can not' is a case of dollars
rubbed in hard, and will come in the
form of 81 can go to the Hippodrome
every day if I want to, and you can t,
because your father has so little money.
I can give a luncheon at the Waldorf,
with theater party afterward, and 90
to the theater in our automobile right
from the country, but 7 will not ask you
because YOU have no real lace dress to
wear like mine''
LITTLE GIRLS LUNCH IN PUBLIC
A luncheon recently given for twelve
small girls, of which the oldest was
eleven, with two governesses as guar,
dams, was the center of curious eyes
at the aforementioned hosiery. The
table was laid in the large dining room,
with a huge centerpiece of orchids, and
at each place a bouquet of goodly di