Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-05-02

MY SUI, nave enough kHOWlcuEe
and independence to be positive about
something.
Cultivate an opinion.
The only way to deserve the valu.
able opinions of others, is to have one
of your own.
And you cant improve or modify 1t
greatly by keeping 1t to yourself.
Ventilate 1t; put It out to dry, let 1t
in the wind and the sun. and when
you get 1t back its colors may be fad
ed somewhat, but It will be clean.
Its seams will be smoothed out, and
1t will be made ready for everyday
, wear.
Your neighbors may say,--"Oh, he's
SO positive about everything: he
thinks he knows It ALL" but what your
neighbors say isn't so awfully impor.
tant, provided you are honest and con.
sistant yourself. You can't have
everybody's good opinion; If you did.
you wouldn't be worth running
through second hand sausage MILL
do not mean to advise YOU to foist
your opinions on your neighbors and
friends at all times and in all places;
to make your ideas unduly conspicu.
Gus, but mean that you think enough
about anything worth discussing to be
able to have your own thoughts about
| Ii.
Flavor your own sauces.
The majority of things offered are
wishy-washy slop.
II Is the men who have opinions and
| not the men who have the money ne
| cessarily, who make the world move.
They are called egoists. cyclists,
conceited asses, opinionated, stuck.up,
vain, swell-heads, but they can stand
| it: they know enough to know that
you don't know 1t all either. and that
when you condemn another by whole.
sale epithets, you have lost your in.
tellcctual bearings.
Have an opinion, say. but because
| you have one, don't make the mistake
of thinking that this child of yours is
| the only youngster that has two legs
to stand on.
Opinions are like marbles,-of all
sorts, good, bad and indifferent, and
II you are wise. you'll exchange your
wisdom for better when you come
across 1t.
A good, big. honest opinion, Tipped
by a steady hand, will knock out u
hundred small ones in any commun-
ity.
II you are afraid of criticism, you'll
soon lose your identity, my son.
The opinion of the world as ex.
pressed by common gossip swerves
like a weather.cock.
This is Mother Grundy's Alphabet:
A
"Oh, A Is a dude. He thinks Of no.
thing but dress. He places all he
earns on his back. II he thought
more of some things he would amount
to something.
Yes, b is slovenly. He never gives
his personal appearance Il thought
His money all goes to the bank.
If he'd be more particular about his
dress he'd save money.
c
"C's conceited He knows 1t all
He brides himself on what he knows
He'd rather stay at home and read
than anything else.
He makes me tired.
IDS dough. He lacks self conf
dence. He never would stand by an
opinion Of his own. He's wishy
washy. In this world you must hav,
good opinion of your own merits oil
nobody else will.
"E talks too much. He has regu
lar fiapper, hung In the middle ant
loose at both ends. He doesn't know
when to keep still.
+
"F never has word to say. Ht
tries to get reputation for wisdom
by looking wise. Thinks he won
commit himself and expose his ignor
ance. He's sly.
"If | was as lean and gawky as {
I'd have some cut off both ends of me
A man Is more or less responsible,
flor being SO lean.
There's II a regular Humpty.dump
ty. Couldn't he take the diet cur,
and get rid of some flesh. Thougl
, he seems to work hard he is probabl.
lazy at heart and that accounts 70
his waste tissue.
5 "You know Is as close as your fist
He makes the eagle squeal, and keep
everything in sight including Sunday
= - can't save'a cent Just spend
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/ all roads, trails and rights-of-way.
D The usual reservations regardia
Y lands required by the Government
= for settlement or public purposes vii
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