The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-10-15
MONDAY LUNCH
GREAT SUCCESS
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much thought to the detail handed me
to write up the midday meeting of the
building fund campaign committee of
the Y. NJ. @. A. But as entered the
door and faced that large gathering of
men was seized with violent attack
of stage fright, Did you ever have
stage fright This was my first expert
ence, and can only describe stage
fright as being violent desire on the
part of the feet to move, accompanied
by an absolute lack of brain power to
control them.
There Were Others.
Don say / said so, but / really be-
lieve that the majority of those men
had worse attack of fright than did.
For this / am truly thankful, for, by
the time one of them had gained sutli.
cient control to come to my assistance,
most of the danger of my sinking
through the floor was over.
The gentleman who came to my as.
sistance, after he got me, was still at
loss as to what to do with one poor
little woman among such a gathering.
As his eyes wandered along the rows of
tables the sight of q blue uniform saved
him. 1t brought to his mind the pen
chant of the feminine for brass but
tons, and he marched me directly to the
ofiicer's table and then washed his
hands of the whole affair.
Fortified With Lunch.
Right here / decided that men are
very sensible beings after all For the
first thing ON the program was lunch.
And an excellent lunch it was, too One
could not help but feel, in a way, forti-
fed for an extra amount of energetic
work after lunch. During the meal L
took occasion to size up the eleven
tables of diners, and was compelled to
admit Ito myself only that, had this
been meeting of my own sex, with
eleven committees, that the percentage
of chairmen and assistants in their
places would have been sadly against
us. Think of asking eleven chairmen
of eleven committees in a woman's or
ganization all to be in their places on
, time. Somehow it nettled me to see ten
of those eleven chairmen there and the
place of the eleventh filed by his rep.
resentative, and all there and seated
when the clock struck twelve. How.
ever, / consoled myself with the
thought: "oh, well, it is not just being
| here that counts; just wait until they
begin their reports and II be able to
draw all kinds of comparisons.
Tale of a Kite.
My pride went before a fall, as usual.
| became so interested in the arguments
advanced by the first speaker that by
the time he had drawn the picture of a
kite with tail that lacked orly the
smallest bit of ballast to enable it to
soar lightly aloft and showed where
the last little piece of cloth required by
the youngster for the kite IS tail was al.
ways the hardest to be acquired, that
was willing to jump up and offer any
thing l had as a contribution. For had
| not, as IA child, We'd with my brothers
in the manufacture and flying of all
sorts of queer shaped kitesp AS / look.
| ed backward / was sure that had / been
in the predicament pictured by the
speaker j would have found some way
to have obtained that last most import.
ant piece for the tail Of my kite. And
/ am sure that there was not young
man there to whom the smile did not
bring the determination to do or die
The Y. NJ. G. Askite is in no danger of
lacking a tail of sufficient length. Yes
and some to spare.
Miles of Millinery.
Then the chairman began to turn in
the figures for the collections of the
day and by the time the first three
had called out amounts, each of which
carried four figures, ! was in daze
/ could not see any kite at all, only
succession of tails, and each one grow
ing n little longer than the other
Figures never did mean. very much t.
me anyway and the only way | could
draw upon my imagination to endeavo
TO grasp the amounts was to try ant
figure out how many hats it would buy
was rescued from regular "Littl
Memo" sea of hats by the announce
ment that this was only the third da,
. Of the campaign and that there wer
still seven days to be devoted to hust
ling and collecting. Then / realize,
/ would have to use something beside
hats to aid my mathematics.
Alarmed, but Interested.
At this point a gentleman, who
o"i''""' iHlolH'u mt, hdh IOrme
Governor of the Islands, took the floor
lie started out by saying; ~ SHOULD
, like TO see anyone come up to me
, place card down In front OF me ant
, say, Shell out'D This declaration
aroused my curiosity aud ! changed m,
position 80 as to obtain n view of III,
speaker. BY first thought was, tina
! would not like TO be the one 10 tr,
II, and on second thought ] decide,
that ] would not even care 10 DO pres
ont when any one else tried II.
The speaker went on 10 explain tina
this declaration was made simply 10
The purpose Of showing the right an'
he wrong way Of approaching a maj
, for u contributions that the assocla
ton did not want TO force any one b
give anything, and that they did no
want any man 10 give more than b.
felt he could afford They did not wan
, que donation that WAS going 10 max
an enemy They would rather that
, man gave Que dollar aud retained vi
Interest in tho association than Cha
be gave 10000 and afierwards grosl
Nd about A. This statement pl0aael