The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-07
TOWN TALK
~ THH NAN ABOUT TOWN.

Since there are so many alleged
threats of assassination flying round, /
might as well come out with it and ad-
been threatened, not once but on sew
eral occasions. TO be sure. the threats
have come more or less indirectly ana
were not always couched in the most
elegant language. One man, quite a
prominent individual, went so far as
to remark that if he knew who was
The Man About Town he would take
great pleasure i'm bending my face
"mussng my mush,' whatever that
rude phrase may mean And then
heard lady on a street-car declare
that if she once could lay her fngures
on that horrid Man About Town she
would show him, yes. sir" still go
about unarmed, except for a bit of
pencil and a clean spot on my cuff for
taking notes.
am informed that member OF the
strike conspiracy jury was on Friday
very much under the influence of liq-
uor and that he has a wooden leg. Or
1t may be a cork leg I'm either case
the circumstances are peculiar for IT
may have been too much wood al
cohol or he may have forgotten to put
the cork back.
News items sometimes get garbled,
but so far we have seen no enterpris-
ing printer referring to wv. A. Ma
kino" or the Fire Rage Assassina-
ton"
With the early advent of electric
lighting in houses in Honolulu, it is a
marvel to me that the architecture OF
homes and places of public assembly
here has not changed in the direction
of more openness to the air of heaven
and ocean. When the town had be-
gun to grow in wealth and the diffu-
sion thereof, there was a change from
the dry-goods-box style of house 80
something more pretentiOus but, alas,
even less artistic because even not so
well adapted to the scenery and the
climate. think the Colonial and the
Swiss chalet styles both monstrositfes
amidst the palm groves and magnifi
cent banyan, mango and eucalyptus
aristocracy of domesticated forest.
Lately the cooler looking bungalow
style has heralded the dawn of intel
ligence in BODYBUILDING, and yet there
is much to be desired But leaving
homes aside, why on earth should we
have cribbed, cabined and confined
churches, theaters and schOolhouses
such as we have got for the following
of European medieval models? Done
in stone they are not so bad-as imi-
tation, but the Gothic and other classic
mimicries in wood are atrocities.
What has the electric light to do
with it? Simply that it has obviated
the necessity of protection of flame
lights from the winds through doors
and windows with attendant peril or
fire and annoyance of being found in
the proverbial predictment of Moses.
AS the years crowd upon my head
realize that | am getting slow in the
thinking region, yet now and then an
idea from physical and psychological
blend of suggestion hits my cerebrum
with force to make it ache. You
know Old Baldie's excuse for going to
the circus-he just wants to take the
children. Well, take the children
sometimes they take me-out to see
the moving pictures, and when we
start in time it is the whole route for
us until the good night symbol flares
upon the screen. The children like
the outdoor one-so does this Old
Baldie. And it is from there that the
idea of this collocation of voices in
the attic comes
Can anything beat it for relaxation
and rest-this entertainment? Not
the pictures, for I hardly care whether
they are bum or motif not it is
only so much the better. The ming
ling Of young and old of a dozen ma
| tionalities, of all degrees Of social and
material conditions, under the waving
trees that answer the wind-stirred
| foliagle in the pictures-some music
and that generally eXcellent-the
starry or moOnlit empyrean for root
-cosmopolitanism, concert, garden
party, conservatory, all these charac-
terizing the atmosphere; dreamland
in perspective the tout ensemble.
Here's a model for the architecture
of our churches, schools and places OF
amusement and Of public assembly
all except that the sky directly over
head would have TO be shut out, as il
is necessary that such places should