The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-15

| the Y. NJ. C. A. But as I entered the
door and faced that large gathering OF
men I was seized with violent attack
Of stage fright. Did you ever have
stage frights This was my first expert
ence, and I 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't say L said so, but [ really be-
lieve that the majority Of those men
had worse attack of fright than 1 did.
For this L am truly thankful for, by
the time one Of them had gained sutfi-
clent control to come to my assistance,
most OF the danger of my sinking
through the floor was over.
The gentleman who came to nv 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 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
otncer's table and then washed his
, hands of the whole affair.
Fortified With Lunch.
Right here L 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 way, forti-
fed for an extra amount of energetic
work after lunch. During the meal
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, | eOnsoled 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 Kite.
My pride went before fall, as usual.
l 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 only 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 s tail was al
ways the hardest to be acquired, that
was willing to jump up and offer any
thing | had as contribution. For had
| not, as a child, Wed with my brothers
in the manufacture and flying of all
sorts of queer shaped kites? AS I look
ed backward | was sure that had I been
| in the predicament pictured by the
speaker | would have found some wav
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. A kite is in no danger of
| lacking tail of sufficient length. Yes.
and some to spare.
Miles of Millinery.
Then the chairman began to turn in
| the figures fer the collections of the
| day and by the time the first three
had called out amounts. each of which
carried four figures, | was in a daZe
[ could not see any kite at all, only a
succession of tails, and each one grow
| ing little longer than the other
| Figures never did mean verv much to
me anyway and the only way I could
draw upon my imagination to endeavo1
| TO grasp the amounts was to try and
| figure out how many hats it would buy
l was rescued from a regular "Little
Memo" sea of hats by the announce
| ment that this was only the third dax
of the campaign and that there were
| still seven days TO be devoted to hust
| ling and collecting. Then | realized
| would have to use something besides
! hats TO aid my mathematics
Alarmed, but Interested.
At this point a gentleman. who
| someone informed me, was a former
| Governor of the Islands. took the floor,
lie started out by saying: 81 should
like to see anyone come up to me,
place card down in front of ME and
say, Shell outi''' This declaration
aroused my curiosity and l changed my
position so as to obtain view of the
speaker. BY first thought was. thai
| would not like to be the one to try
1T, and on second thought | decided
that | would not even care to be pres
ent when any one else tried it.
The speaker went on to explain that
this declaration was made simply fol-
the purpose of showing the right and
the wrong way of approaching man
for a contribution: that the associa
ton did not want TO force any one to
give anything, and that they did not
| want any man to give more than he
felt he could afford. They did not want
| one donation that was going to make
an enemy. They would rather that a
man gave one dollar and retained his
interest in the association than that
he gave $4,000 and afterwards growl
ed about it. This statement pleased
me; for since NY childish trades anu
quarrels with my little brothers up to
the time I had given one of my favor
tie gowns to dear girl chum because
she mad admired if. / had been led
to believe that it was only the women