The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-02-14


1910 trolley pattern; overhead power;
beautiful ear, with nouskidding tires,
and touneau roomy enough for picnic
purposes-Ne observed seven or eight
umbrellas | remarked on the careless
ness Of some people. and rejolccd to
think that / was not the only one who
habitualiv left ALI my umbrellas and
small parcels in the car despite the
earnest pleading of the brakeman or
conductor.
But a friend informed me that these
umbrellas, though left behind, were
not forgotten. They were left there
in the morning by their owners, that
they might have them on their return
home. You see-or you will see when
YOU come to the Happy Islands-it
rains up in the Manoa Valley sometimes
say. morning and evening, when it
does not rain downtown save at fire.
uuent intervals during the day. There
fore the resident of the arstocratic re
gion hoists his umbrella as he walks
from his home amid the hills to the
ear, There is but one car on this d.
vision lie leaves his parachute in it
and finds it when he returns in the
evening. Just you try that some day
between Los Angeles and Pasadena.
''Are they not frequently st-taken
by dishonest Persons'
The question was too puerile and Of
fensive to call forth an answer. NO
umbrella was ever lost in such fashion
in this land of the primitive virtues.
Presumably this is indicative OF
high standard and a high attainment Of
civic and individual honesty. Let US
say that il is. OF course. there may
be some minor causes which operate
with tie virtue to protect the unpro-
tected umbrella. 1t seems to me, walk
ing along and musing as the gentle
shower soals me and the genial winter
sunshine dries me. a little bit wrinkled
as to my garmenture, but busted so as
no porter on earth could Wh!Sk- broom
me. that there is no temptation III an
umbrella. exposed to capture, 10 lazy
or even an ordinarily indolent man.
Only an active man, and an expert
trombone player withal, could keep
pace, raising and lowering an umbrella.
with the rapid-f fire changes of rain and
sunshine. The climate is not provoca-
tive of very strenuous physical eXer-
else.
1t may be that some of these UNI
brellas are thus exposed with the Sc
cret hope on the part of the owner
at least. the present possessor of the
rain held-that some weak saint would
lay covetous hands upon it. | do not
know the secret history of these invio
late storm coverts. Folded. and some
times even encased in cover fair to
80 irwin,
killed. smoOthness to the itching PALM
they are as attractive as the royal
armored ghost of Hamlet 5 father But.
once uncovered and raised to public
view, the fairest London-made among
them might unfold such ragged secrets
as, like the hidden mysteries of the
Danish specter's prisonhouse, would
make the individual hairs upon the
head of the beholder to stand erect like
frets upon the porkful quilcupine.
1t ism I always a sense Of honesty
that keeps people from stealing. Once
upon a time III a great treasury build
ing belonging to the Great Republic
| noted the number of women engaged
in counting money My masculine
mind had somehow been warped to the
impression that the chief end of woman
was to spend money without counting
it | asked high official who accom-
panied me into this room. with rather
more of personal s0licItude. / thought
afterward than was called for. II the
women were employed at this labor
because of the superior defines of
their fingers? They were paid for 1t,
so | suppose it was labor. Some people