The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-02-15
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for the employment of friendly Wis
ltor for the tuberculosis class, and to
provide facilities required for the
treatment of such class
That this committee hold office for
one year and be authorized to proceed
at once to engage a competent nurse
and to start the class.
The following directors were then
elected:
T. Give Davies, James Wakefield,
Doctor Brinckerhoff. W. A Soper,
George Potter, L. ". Vetlesen, Rev.
Mr.. Bliss.
The club has membership of seven
ty-five on its rolls,
The following address was delivered
by Doctor Burdette:
This dinner being set by club of
men on st. Valentine 5 Day, and this
being q land where every day is spring
lime, and the year OF spring being the
tine when. Mr.. TennysOn says, a young
man 5 fancy lightly turns to thoughts
Of valeutiens and all the appIr5enances
ChefeGnto appertaining, the subject of
this address naturally suggested itself.
But see around me some men who
could give me aces and spades on this
subject and then whip-saw me; and |
see some men who are Just lnyestl gat-
ing the topic, and are rejoicing in that
| sweet omniscience which possesses one
when he suddenly discovers that two
! and two make four and tries to get a
! copyright OH it. And still others there
! are whose hearts are as vet locked in
armor plat of proof, and disdain st.
! Valentine as little tin god with naught
| but make believe pretensions to Omnip-
| otence. These are the ones who viii
| have il the worst when they do get it.
! The longer man puts it off, the higher
! the fever runs, the more Crratlc the
pulse. and the more capricious the APP
petite.
1t was said ages ago, by one wiser
| and greater han st. Valentine that it
was not good for man TO be alone.
| Which is another way of saying that
a man is hauling mighty close to t&e
! rocks when his wife goes to the com
try For man is not and never was, a
wise creature when it came to taking
care of himself. When YOU hold human
ma ure. especially masculine human nat
ure. up to the light it is full of thread
! bare places and moth eaten patches.
! Il
rcady-made troubles and no teeth. And
sometimes it would be money in his
! pocket if ne had less Of both and none
Of either
For the troubles, he could, as he
does. make them for himself as he
grows older.
As for teeth. when he has none, he
! j happy his food assmiiates his diges-
tion is perfect. But when he CUTS the
| first one, he has commissions, as fast as
| be gets another one it begins to ache.
| As the last one comes in, the dentist
| Is pulling the first one out. And when
! he has become accustomed to them, and
| they have grown to be a vital necessity
| to his happiness and comfort, he loses
| them all. And the DENTS, fixes up his
mouth with porcelain grin, and a roof,
| plate built to hold raspberry seeds, so
Jhat the last state Of that man is
worse than ne first This also is vanity.
In the midst Of life he is in debt;
the assessor Is a burden to him and
| the tax collector rursueth him witherso-
ever he goeth. Wherefore, by under
vaiuing his property to the one, and
| oveFvalung II 70 the other, his con.
science hecometh cross-eved and he
forgrtteth what the truth tastes like
The LaIuster of life is full of
,livers and he sljdeth down it with con
siderable rapiditv.
lin the morning he goeth forth with
hope in his heart and confidence in his
! trainer, and IS knocked out in two
rounds.
He walketh forth in the bright sun
shine Of May morning to absorb the