Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-02-25
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HIS BIRTHDAY.


have a birthday next week, but I'm
not taking much interest in 1t. I was
up against the Christmas game only
a little while ago and II worked out
Just about as usual The birthday
carouse will be like it--only worse. .
81 wouldn't have your disposition for
a farm said the man with his hat on
one side Of his head.
You wrong me-" SAID the man with
the row of stogies In his pocket This
isn't case Of disordered liver; it's O
case of sad experience. I've had birth.
days before"
81 suspected that" said the man
with his hat on one side of his head
II can see the crows'-feet from here
Your hairs getting thin, too"
ooh. yes, am wise to the birthday
game said the gloomy man. "Still
every year | get worked up for day
or two over the possibility that things
will be different. bur they never are
What's the principal dliiicultyT
Its the birthday presents. Then at
Christmas It's the Christmas presents.
It's always the same thing. Next week
I'll get the regular bunch OF old fay.
critics that are passed out to me on ev.
cry glad occasion. There'll be q
lounging robe SO impossible In design
that I'll never dare put II on of an
evening for fear some close friend
will come in suddenly and catch me
wearing it--Just such lounging robe
as I've got either at Chr:stmas or on
my birthday every year ror the last
eight years. 1 missed II last. Christ
mas SO, OF course, I'll get It on my
birthday"
well, don't let it drive you to
drink"
Then some distant relative will
send me watch fob of rah-rah de.
sign, which | won't have the nerve to
perpetrate In public can count, too
on my wife's handing me the conven.
tlonally impossible smoking utensils
which look as If they were taken from
page Of the 'Homely Ladies' Journal
And so things will co.
Whats the difference so long as
you're used to it," asked the man with
his hat on one side Of his head.
"Oh. I'll live through It. all right,
said the man with the row of stogies
In his pocket AS soon as my birth
day is over I'll chase downtown and
buy the things | need, Just as I've al
ways DONE
Then why worry" 81
"I'm not worrying. 1t does seen
funny. though, the way woman just
naturally won't pay any attention to q
mans wants. For the last week I've
been sitting at home In the evening
getting of such talks as this II
beats all how these shoes have worn
out. Little too snug to wear well.
believe. The next pair get I'll have
the man give men an 81 instead OF an
shoe. II seems as though everything
wears out at once. These gloves look
so fierce that I had notion to throw
EN- away. II Santa Claus had been on
to his Job he would have brought me
new pair at Christmas. ! hate &c
buy the things myself. The clerk al
ways says size such as take IL
an odd size or something and he
hasn't got just what I want. Huh! II
this the only clean handkerchief I've
got? Good thing | haven't caught
gold while the supply's 80 low. Meb
be I'll slip In somewhere and buy
some tomorrow. I've got to stop ant
get three or four shirts ana some
socks, anyhow! r..
That's the kind of talk I've beer
keeping up, hoping that It might take
root and do some good, hut 1t won
10 any good. How do ! know? Be
cause I've tried II before-tried It mo-
longer ago than In the merry Christ
mas season. About as near as II
come to getting what really want OF
my birthday will be when | unwraI
a pink candlestick for the parlol
mantel."
"We,l, cheer up" said the man with
his hat on one side of his head. "Yot
can get even with your wife on hel
birthday by giving her something yol
Snow she doesn't want"
Say. that's great lioa." declared
the man with the row OF stogles In his
pocket. displaying considerable enthusi
asm.