Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-15

10 near tnlS lecture, because III new
or grows old, and gone home salts
fed with taste OF that strange
compound of sad tears and merry
laughter which only Bob Burdette
knows how to mix. There are few
persons of intelligence, l believe. at
least In the United States. who have
not heard The Rise and Fall of the
Moustache." and who do not love
the creator Of 1t with an affection
which must give him no end OF work
to do responding to greetings both
oral and epistolary.
But he is equal to anything of the
sort, prince of fellows, best Of COM
panions, kindest of humorists, king
of newspaper men, that he is.
Nothing stuck up" about him,
nothing sanctimonious, nothing
goody-goody-every fibre Of him
sound, sane. sincere, a man unspoil-
ed by conventions.
And he is such by virtue of inner
ent qualities and not by assumption,
or because of n pose as this or that;
socialist, humanitarian, preacher or
what not.
If ever there was a man fit to tell
the message of Christ to those who
have heard 1t in the stereotyped form
ten thousand times before, 1t is Bur-
dette, and my deep regret today is
that cannot be in Honolulu Mon
day night to hear and see the lad
since he became a divine by tlae,
for / have always considered him
chock full of true human divinity.
l am sorry, TOO. that he had to
make business Of resting in Ha-
wall; that the public could not have
heard some OF his other lectures like
Good Medicine" Rainbow Chas-
ers," advice to a Young Man."
THE Woman With the Broom" all
filled with intrinsic humor of the
bubbling quality, and gentle hui
man sympathy which is Burdettes
rare possession.
When l was small boy--and the
vista has good deal OF perspective
Already received my first letter
from Bob. He was then the BUR
lington Hawkeye Man" He sent me
an autograph and told me to 'give
1t three soft feeds week." that 1t
was gentle in single harness and any
child could drive It,"
He wouldn't have even an auto
graph abused. And IL anybody ever
loved and Understood boys( loving
always follows understanding In
such easel. Burdette does, which
Is one OF the secrets of his keen an
( sight into the hearts Of all the big
ger boys who have grown to think
they are men.
He had boy OF his own who has
reason to be thankful that he had
IA father who though religious, and
orthodox at that, knew enough
about one particular matter not tt
try to make man out Of a boy.
i Here IL a bit from q characters
tic letter written me from River
side March Is. 'S6:
| Aren't you just q little surpris
ed to get a letter from me here?-
said goodbye to you at this plac'
April 23, 1888. Now here l an
again." as Mr.. Merryman says In tn,
circus.-The home and the boy
and the boy!
Robert Junior is Just little tall
err than his father, considerable,
broader In the shoulder and play
left half back on his football team
strong, healthy. Splendid
Those who have read DR.. Bur
dette's books and articles kno,
something of his delightful spirit
but no one except those who get hi
|, notes and letters have tasted OF tn
fresh, pure spring Of his soul
word now and then from Sunny
crest" or a letter In the rush OF
: lecture tour from East or West O
some crows nest.
: Here's from "Tazwell, Virgins
, 1901: ~
"My Dear Boy-I'm out on
a unputh'c IArt,,ra tnvr uhora T.. frou