The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-27
EVERY ONE WAS IN
CHRISTMAS STYLE
Late Shoppers Crowded Stores,
While Early Ones Began
Over Again.
tFrom sunday,s Advertlser. J


"How are you, old MANI Merry
Christmas! Out buying something fol-
the kidsH So am l." and off they go to,
gether.
H"n"lulu was buying mad yesterday
lheFe is an old story told of the back
DOCS OF Australia, where men usually
CT out prospecting In pairs, that if a
nan was seen by himself he was no
good or that he had killed his mate.
1t was something the same in town YES.
terday, If a man walked along the
street without half a dozen parcels
sticking ont from under his arms and
a green and red painted express wagon
trailing along behind him, then he had
something wrong with him. The stores
were beehives of activity and despite
the rain and the slush in the streets,
white was the order of the day among
the women folk. 1t was evidently this
which caused an English malihini to
observe, "By jove, old chappie, all
these splashes of white remind one of
the snow. WHAT"
Talking of women folk naturally
leads to hobble skirts, and there is one
lady in town who hasn't got a great
idea of them since yesterday The hob
BILE was very pronounced and so were
the number of parcels she had with her
just across the road big red automo-
bile stood painting and between it and
her lay the muddy stretch of King
street. She looked at the street and
at her parcels, the hobble skirt never
seeming to enter her mind. Altogether
she must have had eight or nine par
cells, one of them being the inevitable
express wagon. Taking all this into
consideration she shouldn t be laughed
at, but still
She negotiated the crossing safely un-
til she reached the automobile and then
an unYonted pride took hold of her.
She glanced around and at the same
time essayed to step into the machine.
The hobble skirt thought it would
teach her lesson, however, and the
fall which followed pride was a heavy
one. Incidently it was also a muddy
one. The "shuver'' in his nice, clean
polished shoes had to step ont into the
horrid mud and chase that express
wagon down the street. and as he was
trailing it along behind him, Chiffon
nearly arrested him for not having a
number on IT,
Wonderful Things.
Small babies with large-sized eyes
were quite a feature of the day. These
carried in one hand a halfsucked lollie
stick and with the other gleefully
smeared all the shop windows they could
find. Flat little pug-noses were hattened
more than ever against the glass behind
which the most wonderful sights pre-
scented themselves. Other poor littlel
beggars stood at the doors and visit
fully watched the more fortunate ones
taking away their presents and the
psuedo Santa Clauses doing so In prep'I
antion for this morning.
Little buzz carts aud every other size
Of small machine honked their way
through the crowds. "Cnll this Christ |
massn remarked Disguised haekmani
why I've seen the time when there
used 10 be- Christmas In this town,
Look thtra AZ Port street ana ten mo
YOU call this Christmas. Why, f'yal
sean tbs time whom tho whole OF thatl
street W0uld be- llned with backs, and
u0Y, look at li n0ihln but Rui0m0 |
hiles pufiu smells over everybody
Au1 II VIA true, nurng ihe whole !
of ihr day there was continued stream /
of thesr machines up aui dpHa THE
newly paved fifHaii aHd lnti at tha
tImr NJ iirs fhtffrsllnH Hni history
mating frmaIha hnih aldra af enc
ilfsri geie absolutely Iped plih all