The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-14

had nothing whatever in common
with them. She told her mother So
and the mother nodded. The mother
approved of everything the daughter
did or said. She was her daughter
look We, and the smartest daughter in
the world! The girl couldn't sew on
button, and so the mother, when the
daughter visited home once every
few years, filled the house with seam
stresses to get new clothes made for
the girl against her starting off after
some more education.
The girl had school pal whose
people-wealthy people, of course
lived in Siena, Italy. The pal invited
the highly educated girl to sojourn
for a year or so with her in Siena,
Italy. It happened. The girl stayed
there for three years.
Then she came back home again
for a little while-maybe, because
she needed another stack of clothes
made under the keen supervision OF
her mother.
This time when she came back
from Siena, the girl was at such an
altitude that even the Duke of the
Abruzzi, who gained, l believed, an
altitude of $4,000 feet in the Hima-
layas, couldn't have got near enough
to her to hand her a Malaga grape
She knew eight languages and could
talk Italian like Cardinal Merry del
Val. In fact, the only fun she had dur
ing this sojourn at home was in stop
ping and talking to the Italian street
laborers in their various dialects.
(Her dad liked to see her do even
this; it was about the only human
thing she did, and he liked that
She had good manners, of course,
but it was obvious enough that she
looked upon her father as nice,
comfy little old fat pap who did the
best he could, considering that he
was merely the head of a carriage
building works; that she regarded
her pair of fine, outstanding brothers
as clean enough American boys,
though hideously uncultivated, and
that she considered her mother quite
nice, y'know, for a mother who hadn't
lad any advantages worth mention
ing.
Her mother gave a lot of teas and
things for the girl-to the latterS
intense perturbation. The girl went
through these ordeals yawnfully and
looked EN- over curiously through a
lpince-nez. They were so funny,
y'know, mamma! So-what shall one
any-so-er-so banal! Out, banal!
Eat ees eet!
!, BY some means or other the moth
er contrived to trap quite number
of the wealthy and eligible young
men of the town to call upon her
daughter. They were pretty clever
young fellows, too, some of them,
boys from Yale, Princeton, Harvard
and so on, who after taking their
degrees had settled down to business.
They each came just once. The girl
yawned in their teeth, hurled Met
zsche at them, uncoiled a lot of AS
syrian mythology, and all like that.
So they came just once. Then they
put in their other evenings going
around seeing just girls.
I took dinner with the family one
> evening not long ago. The girl, whom
I'd known when she was a fat-legged
little thing in starchy, straighout
skirts and two pigtails-she was now
depressingly angular and homely-
measured me carefully, and / could
see that | wasn't going to do with her
at all She trapped me first on my
Egyptology, and then she corralled me
about the La Place theory as to the
p nebular hypothesis. Thereupon
collapsed and switched to baseball
with the boys. She permitted me so
to do, but her scorn for me was un,
comfortably obvious for the rest OF
the evening.
l was glad to escape to the billiard
room with the old man. As | was
taking down a cue and beginning IL
? chalk it, became a little discmsive
fear, on the higher education OF
women