The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-04


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cisco as a modern Gomorrah. He says
down .Powlett (meaning PowelD
street, you strike them (sic) high
priced restaurants where the real
married women whose husbands are
away drift out of home into the fat
life.' Both Fraser and Burton have
been Hospitality entertained in San
Francisco by some of these same hus-
bands and wives, and l would hate to
be responsible for their safety if
they should revisit the homes they
have libelled.
/ Here's the way the press of New
Zealand received DIR. Henry, the
American Evangelist: He doctor
Henry has been found out as a
spiritual skunk. =. This Yankee leg
puller has been. &. found out to be
& spiritual side-stepper'
Americans at Oxford.
"The American students should
read a recent article appearing in the
London Daily Mail strongly criticiz.
ing the Americans as Rhodes schol-
ars.' IThis article recently appeared
III The Star, ed. Starr They would
never accept another. The Yelling
ton Post is responsible for this stric-
ture: America is the great propagat-
ing bed for this horrible plague OF
yellow journalism, which may be
described with the other appalling
plague of eastern extract as a filth
disease spread by rodents fossicking
on the sewers of society
Referring to the celebrated Crippen
, case, the New Zealand Free Lance
says; Had the wife murderer been in
Yankeeland, the trial would have been
strung out for weeks of months. Some
of the yellow journals might have
financed the defense in return for
Crippen copy Some papers made a
vicious assault on American sports
because of the Yacht Cup, saying:
The regulations are so framed that
it is impossible for an English yacht
to compete. Win, fairly if you can;
a.
sports motto | have here a scrap
book containing hundreds of similar
comments and including every critic
ism sired by the English press the
world over. Hate, spite, envy, jealousy,
prompt every line, and it is not to be
wondered that our English colonials
and cousins are imbued with a latent
resentment toward Americans and
American institutions.
1T is long strercf Of vivid imag-
ination from the sublime story of
George Washington and the Hatchet
to the doings of country pumpkin
on cabbage head but an English
Clergyman at concert on the Zea-
landia essayed this feat, and was ap-
plauded by the English passengers in
the presence of more than score of
patriotic Americans. He told the story
of Washington well, and then made
this silly comparison: History re-
peats itself. |, too, had father and
that father gave me a Ratchet and |
chopped down a cabbage head. HR
called me to his side and asked me
if assaulted the cabbage, and | said,
yes. Whereupon he took me across
his knee and spanked me upon the
head with a brickbat. 1t is not so
much the story, but the manner in
which he told it and the applause
with which it was received.
THE American Secretary of the
Navy has just reprimanded Com
mander Sims, who stated at an en-
tertainment given at Guild Hall that
II England was ever menaced by a
foreign foe, every man, every dollar,
every drop of blood, could be counted
upon from the Americans.
: "The true, the patriotic, American
has three strong characteristics his
love of country, devotion to his wo-
men, and his sensitiveness to criti
lcism. We are not paragons of per
lection, neither are we free iron