Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-04

Say wnutT
THAT you preferred your own sex
TO ours: that you had no use for girls
aud that you had no expectation OF
ever marrying. IN short. you gave her
the impression that you are woman
hatpr.'
II didn't say anything ! didn't mean
or that I'm ASHAMED Of"
"you have been very unwise Before
you came to visit us told all the girls
what Il tine fellow you were. aud ! ex.
pected you to he popular with them"
IN have Nil the more time to spend
with you
But think OF my disappointment at
your not being taken up by my
friends /"
My dear sister. ! nm nothing more
or less than your brother you cant
unmake me and make the over again.
I'm not Que to dote upon women. l
wasn't born So rm very fond of you.
ns you know. and II am ever married
perhaps ! shall be- fond OF my wife
But In her cuse I shall expect to take
her ~ ! lind her. and she will have to
30 take me. Marriage IN u great risk
that many persons are chary about
taking. There ure splendid men aud
women who have such dread Of max
ing that jump In the dark that they die
old bachelors and old maids. u your
friends don't like me neither you nor I
can help It."
"Rut you don't need to say every.
thing that Is In your mind"
mo: I don't. hut we are not all born
with the same faults. One OF mine Is
occasionally telling the truth"
The day after this dialogue another
occurred on the same subject between
two other persons. Miss Blair, to
whom the Objectionable remarks had
been made. was sitting on her porch
doing fancy work when Miss Edith
Towne came along.
Come up" said Miss Blair.
81 have just minute to spare. but !
will spend that with you. There's n
matter about which | wish to speak to
you It's how | shall cut my new
summer silk"
Miss Towne came up and seated her
self. -....
Have you seen Mrs. Watrous' broth.
err" she asked Of Miss Blair. ..
Eyes. and don't wish to see him
again"
whats the matter with himr'
Hes a brute" ..r
"Howw
"a woman hater. That's the same
thing"
"IndeedI How do you known"
He told me so himself" ..
"That'll make him unpopular. won
It? I'm sorry. His sister was SO anx
ious that we should like him."
100 bad, isn't it?'
The news spread that Ned Worthlng
ton, the only young man who had evel
visited the deserted (by the male sex
village Of Sommerville was destined to
be disappointment to all the girls
each and every one of whom had look
ed forward to the possibility OF catch
Ing him. The young ladies' declared
that for Mrs. Watrous' sake they would
treat him with civllity. Since there
was no exact definition to the word
civil this was unfortunate. because
what might mean civil to one nigh,
be equivalent TO attention or ever
more than attention to another. How
ever. It was generally understood thn
so far as the gentleman himself wal
concerned he was TO DO made to under
stand that he was tabooed.
The only trouble with this dlsposi
ton of the case was that he did no
appear to be conscious that he was Ia
booed. II was SUMMER time. and hl
|. principal occupation was sitting In
wicker chair on the piazza with a rui
under his feet smoking. And II mus
be confessed that to the girls VIII
passed he looked very handsome. Be
sides. he possessed that manly strengt
tempered by Inconsistencies OF It. an,
Incidence that IL liable to be especial
attractive In a man to women.
II was noticed by the girls that afte
Mr.. Worthington's arrival several q
their number seemed to lind occaslo
TO be constantly running In to Mr.,
Watrous Oh various errands. He
opinion as to the trimming Of a dres
was needed. or she must be consulte
as to the management OF the town l
brary or some united charitable NOV,
ment or course when In Mrs. WI
trous' house her brother must b
treated not only civilly. but afrabl!
How affably there was no one exceI
the family to bear witness. II was ne
I. long before Miss Blair was openly n,
cused OF making pretexts for going
> Mrs. Watrous' for the express purpos
OF slipping moose over the head {
the woman hater. Then Miss Ria
| whispered the same accusation againi
Miss Towne.
| Mr.. Worthlngton finished his Wis
and sped away without realizing thu
he had been snubbed The young Il
dies who had snubbed him regrette
that more drastic measures had NJ
been taken to let him understand no
severely he was condemned. Mi
Blair deserted the malcontents m
spoke so approyingly Of the culpr
that a suspicion was reused that ri
had caught him.
L n,,t ,ha mattar naaua1 f.yar No