The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-20

Scene-The telephone switchboard in
the lobby of a Broadway hotel
Characters - Annabelle, the tele-
phone girl, and Myrtle, in the bust
ness"
Myrtle-Ain't this here drool about
whether we oughta smoke in public a
hit, dearie? Our entire sex oughta
unite in knittin a banner fur Mis- Bid
die, which her sturdy Independence
a credit to the land. All, sweet lib
erty! 1t won't be fully ourn till the
ballots safe in our hands, an with
little more opposition to us wimeng
enjoyin' the very simplest rights bet
cha Wen rise in our full strength an
have them legislators tearin' for hide
behind
Annabelle-As fur smokin', it adds
to our charm, though personally gotta
roll mine even eff it amt de rigger.
But they's limits where a lady should
halt, fur, while a cigarette an cigar
kin be used with absolute dignity, the
line should be drawn at pipes an hop
fur sompin of ones feminine allure
ment kinnot but slip away, though al
that the males thinks they kin do any
thing an still come around an git {
lovin' smile, an why should we re
frain?
= me hull systems pore affair, an
weep when | dwell on them unfortunit
dolls lackin' our experience, who weds
a fella without nothin that her play S
goin to be stickin home these winter
evenings waitin' fur Clarence to phone.
/ sawr where $50 Arizona bachelors is
lookin' fur $50 widows, an honest,
dearie, l come near gamblin' myself,
fur whynt it as good to snatch one
without lookin'? Yuh amt hep to
their meanness, anyway, till yuh git
shut in with EN-, Eff married parties
could only be as polite to each other
as they kin to strangers wouldn't it be
grand?
But they amt no danger
Myrtle-Naggin's the usual trouble,
Bella. l never had a husband yet that
was gelmunly enough to leave me go
my way without hollerin', which, a.
course, then | hadda put him in his
place, But eff | wasn't annoyed I'd
been angel from heaving, yet today
! couldn't get s'much as a few kind
words offa any of EN-, men is that
unjust An they got no ib'rality eff
its yuh. | never done nothin' moreu
have few meals with old fr'ens what
materially didn't s'pose I'd grabbed a
regular crouch, an wisht yuh heard
the insults throwed at me, when
hello!
Hello! Uh-huh, 4-11-44. Send up a
which? Two Bronxes? Whyn't yuh
have Suisse; they got hull lot
more punch to EN-. Like the priv.
lege of orderin' yer own?
AS yuh will ! was only endeayorin
to brighten yer life quick, an in re.
turn l git wallop, which the guests
in this drum has no more feelin' for a
CELL of sensitive nature than-yes, n
tell the cahy, an eff | had the hateful
streak in me that some has I'd tel
him what to put it in The ideer! 4.
it strange I've became hard an croo
when all my softer instincts is helm
continually beltei?
Myrtle-Thats N Yawk, dearie
Men another CELL from the comp'nJ
was dinin' with a coupla purfessiona
humorists last night, an gee, then
guys hardly spoke, they was so scarce
good lined escape an the Other
guy'd print it, an the same evil ieal
ousy's sawr, 20 where yuh will. III
a gelmun asts me to supper | got e
cache him a block from the stage door
for fear the quick dressersll beat il
outside an tell him ct with summon
else the night before. Oh the toll
some struggle! More an more do
dream of a Two Hundred and Nine