Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-13
MATRIMoNIAM.

MATRlMONIAM.
Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii.
January 10, 1914.
Editor, Honolulu tar-Bulletin:
Sir: ! have read your very inter
osting article concerning certain mar
rage offers brought before your TO
rum in your Thursday number care
fully-yes, far more-I sighted it from
every possible angle. but as it was.
was not able, to find the other end of
! il. ] would not doubt in the least
! your statement, as TO having received
q score Of letters from Honolulu
bellies, asking you to give them a
hand in securing a suitable fiance
: for them. But what are you going to
DO about it? You forgot to tell us any
thing concerning this vital matter,
dear editor. <-~..
There exists a large excess of men,
! bers of the fair sex over males in al
most ali the countries, and the
E,ances for some of the latter to get
married are pretty slim. Some Of
them have to live life without
kusband-no question about that
Mohammed, and later Brigham
Young, tried to solve this, for the fair
! sex so unfair problem more or less
successfully. In fact there are not to
be found any single maidens over %
years of age in the whole Osmanic
empire, or any other Islamic country,
except among the non-1slamic part
of the population. Every girl has her
chance there, and we "civiliZe.l peo-
PIE" may cali their practice of polyg-
amy barbarous or whatever We want,
their respective Institutions are at
least more human than ours.
But, all this is not pertaining to our
question, for Mehammedanism and its
principles are more or less unknown
to the majority Of us, and / am al
ready perfectly convinced of the fact
that none of the laffes in question
who communicated their troubles to
you, would be satisfied with a mere
percentage OF a husband, after the al
ready mentioned Islamie plan.
There exists, SO to speak a certain
demand for husbands in Honolulu. as
also anywhere else, which cannot be
found in the way called normal. Alb
normal conditions require abnormal
means of solution #
Il is almost unheard of, to read in
an American daily paper any matri
monial advertisements, although this
kind of ads constitutes considerable
part of advertising matter in the daily
papers of the European continent, and
can see no reason why an American
paper could not do thessarte, and open
a little coy corner in its. advertising
section, expressly dediejted to- the
wants and neels of I, the forgotten
ones, timid and late: =.
Do not hesitate, ! dear editor.
Here is your chance to help yourself,
and our sisters. What good does it
me, or Tom, Bill, Jack, or whomever
Il may be, to know that certain, un-
known to anybody but yourself, ladies
were asking you for your helping
hand, in providing a. suitable hubby
for them, and that their sweet anil
mournful letters rest in peace on your
desk or in some drawer?
/ would not deem it advisable to
give us concerned an open way to all
the happiness awaiting us, for an aim
gained without vanquishing of spec
tacles is not worth having, but is
there not way for an eventually suit
able fiance to communicate with a
would-like- to-be-com
Back home-oh, Europeans are an
awfully unciVilized lot of people
there they advertise; young ones,
older one, with, or without, any means
in a checkerel pell nell. Some OF
them advertise just for the fun of it,
but any man provided with normal
sense Is able to read between the lines
clean the chaff from the grain. No
names are given in the advertise
ments, but just a chiffre, mostly &C
companied by some number. The adj
Yertiser receives a kind of ticket,
which she presents afterwards at the
delivery window of the letter depart
ment in the newspaper office, where
she receives the arrived answers.
1t is rather romantic, to hear all
these sweet voices asking for their
mail. will YOU please hand me 'Bes-
sic 49, or Forget-me-not r., if you
please, mister" Doesn't that sond
rice to you? l know, great part
of the girls would like this scheme
awfully-and how l already envy the
happy distributor in your letter de-
partment.
Of course, you are going to give us
these nice things, too, dear elitor
or aren't you after all! l DON'T
see why the cousins on tie other size
should be treated with more consider
alton by their papers than We D. ours ,
Hoping to see some kind of a deci