Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-11
SAN FRANCISCO
SHOWS new FACE
TO DIR. GOODHUE
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face much longer, apply hot towel No
!, then lather again. Hot towels Nos
2. 3, 4, 5, Hot Towel 6. Ice-eolC
towel No. 1, with hot towel No.
over IL.
Then you're shaved. your face wash
ed with bay-rum, then refreshed by
hot towel No. s, massage, vaseline
hot towel, face lotion, powder,
BY this time your face feels like a
rare-dope beefsteak, and the barber
gives you glass to see II you're
shaved It's not so bad, only the per
Torrance takes about 20 minutes, and
IL you're in a hurry I'd advise you
tc use your safety" 4
Several fine hotels, south, have given
us cordial invitations to be their
guests, but we've decided to confine
cur stay to San Francisco and outly.
ing districts. We may get as wet as
need be here without going farther
a-field. -ss..--. ..s.
Robins Nest" at Glen Ellen will
be empty until Jack-London returns
from his New York trip. H..
We hope to have a talk with Mr..
burbank and dear old John Muir, and
I'm booked for several Talks" at
some doings in this neW-old town. But
the truth of the matter Is, such things
are not much to my taste. ] do love
my talks to my son, as SIT by the
desk and run the lines along, but to
hear your own talk after you say 1t,
some way makes 1t cheap.
It's quite a thing to sit in the lobby
and watch faces, indiyidualities and
characteristics isn't it? A fine NOV
Ing picture, surely! Last evening be-
lore ] had my hair cut. somebody
came along to inc and said with hearty
coriiality; why, how do you do;
dIxn't expect to see You here?"
The man could hardly be convinced
that wasn't his old friend, so truly
do personalities double up so far as
the more superficial signs of identity
go. Had / been 20 years younger, i
might have been tempted to play a
role for the sake of the romance, but
I'm growing cautious, and have been
taught py experience that one identity
is all ! can safely guide along life's
labyrinth.
Many years ago, when was in Chi
cRgo, Bill Nye sent me pen-and.ink
sketch Of himself This familiar phiz),
writing underneath:
Dear Goodhue: This is me drawn
from memory. IL you find my double
in your city, please don't exchange
condolences till you refer to the en-
closed" = il:
/ always think OF him in connection
with doubles"
Somebody sent me a clipping from
a Riverside paper which ] used to edit
several years ago, that logged my
eyes.
Yes, sir, used TO bold forth from
my leather bottomed chair in rather
youthful leaders praising like the
rest of them the unparalleled and in
comparable climate of California"
a?3s ,pthesi hycosugs 81 ,l'RLyeah SIS
Riverside was almost wild and
woody" then, and Los Angeles was but
q burg. ] could have bought lots 150x
zoo for $50 which are now selling for
Hundreds of dollars the front foot. &
/ demonstrated my fine business
foresight by turning up my nose at
that waste land" ....-...
An old Dutchman who didn't know
how to read, bought some of this land,
and is now a millionaire, spending his
leisure at the st. Francisi ..,.. .
However, I'm not going to worry
about II, and really think enjoy
myself better than the Dutchman does,
when sit down and realize how rich
] might have been; how by triflinS
hit of faith and Investment l might
have been a powerful captain of in
dustry or a happy idler in Venice or
London Dear me, by what narrow
margin do our destinies go by?