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


Fort Kamehameha,- Hawaii,
January 10, 1914
Editor Honolulu tar-Bulletin:
Sir: / have read your very inter.
esting article concerning certain mar.
riage 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
1t. / would not doubt in the least
your statement, as to having received
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 IL? You forgot to tell US any
thing concerning this vital matter,
dear editor. 49,.
There exists large excess of mem
bers OF the fair sex over males in al
most ali the countries, and the
y ances for some of the latter to get
married are pretty slim. Some of
them have to live a life without a
kusband-no, question about that.
Mohammed, and later Brigham
Young, tried to solve this. for the fair
sex so unfair a problem more or less
successfully. In fact there are not to
be found any single maidens over %
years OF age in the whole Osmanie
empire. or any other Islamic country,
except among the non-Islamic' part
of the population. Every girl has her
chance there, and we "eiyilize.l peo-
ple" may call 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 Mohammedanism and its
principles are more or less unknown
te the majority of MS, and am al
ready perfectly convinced Of the fact
that none of the ladies' in question
who communicated their troubles to
you, would be satisfied with a mere
percentage OF husband, after the al
ready mentioned Islamio plan. i
There exists, SO to speak q 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
It is almost unheards Of, to read in
an American daily paper any matri.
.monial advertisements, although this
kind of ads constitutes a. considerable
part of advertising matter In the daily
papers of the European continent. and
can see no reason why an American
paperpeenld. not do the same, and open
q little coy corner In us ADVERTISING
section, expressly dedicJted to the
wants and meets Of rthe forgotten
ones. tinid 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. whomeYer
it may be, to know that certain, un-
known to anybody but yourself, ladies
were asking you for Ryour3 helping
hand, in providing az suitable hubby
for them, and that their sweet ami
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 q way for an eventually suit
able fiance to communicate with a
would like o-be-companion? ~
Back home-oh, Europeans are an
awfully unciyilized lot of people
there they advertise; young ones,
older one, with, or without, any means
in checkere,i 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
of printers ink, and knows how to
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 'Forgetme-not y, if you
please, mister" Doesn't that sond
Eice to you? | know, a great part
of the girls would like this scheme
awfHlly-and how / already envy the
happy distributor in your letter de-
partment.
OF course, you are going to give us
these nice things, too, dear Clitor
or aren't you after all! don't
see why the cousins on the other side
should be treated with more consider
alton by their papers than We b. ours.
Hoping to see some kind of a deci-