Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-25
FROM PEGGY TO POLLY.

Dearest Polly: III IL =:
The Matsonia brought whole raft
Ct the young folks and some excite
ment with t. There is, in other words,
g be an announcement before the
September boat carries them off
again. Just which is the engaged girl
is being kept very close secret, but
that there is one is fact. Maybe yen
think everyone isn't racking her brains
fer some little inkling OF who il is
and who the lucky man may be. Here's
hoping il viii be told soou ~.
Before ] forget. ! want to tell you
Of joke the Stanford boys have play.
Cd Gu enc of their teammates. When
Manager Wilcox announced his inten-
tien OF leaving sunny Hawaii on the
Siberia last Tuesday and return ne TO
his studies in Palo Alto, Gus IIoever,
star pitcher on the team, get the
blues and decided that If "CoXy" could
go he could, too. There are PLENTY
CT pitchers. Besides, there was to be
q house party somewhere in the noun
tains which was TO last from july to
the 10Th, and playing baseball way
cff On an island isn't near as much
fun. He told the boys so and they
ali agreed that IL Gus wanted TO &c
hope nc m ght, but.
That evening the boys called on A.
J.. Castle and told him that when Gus
Heightened about his reservation, to
say that IL was O. X. Then they sent
Ter lis suit and saw that his trunk
vas packed and prepared farewell.
d:nner The transfer nan was given
downtcwn address to deliver the
trFnk to and return ii to the villa on
"Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock tthe
llcat WAS TO leave at 81. Friend Gus
called the girls up and babe them a
fcnd farewell and promised faithfully
20 write and never to forget them.
About three minutes before the boat
sailed the pitcher was shaking hands
with the last OF the nine when some
Cne came up and said: Say, Gus, do
yen know that you haven't any reser-
raticn on the beat and your trunk Is
at tue horse?"
Gus eaYed
Someone had sent him some ripe.
nangoes and he commenced to throw
them at the manager and some OF the.
boys. Being fairly good pitcher, her
could throw II happened that in a
wild throw at the manager he hit the
pretty little Miss Delaney on the
shoulder, and from the mirthful team
mates on the dock came the chorus,
BALL"
Just what happened after they got
home no outsider exactly knows, ex-
cepting that, Mr. Hoover is large
man and the rest of the boys didn't
seem overly enthusiastic. The pitcher
has left word not to be called on the
telephone. ~
On Monday night after the com
mencement ball, which, by the way,
was great success, two CT three boys
decided to take moonlight swim.
Jack Mcdonald and DR.. Jack Peden,
anong them The 0utrigger Club is
supposed TO be closed at such a late
hour and the boys climbed the lattice
work TO don Their bathing suits. After
the swim was over, which was about
by the electric clock, cold and shiv-
ering, they returned to reclimb the
lattice enclosure for their clothes At
the top-and almost over, when two
shots, clear and distinct, rang out
from the janitor's home, and Who's
tforeg ! stopi"
I'VE stop, too" yelled the southern
doctor. who, I'm afraid at that partlcu.
lar moment did not appreciate the sit
uaticn. Finally they quoted the man
BY giving their names and member
ship cards. The confess that the swim
ship cards. They confess that the swim
Was great-but, no one likes being
o Polly, one more engagement brok.
en-. That. makes fivei Oh, well,
though 1t is too bad. it is more mex
pcnsive to break them before than
after. The last one heard of was an
ncunced some four months ago-a Ho-
nolulu boy to a California girl. The
boy broke it and the girl will neither
tell of its breaking nor return the
ring. He says he doesn't care bit
about the r.ng-it was imitation, any,
way: but for the sake OF another girl
10 whom he intends to announce an
cngagement shortly he would like her
TO do something about it. Funny
world. isn't IL?
A small matter of bathing suits is
causing just little commotion on the