Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-09

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she would not have the chance ! felt
that II would surely lower her powers
Of resistance and lessen her oh ance OF
resistance at a crisis that must come.
There was absolutely nothing to spare
In the way OF resistance in her. II
was necessary for her to have every
bit of strength that she could obtain
for her confinement. Her power of re-
s!stance should have been increased in
stead Of being lessened
Feared Smart's Influence.
! first saw Mr. Smart in the islands
before he married Thelma. Before
that | had heard that Thelma had met
him on the steamer and that quite an
attachment has sprung up. On meet
ing him was not fayorably impressed
with him, for no special reason that
know. Ii Is just as one sometimes
forms an unfayorable opinion. sim.
ply did not care for him. At that time
they were not married. Mrs. knight
was very much disturbed shortly after
wards because she realized the trend
of affairs. namely, that they were 60
ing to get married soon. She felt that
Thelma's social experiences were so
meager that she ought not to make a
decision without knowing a little bit
more. Mrs. Knight came in to me one
evening tremendously upset and dis
turbed. She said that she had exacted
from Thelma promise to come back
TO San Francisco with her and then
be married. She had gone out, how
auor NTH Mr and in
utes came back and said to her mother
I'VE are going to be married In July"
Mrs. Knight felt the influence of the
man over Thelma. She was very much
staggered and after that had absolute
ly no power with the child She said
to me, Just think of my baby giving
me her word and In Is minutes COM
ing back and saying that they would
be married" The effect of this in
cident on my mind was to substan-
tiate my opinion of Smart which had
formed in the beginning. / felt that
he had dominating personality, to
define 1t more clearly. " i
Thelma Of Plastic Nature. >...
| knew Thelma before her marriage
as an uniformed girl. She was always
directed by her mother. She always
me as being of a rather
plastic nature and very reserved.
Thelma had few intimate friends
among the girls of her own age and
/ think she was faithful and constant
in her friendship. If she disliked any
one such dislike would be expressed
by indifference towards that person.
/ understand that at the hotel in
Honolulu before the marriage there
were some stormy interviews between
Mrs. knight and Mr.. Smart, and it al.
ways ended in Mrs. Knights utter de-
feat. Mrs. Knight used to come into
the room crying and tell me and Mrs.
Winch, who was also at the hotel,
what she had said to Mr.. Smart The
issue was always the question of an
early marriage. She said that Mr..
Smart was exceedingly rude and dis
to her.
Thelma was in Mr.. Smart's COM
pany every day while was there.
His attitude towards her seemed to
be that of just casual acquaintance.
| looked upon him as very inform /
ed, ill-mannered boy. He did not ex-
ercise the little courtesies that every
gentlemen would. For instance, if
Mrs. knight came into the room he
never used to rise, and he was very
crude. You felt innately that he was
not gentleman. made this remark
to Mrs. knight and Mrs. Winch when
they were criticizing him, and l said,
81 think, he knows no better. He has
not had any social experience" feel
now, however, that he did know bet
ter, and that they were right and /
was wrong. Mr.. Smart seemed abso-
lutely Indifferent to his wife's rela- |
tons. He absolutely lacked sociabili |
ty. MY first opinion was that he
might be boy that had been brought
I'D in, very small town in straighten-
ed circumstances, but afterwards / be-
lieyed that his attitude was simply
one of arrogance and indifference. |
never saw young person show the
traits that he did.
Smart Indifferent.
The impression that he gave me In
regard to my advice about going to
Paris was, that we were lot of doc
tors getting excited over little thing, !
and that we were unnecessarily con.
cerned. Ordinarily doctor makes q
statement and that is enough; one !
does not usually put pressure into
ones statement; but because felt
his indifference-that is, felt that he
thought that we we're laying undue /,
stress on the NATTER was especial |
" emphatic and almost strained the
point. At the conclusion he simply
made the remark that have mention
ed about his having had tuberculosis,
as If we were making much ado about
He did not reason 1t out
medically with me on the facts.
know | came away from my once
that day feeling that no matter If
Thelma had been on stretcher, he |
would not have seen things the way
I did. felt that nothing that could
have been said and no power that
would have changed him 1
one bit. / felt that he took it very
lightly. The impression he gave me
was that nothing / could say would
influence him. / had stated my case
in detail to him, going into the proofs
and the conclusions from the facts.
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