Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-25

= The older / get the oftener =
= I come back and the longer j =
4 stay" : III.
= Jack London's oft-repeated quo =
= tation, which is becoming a Ho- =
| y nolulH slogan London says this 2
| = is the way every one should feel. =
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Jack London has the best reason yet
offered for leaving Honolulu Wednes-
day in the Matsonia: also he has q
new role: He's yard boy, or some
thing like that. 80 '.51. ~
The first statement is sentiment:
the second. rumor--if they were writ
ten as they really are.
I'm glad I'm going away Wednes-
day., London remarked with inst a
trace of q twinkle, for the sooner
so, the sooner r come back
The yard boy story Is different.
While London was telling the Star
Bulletin man how the islands had the
death grip upon him, and lots Of other
things, too, there came q little rattle
at the door, q tiny, timid knock.
Pardon" says London, I'll Just see
who this is knocking at my door, .
The writer. had on Japanese XII
mono that might have been the yard
boys bride. S
"Howdy," said LEMON to the gentle
racket at the door. -
There was a little woman with an
autograph book in her hand. Her en
barraSsment was real
Twill 1t be too much trouble to carry
this to Mr.. London. piped a stifled
voice way down in a frightened young
woman's throat. She apparently want.
ed to fly away.
NO trouble at all" doomed London,
smiling down at her tI'm IL.
There Was faint gurgle as Of some.
one fainting away, Then:
'tOh, I'm so delighted Oh, will you
please give me your name; is 1t asking
too much?"
"Not at all, not at ALL Have a
chair. And before the excited visit.
or realized that she had met Jack
London and she had come all the
way from ENGLAND to do it. she said
she vas ont in the bright afternoon
sun, Speeding into the hau tree shade,
the book tightly, clutched and London
smiling at1her. ~ ~
aThougtlh /. was the yard-boy, God
bless her, and i hardly blame her eth.
er, for / certainly look worse than
that. And she's left her fountain pen, =
he said. II certainly am doing well
this afternoon.
London says similar visits are quite
common but that his system usually
excludes every body until the after.
noon. No one can bother him while
he works, which is usually all morn
ing. ,s..s -
when you are breaking up house.
keeping and about to take to the sea,
your system naturally falls by the
way, temporarily" he laughed, sbNt
even on my ranch in California ! see
no one, no matter who he or she may
be, until 1880, when my mornings
work is finished
London has nothing new to say
| about the islands, and his only "aIo,
has are those he has expressed that
he win eventually make the islands
his home. sJust because Mrs. London
and I like the beautiful of life
and will live where we like the cpnn.
/ try and people, which is right here.
The novelist and his wife are leay.
ing at this time to be present at the
/ annual outdoor pageant Of the Bo-
hemian Club of San Francisco at Bo-
henaian Grove, the summer camp in
Il Sonoma county. II is here that hun.
dreds of celebrities from all over the
world gather In the mountain fastness
for few days each year as guests
of the club to enjoy the largest and
most attractive outdoor spectacle ever
I staged. The show costs thousands OF
| dollars, has an archestra alone of 100
pieces, is given for only one night and
| is written, prepared and acted by the
members of the bohemian Club, the
fame of which extends around the
world.
London plans to 90 East for the
world series IN the autumn and viii
return mere IN the winter or early
spring. He viii write all the time.
/ 81 nave enough notes, IDEAS and
sketches for short, stories and novels
| stored away to keep me writing for
10 years, Is one. of Jack London 8 IN
1 teresting statements. and another Is
n
that II he spent the remainder Of his
life working he couldn't write even a
small portion Of the articles, stories
Eand so forth that he has been asked
to donate to satioas publications and
ORGANIZATIONS gratis. -. IS
About the Molokai leGcr settle ment
and the $300.g00 building which Lon
don has charged Is lying Idle and use
less. the writer has nothing more to
say.
/ report that he was going to stop
writing In 1913 Mas told London.
Il, only wish that could The TO
fmaace Of the work has. gone: Its Just
work 10 me. But It's mighty iucra'
tive WORK. SorIA keep pegging along.
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