Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-25

genius was one-third Inspiration ana
tWo-thirds perspiration.
And another says that genius is in
dustry, perseverance, stick-to-it1ve-
ness. That's it.
Learning to write is like learning
to play on the piano, or vas, before
the pianoia arrived. You must prac-
tise. practise till your fingers auto
maticaIly obey every trained will,
Writing we'll is such a small &C
complishment indeed, that men any-
one compliments me on doing what
every man and woman ought 10 do
perfectly, feel as if my intelligence
has suffered a thrust. feel as the
mother might have felt to whom Bish-
op Brooks said Here's a baby that
is baby"
A long tine ago young lady dedi-
Gated a fiattcring poem to me Il
learned afterwards that it was writ
ten in all sincerity which she pub
lished in a pretty well-known maya
zinc.
took it for sarcasm, and felt well
!acerated, and didn't come out III
print for months afterwards. The
young woman didn't want to marry
me, either: She has turned out to
be good novelist, and is happily
married to a greater poet than I can
ever hope to be. She was bound to
get poet.
If she had only put little less
treacle on her bait, | should have got
the hook, and pulled the charming
angler into the water where. no
doubt, we might have drowned in
glory together
Having conscience, sense of duty
in public matters, wit, honor, orig
inality, is another matter.
God makes some men small in
stature. They are supplied for some
particular hole in the universe.
Others he allows only a very small
amount Of brains. They must put up
with the inconvenience. don't know
of any surgical remedy. If Judd and
Mayo could operate on a mans brain
for cussedness and the lack Of horse
sense, as they do on the appendix,
the world would be pretty nice. Those,
however. born with little conscience
may develop some.
Originality and humor I think, per
haps, come nearer to being genius
than anything else. To develop hui
NOR in a man who hasn't any, would
be about as hard as teaching an oys-
ter to sing.
know that a great many men who
are we'll established in the commun-
ity, have intelligence, ample powers
of expression, and degree of pub
lie spirit, yet who look upon most
matters which pass and are discus
sed by ministers, poets, editors, and
the hoi polloi generally, with sort
Of benignant tolerance. They are not
particularly interested. They wouldn't
come down from their high perch
for such small question.
They want things to come out right,
and think they will without their, help
Or interference.
That's very much the American at
titude all over. g..
The women, the poets, newspaper
men, have time; they are generally
right, at least in Anglo-SaxondomS and
will no doubt settle the difficulty!
Then the responsible men, the con.
sentative men, the influential and
wealthy men whose real and vital
opinions are about somthered by the
responsibility, conservatism, influence
and wealth they represent, and will
get all the credit.
The business men will get it, say,
and figure on all the boards upon
which are pasted the advertising pos
tiers of publicity.
What the newspaper editors, poets,
and women discerned, and got hys-
tericaP' over to prevent, and did pre-
vent, the SNUG citizen will take credit
to himself for having discovered and
removed. 1 don't know that this
makes any difference after all; am
only undressing facts.
The women are On my side to q
man! knew they would be.
When it comes to patriotism, per.
sonal surrender, sacrifice that has no
bounds, the women lead. you bet!
They know how.-to give up things
for others.
They bear children for love-three
kinds of love-loye of husband, love
of the child, love of love itself as an
ideal.
With a few parasiticaI exceptions
who even are acting against their own
naturally, altruistic temperaments
land of whom am going to say still
more later, with these exceptions.
woman is of more importance in the
world than man is.
Were such thing possible, is there
any man who could be induced to en-.
dure the unesthetic annoyance, in.
convenience, and suffering incident
to child-bearing? Not much! He would
be Stacker like so many are in this
war. He would beat it, go out OF
commission, take any advantage of
physical exemption Cor might allow.
II l had my way / wouldn't mind
changing the sex Of the Chamber of
Commerce. Their message to the
men would at least be pertient. II
would probably read like this:
Mere men!
You will please take notice that
along with eggs, hats, tobacco and
whisky, the value OF economy has
gone up"