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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
SCOTCH WILL LAST 3 MONTHS
Drinkers of Imported Stuff
Will Haze To Swear of Jan |
AMERICAN WHISKY 3 YEARS

are being imported" say the liquor
wholesalers.
Chinese wines are under tabu and
can no longer be imported. A ship
ment which arrived here on the Nichi.
20 Maru is to be seized by the Gus
toms men, as is all others which come
later. There is small prospect these
shipments will be permitted entry, be-
cause in transit when the food oct
went into effect, as the importers had
80 days of grace before the law went
into effect. THE supply Is light and
the prices sky high" say the dealers
in Chinese wines. H." :,...- .-
Beer and the cheap wines, backed
by presidential consent, are still firm
Ily intrenched, and steadily increasing
in production, in anticipation Of the
day when all liquor imbibers will have
to turn to these beverages Of small
alcoholic content, as surcease from
an itching appetite and in continue.
ton Of their search for mental OBJ.
livion.
Incidentally, drinking is now the in
door sport only of the rich or mod.
uors have been steadily soaring for
the past few months. Scotch whisky
which formerly sold for $3.50 now
brings $3.50 Other liquor price
raises are in proportion, the ratio be-
ing about one-third in excess Of for
mer figures.
No one dares to predict what Scotch
will sell for before the final day OF
execution. And quart OF French
brandy costs as much, almost, today
in Honolulu as does pair Of shoes
the accepted gold standard Of all COM
parative war prices. But at that,
Scotch may yet cost more than shoes.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
Lanai IHEATER
WILL PRESENT
initial PLAY

The Lanai Theater Co. will present
its first play on Friday and Saturday
evenings. October S and g. at $3.50
O'Clock, at the Laniakea theater.
Mrs. Roger Noble Burnham, pro
Queer, has charge Of the rehearsals,
and has a promising cast. The women
are all well known society girls and
the men have all had stage expert
ence.
The play chosen is The Perplexed
Husband" by Alfred SutTo.
The leading role viii be played Ey
Roger Noble Durham, whose sue
cess in the Toy theater, Boston, IS
sures a happy Interpretation. a...
His work is specially commended
IN strong parts. The Boston Evening
Transcript says of his acting OF The
Christmas Fantasy" a monologue
written by himself, that with only
one actor, and that actor the author,
with only three characters, ana Two
Of them imagined, Roger Noble Burr
ham conveyed more dramatic feeling
than the cast with % speaking parts
and three scenes could do. 1t was
rare suggestion. With surprising
economy of means-both in acting
and in story-Mr. Burnham got dis
proportionately large effect"
1t is hoped the Honolulu public will
give enthusiastic support and well
come to this newly formed dramatic
company, which is turning its talents
TO patriotic use. All proceeds beyond
actual cost of production will go is
war relief, and the management Ge-
sires to fill the little theater with pat
rons Of the whole series Of six con-
templated plays, such subscribers hav-
ing seats reserved for all perform
ances, but paying cash for each as
II is given. The prices for seats are
So for the front half Of the theater
AMI S1.50 for the rest. =, IA
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
AMERICAN

r. HREE months from today is the
date set for the execution OF the
last potion Of Scotch whisky in
these islands.
This is the verdict Of the govern
ment, as the result Of the food con
troll act, and is based on the con
sensus of opinion Of Honolulu liquor
dealers, who believe that the supply
In stock in the Wholesale houses, ga
looms and the bonded warehouse will
be consumed by then. if the censump'
ton remains normal.
AS no more can be imported, the
death knell to this branch of the John
8arleycorn family is apt to be the Is
land requiem dirge for Scotch whisky,
at least until after the war is over.
AS to American whisky, there is
enough on hand in Honolulu to last
for three whole years. That's all the
war is expected to last" it is always
added
For the imbiber OF imported gins
there is slightly longer reprieve.
The supply of imported gins in Homo
lulu will last for six months, it Is said.
And perhaps the manufactured home
product will last as long as the Amer
lean WHISTLES.
Not only is the plebian drinker OF
imported WHISTLES aud gins threat
ened with long drought, but the aris-
tocratic consumer of fine wines will
soon be in the dry belt" Cham
payne and other imported wines, al
though not prohibited from importa-
ton under the provisions of the food
act, have become SO scarce that the
price asked is almost prohihitive even
to the conVivial sons on the white
WaYn "Nn more hieh nriced wines
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24

I by his business office and his owr
front door, and whose idea of a good
time has been to have a dinner down
| town and go to the theater with Betty
once a month"
This happy state of affairs has ex
listed for nearly 80 years, and now
| suddenly, when they are middle-aged
people, Jack jumps over the pasture
| bars. He has fallen in love or i'm
AGNES he has-with girl young
enough to be his daughter, and he has
taken to dyeing his hair and his nous
tache and wearing the giddiest lot oil
rah-rah college sport clothes you ever
saw.
Worst of all, the poor simpleton
has told Betty all about it, and ne
wants her to give him a divorce so he
can marry the little doll baby with
whom he has been playing around
and she's just been here to tell me
her troubles and ask my advice"
What did you tell herr" asked
"Oh, l told her." smiled the old
lady, Just: to sit tight and keep a
death hold on her wedding ring, and
that if she had enough courage to
realize that Jack was going through
brainstorm that would pass and
leave him normal and sane again, she
would win out, and he would come
back loving her better than ever.
And told her that she hadn't any
right to ruin Jacks life by giving him
a divorce, and thus percipitating him
into a marriage that was sure to
bring him nothing but misery" "
Furthermore, told her that her
husband was simply suffering from an
ailment that is as apt to break out
on men of his age as the measles is
in childhood, and that if she would
just tend him cheerfully through the
attack, he would be immune from 1t
in the future"
"You see, about the time that a man
gets to be fifty, or thereabouts, he has
sudden second summer of youth. It's
an limitation summer, but it looks to
him like the real thing while it lasts.
1t is a false fire, but it burns up
fiercely for little time, and by its
light he takes an appraising view Of
his wife, himself, and the future.
HE hasn't realized it before, but he
perceives with pitiless clearness that
his wife is middle-aged. He observes
her double chin, her thirty-inch belt
measure, her grizzled hair, her sag
ging cheeks, the heaviness with which
she walks, the fact that she prefers
comfort to gaiety."
'He looks at himself and he sees a
man who is still young in spite of his
being five or ten years older than his
wife. or course, his hair is craving,
too, and he isn't as slender as he used
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
.AWAHDANCERS
MUST WEAR MORE
GRASS AT A. c.

SPOKANE. Wash, Sept. f.-Surrsd
by the demands OF cafes, Director OF
Public Safety Sooy has issued an or
der that In the future dancers, OF what.
ever class. must be properly clothed
when appearing in public, says des-
patch from Atlantic City.
He declares that the time has come
when more decorum must be observed
In the costuming OF the beauties who
grace the floors Of the carabets, and
his public warning is made ct this
time, he says, to avoid entangling con.
tracts which cafe and cabaret owners
may be considering for next season.
There will be no objection by the
director to dancers who meet with
popular demand as to the extent OF
the anatomy that win be yelled from
the gaze, but he will draw the line
on dancers who throw modesty to the
winds in desire to outshine competi.
tors. He said:
Hula Hula Tlppers Hit
When the Hawaiian dancers,
against whom this order IL partly aim
ed, first appeared in local entertain
ments, their grass skirts were modest
and becoming. but as competition be.
came keen the skirts shrunk to .
point that provoked protest. Now, we
have no rule as to length, but we de-
mand that the skirts drop sufficiently
low not to cause comment.
What Is desired is performance
which will meet with the approval of
reasonable people. 1t has come to my
notice In an official way that the dane.
ers mentioned became reckless and II
was due wholly to the manner IN
which others tried to eclipse them
Atlantic City is liberal and strains
point In this regard, but there Is a
line which cannot be passed. These
dancers annihilated the dead line.
What Is desired is simple modesty in
dress and action. Muscle dancers are
objected to. and while the dancers in
question did not come under that head.
they were approaching It. can an
nounce that the order will be strictly
enforced. Spokane wash Chronf.
Gle. -ez--
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
THE DANGEROUS AGE OF YOUTH
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer
THE old woman, whose years are


I'll HE old woman, whose years are
! as a crown of glory to her, was
turning the heel of a stocking she
was knitting for her grandson some
where in France, and as her needles
clicked, she talked, out Of the full
ness of wisdom and experience, about
men
If you can only get a man safely
through his second summer he is in
perpetual danger, and, it takes wife
who has patience, and poise, and long
suffering endurance to get him
through it alive
His second summer" l inquired.
yes" she replied, nodding her old
head, men have two second sum.
mers. The first comes when they are
about two years old and are cutting
their big teeth, and they are sick, and
peeyish, and irritable and unreason.
able, and like to die, but If their moth
ers can worry them through that
they generally grow up into big, fine,
healthy children"
"A mans second summer comes
when he's shaving around the fifties,
and when he's cutting his false teeth,
and that's the real danger time of his
life when he's restless and full Of
strange fancies and does foolish
things that are apt to be fatal, but if
his wife has got enough sense to
nurse him along through this period
of his existence she'll have a hus-
band that she'll never need to be
anxious about again" F.
I've been trying to explain thissto
Betty" the old lady went on, "but
every wife believes that her husband
is an especial god, or a particular
devil, instead OF realizing that hus.
bands come by the bolt and are all
cut off Of the same pattern, and that
most of the things that they do is just
the working out of the law of nature
in them, and has no especial reference
to the particular women to whom they
are married" ~. J..
you know, Betty and Jack have
been one of the model couples to
which we have pointed with pride as
an illustration of people being happy
though married. Betty's been one of
tho good wives who has been real
helpmeet, thrifty and economical and
industrious, and there's been no man
who's had more comfortable home
than Jack or been better taken care
of. And Jack has been as domestic
as a house cat, one of those satisfac-
tory husbands whose world is bounded
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
BESSIE BEATTY PRAISES HONOLULU
NTRAVEL LETTER TO COAST paper

Star Bulletin. From the moment we
walked into the editors office, Homo
lulu was ours. Not only did we find
all the news that Honolulu had to
offer, but everything else. ....
Wireless Taken Over
The wireless had been taken over
by the government. The surrounds
/ ing islands had received no word oil
the declaration of war until two days
after it was made, when boat put
out to carry the news. IT,. -. r..
American flags were futtering from
most of the buildings. Soldiers were
quartered in little brown tents on the
lawns of the capitol to be ready for
quick action on the waterfront should
their services be necessary. That
morning the Chamber Of Commerce
was meeting to pass resolutions in
dorsing the action of the United
States. The spokesman was an
Americanized German, breaking the
last strand of loyalty that bound him
to the Fatherland. .-...~-
The men were pointing proudly to
the national guard, larger in proper
ton than that Of any other state or
territory in the union. The superin-
tendent of schools during the after
noon issued orders to the teachers to
encourage the work of young school
gardeners and the governor the day
before had signed proclamation set
ting forth the critical condition that
would result from food shortage and
urging the conservation of supplies.
When you consider that Hawaii last
year bought nearly 100000 worth
of food from other countries, STT,0nn-
900 worth Of which came from the
United States, it is not difficult to un.
derstand her dependence upon the
mainland and her fear of the future.
Women Taking Stock
While the men we're talking war
measures, the women were doing what
women of all lands do; taking stock
Of their possible human sacrifices to
the war gods, hoping and fearing and
only half believing in impending ca
lamity. ..
It would be difficult to believe in
any grim reality in Honolulu. 1t is
SO full of delight. 1t is so beautiful
beyond imagining, so SOFT and gentle,
so pleasantly warm and mellow, so
fragrant, so playful, so like the sun
shine showers that turn out not to be
rain at all, but shadow mists more
welcome than the morning dew upon
the flowers. .>..
You would known more of Homo
lulu? Did tell you that they made
the island ours? Presently the mayor,
big and bronzed, part Hawaiian, and
undeniably the better looking for 1t,
is sending his automobile to take US
for drive. You shall come, too. but
you must hurry, for we are lunching
with the governor and the retiring
secretary of the territory, who knows
much that we must learn and we can
not be late.
Perhaps when we have returned we
will all forget that it was in the geo.
graphy book and had to be learned.
We will just live it :
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
HAWAII JAPANESE GIVE
$500 TO ALLIED RELIEF
1specia, star.Bulletin Correspondence

HILO, Sept. 21.--One day last week.
before he left for Honolulu and the
mainland, Manager John Ross of Ha-
kalau received quite joyful surprise
when deputation of Japanese waited
on him and, after little preliminary
talk. presented him with a sum of
money to be forwarded to the Allied
War Relief fund.
The amount contributed by the Jap
anese was 1902 and this is an excel
lent contribution to the well-known
society which Is doing so much good.
Manager Ross was delighted to I'm
dertake the commission to forward
the money to Hilo and did so. assur-
ing the Japanese that their gift would
be much appreciated.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24

After taking ten bottles am now well
and strong, have no more pain, backache
or dizzy spells. Everyone tells me
how well look and tell them Lydia
-. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did
HINES NINA SoUTHwICK, r. F. D.
No. 4, Box 80, Kingfsher, Okla.
Every woman who suffers from female
troubles, nervousness, backache or the
blues should try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound as Mrs. South
wick did, or If they need free advice
@ regard to any annoying symptom
write to Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine
Co. (confdentiaD, Lynn, Masa
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
WILL EMPLOY WOMEN
AS SUGAR CHEMISTS

GREELEY, Colo.-This year, for the
first time in the history of the domes
tic beet sugar industry so far as is
known, women are to be employed as
chemists in the factories The Great
Western Sugar company is the first tC
adopt this means of supplying the
shortage of chemists, the adoption Of
the plan being due to the suggestion
of G. W. Atkinson, chief chemist al
the company's factory here. The 1abo
ratories will be, run on eight-hou1
shifts ".f ".'t.:..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24

Bessie Beatty, the clever special
writer for the San Francisco Bull
Ietln, who was recently In Honolulu
on the first lap Of her voyage around
the world, was eloquent In her praise
of this city in her articles home. The
following is one Of these articles:
Hawaii, when / met it in the school
geography years ago, was but an
other aggravation in the life of youth
submitting unwillingly to the ordeal
of being educated. We never could
remember whether it was spelled
with one Il" or two, heayed sigh OF
relief when we turned the page and
proceeded to forget its existence as
readily as we forgot the capitals OF
1.-THE United States and the rivers OF
Asia.
Hawaii, when came upon it again,
was the Hawaii of the musical COM
edy and the popular song-a place Of
silver-sanded beaches and palm-bor-
dered waters, of native huts clus-
tered beneath the banyan trees, of
sleek copper-colored bodies decked
with flower leis, of insidious music,
sweet-scented night and perpetual
moonlight.
Hawaii through the early morning
mists-a rain that is not rain, but
liquid sunshine presented no such as
pect.
The silver beach was there, and
the banyan trees, the tall, leaning,
plume-topped coconut palms, the hap
by, lazy, luxurious life and all and
more color and beauty than the must
cal comedy or "The Beach at Waikiki
ever dreamed of suggesting. But they
were not spread out IN the broad day.
light to the gaze of the incoming voy.
ager. One must go hunting them.
Must Run Gamut
To find them one must run the
gamut of taxi drivers and baggage
hustlers, and traverse the length OF
typical United States city. To be
sure, it is southern, rather than
western city, but American, none the
less. ~
Here on South Sea island just
inside the tropical fringe, inhabited
day after day by copper-and-bronze
people, dressed in coconut oil, are
traffic ''cops" in broadcloth, steel.
frame office buildings. metropolitan
hotels, French pastry, changing cleo
trio cars and all the other impedi.
menta OF western civilization. 49,.
Six days at sea sharpens the appe.
tite nicely for bit of dry land. Ny
fellow journalist ESQ S. S. Mcclure
styles himself) and we're eager for
knowledge and keen for experience as
we stepped from the shelter of the
steamer into that pleasant Honolulu
morning. ~: 49,:
Most of all, we were hungry for
news from home. We had been six
days without knowledge of our coun-
try's moods and actions, other than
the one brief message announcing a
declaration of war. We had even less
information about the rest of the world.
The first big modern building to catch
my eye was the home of the Honolulu
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24

, to be, but by links! he feels like a
boy. He wants to dance, to run about
from place to place, to be amused. He
yearns for thrills and excitement. He
wants to love, and make love, and be
loved in a romantic fashion"
And he sees the future, by the side
OF his wife, stretching along dull ana
desolate, two old people yawning and
nodding over the evening paper with
their feet on the radiator"
The outlook for the future appals
him, and he begins to look around
for an antidote, and he finds it in some
pretty little slim girl who is about
| half the age Of his wife and who
weighs third as, much. He begins
paying her attention, and, being a
cheerful worker who sees in him q
good meal ticket and joy rides, she
opens up the batteries of her filtration
upon him and knocks him dead
He thrills and tingles at the
thought that he can still make a wom-
an love him, and that even a young
girl can't resist his destinations. He
knows that he is doing wrong, but the
knowledge gives him the same ex-
quisite joy that he had when he rob-
bed his neighbor's apple orchard when
he was boy. Stolen fruit is still
sweet on his lips"
1T seems to him that he is young
again, that he is twenty instead Of
fifty-and that he would always be
young if he could have this child by
his side. She keeps him stirred up,
full of vim and vigor, whereas his wife
pulls hir' down and depresses him
with her age"
$50 he wants to marry the girl. And
he does if his wife is foolish enough
to give him a divorce, and he lives
miserably ever after, for his little Sec
ond summer is soon over. He sinks
into middle age, and his young girls
chatter tires him, and his old bones
cry out for an easy chair instead of the
fox trot, and he wishes he were hack
again with the old wife, who knows
the things that agree with his
stomach, and with whom he has a
lifetime of memories in common"
Practically every man has this lit
tie flare up Of youth when he reaches
the years of indiscretion, when lie
thinks he's in love with somebody the
age of his gran1-1ouehter, and it's up
to his wife to nurse hino through it,
as she would a teething baby" said
the old lady, "and if she does she lives
happily ever after"
Copyright, 1917, by the Wheeler Syn
j -. ">%* dictate. Inc.)
Dorothy Dix's articles appear regu.
larry in this paper every Monday, We'd
nesday, "nd Friday.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24
H0N0L ULU ASTONlSHED
BY MERCHANTS STORY

A merchant relates the following:
For years / could not sleep y, ithout
turning every hour. Whatever ate
caused, gas and sourness. Also had
stomach catarrh ONE SPOONFUL
b.ckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as mix
ed in Adler-i-ka relieved me INSTANT.
LY." Because Adler-i-ka flushes the
ENTIRE alimentary tract it relieves
ANY CASE constipation, sour stomach
or gas and prevents appendicitis. 1t
hac QUICKEST action Of anything we
ever sold. The HOLSTER Drug Co.
Adv. , >-.:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24

Wdo uCI NOuo, otid
had backache and a
pain in my side
most of the time.
/ had dizzy spells
and was often so
faint j could not
walk across tn G
floor. The doctor
said I would have to
have an operation.
A friend asked me
to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's v e g e
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-24

Ny nails are 90 b.istle that occasionally
they start to S3G::. gazing all the t1dy bdcb
beloto the quick. 70 there any tcdy to stop
thisF-Amy II. ..~.--.
Repiy-You may xe.r them from getting
brittle By rubbing c2tL-1 into them every
night. After theJ Jsi.t, cut them back
past the line; but II ire trouble has gone
below the quick. protect the nail by wear
irs the tip Of the finger from an, old glove.
This will stop the splitting, and In a few
weeks the nail Will have grrwn nut Reetr