Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-27

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fellow that couldn't make a living
In q white mans country unless he
sold corn-saNe and patent medi
| cines--''
Roger, your comment is disgust
ing! Simply because / asked you to
come to this splendid, inspiring lee
ture instead of getting into an old
golf match and maybe sitting in the
tee and drinking intoxicating caddies
until s o'clock when you might be i'm.
proving your mind 49,. III.
Improving my mind? Huh! Do
you think that listening to junk about
that fellows sonl-thoughts is going to
improve my mi'd? Pretty soft graft
for this chap guess not! Writes
down a lot Of stuff that you can't
appreciate unless you're half-stewed
and sounds like a purple mint frappe
mixed into a violet perfume highball.
Then he comes out in a bath-robe,
wags his whiskers, and works his jaws
and all the women in town sit around
and heaye signs and wonder why life
isn't just drifting along developing
your ego and commuring with your
soul-Ssf instead OF washing dishes,
looking after the kids and keeping
down the high cost of living"
Roger. don't talk so loud. These
women all around are looking at
yoli--"
"Doa't you worry. They won't look
at me long when this here Rabbitbath
comes out and starts his lingo
There isn't that hiTn?s
Il hope 1t Is. hope he gives you
women couple OF short poetical
solar plexuses, grabs your coin and
beats 1t TO the boat, and then maybe
III get out with Binks after ALL Oh,
blank ii all, he's carrying a yard or
two of manuscript say, Leila, il you
ever get me to another one OF these
pink-tea bunko games I'm going TO
come with gun aud the first poet
that appears on tho horizon is going
to be victim OF Eomieidal self.
defense"
Scene 8: Youth and maiden. Youtt,
Of about 22, girl perhaps three years
younger. Much absorbed in each
other. =.
oh, Willard, | cannot tell you how
glad am that you came today. You
know | have been reading Tagore's
books, and he is simply wonderful.
He understands every little thing
about love and all that, and / just
wanted you to hear him"
Yes, dearest, ! am anxious to hear
him. You know, sometimes write
poetry, too, and"
Why. willard. you DO? And you
never told me-"
OF course. you knew 1t, darling.
Don't you remember that little verse
sent you on Moonlight Musings
No, Willard, you didn't send that
to me -"
Why, of course did, dearie-sent
It to you by messenger on Valentine
Day--don't you iemember?"
Willard Rochester! You never
you NEVER You sent it to some
other girl--and you always said there
was no other girl! I see it all! oh.
willard, how could you? And I
trusted you so and haven't gone with
another fellow for months-and on
this day, too, when the poetry might
have meant so much to us and to our
lives"
do you slnean to say you never
got that poem?"
"Boo-hoo-no, I didn't and you
never .1 E@ ..... 49,
Curses on that messenger service
they never delivered it--that's what.
Dorothy, ! swear wrote it to you and
you alone-there never was another
girl and never will be-"
We-ell. You viii just have to prove
1t by reciting that poem now" &. s.
oh. I don't like to do that with
all these people There, isn't that
Taggoar? That chap over theree Or
is that a tourist from Australia?
Sometimes it's hard to tell Yes, there,
he is coming now" @. e....,e-
n Isn't he 'magnificentlooking, VIII.
lard? Isn't he great7 What won
derful voice. All, / was never so
happy in my life. willard, you'll for
give me, won't you. for doubling you.
and then we can just settle down and
enjoy this afternoon. Say you do
forgive me, Willard?" ~a. zs-
Um-um-well. unoer the circum.
stances. but YOU must never doubt
me. Dorothy. l can't bear to have
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