Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-02

Said Fanny, the heroine Of a re
cent story:
when you come to think of it, il
must be a lot easier to slop out a text
than keep it. You can't blame relig
ious people that they prefer stopping
out; only it's apt to put you off re
ligion."
Stopping out texts is pretty good.
We might say it, too, Of those per
sons who at certain spectacular pc
RODS of their careers, slop out poll
tics to US. And it's q lot easier fol-
them to do that than it is to keep
anything they promise. as they dis
cover even before we do.
In religion It doesn't matter much
how the statement turns out. If on
the face Of it the proposition seems
reasonable, we may wait for immor
tality; but, in politics, accepting the
slop may be q, very bad matter before
the end Of the term.
am glad that we have decided to
Of Honolulu's affairs calls for more
than business acumen. Personally Mr.
Lane is rather suited to be mayor
That he has spent a little more money
than he was expected to spend in the
entertainment Of guests, doesn't CON
denim him. It's in line with ad. and
promotion work.
find that Hopkins is growing rapid
ly in favor. If he isn't elected I'll be
nightly surprised.
Shakespeare says somewhere that a
Rose by any other name. In this
case I'd say, make the other name
Hopkins and it will smell sweeter.
It looks from this as If the vote was
going to be pretty discriminating. Let
US demonstrate the substantial value
of our Hawaiian vote as a public as
set. 1t is fast growing intelligent. It 5
a fine piece of work the people have
to do when they elect their best men
to county offices and defeat men who
have ambition without qualification or
fitness.
Let US do as we'll by the last part
of the program as we have by the
first.
/ am sure there must be some ad
vantage in being "homely." Plain
folks can act so much better than they
look.
A woman on the car who sat across
from me today was the plainest WON
an l ever saw. High cheek bones, a
prognatious jaw, defective teeth, low
forehead, red hair were conspicuous,
yet she had a low, sweet voice, and
the way she spoke to her little girl
would make you forget her looks.
And out of her eyes towards the
child shone love that would beautify
any face.
Have any of US ever discovered that
Abraham Lincoln was "homely?"
. On the other hand some very beau
tiful women have harsh voices, and
their eyes instead of being silken
with tenderness, are hard with bitter
ness and discomfort.
The same applies to men, Of course.
though to lesser degree, for We may
not speak of many men as handsome.
Personally, l am as much attracted
by a mans face as l am by a wo-
mans, if it be fine, clear-cut and ex-
pressive of kindly soul.
A face is a true index indeed.
once rode miles and miles beyond my
station in Boston to better study a
mans face. 1t was not pretty, not
handsome-it was beautiful. l saw a
thousand things in it-gentleness,
courtesy, sympathy-a tolerant con-
ception Of life. have that face
framed in my mind.
AS boy of 30 saw a girls face
only for a moment on my way from
Baltimore to Philadelphia-whic was
SO sweetly beautiful that have placed
1t In the gallery with other faces l
have loved but never lost. -