Douglas Island news., 1918-05-10

Il NAtHNAN NlNllH NN NNN AtA"'t'' A v thc department of this great rclig- ious weekly which has been devoted to "The Stroller" for moro than two years win contain reading matter during the coming few weeks. The Stroller contcmplatcs trip. To quote from thc Song of Hiawatha:
 ''I am going. oh my people.
 On a long and distant journey;
 Many moons and many winters Win have come and win have
 vanished
 Ere | come again Co sec you"
 What Hiawatha really said. and ! thc Stroller translated it from Che original himself was:
 "Koko wuka ic a taca,
 Wawa uc a lousa walk.
 Hiyu luna hiyu tuctu
 Icta cum and icta kukaw
 Ek koko umt oc tic gi"
 But it really does not make any difference what Hiawatha said and |it does not iu any manor relate to | Che visit Che Stroller contemplatcs ! Go Che great outside Seattle, Puy- |aIup. Tumwuter. Enumclaw. Lick .cmplucl and other noted points.
 Right here the Stroller desires Co apologize for having stated that he Is going out for his health. Such Is not Che case. His health was never better than at present and he don't need Q rest. An that bothcrs ! him is Che high cost Of living and he is foolish Go worry over that which worry can be obviatcd by not paving bills. Either Che Stroller or . his readers had Co take a vacation ! and it is better from an economical standpoint that he take it. as one can travel cheaper than many Au- other thing: The fact that thc Stroll .Ier is going alone is evidence that he has money in every pocket A man invariably takes his wife with !. him when he is short of money.
 But joking aside. the Stroller has been called outside tn couuec- tion with his patent knee bracU for department store girls. school teach CTS and other females whose busi- 'ness. caIlings and professions require |ttat they stand on their feet several hours daily. The Stroller may have done things which he ought not Go | have done and he may have left uu- done things which he ought to have done. but In an his sins of both conn mission or omission it has never been truthfully charged against him that he was ever dcrelict where fem iuuity was concerned. Ue has missed scores of trains In his travels through stopping to permit some disconsolato female to weep on his shoulder and he has always left her seeing @ more roscttc tint ou thc horizon of life. Notwithstanding all this. he feels that his knee brace is thc crovuiur effort of his life which . has been practically devoted Co Che bcttcrmcut of conditions for Che |oycrworkcd and undcrpaid sister. Aside from being held iS hours lin a detention station in Chicago | for resembling a bigomist who was wanted at Fort Wayne. Indiana. Che ! Hast time the Stroller was outside lhis experience was highly prosaic SO | far as excitement was concerned. but on that trip he was not travelling alone In fact. about thc only vivid rccorections he retained of his last visit below was that of his detention lin Chicago and a shave he received !. In a barber shop in Prince Rupert on This way north and while the steamer on which he was travelling lay in | that port for several hours discharg- ! ing freight All along from Key West Co within a shadow of the !. North Pole the Stroller has patron !. ized barber shops-had his faced !. laycd in Floridn water and walrus grease never did he undergo Che treatment accorded him in that ! Prince Rupert shop. where ho could feel the razor coming when it was a foot or more from his face. On ! his coming trip, if Che Stroller Is at Prince Rupert and in need Of a shave. he will go Co a fish cannory.
 In the event that the Stroller is not required to visit Chicago in com uectlon with his knee brace. he does not expect Co be absent more than three wecks-lour at most -on the trip on which he will leave next week. However. it is hard Co re- sist such appeals as the following:
 Chicago. May 8, 1918.
 "Our Dear Bcuefactor:
 Meier haf your knee brac ben SO much abbrccIated here as since der bathing season vas opened up. Dose
 oy us who wear your brace take Co
 der water like ducks vile dose who
 don't wear der brace. are too much
 ashamed ov der crooked knees Go Ioxpose dem to der gaping crowds vot
 congratulate on der lake shore dose
 bcau-tec-ful Sunday afternoons. Be-
 lief me, four years ago ! would have