The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-02
THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST

One place has been found where sex" plays re not popular. It's La,
haina. where they call them kiss plays and ask fol something with a punch
to it instead, a good stand up and knock down Or som jungle stuff, some.
thing to stir the blood and not the passions. When other communities at
tain the same attitude a has Lahaina there will be less mush and less pro.
test against the alleged demorahzing effects OF the movies.
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A Chicago retail store has posted a notice to its women employees de-
handing dignity in dress" longer sleeves, higher necked and thicker waists,
less powder and rouge, hose rolled up, lot down. Evidently that concern is
not looking for the masculine trade, but caters lore to wealthy if anticipated
dowagers. No doubt, however, it will continue to sell waists and skirts of
the latest style fabrics and cuts 1t looks like another slam at the down
uodden saesgirls rights.
There has been a bill introduced in the house by a congressman from
Oklahoma designed to ban beauty contests" conducted by newspapers. He
declares that the women OF today ire thinking more of their appearance than
of their homes After ALL an attractive woman makes the home attractive
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Flippy fappers in Honolulu are efying the Dasha bathing suit law by
waeing' Tapping flowing to the breeze kimonos' say the Honolulu papers.
Alas and ajax! Better amend the law so the "outer covering will have to be
wet before being donned or have a inner lining of good sticky glue.
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In Honolulu there were sold a public auction several cases of honest to
goodness, bottled in bond, bearing the stamp and the label, whiskey. They
went a SO a quart-toa drug store and so there will be n o drop in the cost
of booze to the thirsty, who will have to continue buying poison oke when
car find a boohegger.
When the writer was in school back east his professor remarked that
he hoped the youngster would find it warm enough in the hereafter, for he
never would o earth. But the dear old professor had never been IN Maui
where the ideal temperature is always o tap.
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A small boy is credited as defining steam is water gone crazy wit. the
heat" Now fol a definition Of hot air." that will fit a S well.
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There are I'M government officials who still manage t. keep pretty
busy in sphe of the jobs they hold.
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The price of mosquito netting has not dropped, though cotton used in its
has come down. 1t must be that the cost of the holes is as high
as in war days.
Steps are to be taken on the Big Island to prevent the catching of small
If ways and means cn be devised to prevent the small fish from bit
ing, the sportsman fisherman will be deehghted.
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F. Schultz, food inspector of the board of health in Honolulu, has re-
ceived a request from Maui for a bugle to call a herd Of pigs owned by a pig
her to meals, reports the Advertiser, and will comply with the request
If education continues, the fourfooted porkers may become wen as inteTlL
gent Is the two1ooted variety. But musical pigs! Auwe! Next they will be
jazzing around the ranch.
The NOS convincing argument-to women-agamst rolled down hose
nothing about modesty or morality, but comes from a prominent chirop
who says the practice Of rolling ones own" tends to check circulation
and ause thick ankles Horrors! convince the fair Sc of that and the prac
ie will end forthwith, maybe.