The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-02-11
The Optimistic Pessirnist

The Optimistic PeSSimiSt
When hides are quoted at sc low a figure that it does not pay to ship
them away it's hard to convince the man whose shoes have holes in the
soes and are u down at the heel that a five dollar shoe is cheap at eight
even if it sold for fifteen a few months ago. He is convinced that sol one
is lying.
The best way to find GU what "a - trou e y a boy has il, to remember ones
own boynood.
Anticipation may be better sna q f . t. but hope long deferred makes
the heart heavy and the averagem an is ready % take a little Of reality even
if it prove not all he hoped for.
One makes fastest osr q aioa y l T. " soaa while seeking to give some
foosore traveller a lift Those y see farthest that are used by the owner
for teh aid OF a blind man.
1t really is ute a relief to find that 1921 looks just like other years one
Beauty may be only skin deep y = u . It % knee high according to present
day dress fashions.
If the man with a chronic crouch kaHe~" what a nuisance he is he'd hate
himself ever worset than he does. Smiles and sunny words are the parents
of friendship ss
pesltng the excess profits taxes? Surely il there are no excess profits there
can be n IA on them.
It really doesn't make much Inference what be the style Of the day. it's
the girl in the clothes that counts.
dictates the world will be a better and more pleasant place to live.
TO voice something m has heard @ |" or read is to be a mere talking ma
chine 1t is the thinking o a subject ut that makes expression possible.
If the difficult deeds were easy Il life would lot amount to much. It's the
effort required that makes results WORTHY while.
Numbers of Japanese in the Islands wish they had married the picture
courts.
Maui had the we,tsst spo, in the = Islands . IS last month with 1ls inches rain.
fall but 10 n knew about it until it had cleared off. Nine and "a third feet
of rain and nobody bothered by it!
as mentioned in the letter that accompanied. the Library of Hawaii Ln
These are $4,000 for Maui, $1,000 for Kauai, $4,000 for Hlo and
for the City and County of Honolulu $4,000 with $4,000 to build
up the reference collection of the Library of Hawaii, the latter to be
for the use of all of the counties" The plan contempaes the abandon
ment OF present Island service by the Library of Hawaii.
In that respect it should be further explained that it is designed
to have each county support the Library OF Hawaii as an institution
upon which it may draw "a well as contribute to the support of its own
library. And this adds still stronger grounds for provisions in the bill
that will not give to the City and County of Honolulu first call on the
books in the Library of Hawaii in discrimination against other coun-
ties no matter whether there be one or a dozen copies of the particu-
lar book on the shelves. AS a matter of fact, it is for books of which
a large library may not be expected to have more than a single copy
that the county Libraries will have need to draw, for books in such COM
pantively small demand that the county might have not more than a
dozen or two readers interested in the subject and could, therefore, not
afford to buy for itself.
There lis not the least reason why, with the Maui Womans Club bill
as its basis a perfectly satisfactory measure should not pass at the
coming session.