The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-09-26
THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST

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Its queer but the ian who fails to agree with others is "opinionated"
and "bggoued" while he who agrees with everything that is said is weak
and undressing with no mind of his own. It is the happy medium that
is difficult to obtain.
It is a wise man who refrains from expressing opinions until he knows
at least the rudiments Of the subject and then remains silent until he has
something to say.
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A criticism that will rouse the ire Of the bridge enthusiast is that his
favorie amusement is "one of those games where they put in a lot of
arithmetic so as o take a real card players mind off the III Of the deck.
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Any man may tell a girl she is a picture" if he is not too specific and
tells her what sort OF a picture she is. To say she is a painting is worse
than dangerous and to mention a chrome is fatal.
With all the troubles that Germany has /. is not bothered with counter
letters The government crcuIates the money too cheaply to warant the
labor
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In the old days in some hotels there we're signs that warned country
folk not to blow out the gs The present day warning should be Don't
step OF the gas"
1t must be a sad state to be $ nightfuny moral as to believe all the
rest of the world is horribly immoral
THE vanishing wild life in America is a heading in the Literary Digest
and the article has no connection whatever with the poll n prohibition en-,
forcement
Often it takes morec courage to live than to die. In either case what
one may expect is exactly what one has created for oneself.
A Tennessee woman lived with her husband for 4s years and then shot
him. Evidently she arrived at the conclusion that patience had ceased to
be a virtue.
Belief in ones self and ones work : Z that is faith. are the chief necessities
to achieving of success.
A world champion distance runner remarked that in almost every race
ne ran II e Ondered ue others dldnt qu II they felt half Is weary al he
did but the idea of his quitting never occurred o him. Several of the
records made by that mar still stand in sporting archives.
Use of words that the average reader has tic look up n the dictionary
if he is to understand what idea is intended to be conveyed does not in
evtaby indicate a fine literary style Of the part of the writer
comes into port. The Islands hospitality is proverbiai With its
sisters and the news of it has spread far and wide on the mainland
With the advent of the new steamship line travel to the Islands
will be largely increased and there is double the opportunity to
attract visitors that has heretofore existed. What Maui has done
in entertainment will attract some of the visitors to these shores
Those who come will send others. The Valley Isle is certain to gain
an incrnaSa. III +Onict yicitorCl Int II op cDnoI nm On ,o+omJ H. ,o
gross of the movement las it sees fit, Their coming means more than
new business for the hotels and automobile drivers. 1t means more
business for the various stores. The time has come when folk must
ask themselves if they really want a new industry and if they do
to go forward and conduct it "a S a business industry and advertising
is essential to business success.
Which comes around to the subject that Maui has no literature
of interest to sightsee1s in telling of its beauties and advantages
except a few folders that were sent over from Honolulu by the
Tourist Bureau. Something of the kind is needed now and will be
more and more needed as time goes on. This Island is drifting
steadily into the entertaining Of visitors and may as well recognize
the fact and get ready to put to use the marves that nature has
bestowed here.