Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 184, 1 May 1891 — Letter from Somewhere. [ARTICLE]

Letter from Somewhere.

Dear Ka Lf.o:—l did not expect you to build a par out of my little vUit the other evening. I called ir.ereiy to let you know hew amused I f.dt/ I wais really tempted to look at the glass to make sure of my ovrn identity. Mauia entered my ro<>m unobserved and was renlly alarmed [dear old soul that she jgl when she found me alone, and as she tliought in hysterics. Well, I had to get out for a changejust to work off my hili«rity. and t»ok Ma for a drive and ihoujfht I wuuld drop in to see 3'ou that was all, and vou have said .the rest forme. It is surprising wha£ a number of inen pnffer fn>ni phrenological disturbthe fi»ihire to grasp a fact or 101l the tmth is really more of a iL.isfortune than a fault. Mattcr s

j mr«.y fee exDlainc;d ie a nian, hut |it is rather a diiliculiy to supply | him with the brains requisite to ! understand. It is not so with a I woman. You u touch the button" of our inquisitiveness, a«d the keen and rapid perceptiori of natural instinctiveness wiJl euahle us to estimate meii at their true value. That we girls do not h®nestly abide by our coavictions about fnen, is 'to us the cause of .mueh sorrow and suffering, and I have seen | n.any girls throw themselves away on worthless whiskey sponges,' whose sinister intention at tne altar was to live on the girl's fath.er. An instance eame under my notice recently in San Franciscō of a worthless scamp who eame here sometime ago as a tramp In'suranee agent, carrying away one of our most charming girls, only to subject her t« cold and cruel neglect when he discovered that he could not live on her parents. What affliction this has brought on the family, and indeed our ' community just now, is known td those who attended a certain fashionable wedding a littie over a year ago.

lam sorry the poor dear has not such a brother as my Jack, who weuld lam sure—if her case were mine, give a good aeeoimi ef Mr. Lothario and search the wprld 'round, like the good brother, in Mavne Reid's k, Lost Lenore," to rescue his sister, and avenge her wrongs. With so many ēxamples of what "might the," I do hope lam sure, to remain in that happy frame ©f mind in whieh Beatrice found herself, wheu she declared to Benedick that:—

" I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, Than a man fiwear he loved me.'' I have so many things to write about, that I want a wholo page of Ka Leo onee a week, instead of the two eolumnp, to whieh I am now confined. Well, we had letters from Papa and Jack, and Papa's opinion of what he termed a 4 shady transction/ meaning the new sugar combination, has not grown any more faTorable; nor does he think young Spreekels J letter to the puhlie is in the least calculated to ailay distrust. u The ! bottom fact i n the whole business," writes Papa, ' 4 is that the reso!ve of the new sugar trust to keep German beet sugar out of tbe States, ean only be ejßfected by keeping the price below four cents a pound, and what this means to the islands, we all know."

I hinted to you last week that the boys on the Nipsic were addicted to the pastime of embaltning their recoliections in proBe aiid verse; whieh is as I leani, a ueuul way with young officers of coiDbiriing history making with amugement. An offi.cers coliection of photos from the yarious ports vieited is surprisingly large, and afford no sma)l eeope for character sketch and epigrani. 1 nebd hnrdly say that my access to some of the "portrait galleries" was gained largely by virtue ofbeing, as thev say, a ü blue-etocking" I regret that want of apaee confines me at present to "linee on Don Carlos."

The 4 cognomen' said Jack. u was bestowed in recognition of a faeial resemblance to that decayed scion of Spanish royalty." I hope no newspaper man here will attem >t to r.j prooriate the vitie: