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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, MAT 19, 1S99.
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and a chance to get a bargain
while thev last. We lately had sent to us
2?o sample POCKET KNIVES so that we
could select our new stock As the makers
knew that they could not get them back
without heavy expense and bother with the
Cus'om House, they instructed us to make a
Special Sale and clean them all out as soon
as we had selected our stock. You wiil see
them in our window, 50c. knives for 2c , $1
knives for oc , $1.2 knives for 70. and so
on up. Your pick of each lot for the marked
price on same Every knife is guaranteed
to be of the best quality and any proving
defective we will replace or return money if
they are returned to us.
The sooner you come the more you have
to pick from.
BARGAINS IN POCKET KNIVES. AT
LIMITED.
Corner Fort and King Streets
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particularly lecon mends it for this climate. Dees not
require to be painted and any workman can lay it. En
dorsed by leading architects and builders. Call and see
samples.
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FOR WATER MAINS, SEWERS AND
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on the market. Contractors and Plantation Managers should
investigate this Piping. They will find just what they
have, been locking for a pipe that is strong and will not
corrode.
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Office: No. 6 Love Building, Fort St
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Manufactures all kinds of Single and Double Harness,
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Horse FufnisWng Goods
On hand at California Prlges. Special attention to Planta
tation Orders.
One Light New CoIumfcllS Buggy For Sale Cheap.
NO- 639 KING STREET, LINCOLN BLOCK,
Telephone 641. Jtist Below The Arlington Hotel.
D. O. Sc 31. S. IIAMMAX.
NEW ARRIVALS !
White and Blue Grays Linen, Silks, Table Covers, Si:k Shirts
Doylies, Pajamas, Handkerchiefs, etc. Latest Patterns of
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SERGE,
Scotch Tweeds, Linen and Duck Cloth, Etc.
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Tailor and Dry Goods Merchant
210 Nuuanu 5treet, Above Hotel.
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Isoshima,
HAT MANUFACTURER.
GENTS' FURNISHINGS.
New Shipment of SHIRTS, COLLARS, UNDERWEAR, GENTS' HOSE,
HANDKERCHIEFS, ETC.
Straw, Panama and Native Hats in Stock.
Gents Furnishings,
Japanese Bamboo Baskets,
Matting, Japanese Lanterns.
BAD ONE FOUND
M Mr. Bishop Reads Abont
Nannlity Play.
SENDS IN THE ACCOUNT
use of hor?vit because? some men put
them on the track ami gamble over
them? "Would you make men dumb,
because some men use bad language?
Would you destroy corn, because some
men make it into whiskey? Uecause
some men put wicked p'.ays on the
stage, will you forbid other men to
put good plays on it? The Editor.)
Makes Comment and Draws a Mo
ral A Brief Reply to the
Points Presented.
EDITOR P. C. ADVERTISER:
Since you take some liberties with my
name in an editorial cf this morn
ing upon the subject of dramatic ex
hibition at Punahou, about wnich I
had not intended to write anything,
will you kindly allow space, in illus
tration of what a leading London
theater actually is, to reprint a thea
trical critique from the London Daily
Mail of March 3, 1S99. It suggests that
until the existing stage has been dis
infected, it may not as yet be a safe
thing to make it a factor in the edu
cation of our youth. It also indicates
a reason why one who marries an
actor or an actress, is apt to suffer
lowering in social repute.
S. E. BISHOP.
- Honolulu, May 17, 1899.
"THE CUCKOO."
Fun and Nastiness at the Avenue
Theatre.
Certainly a very funny farce,
brilliantly written, full of witty
phrases and humorous characteriza
tion. In all probability it will be a
great success the ladies and gentle
men at the Avenue Theatre last night
laughed heartily and with keen en
joyment from beginning to end.
We have ceased to write for the
young lady of fifteen, and no doubt it
is very right and proper that it should
be so. No doubt it is very right and
proper and creditable to turn the stage
into the club smoking-room a "smart'
club smoking-room. Equality of the
sex.es is in the air. By all means let
us divert our womenfolk with "smut"
good, forcible slang is "smut." But
it will be interesting to note the at
titude of those who lift up their hands
in holy horror if a serious play treats
of vice in serious fashion, though its
aim may b.e high and its motive lofty
it will be interesting to note th-a
attitude of these towards "The
Cuckoo," Mr. Brooknelds adaptation
from Meilhac's farce, "Decore." .
No doubt this picture of fact and
flippant libertinism; this rechauffe of
"funny stories" which used to wait un
til the ladies had left the dining-room;
these references to the "demimdnd-e"
and "common women," and to ''our"
room by a lady on a trip to a riverside
hotel with a man not her husband;
these blatant women "picked up" at
Niagara; these black men in their
shirts; these "damns" used in thfe pre
sence of women no doubt these are
the concomitants of successful plays.
We do not write for the young lady
of fifteen. We are enlightened, we are
emancipated, we have left all the silly
old prejudices behind us. No doubt
"smart society" will flock to the Ave
nue. Our duty is not to dissuade the
public, only to tell them what to ex
pect. Then if they rush to the Avenue
Theatre it is their business, they must
look out for themselves.
. Some may say that frank indecency
would be better than the shallow hypo
crisy of these English perversions of
the French, .which mask everything
the lips utter, but accentuate it with
a wink and a leer. That question
it is not necesary cO argue.
"We do not blame Mr. Brookfield if
blame is deserved. He is a witty, a
caustic and clever writer; he was told
to adapt "Decore" and he adapted it.
He has tried to cleanse it as much as
possible; he has crammed his work
with brilliant lines and drawn for us
many humorous and amusing charac
ters; he has done his work very skil
fully. We cannot blame him and we
are sure those expletives are not his;
all va might ask, were we disposed
to display our prejudice and our
bigotry, is Why was Decore brought
to England at all?
It is, of course, ridiculous to see any
thing unfit in the story of a husband
and wife taking jaunts for a night
into the country with another woman
and another man. Nothing wrong ac
tually happens, so why complain?
Why object when it is only suggestion
and suggestiveness from beginning to
end? The theatre is not for the young
lady of fifteen. It is still supposed to
be for gentlewomen, however. But if
the gentlewomen do not object .
It is-all funny, decidedly funny. The
drowning man and the lion and the
negro potentate and the admirable
waiter and the skit on "journalese"
all funny, very funny. And the audi
ence laughed loudly, and cheered and
applauded. The Cuckoo is a most
laughable farce. That many things
are laughable which are not wellbred
or clean is an undeniable fact.
The acting is admirable, it could not
be better. Mr. Charles Hawtrey,
struggling heroically against a terrible
cold, was in his best form. Extremely
clever was the waiter of Mr. Charles
Stevens; whimsical and humorous
were Mr. Arthur Williams and Mr.
Lyston Lyle. Miss Fannie Ward was
much overweighted as the heroine.
And The Cuckoo is the successor to
Lrd and Lady Algy"!
CORNELL WANTS BRAINS.
(New York Evening World.)
Cornell University wants brains.
The owners of the brains, who are to
be men of prominence and distinguish
ed ability, must die first, however, be
fore the university desires the con
tents of their heads.
Burt G. Wilder, professor of physi
ology, has issued an appeal in the
name of science, asking well-known
men to bequeath their brains to the
college. Professor Wilder states that
plenty of brains can be secured, but
they ar.e all of a degenerate class
those of criminals or ignorant person?.
A request has been addressed especial
ly to students and graduates of the
university.
BY'AUTiiORSfY.
What then? The Evening Post of
New York recently denounced the
management of the stage by men who
pandered, etc., to the low tastes of the
multitude.
There are many houses used for im
proper purpoe?. Would you abolish
houses, or would you clean them out
and improve the uses of them? Would
you forego he pleasure of having
dogs, because some men use them for
BOARD OF IMMIGRATION.
REGULATION.
That where the reports of the In
spector of Immigration are unfavora
ble as to the sanitary condition of la
borers' quarters or are unfavorable as
to the treatment of the laborers copies
thereof shall be furnished to the
Agents of the Plantations, with a no
tice to them that further applications
for labor immigration permits will not
be considered until such matters are
corrected to the satisfaction of the
Board of Immigration and the Cabinet.
S. M. DAMON,
Minister of Interior ad interim and
President Board of Immigration.
Honolulu, May 15, 1899.
5236-3t 2073-3t
T. Q. BALLENTYNE.
H. P. EAKI
STOCKS FOR SALE!
EVA, HONOKAA,
WAIALUA AMERICAN SUGAR CO
(Assessable and Paid Up.) KlHEI.
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BALLENTYNE & EAKIN,
STOCK AND BOND BROKERS
McINERNY BLOCK, FORT STREET. HONOLULU.
- Family Theatre.'
JAMES F. POST jiAXAOJZR.
JT. E. SHARP - - - - .MUSICAL V in ECTOR
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TOX1 GUT! TON IGIIT!
Jim Post's Farce Comedy Entitled
A Marriage in the Dark.
GLOItlXK
Spectacular Transformation Datcer.
Direct fron? New Yoik
J as. H. Love,
STOCK BROKER
FORT ST.,
Next Biart's Jewelry Store.
For Sale:
HAWAIIAN SUGAR CO.
O OK ALA.
KAHUKU.
KIHEI.
NAHIKU. '
MISS M All LIS PAltSELL,
Deecriptive Vocalist
FRANK HAltTOX.
Rag Time Singer, Dancer atd Comedian.
MR. WM. HOWARD. .
MISS MYRTLE 1 RAH AM
POST AND ASHLEY,
(Assisted by Wm. Howard). Funny CciaJt
uy "TUG HIVAL." i
MISS VIOLET DALE.
The Greatest Aggregation of Vaudeville Talent ever seen in Honolulu at 3ttixsr
Box Office opens at 10 a. m. 'Phone 540
OLD OUT'
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Having disposed of my entire stock of
Dry Goods and Notions to the .....
Hawaiian Dry Goods Association
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Will be closed out during the next thirty days at Bargain Trices, tc
make room for an entire new stock ordered and to arrive.
xScrriiiCES cannot be duplicated.
SALE COMMENCES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19.
Rare chance to get Dry Goods at very low prices.
Mr. M. G. Silva will assist the new Managers durins this Bale.
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after which he retires from the business.
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MIOSES PALiATJ
EDWARD IIAXAPI
Managers.
iLuoltiomi Sale ofi
Fee Simple and Leasehold Property.
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By order of Mrs. H. Rieirenschneider I will sell at Public Auction at my salesroom, 33 Queen street,
On Saturday, May 20th,
AT IS O'OSL-OOK NOON,
Tho followiner nronertv:
1. In fee simple, lt on Vineyard street, adjoining the Riemenschneider homestead and the Howland lot,', having a frcr.tE
of 59 feet on Vineyard street ana an average aefin or icei. me 5273 square iecu
NO - Six year !eae of a lot fronting on Punchbowl street, between the Adler cottages and the lot of W. E. Row ell.
piece has a frontage of 135 feet on Punchbowl street and an average depth cf 190 feet.
Further information at my office.
iNO.
JAS. F. MORGAN, Auctioneer.
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Stocks and So nds,
ea3 Estat: anca Custom s i
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Notary Public and
Gen 3 ra I Commi
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Will buv and sell any Hawaiian Securities in the market.
Office: 15 Kaahumanu Street.
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P. 0. Box 365.
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