Ka Puuhonua o na Hawaii, Volume IV, Number 5, 2 February 1917 — FOR OUR ENGLISH-SPEAKING READERS [ARTICLE]

FOR OUR ENGLISH-SPEAKING READERS

THE FRIEND 0F A DRUNKARD. Sometime ago,"t:he Literary Digest g|ve cut the following quōtation:. . <c The man who puts lots of mbla'sses on-his wheat-c?kes at breakfast will find himse!f j gradua!ly forpretting to step in forhis customary ' drink on his way to his work. If the man who !*goes -out between times for liquid refreshments I will p:o into a candy-store instead and get five

1 or ten--epnlk \vorth of candy and eat it, he will be jsurprfeed at tbe effect, for it wii! not be„ very ;Ionp; ufttil he will have a box of candy in his !pocket or desk. It has often been noted that, lin theaters where candy is so!d during the intermissions, 'going out to see a'm~ān'~doēs nM pre 1 vail to anythiny like the exte it *it does in other j theaters where no candy-selling is permitted■Not one man in a hundred knows why he forgot to 'go out and see a man' &fter he had bought a • box of candy fcr his eompanion and eaten a liule ot it himself for politeness' sīke."