Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — SAY GOOD-BY BUT NEVER GO [ARTICLE]

SAY GOOD-BY BUT NEVER GO

Ukulele Boys From Hawaii Refuse to Depart Although They Are Always Singing About It. Here (in New York’s tearooms), during the past few months, one was reasonably sure of finding a delegation from the Hawaiian colony, consisting of stout persons attired as shirtwaist boys, all armed with the national weapon of their race, the ukulele, and all wearing about their throats necklets of colored paper; this last I take it being a precaution designed" to save them from being mistaken for Pullmanporters, an outing, Irvin S. Cobb writes in the Saturday Evening Post. These persons sing. Frequently they also play; but always they sing. I have never even been to those fair islands whence they come, but I gather from my local observations of visiting natives that their land is principally populated by a race who spend their time telling you good-by and then never going* They do not practice what they preach. In mournful numbers, hour after houA they bid you a lingering musical good-by and then turn right round and disappoint everybody by continuing to stay there. To them parting is such sweet sorrow, ‘>they refuse to part. But they are willing to sing about it, world without end. I should admire to meet a Hawaiian minstrel some time who told you he was going and then made good, but Tm afraid I never shall; it would be contrary to his nature and his training. . ■—y-v.' c