Honey-bound and infatuated lotharios would do well to consider a few things.
First of all, marriages and relationships are ordeals, not picnics or holidays. Secondly, the initiative, boldness and daring, which you have shown in order to capture the imagination of a woman, must be relinquished or transformed, if a relationship is to stabilize and grow properly.
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ku‘e: Contrary PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Arasait: Opposite HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Seek life outside.” HAOLE WORD OF THE DAY — “Dare to be honest and fear no labor.” – Robert Burns
Known as the “Spanish Flu,” the virus that swept the globe eventually killed between 20 and 40 million people. That’s more people than died in all of World War I. It’s more people than died in the great bubonic plague outbreak in the late 1300s. And much like the bubonic plague which spawned the nursery rhyme, “Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down,” the flu pandemic spawned many children’s songs, including a jump rope ditty like this: “I had a little bird, it’s name was Enza, I opened the window, and in-flu-enza.”
There are no records indicating how many people in Hawaii, or on Maui, died from this disease. Coming as it did at the end of World War I, the flu racked the country, already tired and devastated from the European fighting. So widespread and infectious was it that the life expectancy of an American dropped by 10 years during this period. Most victims either drown in their own mucus and blood or suffocated from infected lungs that were unable to process oxygen.
It is speculated that the flu began in China as a variation on a common strain, and rapidly made its way overland to the theater of war in Europe, where tired populations and soldiers were very susceptible. The first known American case of the flu was in Boston in late 1918, where troop ships flooded the harbor after the war.
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