Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 432, 14 April 1892 — HEN-PECKED. [ARTICLE]

HEN-PECKED.

We have heard and read of henpecked husbands, but never knew or heard of hen-pecked women, and more especialiy some very high in the social scale of Hawaiian society. But such is the fact, and it often happens that by some mysterious manner the telephone has been the medium of giving Ka Leo the inforniation. While our hanei was upon the lever of the telephone, and )>o6ing with the hand telepbone to the ear, wo were astonieheei \z hear the familiar sound of a lady 's voioe, a lady whom we knew, saying: " Can I go out to the beach to day ? Only certain ladies you know will go wiyi_j&& Pehaw why ean'i I go. M The lady is a widow and well known throughoui the group, and was evidently §peakftig to her servant, who has some Satanic iniluenee over her, for permission to go out to her beach house at We knew who the censor was at theother ehd of the telephone, for we know of only one person to whom tbe lady would thus aek permission to go, and who will dare refuse a superior, when that Buperior is a woman. This unaccountable action between mfstress and «ecvant must be due to hynotic power or to the t!evil or bcth.