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III ' i ' " ' ' 7a.w"" 1 . . ilW crowd to mind. fast. Rain on L i; - .'.LL. II one side ol, the street, sun- m ? r j r J s l,- - -wvr$'x - & i shine on the other. Daily rain- ! M , j i , J ) j W hows. Blazing sun but iresn if-11 breezes and often' wild gales. JmWiWiX&m Gv dores. Green trees and lawns pgM . , rlnwn tn the nppan's edee. on S;c ; --"' S'iS?h:SSa;siiii EATURES of Honolulu? They crowd to mind fast. Rain on one side of, the street, sun shine on the other. Daily rain bows, and occasional night rain-' bows. Blazing sun but fresh breezes and often wild gales. Sea and mast and husky steve dores. Green trees and lawns . down to the ocean's edge, on ' the brilliant water outrigger canoes bobbing about, and surf-riders dashing shoreward. An Arabian Night's wonder of an aquarium exhibiting great ugly shark and Mdeous squid that offer strongest contrast to graceful small fishes tinted like unto the rain bow,, arch before the Koolau mountains. Val ley after valley cutting the range that walls Honolulu along the side opposite the sea. Cloud draped mountain peaks towering above the town, ever Invitingr and challenging the be holder. Flowers abloom on numberless hedges and various tall blossoming trees. Brown ekinned men wearing hats wreathed with fresh posies and ferns. Old Hawaiian crones and young Hawaiian women sitting on shaded side walks weaving wreaths and exchanging badinage with tourists and Jackies. "Miling tary," enlisted and commissioned. Representa tives of races ranging from subjects of the csar, from the land of the Great Bear, all the way to folk from lower Polynesia. Between these extremes the jostling of European and Korean, New Englander and Filipino, Porto Rican and. Chinese,' with now and then a tall, white robed Hindoo, and swarming everywhere Japanese men, women and babies. , Children, children, children certainly are a feature. The streets abound with them, the tenements overflow, automobiles are crowded to capacity with the rising generation. The world hears repeated reference to the Ha waiians as a dying race, but the part-Hawaiians are unquestionably doing their duty toward populating "The Islands"; large families are , the rule with the half-white Hawaiians, and the Chinese-Hawaiians, all about the town, big eyed, Bhy native kiddies add to the tropic pic ture. In the so-called Oriental quarter al though now the Japanese are so numerous they pop up in all portions of Honolulu the new . comer is struck by the army of fond fathers, the doting male parent, Chinese or Japanese. , tenderly toting offspring up and down in hours of leisure, the hunched-up Oriental live doll very fat and Impassive and philosophical. Jap women pass along continually with anywhere from two to four chubby babies clinging to the mother mayhap one tied to her back, one earried before, two toddlers trying locomotion for themselves. The other day I heard a newcomer remark as she surveyed a street in Chinatown: "1 never In my life have seen so many men nurses, and how fond the Chinese seem or their babies." It is all very different from Sunday school tales we used to read about cruelty of the Chinese fathers, who were as ogres forever devouring unwelcome Jere perhaps because so many of V kept by the laws of Uncle Sam their wives and families Join be household idols, objects idoratlon. From the tenements .idols emerge decked out in ies and embroideries, borne daddy's arms, they look Lslon and hauteur upon the after day offer some- '."t. Of continued ln girl standing with ew and the old. p and class, long irs a distinctly the bifurcated hair with the knob at the jnplexion en- l bespeak V'arances. V v, ana the is,i'ii'liii.; Itlil ;'.::mk::::vJV ....... to V .V n a ed Vd start most zealous . in the revolutionary movement in the Flowery Kingdom; J hundreds of thousands of ' dollars have been con-ji tributed, and the women have worked away ' earn-aj estly for the cause. It was & of interest to see the quiets little things modestly making their way in and . out of the Chinese business houses on the mission of gathering funds and supplies for the Red Cross relief work In their dis turbed land. All classes were represented in this woman's effort, from the wife of the lowly duck -farm man to the silk-robed mate of the prosperous merchant. Side: by side they labored for their country; rolled bandages, made garments, and toade plans at their cen tral club house on King street. As one saw them hastening hither with the red-cross badge on the arm, cae turned smilingly to contemplate the Chinese woman of today. Everywhere about the center of Honolulu now waves the flag of the anti-Manchus; every day the town wears i festal air with these flaunting banners so bumerous and so gay. Turning from China and her revolution to shoes, I would speak of footgear as a feature of the Hawaiian capital. One is early im pressed by the Cinderella nature of the foot wear worn by femininity in Honolulu. Such ridiculous feet were nht Intended as a mat ter of fact are little used r walking. They seem to be designed chiefly for display, where fore are shod in silks and satins, in beads and bronze, in suede and embroideries, ur delicate tints, extreme soles and heels. No matter how many stone the white tvoman may weigh, no matter how exuberant Jtbe a vordupols of the native girl, the feet tjiat peep x .the oo o m ip. fcmall. and elaborately shod. The average worian from "The States," j ,oa fnr service, flnas ine ainieuc girt useu w -tAir t almost impossible here to renew VfMtgear hy anything that promises utility. Vlvet or white satin may b bad but tha1, is less frivolous. We new. der8 whether in time -nrettv idle pedal extremities and n-e!ghlPor send for sensible H for slimness. . -. . ! the CindereUas-and tbelrhu' V Jitfcer footwear on the 'hat holds attention, ".-linen keep their ite by wearing sro the ground, '.g admirably i cn our "rub :ter of these wcaren. of straw . sandals. The boat-shaped slippers of silk worn by the Chinese are very coquettish, though even the betrousered ladies are begin ning to show preference for American , shoes, Jumping to another subject as unrelated to. shoes as shoes to a revolution, let U3 speak of the novel feature of an agricultural city. A goodly portion of Honolulu, in expanses scat tered far and wide, is given over to wet farm ing, and some parts to dry farming Those wide fields that look like lakes ehoked with calla lilies, are really taro patches, taro being the vegetable that provides the native food, poi. Duck ponds line the way to the seaside playground, Waiklkl, and neighboring these are broad acres of bananas. Residents climb the moist breezy valleys for the sake of ver dure and freshness, and compete for posses sion of a district with Oriental truck farmers who keep to their unspeakable Oriental Ideas of farm fertilization. But the commercial flow er fields of the Orientals one does not quarrel with; they add color and fragrance here and yon one field in a resident district is given over entirely to red carnations, another flaunts asters month after month, another big, yellow chrysanthemums. Steamer day is surely a feature of Hawaii's chief port. Yesterday Honolulu may have been as lethargic, lifeless, as the poor jaded horses of the Chinese hackman waiting there discon solately for the fare that never comes. But today all is different, for today is Steamer day in the manifci'! Behold a town alive to its farthest outpost. Automobiles dashing every where, every seat full. Business houses hust ling, clerks counting seconds before the mall departs. At the postofflce frenzy running high; congestion within and without, incoming for eign mail to be distributed, outgoing foreign ail to be delivered at the wharves, Island mail transhipped, and addresses . In so many languages, such a Babel outside the windows, fhe wonder is anything goes right. Gold clink ing at the banks, the impassive gentlemen In the cages handling In one day wealth which would make the outside world, If it knew, sit up and take notice. Tourists from Australia and lnia, officers from he Philippines, Chi nese and Japanese otables, freah-cheeked folk fresh from "The Btates" and Canada, fly here aid there, bringing in life not insular. livening things up at a great rate. From these the flower venders reap their harvest, share with the chauffeurs in a renewed prosperity. Of course the "touriser" desires to wear leis (garlands), of course the traveler wants all the local color possible. He puts a wreath of carnations about, his hat, a long garland of maile over his shoulder, and starts forth on the mission of "seeing Honolulu." The Ha waiian band plays for him, the water heroes do their best stunts out In the. surf, the very waves glitter and roll high in his honor, the curio shops present all of the primitive they possess to tempt him, downtown cafe and sea side hotel have an added sparkle, townsfolk are out in careful costumes. Everyone is in a hurry, but everyone seems in holiday humor, hastening because there is something worth while to hasten for. The street urchins are especially alert, and most alert of these are the eager elfin newsboys, the olive-skinned urchins whose shrill cry of "Daily 'Tar, Plenty News!" is now full of meaning, for is not this SteameY Day and Foreign Mail? The street car service in Honolulu is noted for the courtesy of its employes; an outsider used to the rudeness that is the rule in cities at home, rubs his eyes, thinks these polite servants of the public must be the figment of a dream. The idea of a street car conductor listening attentively, answering politely, put Vting himself to trouble smilingly, seems too good to be true. Conductor and mctorman in Honolulu are under one great strain that interferes with their equanimity and reveals that they are mere'men after all, that they occasionally In dulge in violence of language and act. Japs newly arrived from Nippon, or just in from a sugar-mill village, are blandly, crassly ignor ant about street car customs and restrictions. Individually and in groups you see them do this incomprehensible thing touch the bell, then immediately and 'confidently step off, Often they are killed; always they are hurt, 'for the street cars not only go buzzing along at a good pace, but because of the slope of the streets they have their steps very high from the ground, and a fall from one of these rapid ly moving cars is anything but a joke. The number of accidents, one would think, would have been noised about among the Orientals eo that by this time they , would have learned theiMesson, but even today the closest watch has to be kept on the Japanese passengers some conductors put on a worried look the moment a Jap enters the car, and are on the uui vive to clutch his shoulder the second he fingers the bell. I have seen a pretty little doll of a Jap woman board a car daintily cos tumed, daintily coiffed, fresh and colorful as the flower in her hair, her face alert and in telligent appearing as though she could very well take care of herself, as though very mod ern decidedly of the new Japan. And I have seen this little goose touch the bell and skip lightly forth, seen her come (town with great heaviness and force, her poor little rose crushed in the dirt, her wonderful obi deep in the mire, and heard .her scream of amazement and terror. Another time the case was worse, now a. mother, father and babe the. victims. The father had stepped on the car with the proud air of owner of the lnrant he held so tenderly in his arms, after him had stepped the little mother. The elders seemed devoted ly attached to the wee morsel with them, but what did they do the moment the woman rang the bell -but alight in a bunch on top of the morsel! It was dreadful, and proved too much for the nerves of the much-tried conductor. " All white and trembling he bent over thie species of "Japanese tumblers' ' that is part of the white man's burden in Honolulu, and picking them up with more emphasis than gentleness, he proceeded to give them a very frank opinion of themselves and the place he considered they rightfully belonged. We pas sengers expected the three to' swoon in our arms and perhaps die there; but no, the baby but. gently Whimpered, Mr. and Mrs. Kimono gently brushed off the dust and smiled apolo getically and conciliatingly upon the angry street car man, Autos might be called a feature of Honolulu were it not that they bave ceased to be looked upon as needing much comment nowadays. It is the occasional carriage and pair one turns to look at twice, and a certain carriage and pair of Honolulu attracts the passing glance.' "The Queen" drives out of afternoons some times to take the air and perhaps mark some new change that is helping transform the cap ital of what was once her realm. , Honolulu is fond of outdoor life, has the Outrigger club down by the beach and aquatic sports, the Country , club and golf; various athletic fields, and a fine polo field just be yond the town, on a private estate called Moanaloa. Men from other islands bring their polo ponies to Honolulu during the season. This year the island of Oahu played the island of Kauai only, but generally Maui sends men and ponies. The United States cavalry have their own polo grounds about thirty miles from Honolulu, and send to Moanaloa players and ponies of excellent mettle. There are no more interesting events in Honolulu than the polo matches, the game, the plucky horses, the field in the mountain valley all making a splr Ited, t beautiful "pectacle. THE PEEVISH CHILD . 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