The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-05-05

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characteristics and cOloTs of ordinary ones
OF soap, but are tough and lOng-lived.
They Will last for days without exploding,
and you can even prick them with Il pin
without e~HdangeTing their life. They bound
and rebound uniujured from the carpet, aui
some of them have been known to remain
quiet and in good OEder for tuoTe than three
days. Pretty effects can be produced by
pulling tobacco smoke in them, the smoke
assuming all sorts of fantastic shapes with
in the glistening limits of their fragile
tenement or by a performance on a fiddle,
or any other musical instrument, within a
short distance of the bubbles. AT each
note of the fiddle little black notes dance
in the bubble, assuming different positions
and making different figures indeed, the
music is apparently reflected and printed
on the bubbles's face.
Our big Wednesday contemporary in its
island locals speaks of certain foreign Repre-
sentatives having paid official visits to the Rus
sian man-of-war during the past week, and then
adds, The Ministry made a visit incog.' Now
this is a sample of a style of journalism for
which that paper has become noted. In motto
ing a public evaut it will utterly ignore the
names of the parties to whom 1t is opposed, or
totally misrepreseut the circumstances of their
appearance, AS in the present instance. It
garbles, misrepresents and is utterly untrust-
worthy as a record of public events.
We understand His Majesty has accepted the
Invitation of Captain KalOgueras TO proceed o.
board H.I.R.M.S. Naycsdnik on Saturday, the
9TH instant, 10 kohaia. His Majesty goes in
order to attend the unwilling of the statue OF
Kamehameha. This original statue, which was
lost at sea, has been thoroughly repaired under
direction of Mr.. Gibson as Chairman of the
Monument Committee. Mr. Gibson has reason
To rejoice that the statue of K~aInehameha, so
much the object of lis jealous attention for
years past, has been successfully set up in the
capital of the Kingdom, and that a duplicate of
the same noble work of art is to be placed in a
district IN the Kin IlDm which was the birth
place of the great Hawaiian hero.
The general business and especially our en-
terprisihg and leading establishments have at
last become thoroughly alive to the advantages
Of advertising in the DAILY and weekly PACIFIC
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Our recent sugges-
ton in reference to the we'll known necessity of
advertising as an essential adjunct to the modern
successful management of any business has
been recognized by many already, aud our
columns are now crowded with a very complete
advertising representation of the principal
thrifty and enterprising firms of this city. We
offer special advantages to regular patrons, and
will spare no pains to serve them faithfully and
well.
Our modest little neighbor, in his report of
the grand concert for the benefit of the Hooulu
Lahui, says, - At the close of this (selection)
one of the audience presented Miss Michiels
with a beautiful hoIal decoration in the shape
of a shield" Now this is too modest, because
it was the gallant editor himself who was this
one OF the audience composed of the better
classes). These are the classes that understand
- tone painting perhaps. Was the shield a
floral illustration of = tone painting ?" The
applause of the lady's singing was most en-
thusiastic, but the floral shield, "if it were
possible, - was - superbly increasing > to 1.-The
audiences Composed of the better classes)
favorable opinions
Daniel Webster, upon being asked what were
the chances for prefe'mest r a yanng man in
the practice III la, repii,ts LII there was
plenty of room at the top OF the legal profession.
This may be said of any profession Or pursuit.
A man who Will raise himself to the highest
possible degree of perfection in any particular
walk of life will find ample opportunity to reap
the laurels of honor, wealth or fame, according
to the nature OF the cause he serves and his in-
trinsic abilities. Generally mankind is prone to
be too low and commonplace in its aims. The
majority of men are often satisfied with trivial
accomplishment where grand results might be
brought about with a very little more exertion
in the right direction. 1t j, especially i'm
pOrtant that young men should aspire to
highest honors, rank and wisdom, and then If
every earnest effort should fail and they finally
are unable to reach the summit of their desire,
they can mt least have the satisfaction of saying, !
1--WE have aimed at great and beneficent attain
ments, and suffered defeat in a great cause we
have grappled with the giants of fortune, and
never meanly stopped to grovel with the worm"
The past week has been especially marked by
a round of quiet, but enjoyable social festivities
and society meetings. Both in the public and
more limited private parties and receptions, a
great degree of interest was manifested in the
more broad and liberal topics of conversation.
Less frivolty than is usual, was observable
among the participants In the smaller social af-
fairs. The formal visit of His Majesty to H.I.R. |
MS. NayeZdnik, the visit of the Royal Party to
Waimanalo and the reception given at Waikiki
by the Queen Dowager to the officers of H.I.G,
Ms. Leipzig just before the latter steamed from
port were especially attended with most pleasant
circumstances. The officers of the respective
ships-of-war so recently together in our harbor
contributed not a little to the general felicity of
society. Several small parties were given on
board the Leipzig ere she sailed, and also on
board the Nayezdnik, still In port. Honolulu
enjoys exceptional advantages for brilliant and
elegant social enterprise, and evidently the most
will be made of those advantages.
We regret to see in the columns of the Gazene
the following animadversions upon the Y. Nj. @.
A, setting forth 90 that well intentioned and
earnest as are the present members and pro-
motors of that Association, it will not accom-
plish that object (secure a place of resort for
young men where they can spend a pleasant
evening enjoying one another's society and en-
gagged in Legitimate diversion, and at the sam
time be free from the influences of a saloon on
the one hand, and the feeling thai they have
been made objects of charity and been patronized
upon the other) and for the reason that it is
founded on a s~ectarian and exclusive basis, aud
Is made a dlstinctlvely religious organization"
The remark Is furthermore made that when the
Association falls so short of accomplishing its
objects that the members, who are directly under
its influence cannot be trusted to observe
the proprieties, it will then be about time
to close its doors and give place to an asSo-
citation that can accomplish those objects.
The reasons given for maintaining this exclusive
membership are but a bug bear, while the result
is an insurmountable obstacle to the usefulness
of the association. However much the fact may
be deplOred and however much it ought not so
to be, a fact it is, and a fact it will remain, that
there is no surer way to keep the young men of
Honolulu away from the Y. NJ. G. A. than to
establish it as n strictly religious resort" This
is a severe reflection upon the sectarian or
denominations character of the Y. VI. C. A.
But if it be not UNCONVENTIONAL then it must
become simply social and must then be styled
the Young Mems Club Association.
The Nayezdnik Ball.