Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-10-20


"bos' think because thou art ,irtuou. there shall
be no more cakes and aleT
The little princess Victoria Kaiulani Cleg
horn was eight years Old last Tuesday.
No matter whether one believe in the divine
right Of kings or no, one need not be a churl,
and the veriest cumudgeon in all Chnstendom
must have melted into afabiity had he been
present at the liliput levee she held on that
happy occasion. For the little princess and
her playmates had a time that was royal only
in being royalty jolly, and formal in nothing
save is delightful informality.
There was a dancing room fitted up for the
little ones, and all the band boys were under
the great banyan to pipe for them to dance.
And II they did not care to dance, there was
lavish wealth Of lawn to romp upon, and no
end Of seats and chairs and benches TO 81. upon,
and hammocks here and there, and little bits
Of tangled wilderness that invited hide and
seek, and all the too brief afteinoon-thcre
was an eShaustless cornucopia Of good things
to eat and good things to drink from which
to fill their little holds AS delightful David
Dodd bath it.
Who does not love a pretty girl little or
big is fit for treasons, slratagems and spois.
There were many pretty little girls and not
few pretty big ones present last Tuesday
which is a compliment as honest in intent as
il is equivocal in form;
"when the merry bells ring round
And the iOcund rchecks sound
To many youth and many maid,
Dancing IN the checlucrd shade
And young ADD old come forth to play
On a suushine holiday,
Till the iNelung daylight fail
Alack there were no iebecks, and all the
bells had an c before the final letter; but
melodys, bluff baccalaurea,c, our own dear
dance 1t was because the lads were TOO elderly
or too portly, or too digni6ed, or too bashful,
or too lazy. So all the pretty girls did was to
look pretty-and eat.
But then every body did his or her share OF
that. Only few modest youth-like Hon
Paul Neuman and Mr.. Phiateist Brown and
the writer kept quietly in the rear rank Of
trencher men; each content with few plates
of chicken salad, dozen or two sandwiches,
some edible algae, some crisp chopped pigling
some poi, some cakes and some ginger ale.
Mccartney * Co. S ginger ale.
King Kalakaua, Chief Justice Judd, the
American Minister the British Commissioner,
the chamberlain, the vice chamberlain, the
register Of pubic deeds, the police Judge,
many merchants, brigade Of department
clerks, several dowagers, many matrons, more
young wives, still more young misses and small
boys and little girls no end.
If Cynicus was there. he did not obtrude his
sullen yisage-al was mirth and cheer and
glad companionship.
The occasion was one not likely soon to be
forgotten by the little ones, or by their elders.
Spacious and admirably ordered grounds, the
feast, the children's frolic, the young peoples
fun-alI these were enjoyable; but, without
the hosptable attentions Of the host and
hostess, there would have been something
lacking which was not lacking.
The little princess received many presents
and many congratulations. Her best welfare
has no more sincere well wisher than the Satur-
day Press