The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-10
KAMEHAMEHA DAY.

Almost any time OF the year Is as
good rs any other for public holi-
day in this country, so far as proba-
bilities of good weather are con-
cerned. About the only consideration,
then, in so far rs it is matter of
choice, is regard for the relation, in
point of time, between different holi-
days. In the United States the
great rational holiday-Independ-
ence Day--happens at the exact
time required to halve the years
toll. Then Thanksgiving Day COM
ing directly after harvest affords a
welcome day Of rest, and family and
social reunion, upon which the citi-
zens of the Great Republic pause to
express gratitude to kind Providence
for the nations increase in store and
preservation from public calamity,
and fortify themselves anew for the
activities that characterize them as n
people. Latterly Decoration Day
has come in there also, when there
is universal sabbath of kindly and
graceful Offices for the memory of
patriots sacrificed on the altar of
their country. That day occurs
opportunely, when the first flowers
of the more temperate regions have
just bloomed, diffusing fragrant
hopes of ultimate life from the dead
throughout the balmy spring air. In
the British Empire the birthday ami
versary of good Queen Victoria could
not have fallen upon q more auspi-
cious date, to afford 4 pleasant day
of recreation to the loyal millions,
at a period fairly dividing the time
from one to another of the universal
holiday seasons of Christendom,
which fifty weld the new years on to
the old. So happily does that May
holiday accord with the popular
taste and necessity, and so used have
the people been made to it by Her
Majesty's remarkably long reign,
that it has of late been advocated
that the day should be perpetuated
beyond the lifetime of that august
lady. This would not only give
British people seasonable holiday
for all time to come, but would
furnish an enduring memorial of
the immortal Victorian Age, that
must ever stand out in strong relief
for both its material advancement
and its political progress. Canada
is pretty we'll fixed for holidays, too,
having its national day in midsum-
mer, three days before the American,
as well as the Queens Birthday, and
Thanksgiving Day about the same
time as the United States. This
kingdom cannot be said to be bad
off for holidays, yet it has none too
many of them. Notwithstanding the
hours shortened for trade and labor,
from the systems of other countries,
out of respect for an exacting cli-
mate, there is need that the year
should be pretty well broken up with
whole days of public recreation.
While it is only seemly that the
birthdays of ruling monarchs should
be duly signalized, still it will always,
we believe, be regarded as a wise act
of Kamehameha ", that he estab-
lished the birthday of the illustrious
head of his dynasty as a permanent
holiday. 1t falls upon an appropri-
ate time, and it perpetuates the me-
mory of Kamehameha l., the author
of united Hawaii. Let all the people
make good use of the boon. DO not
keep it so that its evening will arrive
with more exhaustion than recrea-
ton; more Generalization than re-
freshment. To observe holiday to