The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-03

smiling, rosy. faces. Yes, rosy even
beneath this torrid sun. Then knots
and groups of native children, their
compilations apparently heightened
either with Cadbury's essence or
with Epp's cocoa - black-polled,
black, shining, bead-like eyed ur-
chins, male and female, with little
bare brown legs and feet, and clad
uniformly in a single garment-a
bedgown of white or colored calico,
and nothing else. A most sensible
and suitable garment for this climate,
as ''mighty convanieut" as were
Mr.. Brian O'Lynn's neither garments
of sheepskin, of which he turned
the woody side outwards in summer
and inwards in winter. The Russian
mo"iik, as you well know, acts in
precisely the same manner with his
sheepskin gaberdine, or louloupe.
Nor is the use of the single linen or
calico garment for all attire confined
to the native children. In the gar
den of handsome country house
saw with admiration white lady,
young, handsome, and elegant
member possibly of one of the ''first
families" of the island, bending
lovingly over lace-trimmed mos
quito curtained cot, in which lay
pretty white lady. The lady had
diamond drops at her ears, and
diamond cross at her neck, and
golden bracelets and flashing rings
on her fingers, but her only visible
garment was long white muslin
bedgown. Why wear more, at
Honolulu at least? Aloha?
| Native women, too, their head
gear huge cabbagetree hats, passed
us ON horseback, they riding astride
as the Turkish and Egyptian women
do. And then more children scamp
ering out of school and chattering
very tremendously in language
which to my ears seemed to be nearly
all vowels, with just a consonant
here and there to keep the weaker
vessels of sound in order. And so
we came at last to beautiful bunga-
Iowa fishing villa, was told, with
a landing stage jutting out into the
blue sea. And here we found ladies
and gentlemen, an elegant collation.,
Heidseck's dry monopole-or was it
Pommory and Greno?-in "spum-
ing chalices." There too we found
not only hearty welcome, but
polite conversation = the society
small-talk of London and Paris, of
New York and Washington and San
Francisco. The Lady's Gazette of
Fashion was lying on one table.
The Girls Own Paper on another.
l rubbed, for moment, the eyes of
my mind, and wondered for mo-
ment where was. Have you not
occasionally fallen into similar con-
dition of temporary uncertainty
-wanderer on the face of the earth?
Society,"" the whole world over,
las grown to be so much alike. Rub
the eyes of your mind. Where the
deuce are you? Sometimes you see
in splendid saloon swarthy gen.
tleman in a black surtout buttoned
to the throat, and with a scarlet fez
worn at the back of his head. You
are in "society" at Pera, at Con-
stantinople. Again, your neighbor
at dinner is charming lady who
speaks French with much more
purity than many Parisiennes do,
and who is talking enthusiastically
about Patti and Nilsson, Sardou and
Sarah Bernhardt. But the gentle
men present are mainly in midday
uniform, and wear large epaulettes
of loose bullion. You are dining
out in society at st. Petersburg.
Again, you are at dinner; the ices
and the coffee are of exquisite
quality. You are at Vienna. Some
body is smoking papebAto be-
tween the courses. You are at
Madrid. AS you pass from the
dining-room to the drawing-room
you espy shovel hat or so on the
table in the vestibule; and among
the male guests there may be some
old gentlemen in red stockings, and
some younger gentlemen in purple
hose. AS l continue to rub the eyes
of my mind in the great drawing
room of the bungalow far away, my
eye suddenly lights on the oldest
lady's boudoir that lave ever yet
bcheld. 1t is room within a room
"a dainty little boudoir containing
cabinet piano, rocking-chair, a
workable, a plenitude of shrubs
and flowers, and pretty bric-a-brac !;
but the walls and the ceiling of this
room within room are seemingly of
the finest wire gauze. The dainty
boudoir reminds me for an instant
of kind of glorifed meatsafe; but
then remember that the translu-
cent walls and ceiling of the dainty
boudoir are intended to keep out
the mosquitoes, and that i am at