The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-10
WORLDS GARDEN SPOT.
DR.. Carter, Of Honolulu, Correets
Some Erroneous Ideas as
to Hawaii.
The Natives Are Far Removed
From the Blacks, and Are
Pure Polynesians.
The Mode of Life Among the Higher
Glasses the Same As With the Highly
Developed Caucasiana

DR.. A. B. Carter, a young physician. who
has passed the last five of his thirty years
Of life in what Mark Twain calls the garden
spot of the world, the Hawaiian islands
gave a reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean
some facts not generally known about ''tbe
land where tits ever afternoon" He is
married to an Hawaiian lady of high sta
ton, who is now in DR.. Cartet's birthplace,
New York City.
The people of America have a ludicrous.
ly erroneous idea of the people who inhabit
the Hawaiian islands, he said. "They
class them not only as lower in civilization
than the negroes of the United
States, but imagine that their exist
ence is on a par with the bar
barians who live on the banks of the
Aruwimi river in Africa. Nothing could be
more hilariously funny to the traveller who
has been in Honolulu. These people belong
to the Polynesian race, and the crudest
student of ethnology knows that the Poly
nesians have not only not been in a state of
barbarism for a Thousand years, but that
their civilization was equal to that of ia
pan long before the whites navigated the
southern seas.
The natives of the Hawaiian islands are
as far removed from the blacks as the LATIN
races from the Celts. Indeed, they STRONGLY
resemble the Italians in their phvsicaI
makeup. They are not even so swarthy as
a thousand Italians | nave seen in this
country. their hair is straight, and their
features are generally almost Roman in
thelr regularity. They are invariably of
fne physique, and there is no more cultured
and hoBpitabIe society in the world than
thut OF the higher class natives of Homo
lulu.
O course, their social customs differ
from the social customs in the same radical
degree as the customs of the Austrlans
differ from those of the Prussians. But in
general their mode of life is precisely the
same as that of tho most highly develored
Caucasian races of the world. While the
5000 or O.OU0 of white residents of Honolu-
lU-Portuguese, English, American and
French-intermingle very little with each
other, they are willing and glad to take
part in the social functions of the higher
class of native Hawaiians.
1.-THE natives of Honolulu dress and eat
as you do nero in Chicago. They don't
wear a club ard a smile for Il costume. and
they have not the slightest taste for boiled
missionary. They receive you into their
often very beautiful homes with the same
grace az is exhibited by your courteous and
hospithble PEOPLE of Chicago, and YOU are
not expected to offer them pink beads in
exchange for the sherbet which the hostess
will pass around.
Nothing could have been more cruel and
unjust than the stories which were c,rcu-
lated about King Kalnksue, not only during
his life. but after his death. In the course
of a five 'eara' acqunintanccshtp with him
never found him aught but a gracious and
cultivated gentleman, | have been with
him evening after evening, but / never saw
him under the influence of liquor. He
could take MS peg as well az another man,
but that he YVES q hopeless drunkard and