Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-30
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of It's Facts and Fancies. (yVritten for the JOURNAI, AND COURIER

Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
 VICTORIA OF HAWAII.
 The heir -presumptive to the throne of Hawaii is girl of sixteen, Victoria Kaiulani, daughter of Hon. Archibald Cleghorn, collector general, and of the Princess Likelike, sister of the late king, and of the reigning queen. The childless queen and her only niece are now sole rep resentatives of the royal family and the young Victoria has recently been publicly proclaimed as heir to the throne.
 She has been very judiciously placed under suitable instruction in England, and now as her studies at Harrowden Hall, Northamptonshire, are completed, her guardians, still more judiciously, propose to send her to our Wellesley College for a finishing course.
 Her picture shows a womanly and se- rious face, oval in form, with regular fea- lures, straight brows, and very large, soft, dark eyes. She has been general favor ite at Harrowden, being very bright, unaf fected and winning, seemingly entirely for getful of her future position and responsi- bilities, or remembering them without ap- parent elation or anxiety. A healthy, happy girl among other girls, her greatest fault seems to be that she will express her self sometimes in schoolgirl slang, to the l horror of her teachers, who have striven to impress her with the idea that future l queen ahould invariably be queenly and dignifed in speech.
 l A course at one of our best, most liber- ally equipped American colleges, and 8 | taste of life in the United States, would seem particularly advantageous in the l .f b0 will | large number of American and English subjects. The predominant social element | in the islands is unquestionably American l although the English element is highly ln- | fiuential This is the natural effect of the
 numerical excess over other whites, for
 sixty years, of 8 large number of educated
 Americans and their descendants. The
 Puritan missionaries and those in sympa-
 thy with them initiated and developed
 Christianity and education: the more pre-
 vailing ethical opinions are American; the
 newspapers are American in tone; the
 larger proportion of school teachers are
 American and the largest and strongest
 church is the American Congregational,
 with which the queen is connected. Lead,
 ing men in public affairs are Americans,
 some of them Hawaiian born, and in Hon.
 olulu they may ride to business in Ameri.
 can horse cars.
 The American system of free schools now established for fifty years, is helping young Hawaiians to make remarkable pro
 gress in literary education and industria
 arts; besides these are many large trainins
 and boarding schools, two thirds of thu number being under American Protestan instruction. Most of the native youtl 7 read English with more or less ease, ant F our language is rapidly becoming conver I sational medium among them.
 The late Princess Bernice founded ant !. endowed with her whole large propert, 8 the KamehaInehs Industrial and TIaipin @ school. The girls school is not yet com pleted, but the boys school is giving good English education and thorough man n ual training to 130 students, ali nativ j. Hawaiians. Hon. Charles R. Bishor