Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25

name of the one-time queen, and she
may well be pardoned for the royal act
of substituting Liliuokalani for Kama
kaeha.
Another marked popularity of Ha-
waiians is their expansive generosity
in the matter of transferring their Off
spring to friends and neighbors who
have been less favored with olive
branches than themselves. The par
ents of Lydia of the blinking eyes
were not people of large wealth, not
withstanding the fact that they be-
longed to the native nobility. 1t was,
perhaps, owing to this circumstance
that they so cheerfully donated their
girl baby to Paki and his wife Konia.
whose daughter, Bernice Pauahi, had
been adopted by the queen regent,
Kinau, the daughter of the Great Ke-
mehameha, the little maid herself be-
ing a granddaughter of the Hawaiian
Father of his Country"
Lydia Kamakaeha did not suffer by
the change of guardians, for the peo-
pie who adopted her were counted
among the most estimable of the ma
aries TO found society" in the Ha-
waiian islands. Her home training
was excellent and she was given SUI
perior advantages of education. She
attended the Royal school, where she
answered to the name of Lydia Ka-
makaeha Pal1i. Although she had
been adopted by collateral branch of
the royal family, she was never regard
ed as a prospective queen, but passed
as simple, merry-hearted, genial
schoolgirl, well liked by her mates, if
at times they were disposed to question
the sincerity of all her friendships. She
evinced only medium degree of abil-
ity in her studies, with the exception
of music, in which she excelled.
The social debut of Miss Lydia was
made in the home OF her foster sister,
Bernice Pauahi, who was then Mrs.
Bishop, lady of an exceptionally no
BILE character. If the spirit of "Old
Hawaii" quickened the pulses of the
dusky debutante it was decorously
curbed while she was member of that
cultured and refined family. Mrs Bish
op, although a social leader, was by no
means butterfly" Her life was de-
voted to the advancement and eleva-
ton of her race. Had fate revealed
the future of the youthful Lydia, the
domestic surroundings of her early life
could not have been more suited to the
education of queen. The daily walk
of her patroness afforded a lesson of
the purest patriotism. Had she profted
by it the Hawaiian question would not,
in all probability, now be perplexing
the wise men of two countries.
In 1852 John Owen Dominis, a young
business man of Honolulu, came
a-wooing and found favor in the eyes
of the bronze belle of Hawaiian so
ciety. Her friends considered
the match an eminently suitable
one. Mr. Dominis was the son of a
sea captain who was an American after
the order of Christopher Columbus-he
was borr in sunny Italy. Like the
fifteenth century navigator he, too,
in steering to the westward made an
important discovery. On the coast of
Massachusetts, he found good woman
and true whom he made his wife. She
sailed the seas over with him in his
brig and was a veritable new world of
happiness to him. Three children
blessed this union and when it came
time to consider their education the
Dominis parents decided TO make a
home IN Honolulu where they imnedi-