Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-25
QUEENS OF HAWAII.
pLAYED PROMINENT PARTS IN THE
 ISLAND KINGDOM.

How Queen Kaahumanu Established
 "woman's Bights"-RoyaI Processions.
 In One of Which Dowager woro Sew
 enty-two Yards of Cashmere.
 When the missionaries arrived at lIa- waii, March 30, 1920, the condition of woman was that of slave She could l not eat cocoanuts. bananas, oranges of 1 fish, and one of the curious tabus, or in- l terdictions, forbade her eating any hind of food with men.
 Queen Kaahumanu sent for the new king, Liholiho, who was engaged in a drunken orgie out on the ocean in a caneo, and urged him to throw down the idols in the heaiaus, or temples, and to | clinch the matter by eating in public with group of women who were feast i ing by themselves at little distance from the royal abode. Staggering over to them, Liholiho, who was n very diff | ferent character from his famous father, sat down and publicly ate some of their food. The cry went up, "The tabu is broken.
 The torch was applied to the idols, and woman's emancipation began. Queen kaahumanu was huge, heavy mortal, and like all the chiefs she was proud and cruel. At first she treated the nission- aries with disdain, offering only the tip 1 of her little finger in salutation, but she | became a zealous convert and remained to the time of her death, in 1882, at the l age of 6S, a firm and conscientious Chris 1 tian, beloved by those who intimately knew her and universally respected for her abilities. She had ruled as consort of the great conqueror, as joint sovereign with his son, Liholiho, and as regent dur ing the minority of Kauikeouli. Kahamalu, the queen of pleasure loy- l ing Liholiho, was fond of display. On a state occasion in 1893 she was carried in | procession, seatel in whaleboat on a frame of wickerwork borne on the shoul- ders of 70 men.
 The boat and platform, 90 feet long by l2 feet wide, were covered with costly broadcloth relieved by beautiful colored tapas (natiye bark rloth). The queens dress was scarlet silk mantle and q feather coronet. An immense Chinese umbrella, richly gilded and decorated with tassels and fringes of the same gaudy color, supported by chief wear ing helmet, screened her from the sun.
 Chiefs held aloft kahilis, or royal staifs, 30 feet high, the handles sur rounded 6y .a.'t3iriaia9ti a9tie ivory and tortoise sheIl rings, beautifully wrought and highly polished, the upper part being ar- ranged SO as to forlp column or plume of scarlet feathers of feet iu diameter and from i2 to n feet long. A more magnificent insignia of rank, confeying at once the ideas of grandeur, state and beauty, as they lowered and gracefully nodded above the multitude, was never devised by barbatians.
 Another royal lady, Kinau, who after ward shared authority with kamehame. ha III tkauikeoulD, her title being Kaa. humanu Il, appeared in scarlet pau, long piece of silk wound round the body and limhs, with two long stl5amers. The pau is very graceful costume, especial ly when worn by wahiue (native wo- manl On horseback, with the gayly col. ored sireamers afoat in the wind. The two dowager queens appeared in this procession. One of them wore 72 yards of cashmere of double width, one.hali being orange and the other half scarlet This was wrapped about hef figure tilf her atnis were supported by the mass in a horizontal position, while the remain der, forming an extensive train, was sup. ported by a retinue selected for that pur. pose.
 The richness and variety of the dresses ! and colors, and the exhibition of the wealth and power of the chiefs, their hereditary symbols of rank, the stately kahiiis, splendia cloaks and helmets, and necklaces of feathers, intermingled with the brilliant hues and deep green of the ! flowers and wreaths from their native ! forests, rendered the spectacle at once unique and attractive. Groups of sing. CTS and dancers, to the number of many hundred, ever and anon met the process sion, enthusiastically shouting their adu. | lation in the willing ears of the chiefs.
 Queen kainamalu and Lih6liho made | voyage to London in 1923. Before the l ship weighed anchor at Honolulu the | queen chanted q farewell;
 70 heaven! o earth! o mountains! l o seal 0 my counselors and my sub | iects, farewell!'
 The royal travellers created a sensa> ton in London. Queen Kamaralu ex- hibited herself in loose trousers and a | long bed gown of colored yelyeteen, but | Parisian modistes soon clothed the ladies | in all the gear of fashion. Corsets for the first time encircled their ample | waists, and the London ladies, in their | rage for the new lions, sought patterns of | the turban that graced the brow of the . queen.
 But, alas, the royal pair caught the measles and died in London, poor chil- l dren of nature that they were, far from the palm groves and bosky bowers of their native islesl The bodies. in lead | coains framed in wood and covered with crimson velvet, were sent to Honolulu in the frigate Blonde in charge of Lord ! Byron, cousin of tho poet.-Godey's