The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-27
Vegetables Wanted That Will Not
Grow On Sunday.
PRoFANE AND IRREvERENT FRUITS
An Argument in Favor OF the sunday
Band -.'Taro-sabbaticus," as
Cultivated by Pious Hindoos, should
he introduced BY Our Planters

The question of permitting the
band to play on Sunday involves
some serious considerations. To
play on that day involves labor,
and this it is claimed, would be in
violation of Holy Writ. This labor
consists mainly in pumping into
certain musical instruments va
rious amounts of wind or air,
whieh are regulated by the labor of
the fingers. Those who urge that
this is an unholy consumption of
energy on Sunday forget that the
pumping of wind into the several
organs of the various churches in
this city is also violation of di-
vine law, as it is not necessary and
requires human labor. The patient
young men who toll in this way
upon the Sabbath are entitled to as
much consideration as the band
boys. There should be no strain
ing at a "band" gnat and swallow
ing an "organ." The employment
of mule power, compactly arranged
In the organ loft, or in front of the
pulpit, might supplant human toll
at the bellows, but there would al
ways be risk that human toll
would be required in order to drive
the mule, or that the mule, in an
inopportune moment, might deliver
a solo.
Wind power might be used, but
the "wind bloweth when it listeth,"
and it might fail at the desired
moment
Until Society can, in some way,
arrange for the necessary wind,
without use of labor, the young
men, who break the command
ments against Sunday work, ought
to be allowed to mediate on that
day, and make researches in the
exhilaratiug pages of the West
minister Catechism.
Although Sunday is claimed to
be a day of rest, it appears that
nature itself does not rest on that
day. The human body continues
to work. Many pious men work
their stomachs on Sunday ''for all
they are worth" Is it right? Should
not nature be reconstructed, and
brought within the pale of law?
Vegetables and fruits continue to
grow on Sunday. They furnish a
bad example to weak and vacillat-
ing men.
Mr.. Marsden should be en-
couraged to introduce, and propa-
gate new and more conscientious
vegetables and fruits, those which
will cease to grow on Saturday
night, permit their leaves to wither
and droop, and resume their growth
at sunrise on Monday morning.
The mere consumption of such food
would, without further moral in
struction, induce correct Sabbath
rian habits, and the body and
mind, by a supreme law of nature,
operating through these pious vege-
tables, would refuse to work on
Sunday.
Profane, irreverent and Sabbath
breaking vegetables and fruits
growing all of the week, would be
raised only for clergymen and car
drivers, who are compelled to work
on Sunday.
1t is important that some uni
versal rule be adopted in this mat
ter. But the need of the town is
that the Sunday organ grinders be
relieved. 1t is said that the pious
Hindco devotees cultivate a veget-
able known as the "taro-Sabbati-
GUS" which ceases to grow on the
Hindoo holy days, and, at the
same time, emits a musical sound,
indicative of a desire for rest. Such
plant should be introduced grad
uaIly. "