The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-08-21
Not Unlike Types Seen in Our
Own Country.
AS TOLD BY A MEXICAN EDITOR.
Museum Managers Expect to Find
Everything From 1Pigmies to Aeor-
ntes-Sweet Girl Graduates-Sociolo
gical students and TheoriZers.

frederic r. Guernsey, editor of the
Mexican Herald, writes to the Boston
Herald from the city of Mexico: Sci
ence sends many men here, and the |
enterprise of the Chicago people is ex-
raordinary. They are going to have
culture up in the Windy city, if they |
have to rush things little, and they |
send down their men of learning to |
write a monograph on something or
other in three weeks! The pace of
science in Chicago is something awful
TO contemplate, and it is a pity Eugene
Field could not have lived to pay his
attention to the matter. Get facts, |
novel facts, or resign, is the implied
injunction of the hustling university
on the shores of the Michigan's blue
lake.
One of their ethnologists has gone in
, whirl OF scientific zeal down toward
Guatemala, expecting to find some pig
mics. | have no doubt he will find
them. If Chicago wants a monograph
on pigmies, the dwarfs will be forth
coming ii they have to be improvised
for the occasion. Mexico has become
] Chicagos happy hunting ground, and
recently the Field museum, which is
the embodiment of science with hustle
on, demonstrated against a New York
museum having special cinch on
Mexican antiquities, as was contem-
plated in a bill before Congress. We
are all going TO be photographed, clas
sified and properly labeled for the port
! folios of the Field museum. One lady
/ here who knows Chicago only through
/ the late humorist, thought the Field
museum was a collection of the eccen-
trio garments, books and pictures, and
the Gladstone ak of the oet-journalist.
The western tourists have the most
inquiring minds l have ever encounter
! ed. Their mental horizon is as i'm
mense as their own prairies, and they
are absolutely devoid of prejudice.
Nothing shocks them. They want to
learn" and the LIE Plongeon theory
that Yucatan was the true Garden of
Eden set them by the ears. 1t is plain
that in the wide West everything is in
process of re-eXamination, that the old
theology has been so ratified that it can
barely whisper, that science must be al
ways up to date, and no authority older
than five years is held in any sort of
respect.
gentleman from Milwaukee came
here on a Herbert Spencer evangeliZing
mission and incidentally converted me
from the cigarette habit. He was away
up in biology and carried Ribot's works
around under his arm. He said he was
going TO reform away the custom of
five centuries in as many weeks, and he
began heroically by refusing to allow
the peone and the street porter to carry
5 his grip; he said it was a servile GUS
) tom and should be done away with.
He wrecked all his protoplasm in the
: effort and carried his point. The poems
are wondering still, but any day 1 ex-
pect to see them listening TO lecture
! from the Milwaukee man on Social
: Ethics up in the Plaza. Once in a
while a tourist of the reforming type
, does one good. He shows us how back
nunberish we are, how We keep down
the new woman, how We cultivate the
serf-like instincts of the lower classes
how wicked lotteries are. and how ut
7 terly depraved is the cigarette habit.
{ The young women from the West are
I wide between the eyes ard look out on
6 life from a co-educational point of view
s Most OF them have been all over Eu-
6 rope, and some Of them have been VI
s the Nile They are wild about culture
6 and are immensely well read and are
) confusing 10 the indolent tropical mind
) One would as soon think OF wedding E
cyclopedia, though it must be confessed
that they are AmericaniZed and up tC
date. Their minds are so advanced tina
> they lap over into the 10th century
4 They have, to use q common phrase
8 got us down fine" for they point ou
8 TO us just where We are in the sociologi
3 cal scale. They tell US we are Egyptian
3 crossed with the telephone and the
8 railway. l like them; they are i'm
3 mense for three consecutive afternoons
2 and then one gets his subjective minC
2 so overcharged with facts and theorie.
that the objective mind q think that i!
what they call it, fairly refuses TO hau
up ideas from the reservoir. We dom
need so much intellect down here il
l Mexico; it is cruel TO try to educate u!
l in such rapid course Of lessons, fol
/ We run away TO talk TO some black
IL Gu -dCA4OdA HOLldA WIZ ACfCl
l heard of biology, social statistics, dy
/ namics, telepathy, the X rays or the
0 fauna of the north pole What West
0 ern girl doesn't know would Ill very
8 little book.
9 They viii be the mothers OF bullying
proved college professors, OF the origin
ators OF grain combines, of the found
ers OF universities and devisers of new
diets.
I used to think that Boston girl!
: were learned; but they belong some
e where in the era OF the China trade, in
7 telleetually speaking. They are literar,
while the Western girls are scientific
An Iowa maiden said to me. as W,
a crossed the great plaza: DO you no
:, think that your civilization here is az
IS arrested development, sort of petri
faction OF feudalism %
;Il | assured her thar there zrae No 5,,,L