The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-01-21


strangely under tropical skies, amiC
dusky skins-than / went forth liz
search of Cloves Bakery" Yes, Love
keeps bakery in Honolulu, and there
the Hawaiian Star" gave Thanks.
giving dinner to sixty newsboys and
their brothers and their cousins. Never
have / seen so motley a crew as march
ed in, two by two, and captured the
email tables prepared for them. From
2 years to IA ranged their ages. The
most learned ethnologist would have
been at his wits end to guess to what
races some of them belonged. There
were Americana, Irish, Portuguese,
Hawaiians, Chinese and Japanese, un.
mistakable in feature. There were
blendings Of races, however, that set
one thinking as to consequences, and
which are not possible in any other
part of creation.
But Jew, Gentle, Portuguese,
Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Ameri-
can, half white, three-quarters white,
half Polynesian, and half Chinese,
half Japanese and half Polynesian,
half Portuguese and half something
else, and slight dash of Africa, all
wanted turkey and cranberry sauce.
That's what they came for. No rice
and chop sticks for the little celestials;
no poi for the Hawaiians, but un-
adulterated turkey. 1 shall never for
get the scorn depicted on kanaka
lads face when great dish of poi was
placed in the middle of his table,
while turkey was being served near
by. With an indignant wave of his
hand and few choice words from his
expressive vocabulary, he ordered
that dish of, and was not appeased
until informed that turkey was COM
ing. When soda water and root beer
followed generous plates of theThanks.
giving bird, shouts of joy went up
from those boyish throats.
Stuffed to RepIetion.
The youngest Chinese seemed to
know how to force in a soda water
cork, and the way all OF them took to
the bottle without the interposition OF
tumblers was spectacle for Puck
Delight at meat and drink paled be.
fore the wild demonstration that
greeted the appearance of q pyramid
of boxes filled with candy. Sugar
makes the whole world kin. The
youngest celestial was as eager for his
prize as the native or the Anglo
Saxon, and the vim which that hu-
man ola podrida gave a chip, hip,
hurrah" in varied accents was start
ling. Even in that assemblage of
youth, the few Americans were son
top" and had brought up their com.
rades in the way they should shout.
1t was a straw, but straws show how
the wind blows.
With cheers for the editors of the
Star these unique Dewsboys formed in
line after they had stuffed themselves
to repletion and marched to the Office
of their paper. There waited great
omnibus, drawn by four horses, to
take them to the baseball game few
miles distant. Before clim bing inside,
outside or on top of the elastic "bus,"
every boy was given a tin horn. Then |
the acme of bliss was attained |
Pandemonium was let loose when |
this human hive drove through the |
town. Such a sight and such sounds
had never before surprised Honolulu,
and the boys felt themselves to be the |
heroes of the hour.
Thus lie Hawaii being Americana
ed, even unto the footing of tin horns,
turkey and cranberry sauce. Mince |
pies are advertised in public prints
and on signboards, and l am now go
ing to dine with a charming woman,
whose table will grosn under the
weight of such feast Of good things
as old folks at home dream not of at |
this season of the year. Aloha!
KATE FIELD.