The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-20

one is German, one Portuguese, one
Hawaiian, one Irish-American; the
other four are made up of Americans
some OF whom belong TO the Grand
Army. Others are ex-soldiers OF oul
regular army who have been honor
ably discharged. Such material will
not run away. The Hawaiians march
well and look the peers of all.
After President Dole reviewed the
troops from the terrace of the palace
the parade ended and we wendell our
way to one of the many churches that
proclaim christianity in six different
languages. Prominent among them
is the Central Union, so called because
it gathers within its walls beIivers in
evangelical religion regardless of sects
and endeavOrs to Obliterate creeds as
much as possible. There worships
every member of the cabinet but one;
| there sit President Dole on one side Of
the main aisle and United States Min
lister Willis on the other. 1t must be
tOlerably catholic preaching that finds
| favor with Unitarian and a Presby-
| terrain. Certainly DIR. Birnie's ser
mon on "Christiau Citizenship" APP
pealed to everybody's reason. PauPs
words, Let your conversation be as
becometh the gospel of Christ" were
taken as the text. Were they follow
ed royalists, republicans and annex
atiOnists, all of whom are communi-
cants of the Central Union Church,
would be the happy family they form
ed before the revolution.
Dinner to Newsboys.
No sooner had we ceased to "praise
God, from whom all blessings flow -
and confess that the doxology sounds
strangely under tropical skies, amid
dusky skins-than 1 went forth In
search of Gloves Bakery" Yes, Love
keeps bakery in Honolulu, and there
the Hawaiian Star" gave Thanks
tgiving dinner to sixty newsboys and
their brothers and their cousins. Never
have seen so motley crew as march
ed in, two by two, and captured the
small tables prepared for them. From
years to ii 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 Americans, Irish, Portuguese,
Hawaiians, Chinese and japanese, un-
mistakable in feature. There were
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 a slight dash of Africa, all |
wanted turkey and cranberry sauce.
That's what they came for. No lice
and chop sticks for the little celestials;
no poi for the Hawaiians, but un
aoulterated turkey. L shall never for
get the scorn depicted on kanaka
lads face when great dish CT 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 off, and was not appeasec
until informed that turkey was COM
ing. When soda water and root beer
followed generous plates of The Thanks
giving bird, shouts of joy went up |
from those boyish threats.
Stuffed to Repletfon.
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 a 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 ''ou |
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 newsbOys fOrmC" IL !
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 a few
miles distant. Before climbing inside, |
outside or on top of the elastic "bu-,'
every boy was given tin horn. Then |
the acme of bliss was attained. |
Pandemonium was let loose when !
this human hive drove through the |
town. Such sight and such sounds
had never before surprised Honolulu, |
and the boys felt themselves to be the |
heroes of the hour.
Thus is 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 I am now go
whose table will grOan 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.