The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-08

| that the constant and familiar pres
! ence Of unusual beauty was rather dis
| tracing and tended 10 weaken the
| good and yirtuOus resolutions of a
! chief heretofore accustomed to have a
wish gratified as soon as expressed.
'Apau was converted to Christianity
with Kapiolani, and both were taught
! letters along with the whole house
! hold. They were first taught from a
/ haole (English) book and afterwards
/ from a native one. She has been a
| constant reader of the Bible until about
! two years ago when her sight failed,
| and when in the mood can repeat al
most whole chapters of the Bible.
"Kapiolani would not permit her
protege to have a husband for many
| years, but after repeated entTeaties
| by a member of her own household
| added to those of Apau herself, she
| consented
Just before the marriage was to
take place Kawika, who was a cook
in the family of the missionary who
was KapiOlani's religious teacher, told
his master he had obtained favoTs
proper for a husband from Apau and
she ought TO become his wife, as he
loved her.
THE master pleaded Kawika's cause
with Kapiolani and Naihe, and al
though Apau strenuOusly denied the
fact of favors given or received from
Kawika, she was ordered by that very
religious and perhaps oVer-zealOus lady
to marry Kawika.
"She had to obey, and was married to
him, but always resented the fact of
having to live with man she did not
love, who, she maintains to the present
L IL, e Io,a
conduct, just to obtain her.
Three children were the fruit of
that marriage, the last a girl Makui,
lived to womanhood and died about 20
years ago. Soon after the birth of the
girl she had a chance to visit her par
ents at Puma, and went there. She did
not return to her husband, who finally
obtained a divorce from her.
After their divorce they became
quite friendly. He sent her a present
of some raw fish, which she claims
was poisoned, for as soon as she ate
of it her lips and nose began to itch
and then swelled.
I'm a little while the swelling ex-
tended all over her face and head, and
was only relieved when running sores
formed She was sick a very long
time She finally came to Hilo for med
ical treatment. Her husband was llV-
ing there, and the missionaries got
after them both and induced them to
consent to live together again.
"They were remarked by Mr.. Coan,
and the child now living, Kalanao, was
the fruit of that union. Apau was by
this time permanently disfigured. The
child was left with the grandparents
while the father and mother went to
Waimea, Kohala, in the service of the
after some time chief died in Ho-
nolulu, and Apau came to the wall1ng. |
She seized her opportunity and never |
to her husband.
I'm Honolulu she first lived in Kaeo's
lot on Maunakea street, on the Wal |
kiki side, between King and Hotel |
She. with others, washed for the ship |
ming and also sewed for living, hav- |
ing been thoroughly taught in those |
duties in the household of |
as we'll as during her serv-
ice under the missionaries.
after some years she moved to |
Kaaione's lot on the Eva side of the |
same street, and lived with her sister
and brother-in-law.
after some years they moved to |
Kapuukolo, below King street. Here |
q
Ifeved. is still living and at Eva, was |
her friend and co-laborer in the wash |
business.
This Paele was the first native to |
be taken with smallpox on the Ha-
waiian Islands. Apau claims Paele got !
the infection from bundle of clothes |
from the ships for which they washed. |
Every one around them was stricken |
with the disease, but Apau escaped |
entirely, though she continued to live |
in the infected quarter, to care for or |
TO prepare for burial her relatives and |
friends.
''The old lady made the remark when |
telling of her immunity from small |
pox that God did not care to inf1ict |
her with that disease, as she was al |
ready disfigured by the man whom the |
chiefs, acting by advice of their rellg- |
ious teachers, had compelled her to |
take. and that he knew she had suf- |
fered enough Her husband, in the |
meantime, had obtained another oil |
vorce from her and remarked.
when her son, Kalauao, came to |
Honolulu to live, she moved up to !
about where she is living now. Her |
son was born some time before the |
volcanic eruption, when the lava flowed |
to Kumukahi.
"Apau continued to take in wash |
ing till very recent years, when the !
Cinnamon, having absorbed all that |
business, she confined herself to such |
washing for her sons family and 9TH |
er work as was needed. Two years |
ago she slipped in a bath room, where !
some one had been washing clothes, |
and the floor was slippery from soap. |
A bone was dislocated by the fall, and |
she has been a cripple ever since.
she is getting purblind, but her |
general health is good and her appe-
lite fair She is confident that II she |
had not had that fall she would have |
been still able to be useful
"'The writer saw her, on one of the |
visits paid, for the purpose of getting |
her history, pick a patch to pieces on
the seat of a working mans pants |
with the intention of repairing it, and |
as the old lady was evidently waiting |