The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-18
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pleasure enough IN ltSelI, DuC Tor So
ciety people from the States to have
fall TO their lot social entertainment
of various kinds, cannot help but in
tensify that pleasure and fix more
firmly in mind "reminiscences of the
good times they had on the islands
Honolulu has always had the reputa-
ton abroad of being one of the most
hospitable little places on the face OF
the earth, and so she is. Among the lat
est arrivals of society people from the
States are Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Miss New
lands, Miss Hoffman, Miss Helen
Smith, Mr.. Southland Hoffman and Mr.
Boardman of San Francisco. To them
is being accorded round of social
pleasure and they are each day, being
taught more surely, that one Hawaiian
ord-''Lokomaikai"
Mr.. and Mrs. Swanzy gave these
Californians a very pleasant evening
Monday-a bicycle party out to Wal
kiki and Kapiolani Park and ending
in the enjoyment of music, dancing
and other occupation equally as en-
joyable at the pretty Swanzy home in
Beretania street amid the variegated
shrubbery
The bicycles, jolly little throng,
met at the house, started out on their
spin, were Joined by others, and re-
turned to the starting place in high
spirits. The leaders of the party were
Mr.. Boardman and Miss Pauahi Judd
who were followed by Miss Hoffman,
Miss Smith, Mrs. E. D. Tenny, Mrs
Hugh Gum, Miss Stansbury, Miss
Fuller, Miss Neumann, Miss Young
Miss Lita Wilder, Miss Willard, Miss
Lawrence, Mr.. Southland Hoffman, Mr.
George G. Porter, Mr.. E. G. Macfar-
lane, Mr.. Armstrong Smith, Mr. Ger
rit p. Wilder, Mr. Robert w. Atkinson
Mr.. c. w. Dickey, Mr.. BERTHE Mist, Mr.
G. II. W. Norton, Mr.. w. c. Parke and
Mr.. J. o. Carter. Miss Neumann and
Mr.. Hoffman were on a tandem.
ARRIVING at the house the party was
met by Mrs. Swanzy The following
were already present: Mr.. and Mrs
Hermann Focke, Mrs. Kirkpatrick,
Miss NewlandS, Miss McGrew, Miss
Atkinson. Miss May Atkinson, Miss
Adele Widdifield. Miss Mary Carter,
Miss Damon, Miss Dickson, DR.. Cooper,
DIR. Murray, Mr.. A. st. M. Macintosh
Mr.. B. l.. Marx, and Mr.. Oscar Herold.
A little later, music by Mr.. Marx on
the mandolin and Miss Pauahi Judd
and Miss Clara Fuller on the ukulele
and guitar and later still, dancing in
the drawing room. After that refresh
ments and the enjoyment of pleasant
converse.
The SwanZy home was most attrac-
lively decorated in scarlet carnations
and various flowers in yellow together
with the indispensable palms and
maiden hair ferns. The lanai was
perhaps the most attractive spot de-
corted as it was with Japanese Ian
terms, casting their subdued light.
Now it's a case of ''Nigger Min
strels "A thing not new in Honolulu
so far as men are concerned, but some
thing decidedly new among the ladies':
but, then they are going to do it and
there's an end of it, because their minds
once made up to blacken their faces,
don the costumes used in entertain
ments of the kind rattle the bones,
beat the tambourines and dance the
clog, to say nothing of cracking jokes
that have never been cracked before
and singing glees in the true minstrel
style, there is nothing that can be said
to deter them from the object which
they wish to attain. It's very sudden
ness in the matter of being sprung on
the public of Honolulu is hardly kind
to the nervous systems OF people;
but that makes no difference. 1t is
something new, it is going to be good
and full of fun, it's exciting and its,
going to give a few favored ones some
thing pleasant to talk about.
Now then something about the la
dies who will be in the troupe-bones,
tambourines, banjos, ukuleles and
other things left out of the matter.
There will be nine in all. Mrs. Wal
bridge has been chosen middle-woman
but the end-women are thing of mys-
few vet TO be ascertained However
there ere the ones who have given
their consent 70 tai<e mart: Miss Fuller,
Miss Stanshurv. Miss Pauahi Judd,
Miss Adele Widdifield and Miss Dam
on. Three more VIII join the troupe
later
This novel entertainment will be
given sometime next month at the
hon-e Of CsrtAin and Mrs. Fuller, Nuu-
anu avenue The affair will be en-
tirely by invitation.
1t was J. A. Cummins' SD birthday
yesterday, and right royalty was it
celebrated at his home on King street,
just beyond the turn to Waikiki. In
the afternoon, between the hours of 8
and 6. the Hawaiian National Band
was present and served to enliven the
spirits of every one present, its music
floating across from the stand on the
Waikiki side of the premises. During
the evening the National Quintette
Club furnished its usual excellent
music.
The Cummins home was most beau
tifullv ARRANGED for the occasion, the
roor's being decorated with flowers of