The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-09
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Observation-Disclosures
The Chinese Saturnalia is thing
of the past, and many of Honolulu's
citizens may feel that Thanksgiving
Day would now be in order. The snap
of the fire-cracker is no longer heard
in the night. The good wife and moth
er is no longer immured in her heated
kitchen with the sullen stove. The
ubiquitous Chinaman is again pursu-
ing the even tenor OF his way-after
that one cadenza when he went up to
high C,-with an effect of falsetto, be
it said. 1t was quite harmless as
kind of self-expression, and there is
little left for US but to rejoice and
moralize.
If 1.-The French of the Orient" supply
your household train, the ascendency
of the dragon can have no terrors for
your soul. The Chinese festivity is the
Japanese opportunity, and not a few
housekeepers retain for permanent
cook the temporary Japanese who did
valiant service during the dreaded in
terregnum. Not for such the moral.
but for you, my friend, whose China
boy is exemplary three hundred and
sixty-two days in the year.
You will, of course, accord him his
well-merited holiday ungrudgingly,
and you will live simply for three days,
if you are wise. Be a cosmopolite, a
Bohemian each day, change your mo-
dus vivendi each meal, and enjoy with
out your absent servants the festival
they attend at any cost.
Be Unitarian for one meal. Linger
lover the tender cocoanut and the COM
lplaisant banana; solace yourself with
pine-apples and oranges. Be a Ha-
twaiian at the next meal, and rest con-
tent with poi and fish, mastery com
bination. Even for the third meal shun
meat or poultry-make sumptuous
salad your piece de resistance. For va
riety be an Italian, and subsist on
Imacaroni, ora Scotsman, living on
parritch Only be genius, changing
your food-scheme each meal, and let
ting the low living be always accom-
panied by high thinking. and-mark
my words-you will anticipate with
pleasure the next Bohemian season
that will come with the fitting of your
servants.
Pleasing variations may be made on
this worn theme Chinese New Years
mother doing the cooking"
The Woman's Exchange, by SUI
premely planned effort, might make a
specially of appetizing soups and
cooked meats, done to nicely. That
might be their opening. With an Alad-
din oven they could provide soup for
the many, day or night, and make
money therefrom.
One woman 1 know takes Chinese
New Year time to teach her daughter
simple cooking, and the sweet dignity
of that girl-cook is most charming to
behold. No fear of Saturnalia there.
If only cooking were as much the
vogue among our girls as china paint
ingi The two arts make an excellent
marriage Think of the delight of be-
! ing able to serve toothsome Wand
} on an exquisite dish painted by the
self-same hand that prepared the
dainty What must be the emotions OF
an admiring dinner guest who can ap-
plaud both works of art emanating
J from the brain of the maiden he adj
mires!
Most unique of all is the family
where the growing sons preside in the
kitchen while the servants play. Many
! a turkey soup made in the mountains
: and venison steak broiled over th'
: camp fire on Molokai have given evil
dence of their culinary skill, and the
family know that the campers-ou
have no strange garnet air in the we'll
appointed home-kitchen.
On the streets and in Chinatown W,
see happy groups Of tidy Chinamer
: engaged in the pleasing exchange O
r social courtesies. We realize anew tina
they are akin to us in having theii
'estal days, in needing an occasional
> daytime and in tenaciously holdinl
70 New Year With it all there Ii
5 he enthusiasm of new beginning.
r glow that touches those who enter tn,