The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-12
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drew near Seattle TO watch the franti
eHorts OF the natives after style 1t i
al Seattle that the ladies blossom forth il
COLOSSAL picture hats, white kid glove-
ana DeJeweied opera bonnets at o'clocl
IN the morning, and it is at this sam,
delightful burg that the gentlemen go il
| Tor gorgeous waistcoats luminous shoe,
and handDainted cravats
FROM Seattle we went to Victoria, B. c..
intending there to board a Canadian
steamship for the Paradise of the
Victoria proved to be n very snobbish. i'll
tempered little place. with an intense an.
upathy for everything American. 1t was
only necessary to hint at annexation in
order to raise storm of British wrath
and buster. For at Victoria they will
/ tell you that THE Hinglish would COM
pletely hexterminate the Hamericans. be-
lore they would ever consent to hanneX-
alton, and that they would simply have
| 70 set the dogs on the American army, il
! the question came to war
Of course at Victoria we saw and shud-
dered- at the typical British matron,
whose style is always enough to give one
the horrors. To say that her gowns
looked as if they had been put on with a
cyclone or pitchfork. is but mildly ex-
presSive; even the poor little young ones
We're generally rights.
When we boarded a British steamship
at Victoria we. of course, expected
thoroughly British surroundings; the in
evitable and eternal beg PARDON, God
save the queen" and other little British
but we certainly did not expect the
charming frankness of the British ladies
who travelled with us. They informed us
without the least reluctance, that every
American woman over 20 had had at least
one divorce; that they all talked through
their noses, used slang, swore whenever
they felt like it, gadded the street until
daylight, neglected their homes, deteSted
children and never missed a chance to run
away with some other woman's husband.
We were also given distinctly to under
stand that English women never did
such things, and that whenever q woman
got into a scandal in England she was
always sure to be an American.
About the first thing that we discovered
on o, landing at Honolulu was a variety of
high and mighty doors that were almost
strong enough to produce stagnation. In
fact 1t was quite impossible to get
through some parts of the city without
and noses, wondering all the time how
ii was possible that the town was not
completely exterminated with some cpl
demic, for the low ground, entire lack
OF drainage, perpetual heat and damp
ness make Honolulu any thing but a
healthy health resort. After the power
full japanese Chinese, Portuguese and
kanaka smells, we We're completely taken
up with hunting our way through the
narrow. winding little business streets.
The sidewalks Were just wide enough to
get a DaraSol between the tops of the
fences and the telegraph poles, and in
the case of another DaraSol somebody
was compelled to go out into the middle
of the street, that is, if the middle of
the funniest of funny little mule cars.
When we reached the residence portion
of the town we felt brave enough to take
a long breath and proceed with our ex-
plorations.
To anyone that has always lived in a
cold climate, Honolulu is at first almost
q glimpse of paradise-that is. certain
parts of Honolulu; the odoriferouS
Chinese quarter for instance is not para
tropical or semi-tropical vege-
tation is very strange and very beauti-
full. but after one has tired of fantastic
palms. green little strawberries in De-
cember and blood red shrubbery, you look
for flowers and find none. One little yard
in Salt Lake City has more flowers than |
all of Honolulu, and so many lawns that |
ought to be- are covered with painted /
water buckets full of green things, and |
cat up with crooked little paths ending |
in painted tin fountains and wooden grot- |
tos. For nearly every man in Honolulu |
who has space enough at the front of |
MS house to comfortably turn around in,
will be sure to do some landscape garden
ng. and where that man is Chinaman
The result is something fearful and |
wonderful to behold Honolulu. however.
S not TO be laughed at. She really has
/ few residence streets and many resi-
iences that would be a credit to San
Francisco. She also possesses one bath
ng beach at Wiki. that has been
divided into back yards for the aristoc-
bathing resort for anyone who does not
want to battle.
enthusiastically there are American
nen of war in the Honolulu harbor, and
hen it is interesting to any American
sirl to see the officers OF her coun-
rvs navy guSh and Slobber over all
he little Chinese, Japanese and ex-can-
libal heiresses that they can get intro
uctions TO. An American military gen
leman would marry a Hottentot for 80
ents, consequently no one was very
n rank. took a coolie bride for about
20, 900. Such a sum of money would be
mple compensation for any number of
hop sticks and mothers-in-law. Even
rivate joss house could be tolerated.
OF course our first Sunday evening was
pent at the Central Union church, and it
yas here that we saw President and
1rs. Dole. Although it was at church
nd on Sunday evening. Mr. Dole was
ressed in a much-worn black business
nit and a soft felt hat. There was no
ilk tile. no kid gloves or tooth-pick shoes
bout him. You would have taken him
Or some good old country doctor. Mrs. !
,ole. however, had a better opinion of
er own rank and Importance. She wore
loves and a corset. l was very much i
stonished when | came across the corset, ! !
Or women IN Hawaii do not wear cor :
ats and they do wear mother hubbards ,
nd IN very rainy weather they wear
hite mother hubbards with long snaky
aims and deep borders of mud around
lie bottom
Queen Lilioukalani took her departure 8
n the United States about the time we :
rived. so that none of US managed to :
.e her. We accordingly consoled our 1
lives with visit to Iolani palace, the
1me she lived in before she was de- E
lroned. This is quite a handsome build S
g. now belonging to the present govern Y
ent. Inside the palace we saw the =
any of which looked as if the paint had /.
zen put on with a shovel and dis {
ibuted with q broom. Of course we in C
,ected the cute little throne room. with 7
tchen chairs at the back end. and of Il
urse we wanted to see the crown, but
e crown had been destroyed and they !,
ouldnt even let us look at the pieces.
To most people IN the United States a
e Hawaiian Islands are simply a few
tie specks in the middle of the Pacific L
can. The average individual will admit t,
at a few white people live at Honolulu. q
1t he thinks they are there simply to :
nvert the cannibals; and that for every T.
nnibal converted there IS at least one L
boiled and eaten. If Mr.. t
e ard Mr. Cleveland hauled it down N
ain few people would have paid any -
tention to the little country. and GER l.
inly no one would have seriously y
leen Lilioukalani was deposed the an IL
Ration sentiment was very strong. but d
" it is dying out: people fatter them OF
ives with the idea that as q govern
mt they are able to stand alone. OF
urse from the beginning the big planta- -
n owners fought annexation. for they 81
uld not see where it was going to put lie
,ney in their pockets. and they were fl
~ much afraid that their beloved con- II
Ict labor would be done away with. If ~,
: planters could make Hawaii an ~
iatic colony and also a state of the 81
ited States they would be satisfied. 81
ey cannot have both. so they prefer d.
colony. The middle classes whine gs
mally about being swamped with re
lerican emigrants and also American
INNS. The.r haliave that every man