The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-24

from Yokohama and Hong Kong From
all this provender, native and foreign.
domestic and imported, the civilized
kitchens of the city are able to make
discriminating choice which gives
the bills of fare at some Honolulu en-
tertainments a peculiar piquancy.
COLOR LINE.
The color line divides society in Hon
olulu. The Americans are on the top
wave of society. The best class of white
people are as refined, polished and ac-
complished as those of any other cap
ital in the world, and their hospitality
is superb. In this society Is a large
admixture of the New England relig-
ious sentiment, sprung from the mis-
sionary families which came here be-
tween 1925 and 1880 II supports the
churches and is back of every religious
and moral movement. Many of the half
caste families are thoroughly educated
and are familiar with European cap
itals and languages. They live in lux
urious homes, filled with the products
of American, English and French hand
icraft and art. At this time many of
them are living upon allowances, their
thriftless mode of life, now represent
ed in mortgaged estates, having made
1t necessary to put their affairs in the
hands of trustees. In the winter season,
when hundreds of American, English
and French tourists come here, there
may be weeks of picnics among the
banana and cocoanut trees, evening
dancing at the hotel, dinners and re-
ceptions at the great roomy residences
of the English and Americans, who
came here a generation ago, married
Kanaka girl, inherited from her a
great amount of land and got rich in
growing sugar and rice for the United
States.
LIBERAL MORALS.
Social restrictions are lax among all
but the Americans and English in Ha-
wall Ex-United States Minister SAL
mond said recently that it was lucky
for old st. Anthony in his hours of
temptation, that his visitors were not
Hawaiars. The native Kanaka wo-
men are models of cleanliness. They
have clear, dark compilations, graceful
necks and arms, black sensuous eyes.
petite figures, plump, round hands,
white. sound teeth and red lips. They
| are the personification of good nature,
and they love to be graceful and pleas
| ing. They can not be said to have the
severest ideas of morality, and the mis-
sionaries have found that characteris-
| tic the most formidable stumbling
| block in seeking their conversion. The
young Kanaka women are at their best
| on n feast day, when they are gor-
| geously decked with flowers and gar
lands of leaves, and when an orchestra
begins to play, their black eyes melt
and sparkle, and their feet and arms
move in sympathy with the music. Nc
| less an authority than the Duke OF
Sutherland, who spent a month in Ha'
waii, in his journey about the world
said the young Kanaka women werc
the most charming of any dark-skinnec
race in the world. Is it any wonder
then manv a man from America ol
Europe who has been buffeted by the
hardships of the world, has found thu
cheer and joyousness of feminine ac
ouaintance in Hawaii so irresistible
that he has sunk into languor ant
lethargy there, and never again lef
the islands? Men and women do pref
| ty much as they like in Hawaii, pro
viding they keep the laws and neve
interfere with the neighbors. The yer.
| VI llit lHc u
flowers, and the general ease and care
lessness of the islands beget a free
mode of living among the people thai
the people in the colder zones know.
BATHING RESORT.
The Coney Island of Honolulu is Wal
liki. 1t is about four miles from tn
city, and is on curved shore, upol
which the great blue ocean rolls laz
surf all the year round. Mammoth
palms, giant cocoanut trees and ferns
covering over 100 square feet each. rir
the shore of the bay. The water is tn
bluest blue. and is always warm an
agreeable. Every one, except the Chi
ncsc, goes to Waikiki at least once
week for a swim. The natives go ther
several times a week, some every day
They love to bathe and their feats @
swimming are famous everywher,
Many a planter has complained of hav
ing had all his Kanaka help desert hir
in the midst of harvest Of sugar can'
I rice or coffee. to go for a. few hour:
swim at Waikiki. When Robert Loui
Stevenson and family lived in Homo
lulu in 1855, they spent months at Wal