The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

igniting fire from the friction of sticks) we could cook and consume without the knowledge of our preceptors."
 Isn't 1t an odd mixture of civilization and barbarism? But that's just the very charm of Hawaii, with its telephones and its hulas, it's street cars and it's its Woman's Exchange and it's gardens of tropical palms and trees laden with gor- geous flowers. its electric lights and it's Queen. who at dinner given by Presi- dent Cleveland, Liluokalani says, wore the national holollu, a mother hubbard of white silk brocade artistically em- broidered with heavy raised and richly worked designs
 The girlhood of a young Hawaiian Prin- cess must have been an idyllic period in At Hilo, in 1859, the widowed exile writes i've were joined by the King and his party, and having. many agreeable the time sped quickly in social pleasures. We lived in a large grass house. one side of which was occupied by the ladies and the other by the gentlemen, while the cen ter was a room used for a banquet l-all or ballroom. When any of the royal party had occasion to go from one place to an- other, we were drawn fin carriages of na- tive construction, the people themselves furnishing the power usually supplied by horse. Sometimes we were stuck in a mud hole or water course, from which the most determined efforts of our devoted followers could not eXtricate us; and it was then necessary to have horse led
 
 on horseback. But We were light hearted, merry and happy; the naval officers were perfect gentlemen and gallant in their at tentionS'
 This was Liliuokalani's life at 21.
 The book is full of accounts of these fetes and progresSionS. When Liliuoka- toured the islands, and the names of the first four people who entertained the royal party are an odd evidHHee of the Islands there An Kau, very wealthy Chinese, a culti- Xator of rice, and then Judge Pii, and then MT. and Mrs. Edwin Boyd. and then Mrs. James Campbell, handsome Ha- waiian married to wealthy Scot. But all these halcyon journeyings and festiv- vals were not, Liliuokalani insists, evil dences of extravaganza. She believes with Napoleon, that it Is wise and patri- & otic to spend ;l-a1 money y, to awaken in the
 Kamehameha ", says the writer, had ''all the characteristics of his race; and the strong, passionate nature of the Kamehamehas is shown in his benevo- lent as in his less cOmmendable acts" This is the King who in a fit of passion shot and killed his private secretary, H. event was in any way taken" says the author No person would have been foolhardy enough to propose it. Up to thirty years ago the right of life and death was unchallenged'
 It is great step from an absolute going, tropic despOtism must be- to a re- public in less than a third of century.
 This temper of the Kamehamehas in- cidentally led to the seating of the pres ent dynasty on Hawaii's throne. When the young Prince was about years old he became dissatisfied with a pair of boots and burst into an ungovernable fit of passion. His father sought to cool him off by putting the boy under an open faucet of cold. running water The little one appeared to be unharmed but later in the day broke down with nervous weeping and could not be com forted Then it was discovered that the cold douche and shock had brought on an attack of brain fever. From fhis he did not recover, but died on the Eth of August. 1892 ''
 Liliuokalani by her own account, must have had a strong, vigorous will. In fact it is to that very determined trait of