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feminine vanities and conceits.
| Cultivated and Up to Date.
Unlike all other young women in
Honolulu, the All .Fong girls have
cultivated the ways Of the Americans
and English. That is characteristic
they have inherited from their Mon-
goiian arcestors-the knack Of know
ing what will please the Causasian
race and then setting about to accom-
plish it. The All Fong girls have be-
come proficient tennis players. Hun
dreds of officers in the American and
British navy know what good tennis
players the All Fongs are, and man
of-war no sooner touches Honolulu
than the young men aboard who have
been there before begin plans for get
ting early to the hospitable All Fons
home.
The All Fongs' social position in
Honolulu has been assured for ten
years, and since the father went to
China never to return to Honolulu the
position of the girls has been settled
beyond argument. The marked at
tention the naval officers have shown
the girls has given them q prestige
that their money could not buy even
in mercenary Honolulu. The agree
ability Of Nine. All Fong, and her
smiles Of happiness upon all her
daughters attendants have been po-
tentisl il making the All Fongs the
farorites they are. The pagoda man
sion has always been kept open to the
girls friends.
Captain Writings Happy Eone.
Miss Henrietta All Fong, who mar
ried Captain Whiting, q. S. n, and
now at Manila in command OF the
Monadnock, is considered the most
charming in the family. She is a
pretty brunette, and is the only book
reader among the girls. While all the
girls have had so much attention from
naval officers, it was nevertheless a
nine days wonder in Honolulu and
San Francisco when the announcement
Went out that grave, dignifed and
aristocratic Commander Whiting was
to wed Miss All ..Fong. To be sure,
she was very bright and pretty and
would adorn any home, and-and she
had an absolutely sure dowry of $780,
900, and may get more. But then
there is the persistent thought that
possibly old Papa All Fong and his
queue and his gathering wooden shoes
may come out of China one day on a
visit to his daughters. Then, too, one
cannot suppress the wonder whether
any of Mamma All Fong's Kanaka:
blood will ever assert itself in future
generations. The naval officers, even
those who had repeatedly been guests
at the All Fong mansion, shook their
heads and talked in whispers among
themselves.
But the marriage, which took place
in May, 1894, has proved a perfect
union. Captain Whiting and his wife
have O beautiful home among the
cocoanut trees OF Honolulu, and their
devotion to each other is only marred
by their common devotion to their
t5ree-year-old girl. Mrs. Whiting is
one of the most beautifully gowned
women among the naval circles any
where.
Three Other Married Sisters.
Miss Alice All Fong, who married
.hrthur Il. Johnstone formerly q, re-
porter in St. Louis), the Associated
Press representative at Honolulu, is
the tallest and most dignifed Of the
girls-that is, if one may speak of dig
nifty IN connection with these jolly,
singing bits offemininity OF the tropics.
Mrs. Johnstone owns great block OF
stock in the Hawaiian Sugar Company,
and the annual income from that alone
is over $4,000. Besides, her dowry
included a coffee plantation and busl-
ness real estate in Honolulu. Mrs. J.
Alfred Morgan, wife of prosperous
lawyer in Honolulu, who came from
Leavenworth, Kan, was Miss Jenny
All Fong until her marriage last Janu-
ary. Her dowry consisted Of cash, a
block of stock in the Maui CONNER
cial Sugar Company and real estate at
Waikiki. near Honolulu. Miss Helen
All Fong married a young San Fran
cisco lawyer named George Stewart in
August, 1897, and went on a tour Of
the world with him. They will be
back in Honolulu next spring. Mean
while very handsome home for the
young couple is building in San Fran
cisco.
But there ave nine other All Fong
girls to gladden. the hearts and homes
Of youth and chivalry. Moreover,
there is vast amount OF stock in sugar
companies, interests in cocoanut
groves, thousands of acres Of fertile
soil on the islands Of Hilo and Maui,
stock in Hawaiian steamboat lines and
Honolulu real estate to be given in
dowry to the girls as fast as they choose
their husbands. And above all old
Papa All Fong has recently sent word
from Pekin that he will probably
never leave there again, and Mamma
All Fong is not at all likely to so much
as sail out of Honolulu harbor.
Laying the Atlantic Cable.
The Atlantic telegraph-cable was
safely laid, and was put in successful