The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-17

MISS FLORA N. ALBRIGHT TALKS
ENTERTAINMENT OF LIFE IN
HAWAII
NATIVE GIRLS ARE BRIGHT
Are of Mixed Type, Some of Them
Being Fair While Others
Are Rather
DuslSy.


III, as teacher in the Kama hameka School
for Girls is visiting in ST. Paul, the
guest of her father, D. b. Albright, 697
Martin street. Miss Albright left Homo
lulu about a month ago, to spend a brief
vacation in this country She will return
TO her school in August.
The kamahameka school is a private
institution said Miss Albright to the
G last evening. 1T is endowed by
a wealthy resident of Honolulu, and its
| object is to give the native girls an in
dustrial education, in addition to the
higher branches that correspond with
those taught in our own American col
leges. The school is patterned closely
after Mount Holyoke college, In this
country, the pupils doing most of the
work Of housekeeping and pursuing their
studies at the same time. There are at
present seventy-five girls in the school,
all bright pupils, although, so far as APP
pearance Is concerned, they are rather
an odd mixture, representing a variety
of types. There is one pupil whose moth
er is Chinese and whose father is a
native. Another has Jap for a father,
the mother being a Hawaiian. Some are
| as fair as American children; others re-
semble the negro type very closely. The
pupils learn rapidly enough and recite
glibly, but are slower in reasoning than
American pupils"
Miss Albright said that the public
school system in Honolulu is exception
ally good. An Ohio school girl, going
out to join her parents at Honolulu,
was unable to enter the same grade In
the schools there that she had held In an
Ohio city school, because her training
had not been sufficiently thorough. Mss
Albright witnessed the lowering of the
Hawaiian colors and the hosting Of the
Stars and Stripes at Honolulu Aug. 10,
1898. She described 1t as a rather de-
pressing spectacle. All morning the Ha-
waiian cOlors fOated from the tall flag
staff on the palace grounds, and groups
! of natives gathered here and there about
| the streets regarding it fixedly. With
the approach of high noon, however, the
hour set for the lowering of the colors,
hardly native was to be seen on the
streets. They had retired to their homes
| to avoid witnessing what was to them a
| painful spectacle. The officers in charge
were warmly commended, said Miss AL
| bright, for the regard they showed this
| natural feeling. There was no needless
| display connected with the proceedings
! Miss Albright thought, to increase the
natives regard for the United States
! 1t was rather amusing, she said, to
| watch the interest the native schooiboys
| took in the progress of the war. They
| could tell the names of the various boats
| the commanders and the battles, and
! when news of the final victory came
faint hurrahs from various groups of ma
| tive small boys could not fail to convince
American listener ha M ri of
gradually becoming instilled.
Because it is cosmopolitan, cosmopoli-
tan in the broadcast sense, Honolulu is
essentially picturesque said Miss AL
| bright. "One passes in the street types
| from almost every country. One sees
/ the same types perhaps on the streets Of
| New York, but they are not so pro-
nounced. The completer civilization of
the metropolis has worn away the sharp
| edges. The favorite style of dress of the
Hawaiian woman is the ho!oku. We
! would call 1t Mother Hubbard wrapper.
| for it is precisely the same"
When she first went out to Honolulu
Miss Albright attended a reception given
| by Queen Liliuokalani, and had long
! conversation with the royal lady, and
| also with the Princess Kaiulani, who as
sisted at the reception. Both women wers
interesting, but the ex-queen was much
| the brighter of the two. Tie natives
| have most affectionate regard for ex-
| queen Lii, and venerate the memory IF
| the dead princess. In the school wher,
| Miss Albright is teacher there are several
| of the formers proteges, and they inva-
! riably speak of her as the queen" Sha
has been very charitable to those of her
| people who have needed her aid. Mss
| Albright attended a number of informal
! receptions given by President Dole, for
| although he lives in very unpret entiJus
fashion, every Friday afternoon the gem
| eral public is welcomed at his home.
THE grounds surrounding the house arr
| beautiful" said Miss Albright, 'but the
| building itself is very modest structure
| Mr.. and Mrs, Dole are both literary in
| their tastes, and literary atmosphere
| pervades the house"
When Miss Albright left the b:fbenie
! plague was spreading over the. island,
and number of deaths had occurred
| The white people had not been alarmed
at first, thinking the disease would con-
fine itself to the Chinese quarters, but
| there had been some deaths among the
white population, and the result was
something like panic.
Distaff chapter, Daughters of the Amer
| lean Revolution, will meet this afternoon
with Mrs Rufus Davenport Of Holly ave
nue. Reports of the recent congress Will
be read.
Martin D. Imhoff, formerly of ST. Paul
and a member of Company D, First IN
| fantry, Minnesota national guard but
now resident of Lansing, Mich, has ar
| ranged to take a European trip of con-
siderable extent. Leaving Lansing Sun
day he will sail March "a on the steamer
IfaVe for Naples and will, be In the Holy