The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-01
! THE LOuNGER.

The best story about tne Sa1-2@
newspaper in Hoaoiulu that | have
heard yet Eas told me few days ago
A certain business man. vho was
brouxht M g good Scotch Presbyterian
and attended church IN the o1ld EiFk
regularly until be came 10 Hawaii Was
asked slv his son q few DAYS after The
RsDub.irar had made its first appear
anee how be liked The Republican
~Oh. I think il a very good paper
replied the old gentleman. but | Visa 1
they would not publish on Sunday
Last Monday morning he came INTO /
his Office. and his first greeting to MS !
son was:
.-Robert. where is The Republican
this morning. / didn't get one at the
house.
instantly the son replied. Why,
father The Republican people don't
work on sunday i
The old gentleman smiled sort OF
/ fooiishIy and walked into ms once
without any further comment
There Is one thing the monarchy
left ms that promises 10 hold place N
the social life OF the Islands for many
years to come. if not forever; and that
is the custom OF appearing at almost
every event of public or semi-puoilc
character in full evening dress lnis
seems strange at first to the maianihi.
especialIy TO see women in fun evening
dress al the theater OF course, at the
opera ON the Continent ana IN lhe
| States everyone expects TO go in fnii
dress: that is, il it be grand opera, Out
AT the theater no, unless box party
has been arranged among Few iriehos'
With perpetual summer here ana Tue
great number OF women with beautlrui
shoulders and arms | don't wonder
that thev like TO keep up the fad OF the
monarchy. II were woman with
. good figure. | thiak would want 10
wear full evening dress most oil the
: time myself. opera or no opera
Isn't it singular said man about
town TO me, that our wealthy people
; take such little interest in art and ar
: tlsts? Were you at the kilohana Art
League exhibition? Well, it was a
creditable display. There were severai
meritorious canyases eXhibited-can-
5 vases that would attract favorable at
tention anywhere and adorn the walls
of any residence. no matter how pala-
tial. These canvases were for sale, and
considering their merit, were offered at
a most reasonable figure Guess now
: MANY were sold? Only five, Mark
YOU the work was all by local artists
too. These artists had worked for
months patiently, untiringly and con-
4 scientiously to place on rude canvas
: Hawaiian scenery and subjects to
arouse local interest and patriotism
!, Now, as friend of the artists, should
like TO know if this meager sale was
e right? Here .aerc is an abundance oil
: wealth-people worth their millions
: You can take a shotgun and discharge
il any time during the day on popu
: lous thoroughfare, and | will wager
e that YOU will hit from ten to fifteen
: millionaires. Yet these people possess
; ing vast wealth close up like box
turtle when it comes to expending Ut
tie money in encouraging the artists o.
1 these Islands who are doing so much
d praiseworthy work. Zounds. l shoule
a like to be rich man TO give the artists
a lift"
L
: nexation became an established fact Is
: that in many cases the younger natives
: of the Islands are showing more goo1
political sense. under the reorganiZa
. ton. than some of the haoles. The
= Young native seems to appreciate there
d is something to be learned about Amer
9 lean politics, and he is willing to bs
taught. He goes slow in most cases
Il and is making remarkably few error:
/ in Judgment He has, fortunately
It avoided the rock upon which so many
r of his young haole friends have already
, struck. In other words, the averag,
young native voter does not begin po
litical life with the assumption that h'
d knows all there is to be learned abou
IT politics: he is rather the modest stu
| dent and onlooker in new world. HI
is more He is the keen observer, wht
e knows how to distinguish between th'
: egotism of assumption in his haoi'
d friends and the genuine article, known
in practical life as political knowledge
and information. The young native L
/ modest in the new field of the theory
5, and practice of government, but he is
O at the same time, quietly taking in tn,
!
to criticise local leaders and politica
8 conditions with a fairness and justnes:
e which proves he is neither the knavs
e nor the fool he has been represented
to be by those who falsely claim hi:
new political power will be used fol
vengeance
: A Honolulu married woman, whose
!, husband has been tempest-tossed fol
sometime, necessitating her. metaphors
: cally, to seize the plow. was asked why
S she married
q oh said she. decisively, Il got
, tired of supporting one person.
do you know" said my barber a
few days ago. that this is hard cli-
mate on razors2 No, Well. it is. There
is something in the climate that takes
the edge on. whether you use them o.
not. can hone my razors and put Q
keen edge on them. lay them aside. and
in week they are uuil. and this. too
q without their being used. Here We are
: compelled to hone our razors three
8 times as often as in San Francisco. II
is strange. but il is true. And there is
another thing. Boards are much softer
0 here than in the States. How do | ac-
E count for thatE Perspiration. Men per-
: spire here much more freely than in
the States, The hair absorhs the mois-