The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-07

PRICE FIVE CENTS.
same, howsomever, as maybe should
n L Life in Honolulu is fascinatingly
the languDr of Cli-
matte enervation, which is unknown in
our temperate, breeze-swept Islands.
put the mental and physical repose
whicn Is superinduced by perfect sur
roundlngs. Nobody overworks himself
down our way. The Americans and
Engnshmen and Germans engaged in
business, foreign or domestic, shipping
or local, contrive to get through their
business duties of the day without at
tacking them with cyclonic fury, and
they make their hours of labor short.
The siesta of high noon-somewhat
abbreviated, however-is as much a
daily feature in Honolulu as it is i'm
the really sizzling tropical countries
where the necessity for it actually ex-
ists
Only matter of 20 degrees or so
above the equator-a latitude that
parches and withers continental lands
situate within it during the hot season
the only suggestion Of the tropics
in the Hawaiian Islands consists in
the verdure, which is gorgeously trop-
ical. But this tropic verdure is not
the result of extreme heat, as it is in
Mexico, Central and South America,
and other countries in the low lati-
tudes. 1t is the result of an even tenn
perature the year around. One must
spend few years in climate of the
Hawaiian sort to gain full apprecia-
tion OF the beneficence of it. The Joy
of wearing white linen suit and a
pith hat in December as well as in
July is thing for the alternately froz-
en- and melted inhabitants of temper
ate zones to revel in.
Amiable Kanakas.
The ease and complaisancy with
which the white population.of Hawaii
accept life and all its situations, storm
and calm, may be largely ascribed to
| the example of the Kanakas--the most
llovable,. poetic people of al; inferior
and decadent race in the world. The
seizure of the Islands of Hawaii by
the whites burdened the back of the
kanaka with the yoke of labor He
accepted it with the equanimity and
good nature with which he accepts ey-
cry shuttle of the cards of fate. Bend
ing his back in sugar fields, shoveling
coal into drays, shaving in the holds
of steamships. the gentle philosophy
of his disposition never deserts him.
/ The Average kanaka of Hawaii is an
artist in dungarees. The advent of an
artificial civilization has never made
the Kanaka an artificial man. His in
stincts all tend to the treading of the
paths of peace. The Kanaka is an in
spfred musician, in that music is the
handspring of his being. discord
tears him to his life's center, har-
mony translates him to the stars. He
sings always-at work or at play. in
misery or happiness-and his wife, his
sweetheart, all of his people sing in
unison with him. Wagner, who spent
his life in twining wreaths to adorn
the shrine of nature, might have gar
Enered from the harmonies of Kanaka
voices themes even more beautiful and
more In touch with the soil than those
which he was only able to grasp by
the projection of his musical spirit
back to the Teutonic middle ages.
:,
render into music the martial chants
OF triumph, the plaintive minor walls
OF suffering, the lutelike trills of hap
piness, which flow with the fiuency of
rilis from the inspired hearts of those
natural Kanaka improvisatories. One
whose path is crossed in the moonlit
waters of Honolulu harbor by a boat
load OF Kanaka men and girls, the
voices of all them elevated in reveren-
tfal salute to the southern stars, win
: carry with him through life the MEM
!, lory OF beautiful musical experience.
: a Requiem of Nature.
To have heard the wild and mourn.
full death chant in which thousands O,
) kanaka men and women joined when
, the body OF their dead king, Kalakaua
was brought back to Honolulu from
r the United States on the cruiseI
Charlestonwas to have listened to a re.
QUEEN of nature that has perhaps neyel
been equaled. And the cragginess o
the most phlegmatic nature is rarel,
!. proof against the 1eper wall which
from shores thronged with relative,
and friends, never to be seen again, 4
an aloha carried over the waters {.
q the lepers departing in the lepe
n steamer fer the leper island of Molo
e kai.
Il "The social life of the white popula
# ton in Honolulu is peculiar and com
g plex. The rredominance OF the so
q called missionary element the nucleu
: OF white society In the islands, wa
: threatened during the closing years o
= the reign of King Kalakaua, who, him
: self a queer combination OF dignity
% dissoluteness and generosity, surround
e ed himself with court of adventurer
who made burlesque OF monarchy i
the Hawaiian Islands. The prestige G
the missionary element however, ha
,s been completely re-established. tn
J. descendants of the missionaries are tn
% solid people of Hawali. They cor
trolled the destinies of the republic
g and they will be pretty nearly at tn
at head of affairs under whatever forr
le OF government we are to get at IN
i hands Of Congress.
~ The Social Atmosphere.