The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-18
THE: LUAU
5 5 S.
The Days Receipts
Were Gratifying
Iy Large.
QUEEN WROTE
AUTOGRAPHS
Shriners Were Present in Large
Numbers and Saw Many
Strange Sights.

David Kawananakoa, the Ma !,
ternity Home Luau given on Saturday
was nv far the most beautiful and most
successful out of door fete ever given in +
Honolulu The grounds of the Mater
nifty Home on Beretania avenue were
admirably adapted for the luau and un- +
der, the skillful management OF the ex-
ecutive committee, composed OF MISS !
Agnes Mcintyre, chairman; Mrs. James
ICampbell Mrs. j. F. Bowler and Prince
David Kawananakoa, they assumed a
gorgeous aspect with hundreds of gay, |
fiuttering flags and streamers and
pretty booths composed of palm
branches and bunting. The spacious
pavilion where the native luau and the
foreign lunch We're served was turned
into banquet hall fit for kings.
| Beneath the beautiful blue arch OF the
skies and gHttering under the rays OF
the sun unbiemfshed by the presence of
La floating cloud and without even the
slightest threat that the skies would
weep the luau had everything in It's
favor, to say nothing of the pretty and
gailv dressed women who fitted here
and there attending the wants of the
throng of visitors. Out on the broad
lawns the guests, arrayed in the negli-
gee of a summers afternoon, presented
| a pleasing picture. The womens
dresses had for a background sylvan
scene of loneliness in which the choic>
est of Hawaii's flowers, ferns and bios
SONS We're conspicuous.
The scene during the afternoon rivall-
ed in beauty of color and characters
the most gorgeous of stage settings
| Flowers and greens We're everywhere.
The booths We're entwined with gar
LANDS of Island blossoms; the tables
iof the luau were lavishly covered with
green stuffs and about the necks and
that's of all We're the ever-present leis.
The grounds We're crowded afternoon
land evening. not the least part of which
were the visiting Shriners and their
wives and others, while the officers or
the Austrian war vessel Donau We're
There in uniform. Money poured into
leach booth in plentiful streams and
Everybody seemed anxious to spend 1t.
Towards the close of the afternoon and
before dusk set in. the flower and candy
booths looked as if the invaders had
made them their especial places of as
Sault.
Perhaps the most popular booth was
THAT in which Queen Liliuokalani greet.
ed the visitors and sold to them rib
bons bearing the royal arms in yellow.
white, blue and red. Her Majesty sat
at table and for hour after hour
wrote: her autograph-"Li liuokalani -
upon each ribbon, which were sold for
125 apiece Her Majesty received each
visitor to her booth with courtesy and
wrote her name upon nearly 400 of the
coveted ribbons, which were either
worn as hat bands or as rosettes. The
| Of fair ma do M al m
branches, open at one side. The royal
ensign, which is only brought out on
special occasions, was gracefully ar
ranged above the entrance, minghng
with the foldsso other Hawaiian flags
which thanked the door. The Queen was.
attired in a black silk trimmed with jet,
with CAMP. and sleeves of lace. She
wore her royal sash which attracted
much attention from the strangers.
She was assisted in her charitable work
by Miss Maggie Walker, who held the
ribbons while Her Majesty inscribed
her name upon them with an indelibe
pencil. This booth was the especial
mark of the kodak fiends.
The flower booth near by was a bow
er of loneliness not only of itself but
of the pretty girls and matrons who
sold favors for the buttonhole or neck.
The Shriners never tired of the booth.
1t was prettily decorated and looked
after by the Misses Widdified Miss
Juliet King. Miss May Damon, Mrs.
Gerritt P. Wilder and Mrs. ]. S. Walker.
The candy booth, arranged by Ernest
Parker, was composed of graceful folds
of pink and white muslin arranged over
a booth of palm branches The Misses
Abigail and Alice Campbell were for
tunate in selling their large stock of
sweets early in the afternoon.
Then there was the booth in charge
of the physicians wives where the lit
tie ones enjoyed Punch and Judy, shot
air guns and made merry, and where
stacks of 'nickels, dimes and dollars
were gathered in. Mrs. Charles B
Cooper, Mrs. Walters, Mrs. Mays. Mrs
Hodgins, Mrs. Hoffman,. Mrs. Sinclair
Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Wayson looked
after the youngsters. The lemonade
ana punch booth, decorated in the ma,
tlonal color yellow. was presided over
by MRS. Paul Neumann, assisted by
Mrs. Grau and a bevy of young ladies
one of the largest booths was that in
which the fancy work and the ice cream
/ and cake were sold. It was very at.
tractive and gave every indication that
the ladies had left nothing undone tC
make 1t one of the prettiest on the
lawn. Mrs. E. d. Tenney, Mrs Car.
michael, Mrs. George Herbert and Mrs
Noonan looked after the frozen sweets
while Mrs. Cunha and Mrs. Pierre Jones
made barrel of money at the fame,
table.
The native luau, however was full
of wonderment to the visiting Shrin-
ers and strangers. The tables were
loaded with the dishes dear to the Ha.
waiian's appetite and were very pic.
turesque with their arrays of Gala.
bashes, bowls of poi and strange look
ing packages tied up in ti-leaves. The
absence of knives, forks and spoon.
caused some of the foreigners consid
cradle embarras sment at first