The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-05
Observation-Disclosures

this period will only be ended
when the restraining lenten season
checks outward gaiety. The latter part
of the year is always fraught with in
I terruptions of many kinds. There is
the Thanksgiving holiday and close
upon its heels come those of Christmas
and New Years with their thousand
land one anxieties. The season has
opened auspiciously and many pretty
social events are promised during the
present month. Then there are one or
two marriages being talked Of They
always are heard from in January and
when May and June comes many are
the smiling and flower-bedecked brides
who were courted during the winter
months-if such they can be called in
trc pical Hawaii. Then there are the
preparations for Easter-new gowns,
dainty and frivolous in their airy jaun-
tiEess. Society has much to be thank
full for to the little varying seasons of
the Isles of the Pacific-the peaceful
paradise.
collection of oil paintings showing
the types of various races by Mr.. HUI
bert Vos has been placed on exhibit
ton in the Hemicycle of the Corcorap,
Gallery. says the Washington Star.
These paintings, which are about thir-
ty in number, are of uncommon merit
and interest, giving one a feeling of
human kinship with people from far
off lands. All of these pictures were
painted from the living models in their
own home countries during Mr.. Vos'
trip around the world, and many are
| of royal personages, most difficult to
obtain as sitters. Two composite por-
| traits are of special interest-one of
Soudane.,e chiefs, the other of the sons
| of Chinese mandarins. The latter was
done from the lads attending st. Johns
College, Shanghai, selections being
made of the fifteen most typical from
the entire roll of IT'S, and these being
used collectively as a. model. The pic
ture of an American Lady" which
Occupies alone the entire straight wall
space, will attract much attention, be-
ling not only a beautiful painting of a
lovable cid lady, but also a portrait of
the Presidents mother. Not far from
this to the left in a round frame is a
painting of Hawaiian Lady" which
cannot fail from it's gentle beauty to
call forth much admiration 1t is a
| portrait of the artists wife. All the
paintings will prove of interest both to
artists and scientists as well as psych-
ologists. It was Mr.. Vos' intention to
make the opening a social occasion.
but this had to be postponed on ac-
count of the illness of his wife, who is
now in the hospital in New York re-
covering from typhoid fever. AS soon
as she is able to come to Washington
he hopes to invite his friends person
ally to the gallery. In the meantime
| the public will be admitted at their
pleasure.
| We are to have the Neill company
with us again-the emotional Edythe
Chapman, the fresh appearing and
dsshing Julia Dean and the incompara-
BILE James Neill himself, not forgetting
the genial Charles Astor Parker, the
manager. Mr.. Parker writes to Ho-
i noluIan that the company will leave
i San Francisco on June 20 and will play
here on the following Saturday, or if
| there is not noisy, out-of-door demon
stration, will open their four weeks
engagement on July 4. He says the
company will have some fine new plays,
a large equipment of new scenery ana
effects. And the costumes of the ladies.
i Honolulans last summer were dazZled
by their magnificent toilettes, but even
in this matter the manager says the
llGdies are more gorgeous than ever
in their wardrobes. Honolulu will vel
come the Neills again with open arms
1.-THE company is at present playing an
Engagement in Buffalo.
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Mrs. Mary Gums dancing soiree last
leyening was pretty affair, although
not very large. There was blitheness
in the groups of dancers, however,
which made up for lack of numbers,
(which those who missed it will regret
i The evening was delightfully."- cool ana
perfectly adapted for the whiriing
waltz or the galloping deux temps, and
the orchestra was of the best Hawaiian
talent, both in voice and instruments
The toilettes of the young ladies were
extremely light dainty and bewitch-
lingly becoming. Future soirees, as Tar
as social young Honolulu is concerned,
will be largely attended, so the young
sters say.
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Mrs. E. D. Tenney was the hostess OF
a delightful New Years party at her
colonial mansion On Pensacola street.
A large number of guests enjoyed the
/ hospitality of the manse and It's Iair
hostess and saw the old year die OUT
and witnessed the coming in of the new
and beginning of the century Inc
guests were entertained at dancing.
Dainty refreshments were served, ana
all made merry.
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! A country dance was given on Sat
iurday at the Club House, Wahiawa, by
the Saturday Evening Club. No more