The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-15

sam Parker, WnOm the Oally press
has SO persistently declared is to sue
coed Governor Dole at Honolulu. obey
ed orders of a kahuna to run around
the block barefooted every morning be-
fore breakfast for a time. The result
was that he nearly died from exposure.
David Naone, one of the most healthy
and intelligent Hawaiians the writer
met in several years residence in Ho-
nolulu, succumbed to the Vaccinations
of the kahuna. Naone was a delegate
to the Y. P. S. G. Z. convention at San
Francisco five years ago and was made
much of there.
The islanders were barbarians, but
were never cannibals. They were wor-
ship persof idols of wood and stone,
shippers of idols of wood and stone
easily influenced to accept Christianity,
with the result that the early mission
aries had the greatest revival since the
day of Pentecost, when thousands join
ed the church in day.
The native has lost much of his re-
ligious disposition through the mistake
of thinking that every person with a
white face was a Christian or mis-
sionary," and falling to see how they
were any better than themselves. Those
who now cling to religion are divided
between the Protestant and Catholic
churches. There is less of begging and
thievery among them than almost any
other race.
In the days of idolatry large paho-
nuas, or cities of refuge, were con-
structed in which were heiaus (tem-
ples), where murderers might flee as in
old testament days. Two of these ruins
still stand, one on Hawaii and one in
the lao valley on Maui.
THE NATIVE FEASTS.
Luaus, or native feasts, are gotten up
Regardless of expense. Large mats are
placed on the ground and the feast
spread out with the guests seated on
the ground taiior-fashion. Decorations
of ferns (of which there are 300 vari-
cites in the islands) and MALE Ca frag-
rant vine) are profuse.
The feast consists of limu, palau, la
walu, shrimps, various kinds of dried
fish, baked fish, pigs and dogs, with
trimmings galore.
The dogs are stall fed" as it were,
being fattened on a vegetable diet
which the natives declares makes it the
most tempting dish on their bill of
fare.
A smaller percentage of illiteracy is
found among the Hawaiians than any
other race. Nearly all the men are
orators, a good percentage
of the government positions are held by
them and there are many good schol-
ars, lawyers, ministers and business
men among the half-castes
The native woman marry Chinarnen
or negroes and are delighted to get
white husband. Many white men have
native wives, and 1 know at least five
white women Zone of whom is from Les
Angeies) who are married to half-caste
men. Many of the women are quite
expert in the art of lomi lomi or mas
sage.
The girls and women sit in front of
stores on the sidewalks making and
selling leis (wreaths) of flowers. which
are worn around the neck or hat at all
times. The boys swim about incom
ing and departing vessels, diving for
coins which may be thrown by the pas
sengers. No matter how muddy the
water, they seldom fail to reappear
with the money.
LACKING IN THRIFT.
Hawaiians lack thrift as well as dis
erection, but make excellent sailors, es-
pecially for whalers, as they stand the
Arctic weather better than persons
reared in cold climates.
Both men and women smoke. They
light a pipe or cigarette take a few