The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-10-19
CHASING THE RAINBOW.


The Gilbert Islanders have and the sympathy which has been
stirring for them vapoaed with their departure. There have
been ptiu tales about them and their desire reach their native
isles and there have been comments adverse to them painting
them lazy and good for nothing, and utterly unworthy sym
patty 1t is quite possible reconcile both points of view
That Gilbert good nothing
OF be But their point entirely different
from point OF view Their idea life and idea Of life
Tar apart as the north and south poles In point OF fact they did not
live they vegae
countless generations The life OF the Hawaiian though he of
"cognae far Klpak He could
himself grand gorge upon
TO exact few Quarters and some food from those who too interest
in him. He like the child OF by
being supported by his relations his preogative,
pad mats, simple Kiipak absorbed
the proceeds He lived according his lights and pechance
just to call him lazy and good for nothing He simple child
such story
Yet by standards the Gilbert Islander just
was not SO lazy triess individual OF the whole
women and children forty nearly twenty had bank
counts IS there other element OF population which show
the proportiOn 1t be borne mind also the proper
ton OF men among them the time capable OF working the
caneeds small The proportion OF old and among
~ was very large Inc proportion OF men and women in the
G and middle age OF maturity comparatively small They
little and community that isolated and apart
81 e race 10 separate and as individuals mnge and lose
themselves the of the community There
which made its home Honolulu the abboded held by
instincts to gregaousness with those who and in the
OF things could not be strike separate their friends
and fellow Gberese and plantations leading
life alien to their entire heedy of fact the
abeboded among them did work on the plan
taons on this island and OF them working yet
taking the PROPORTION of abeoed men among
them and the initiative required for away from their
little community do it is surprising altogether credtae to
the industry and thrift OF these Gbertese that plantation
work was done by them there The little at
Lahaina who lived within the environment plantation furnished
to proportion OF their number for plantation labor least did
three or four years ago.
But after which deliol+e1
getting everything for nothing the only true souar
on these lSand-or rent thing he could
approached the civilized
the podga he felt that to carry out the
aeso completion Thousands upon thousands beings
nave et the same The who has his out West
wants TO return to his New England village Hans getting his
pile in Chicago again Giovanni rents his
an lis IF 10 SaOtaT ,co+
would have his heather and bine me hf RI o I
TO HoXford Strife agine" ~
Nostalgia well known disease but a durable one ONLY let
long enough from early surroundings and
one trip the land Of his birth will him scvng back to the
place that really home him. The Western is sAed with the
naoWness OF lie his New England village can't stand the
ane TO pick Broadway monk than to dr
ute baJocco censmo his grandfather and his MN
o relations Fat does appreciate the pig Swnev finds
bourbon more TO his taste than royal blend and Bill likes Fifth avenue
better than Oxford street N'N'"
The Gilbert Islanders who left by the IsIewortb
were different any the tyne ~
cred the for the their children and
we y reach their native island they will that they are self
deceived Things will be changed will be no place for Them
Inc sky will not be blue the not taste so good the @
VIII be Vapd and the inhabitants will be unsympathetc and cold Thew
w" an want 10 come back but there will no means TO come
we may look upon these Islanders with contempt but thew
are very much the ePome of the human They have diA
ana different ASPIRATIONS but the both are the same
as the roots Even our KNOWLEDGE all orr e
ana oil our o-caled high
They are going to learn the lesson Dead Sea Fruit thew have
ca TO md the Jewels the end of the rainbow But we chase %
go @ ana RAINBOW gold in spite of our knowledge of how
empty the search Let the Gilbert Islander rest peace Il he
lazy and dirty he lived his ideal we can do no more E
huSered or his native isles he different from ourselves
we need not put such cloak virtue and think oue 20
better than the Gilbert Islander. ~ ~ ''"0"
Canadians dissatisfied the lighthouses