The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-26
PULITZER'S SON
: WRITES OF A VISIT HERE

HONOLULU, May 3oTo very transient visitor the key
Hawaii the glorious triumph OF higher civilization over
what may call the pictursqueness OF barbasn
That abroad the land oreshadoed
through the portfolio OF CABIN shortly after
tropical the soft sky the cleaning gray sea
fawncoored island in the ong were but setting TO
cloud which hung in somber relief against the dun
and the Pearly sky 1t the soaring emblem OF CIVIL
zation-a cloud of soft coal smoke
had but short day get impressions of the island
for ship sailed that afternoon at so we determined to
things Honolulu the hula dance and the
surf-boating riders
BY TROLLEY TO THE MUSEUM
reaching admirable trolley
made in St Louis No. with scent fares and transfers and
printed warnings talk to the motoman he waving PAIN
tropical gardens that buzzed by looked first arng
homogeneous very difficult make cocoanut palm or big
purple Bougainvlaea look to dae) but we
got these dscordan in the symphony OF CIV
lization
We found the museum interesting place
hophow study in glass the
relics of the original abysma which he has been
lifted Here he can look with contempt on the yellow
feather helmets of his ancestors their fearsome
masks clubs and lances and their sharks
daggers reflect how difficult for to kill
weapons he realize with pride
how entirely this difficulty has been overcome by the contance
of civilization.
In these glass of
skulls the before which his misguided bowed down
worspped and feel with thanksgiving that this anti
doy has been uppnted by brand brought
by enterprsing ecclesiastical drummerthe missionary
HULA DANCE UNDER MODERN CONDITIONS.
The next number OF hula This used to
be religious of danse du 1t performed by
garlands Danced
in savagely fashion accompaniment of
monotonous chant and robbing did lack certain
grotesque dignity.
Now, however is strictly prohibited by
fearing But the traveller who wishes native
customs has only find obgng hac<man who will
find obgng hula girls,
timely hOvel in the suburbs of Honolulu.
All the the
wreats the boedshaped
smell OF and beneath their garands and
clothes
hula which originally kept even
solemn
ndecency of clothes This however petty price
had for being eansed of barbarism
the spirit of civilization.
When the hula done to see the
natives ride their surf boards
NATIVES SWIM IN MOTHER HUBBARDS
In their old and unregenerae days the
the OF modeSty Such their they
could behold fellow
thought those old Of
whole families nude domesciy, spending DAYS
out IN the ocean There might splendid
poised on trail Pedesa OF boards shooting the
foaming OF the swrling
Now have changed all that propretes must be
speced The natives hide their long linen
mother hubbards If they desire swim they in
OF enlightenment and
without they nd
themselves with the mulated crippled swimming that
their cnsng linen still leave possible coming
out contract pneumonia and die Thus by the
thew redeemed
me- die civilized
civilization
But glories have morals and the moral
all be
swiftly eXtirpang barbarsm
bne to game preserve where
the ethnooglst the
eresg surviving specimens OF obsolete speciesthe