The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-25

TO discourse sweet music under the
windows Of the fair maids OF Punahou
and the Mission There was no dan
cling within the missionary borders. but
there was sport in swimming, horse
back riding, mountain climbing. land
shell hunting. and feasting on cocoa
nuts. with an occasional church Iuau
tfeasO. The boys hunted wild hogs
In the Waianae Mountains with thrill
ling adventures and hair-breadth es-
rapes. Hard study, hard work and gen.
uine sport gave true zest TO our young
lives
The countless marriage ceremonies
performed In the study were our de-
light. The wedding fee-a brace of
fowl. some sugar cane, or taro, or ba-
nanas-we eyed with personal interest.
Our patient father had a trying time
making the Hawafians clasp right
hands. They often got badly mixed.
When he put their hands together. he
would say. Hold fast while I pray
and step back ready TO proceed; look
ing over his spectacles he would find
they had fallen apart again Is it sur
prisiyg that the witnesses were some
times banished for snickerfng?
In the study the boys practiced fen
cling when father was ont among the
schools. This was radical departure
from traditional missionary training
and was looked upon by the ultra or
thodox much as Ben FrankIin's light
ming rod, "a sinful invitation TO the
fires Of heaven Father knew the
strong material he was dealing with
and through sympathy for an old Prus-
sian soldier who had stranded in Homo
lulu. a splendid training was given to
the surplus energies Of the boys, which
the General thought a valuable feat
ure of his early education, q training
which told in his military examinations
in later years.
The General would dig over his
Latin and Greed in the study, ana
sometimes call, Come and hear this
and enthusiastically translate a fine
passage. from the original for our bene-
fit Overcome by long hours OF study,
he would ask me 10 waken him at
given time. He would sleep stretched
at full length on the study floor with
out the luxury Of z pillow Ny con-
tract was a serious one, for he slept, as
he did everything else, with tremendous
zeal Mother always declared he was
born with q steam engine in him
pinched, I pulled, I called; but nature
would have her way II was rather
hard to be approached for not waking
him "on time
Occasionally sam would be seized
with a medieval spirit OF persecution,
and hang our dolls. We put them to
bed religiously On Saturday night, anu
when we found them hanging IN &
CHASTITY row On Monday morning, our
wall of woe would touch his chivalrous
heart and his keen eyes would dance
with mischief or melt with pity as he
warned Us Of the sin of doll Worship"
that was a species OF 'i-doIItry'' that
could not be tolerated in a missionary
home
The old brick oven was on the ground
floor. Il was a hard days work to III
its yawning mouth with bread, pies
cakes. buildings, and custards. Pc
haiku. the clumsy kanaka cook, once let
slip deep gnava pie and its contents
spread like a lava flow On the bricks
OF the kitchen floor while he taboo
hooed with stupid Amusement, and We
gazed with sad hearts On one pie less
Those strenuous oven days were the