The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-20

tdtOs II Is eSuhlated, VIII support per-
son for year. and a square mile of
taro viii feed over 1900 HawaiianS.
/ By-the-way, YOU will hear the natives
| say kalo when they speak of taro. and
| by this and other words in common
| use you viii presently learn OF curious
oblIquity in their hearing. A Hawaiian
does not notice any difference in the
sounds OF and /. of and t, or OF b,
D. and t. Thus the Pail, or precipice
near Honolulu, IS spoken of as the Pari
the island of Kauai becomes to a resi-
dent OF 1t Tauwai. though native of
Oahu calls it Kauai: taro is almost uni
versally called kalo; and the common
salutation. Aloha. which means '1ove to
you, and is the national substitute for
How do you do?" is half the time
Aroha; Lanai is indifferently called Ra-
mai; and Mauna Loa is in the mouths
of most Hawaiians Mauna Roa In
deed. i'll the older charts the capital of
the kingdom IS called Honoruru.
Honolulu, bein@ the capital of this
kingdom, contains the government
offices; and you will perhaps be surpris-
ed, as | was, to find an excellent public
hospital, reform school. and other
proper and well-nanaged charities.
When you have visited these and some
OF the numerous schools and the native
churches, and have driven or ridden TO
Waikiki for a sea-bath. and have seen
the Nuuanu Valley and the precipice
called the Pail. if you are American. and
familiar with New England. If will be
revealed to you that the reason why all
the country looks SO familiar TO you IS
that it IS really very accurate reproduc-
ton of New England country scenery
The white frame houses with green
blinds, the pieket-fences whitewashed
until they shine, the stone walls, the
small barns, the scanty pastures, the lit
tie white frame churches scattered about
the narrow "front-yards" the frequent
school-houses. usually with but little
shade all are New England genuine and
unadulterated; and you have only TO
eliminate the palms. the bananas, and
other tropical vegetation to have before
you fine bit of Vermont, or the stonier
parts of Massachusetts. The whole
scene has no more breadth nor freedom
about it than petty New England vii
lage, but it is lust as neat trim, orderly,
and silent also. There is even the same
to put all the household afr
fairs under one roof which was born
of severe climate in Massachusetts,
but has been brought over to these mild
er suns by the incorripible Puritans who
founded this bit OF civilization.
In fact, the missionaries have left an
liI0IilOiN nidlh uttOil lliCSS lSidiidS. OA
do not need to look deep to know that
they were men of force, men of the
same kind as they who have left an
deep impress upon so large a
part of our Western States; men and
women who had formed their own lives
according to certain fixed and irnmutable
rules, who knew no better country than
New England nor any better ways than
New England ways. and TO whom it
never occurred to think that what was
good and sufficient in Massachusetts was
not equally good and fit in any part of
the world. Patiently, and somewhat
no doubt, they sought from
the beginning to make New England
men and women of these Hawaiians,
and what is wonderful is that to large
extent, they nave succeeded. As you
ride about the suburbs of Honolulu, and
later as you travel about the islands,
more and more you will be impressed
with feeling Of respect and admira-
ton for the missionaries. Whatever of
material prosperity has grown up here
is built on their work. and could not
have existed but for their preceding la
bors: and you see in the spirit of the
people, in their often quaint habits, in
their universal education. in all that
makes these islands peculiar and what
hey are, the marks of the Puritans who
came here but fifty years ago to civilize
4 savage nation, and have done their
work SO thoroughly that even though
he Hawaiian Deople became extinct, it
The way-rnarlls of that handful of de-
ermined New England men and wom-
IN.
OF. those who bepan this good work
tut few now remain Most of them
rave gone to their reward having no
1oubt suffered as well as accomplished
much. OF the first band who came out
rom the United States the only one
now living is Mrs. G. Thurston, whose
you will find herewith
bright, active, and lively old lady of
,hurch on Sundays III a one-horse
,haise. and has her own opinions OF
passing events. How she has lived in
he tropics for fifty years without los
ng even an atom of the New England
ook puzzles YOU but it shows you also
he strength which these people brought
With them, the tenacity with which they
lung to their habits of dress and living
md thought, the remorseless determine
ion which they imported, with their
,ther effects, around Cape Horn.
Then there is DR. Judd who came out
IS physician to the mission. and proved
himself here, as the world knows,
rery able man. with craftsmanship for
ONE great emergencies, which made
i'm for years one of the chief advisers
# the Hawaiian kings DIR. Judd has
ately suffered a slight stroke of paraly
is, from which he is slowly recovering,
nd it was to me a most touching sight
o see, on Sunday after church, Mrs.
Thurston, MS senior bv many years, but
till alert and vigorous. taking hold Of
ne hand and fe0derJv he1Diro him off
# the church and to his carriage.
And in Hilo. when you go to visit the
oicano, you will find DR. Coan, one of
he brightest and loveliest spirits of
hem all. the story of whose life in the
emote island whose APOSTLE he was is
s wonderful and as touching as that of
nv of the earlier apostles. and shows
that great works unyielding faith ana
1ve can do il redeeming a savage peo-
le When Dr. and Mrs Coan came
D the island of Hawaii its shores and
Al IL