The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
DAUGHTERS
OF HAWAII
interesting Meeting Of
the Local So
ciety.
(From Sundays Advertiser)

The Daughters OF Hawaii met at
the home of Mrs. L. A. Coney. After
the reading of reports, appointing OF
committees, and voting in of several
new members, the Regent, Mrs. b. F.
Dillingham;, addressed the ladies' pres
ent in substance, as follows:
The society. Daughters Of Hawaii"
aims TO number among it's members
those who take an interest In the
legends, traditions. history and scien-
tific discoveries relating to our native
land. Age seems to have fascination
with all who desire to trace an an
cestry, or recall historic events. Those
who interest themselves along these
special lines, find to their surprise, that
according to the researches made by
students of languages, customs and
general evolution of races, the Hawai-
ian stands pre-eminent among the
Polynesian people. Not only have they
no superior in the Pacific, but through
the East Indies on to the Malay PEN
insula. in the vast country of India,
even 10 <ATdDld are tHtIe
of their long descent. Words, customs,
legends leave no doubt of this fact.
In the far time of their beginning"
the ancestors were of white COM
plexion. but climatic conditions and
inter mixture of bloods produced many
variations during the centuries that
followed.
1t is the intent of this society to
search the pages of the past, ano,
CLEAN all possible information relative
to the long procession of events which
have resulted in the Hawaiian of to-
day. 1t is impossible to give even a
synopsis of these possibilities in these
few remarks, but the amazing genealo-
gies of the Hawaiian families will sup
port these intimations.
Returning now to a period ante
dating the Great Kamehameha by
about twenty-one generations, we
present today short sketch of Paao,
prepared by student at Kanehameha
School, which gives an account of the
migration to this group from the is
lands of Samoa, of a man from whom
Hewahewa, the high priest who as
sisted Kamehameha the second in the
abolishment of the tabu system was
directly descended.
MISS PARISS ADDRESS.
After the reading of the article on
Paoa the historian, Miss Anna NJ.
Paris, followed with few words re-
lating to the inception of the society
and closed with an appreciative trib-
ute to the three ladies whose member
ship had not continued through even
the first year. Miss Paris said:
Our society is still young. Not a
year has passed since we first met,
little band, as Daughters of Hawaii.
The need of some fitting recognition
of our birth-right in this fair land
a something that should redeem from
oblivion past swiftly fieeting, unique
in its charm and tee.ning with
memories almost sacred-had long
been felt by some of us. 1t needed
the supreme moment to give it life.
Mrs. Sarah COan Waters returning for
a visit to her native land, after years
of absence, was our inspiration In
her enthusiasm and affection for Ha-
waii, its memories, it's history, it's peo-
pie, she proved to us that those link
ed together by early association here
are in a peculiar way united. To the
descendants too, of those living here
when the very remoteness added to the
poetic charm, when Aloha was the
pass word and hospitality the key
note of existence-island life, it's his
tory and traditions must be a herit-
age rich and inalienable. 1t is ours
as Daughters of Hawaii to preserve
and cherish this precious legacy!
Small in numbers as we are today,
death has already invaded our little
circle. Three of our earliest members,
Mrs Banning, Mrs. II. a, p. Carter
and Mrs Haalelea have ssed into
the life beyond
Pausing in retrospect over these
names, We seem lifted above the duh
level of the commonplace. In "mem-
ory's sunset air." the whole horizon
broadens. and beautiful vistas are
opened up. Each representing a dis
tinctive type of womanhood, these
three form a trio rarely met with.
Mrs. Banning, living away from the
islands was yet closely in touch with
everything relating to Hawaii, and
with the purpose and spirit of this So
ciety was more than sympathetic
Clara Armstrong, as so many of us
knew her! What a picture of beauti-
full girlhood does the name recall. An
ideal to some of us of womanly charm
and winsomeness. Endowed with the
rare gift of fascination, young and old
of both sexes We're alike Clara's
adorers. The family gift of humor was
hers, and she dffused wherever she
went an atmosphere of delightful ex-
hilaration. Her name, in the old school
days, was carved on cliffs and grana-
dillas, and etched in school books and
stately forest trees today still bear
the "Jack knifes carved initial" c. II.
A. Serenades TO the fair Clara took
place often, and the refrain, I'm yon
bower. there above, She sleeps, she
sleeps my lady love" was frequently
heard under her window. On one oc-
casion good father Armstrong, his
patience at last giving way after fire.
quent disturbances, raised the sash
and with a fearful blow to sentiment
called out. "That'll do boys, that'll do