Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-09-16

! familiar with the place, the follow
ing description may prove of
!. some use in the future. Nawili-
will is a little two-by-four village
} on the Island of Kauai; it lies
J huddled together at the bottom of
what some one, with no eye for the
I beautiful, would call ravine, but
! which is in reality charming lit
J tie valley. Its feet are washed by
} the waters CT; the bay of the same
} name. Folks are in the habit of
calling this a harbor, but there
I they are slightly mistaken. Har-
Dor means place of shelter, ha-
ven of safety, which Nawiliwili
! bay, judging from its wide and ex-
: posed entrance, fails to afford.
The village contains as many
houses as 2-year-old child could
count without making a mistake.
} Multiply that amount by two and
you have the number of its inhab-
, itants. 1t boasts two general mcr-
I chandise stores, which belongs to
Z the UNDERGRADUATES class. One of
these is the property of follower
! of Confucius and the other is man
) aged by a countryman of Rojest-
, vensky's vanquisher. a coffee
. shop is also to be counted among
. the industries of the place. 1t has
. also a liquor store, two soda-water
z joints, boat landing and barber
shop. This last being the scene of
Z the drama which this attempts to
I chronicle, will bear a little descrip-
D ton.
D The shanty is built with upright
D boards, with spaces between for
7 ample ventilation; having a couple
z of windows about a foot square for
Z lighting the interior during the
!, day; its front facing the street or
4 highway and its rear buried into
the bowels'of the hill. The roof is
;: a patchwork of shingles, pieces of
4 tin and box boards. The walls in
dictate that they have seen white
j wash some centuries ago; and the
whole structure makes you wonder
what mysterious power prevents il
from collapsing. Along its front
there is attached a veranda just
high enough to knock your hat of
as you step on it and broad enough
to allow you to walk along it side
ways, thus preventing you from
being jammed between the up
rights, supporting the veranda
roof, and the house wall. At one
time two of these uprights bore the
. red, white and blue stripes, the un
) mistakeable sign of the barber
shop. About half way down this
vcranda an opening about eighteen
inches wide pierces the wall. This
is the main entrance and standing
on the threshold it affords a gener
al view of the interior.
As you step inside the Language
and perfume from the land of the
rising sun simultaneously strike
your ears and nostrils, while YOU
eve is greeted by string stretch
ing from wall to wall, on which
there hangs a number of miniature
Is flags representing the emblem OF
10 every country of the Earth, giving
:, you to understand that this is al
!, international institution. In one
corner there is an ice chest contain,
ing dozen bottles of soda water
and two pounds of ice. A few feet
from that there stands table hav,
ling about seventy-two inches OF
Y, square surface, with a homemade
bench on each side. Over the Ia
BILE hangs a Autograph advertising
well known remedy for horses
feet. To the left, separated from
N the rest by something like a fence
n reaching to the waist, is the real
:, laboratory, that is, the barber shop
" A solitary BARRIERS chair stand;
there, looking lonely and forlorn
., with something like bed sheet and
:. a couple of towels carelessly
= thrown over the top. In front Of
the chair there hangs a medium
size mirror and alongside of it an
a. other Autograph representing
- - young girl, about seven or eiglr
"a years of age, sprinkling fowls witt