The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-21

| Work over FOR the day, and VINO
| could resist an invitation of that kind,
anyhow, when this naval officer has 4
reputation that spreads all over the
: Seven Seas as a mixologist? On the
way down to the landing we pick up
+ six or seven other fellows. They're
told about that Santa Cruz business
| too and they're for that. Into the
| steam cutter all hands. and the chug,
chug over the harbor wavelets-the
color OF washtub bluing-to the man-o'-
war.
Down into the ward room where the
silver shakers are brought out, and the
! Jap ward room boy brings the mate
rails, and the white mustached execu-
/ tive officer gets those Santa Cruz things
ready, shaking them until the boar,
frost shows on the silver shakers. After
you've drunk one of them you banker
to give away money. Two, and you
toss your head back and listen to imag,
mary music. Three, and You ache to
apologize to your wife's relations. Four
and you're sorry that you've got a
home-you never want to go there any
more. After the Santa Cruz delirium.
all civilian hands into the steam cut
| ter and back to the beach.
Leaning on the rail of a big Pacific
/ liner just in from Yokohama, Doc
BLrke-not his name, but near enough
the steamers surgeon, a gigantic,
huge voiced man known all over the
Pacific as an epicure and a story teller
| and a mixer of salad dressings and
drinks and things-Doc Burke rumbles
out his Alloy, there! and we catch
sight of him, and the cox'n of the steam
we go aboard of her The surgeon
says he's got some Japanese lacquer
boxes he wants to show us. Carries us
below to his two room suite. Lacquer
boxes all humbug. of course. 1t is a
new dring he wants US to try. He
calls it a Shanghai swizzle, and it's
made of saki and rum and Curacao and
sugar and things. Great! Doc Burke
informs us. with great solemnity, that
nobody can possibly find out how a
/. Shanghai swizzle tastes until he has
three of them. We refuse to deny it,
and we have the three. Doc Burke is
horribly miffed and sulks because we
can't all stay to dinner with him aboard
the liner. and he declines to let us out
of his cabin till all hands have promised
! to take luncheon with him, fetching
/ the wives. on the coming Wednesday.
Promise given and we escape.
LAS 1 wish to visit with my wife for
a little while before dinner, L start for
home. but am held up by q man whose
wife is giving a lawn party out Wal
kiki way in celebration of her birthday
she was "a last year and frankly
claims to be 33 this year-and he
thrusts me into his trap and carries
me out there, if only for few minutes.
Much punch there, and I can't get
away without going upstairs with the
/ host and putting away a couple of
Scotch things.
Then in a hurry to Young hotel,
where / am living, and the dinner
music has already begun, and my wife
is dressed and waiting, and I have to
hop into dinner togs like a lightning
change man. A steamer skipper 1
know sends over to our table bottle
of very smooth brandy and joins US
at the coffee, and we smoke for half
an hour.
THE wife and 1 are for a dinner at
the Japanese Club that evening-in
celebration of the Japanese Vice-Con-
sul's or somebody's birthday-there are
more birthday blowouts in Honolulu
than there are Italian feast days in
Italy. We go. Gorgeous kimonos are
handed both men and women at the
door, and diking out in them in the
dressing rooms we join the merry push.
Everything to eat known to civilized
peoples, and more than that to drink
Home at in the morning. pretty we'll
/ lit uD, thanks.
| "A little work during the forenoon of
Tuesday, but when 1 arrive at the
| that everything has been arranged for
/ the afternoon. Some friends are go
! ing to take an afternoons cruise in
their houseboat in Pearl Harbor, and
! the wife and 1 are booked Get there
about 2:30. Party assembling, married
folks. pretty girls. larkish lads, gay
! old boys, everybody with a mandolin
or guitar or a taro-patch banjo-fiddle.
Household very large and sumptuously
fitted Eight Jap boys doing nothing
but fix and serve drinks. Eight more
Jap boys arranging luncheon food. We
put off over Pearl Harbor, which looks
like the blue sky turned upside down.
| Much picking of strings, then singing;
ragtime, grand opera, kanaka aloha
nuts. and just singing. Also very many
drinks. Business of larkish lads get
ting the girls off in corners and stalk
ing them to hot air. Then a lot more
drinks.
Break up in time for dinner back
in town. Make hotel at 7, dress for
dinner like vaudeville persons hustling
to make a train for a long jump. stag
dinner that night with a Chinese mer-
chant who speaks all of the European
languages, delights in entertaining and
is a corking good all around fellow.
Most of the naval officers there. They
sing weird ropehauling chanties about
| blow the man down and so on and
when the thing gets warm one of them
gives a Chinaman's idea of cakewalk
which tickles the Chinese present i'm
mensely. Drinks, walIowings of EN-.
Dinner cooked by the Chinese mer-
chants French chef. Dinner for your
life. too. links till o'clock in the
morning. then bed
The thing begins on Wednesday