The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-11-23
W|DE-OPEN HONOLULU
4 As A STRANGER SAW II.

"Ive been resting up and rusticatins
in Chicago and New York since 1 got
hack from the islands," observed Fed
eral official who recently returned TO
"the mainland" from Honolulu, where
he was stationed for three years. Don't
smile. New Workers. and Chicagoans
lead the simple life compared with the
enc whirl OF the Honolulans. I mean
the white Honolulans. of course-ths
American and English and German fel-
lows down there. The kanakas Know
how to have fun in their own way, ana
they have lots of 1t. No Cinnamon III
the world enjoy themselves as DO the
Cinnamon of Honolulu. The world is
sort of Jest to the hundreds of Japs III
Honolulu, too.
.oThe American who exhibits the
yaguest symptoms that he Is goou
follow and a mingler IL seized upon and
pushed into swirl in Honolulu that
makes his recollection of speedygoing'
some hours in the cities of the nam
land seem like barking back to Ep-
worth League days.
And it's all open and above board
down in Honolulu, too. Notnihs
furtive or under cover about II. Iney
don't consider it disgraceful to go after
a good time down there. All hands are
declared in on the fun If they're righe.
Remorse doesn't abide in Hawaii. Re-
morse, anyhow, Is a keen fear of what
your neighbors are going to think apout
it. In Honolulu your neighbors don
think about 1t at all. They haven't ths
time They're too busy having run
themselves.
you savvy Iuau'? Luau Qoo-ow,
it's pronounced) is Kanaka word that
means, literally, a dinner, but 1t mas
been twisted around so that now II
means d picnic. Well, that's the an
swer. mans life in Honolulu Is
sort of continuous performance luau.
The women folks are in on it all. too,
lust as much as ever they want to be.
They want to be whole lot, too. you
may believe that. Men take their wives
and women folk almost everywhere
where the good times are happening.
The women are at liberty to remain at
the luaus as long as they please. CEN
orally. though, they know when to
leave. The men take their wives to
the open air Iuaus, up around the Pall
skirts of Waikiki-luaus where the hula
girls dance in their unimpeding waist
circlets of grasses. And it's all right
It's the custom of the land. Inc
women folks like to see the hula girls
dance and they do see them, and there
you are. The SNUG bug hasn't made
landing in Hawaii yet.
"In Honolulu it's case of the bunch
getting together and starting something
all the time. The Honolulans are most
ly people of the big world, used to the
life of the big cities. You'll meet fell
lows there who know where to go TO
dine in Teheran and what restaurant
gives you the best cantaloupes FOR
breakfast In Vladivostok and the place
that fixes you up the best shrimp salad
in Bournemouth and the plant in Cam
ION where you can obtain the best
conserved sweetmeats for the women
folks.
.'Earred from the sort of amuse,
ments they've been used to on the con-
tinents-the life of the theaters and
such like-their gregariousness mani,
tests itself in other ways. They're
planning and plotting to keep the thing
a-moving all the time.
I'll run over an ordinary, average
week in Honolulu-and had three
years of such weeks, only some Of the
" eeks of course beat the average. But
I'll start Off on Monday with an aver,
age week.
walking down Emma street from
my office at o'clock on Monday af-
ternoon, say, I run into the executive
officer Of the American cruiser out In
the harbor. Some fellow up in the
States has sent him a case of Santa
Cruz rum that--well, he describes the
tang of it in the most tantalizing man
ner Imaginable.
Come on out to the ship, says he
and I'll fix you up some sours. and II