The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-11-06
FAIR CALIFORNIAN WHO
THINKS We ARE LAZY

At last the sugar and rice planters rose
In their anger and secretly paid the
organ grinder ten times the value of
his musical apparatus to smash the In
strument and quit the islands
The Hawaiians have sweet, melodi-
our voices, unlike any we know among
our American singers. Their many
songs are OF highly romantic order
They have choruses that tell OF the
love of the soft zephyrs and the good
ness OF the mother earth. The roaring
OF the sea and the music of the water-
fall abound in love and songs.
The Hawaiian is not fond OF amuse-
ments as his pale faced brother knows
them. He is not much of a card play
er Gambling is less general in Ha-
wall than anywhere else among the
Pacific archipelagoes. Violent sports
are naturally distasteful to the people
I OF the tropics. and dramas have no
charm for them.
They love to bathe above everything
else. and they are the most natural
swimmers on this earth. Every native
learns to swim almost in infancy.
The man or woman who cannot go a
the Pacific, is pitied by the brothers
and sisters. The Hawaiians have
swimming boards six feet long and a
foot wide, upon which they ride the
breakers off shore.
When the wind blows hardest and
the cocoanut trees bend and sway most.
and when the waves roll highest. thou
sands of the natives will go Fastening
I'm ha
ming board under his or her arm. For
hours, often for a whole day long, the
natives enjoy themselves like little
boys In the foaming. roaring surf Ly-
ing prone on a board each swimmer
VIII ride as easily as a duck over the
waves. The higher and mightier the
surf so much the better.
Feasting has uncommon attractions
for the Hawaiians. The average ma
tive Will be homeless rather than fore
go great meal where he can eat with
out stint once a week. The luau, an
enormous feast, accompanied by las
civious music of guitars and violins is
an institution in the Hawaiian Islands.
1t is feast or more correctly speak
ing. grand feed. 1t is served on the
ground. I'll leaves-like mammoth lily
leaves-are spread in lieu of table
cloths. and the food is heaped and
spread on these leaves. The diners sit
Turkish or tailor fashion on the grass
mats about the area of ii leaves and
food. The natives can sit with theili
legs thus folded up beneath them foH,
almost any period, but many an Ameri-
can or English guest at a luau has
felt such pains in his legs when the
roasting has been prolonged several
hours, as If he would never again be
aple TO walk.
The chief article of diet at luau is
the universal Hawaiian poi-a punsent
compound of taro tubers that has the
appearance, smell and consistency of
piliposter's paste. A Hawaiian will eat
several gallons or the compound-vile
te 'he Americans-in day Meat Is
not eaten by the average Hawaiian
once month. There may be half
dozeh great wooden bowls, known as
calabashes, of poi served at the luau.
everyone dips hand in the bowl of
poi and, withdrawing his hand, will lick
up the watery poi as 1t trickles from
MS ringers 1t Is wonderful how ex-
pert the Hawaiians are in feeding
themselves in this unique manner.
Another native delicacy Is raw fish.
1t takes strong nerves to sit and see a
native woman reach into an aquarium,
pull out writhing mullet and break
Off its head. Yet that is what she is
apt to do. Some of the more dainty
ones who are well brought up select
live minnow and roll 1t under the
tongue, finally swallowing 1t as we do
an oyster. Sometimes there Is roast
dog, with which inquisitive tourists out
In the rural localities, are served under
the name of young sucking pig. Those
who have been deceived in this wise
say that unidentified dog is a luxury
smell crab