The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-21
W|DE-OPEN HONOLULU
AS A STRANGER SAW Il
Letter Which Several Coast Newspapers Have
Printed to Prove This City Paradise
of Founders.

I've been resting up and rusticatins
in Chicago and New York since got
hack from the islands, observed Fed
eral official who recently returned to
..tbe mainland from Honolulu, where
he was stationed for three years. Don
smile New Workers and Chicagoans
lead the simple life compared with the
enc whirl of the Honolulans. I mean
the white Honolulans, of course-th~
American and English and German fell
lows down there. The Kanakas know
how to have fun in their own way, and
they have lots of it. No Cinnamon III
the world enjoy themselves as do the
Cinnamon of Honolulu. The world is a
sort of jest to the hundreds of Japs III
Honolulu. too.
1.-THE American who exhibits the
vaguest symptoms that he is a good
fellow and a mingler IS seized upon and
rushed into a swirl in Honolulu that
makes his recollection of speedygoing>
some hours in the cities of the mann
land seem like a barking back to Ep-
worth League Gays
And it's all open and above board
down in Honolulu, too. Nothing
furtive or under cover about IL. Ihey
don't consider it disgraceful to go after
a good time down there. All hands are
declared in on the fun if they're rlghs
Remorse doesn't abide in Hawai-. Re-
morse, anyhow, is keen fear of VIVA,
your neighbors are going to think about
it. In Honolulu your neighbors don't
think abe ut it at all. They haven't tbs
time They're too busy having nun
themselves.
You savvy 1uau'? Luau Qoo-oW,
it's pronounced) is a Kanaka word that
means, literally, a dinner. but it has
been twisted around SO that now 1T
means a picnic. Well, that's the an
swer. A mans life in Honolulu is
sort of continuous performance luau.
The women folks are in on it all, TOO,
just as much as ever they want to De.
They want to be a whole lot too, you
NAV 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 Iuaus as long as they please Cen
orally though, they know when TO
leave The men take their wives to
the open air luauS, up around the Pan
or in the Nuuanu gorge and on the
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 The
women folks like to see the hula girls
dance. and they do see them, and there
you are. The SNUG bug hasn't made a
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 Can
ton where you can obtain the best
conserved sweetmeats for the women
folks
Barred 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.
TN run over an ordinary. average
week in Honolulu-and 1 had three
years of such weeks, only some of the
weeks 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, 1 run into the executive
officer of the American cruiser out in
the harbor. Some fellow up in the
States has sent him case of Santa
Cruz rum that-welI. he describes the
tang of it in the most tantalizing man
ner maginable.
"'Come on out to the ship, says he.