The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-11-23


ncr hour, for the men.
"The wife and | are for card party
az the home OF an interisland steam-
ship proprietor that evening. Bridge
for the women. poker for the men.
Drinks. Host gives us n saxopbone
solo with his wife's piano accompanI-
ment. then the Kanaka men musicians
come In with their stringed things and
play and sing In unison. Drinks for
everybody A pretty girl just down
from San Francisco to visit the hosts
daughters shows us what the new SER
pentine dance up In the States looks
like Great. More drinks. Then the
women to bridge and the men to
poker, on different floors.
1.-THE women break off at 1 o'clock
and go home. We play till 3, and then
the host asks what's the matter with
a little stag dip in the sea. Fine. every
body declares. Game breaks up, and
we trot over to the water at Waikiki.
pull off our clothes and jump in. Host's
Jap boys along with towels. While
we're bathing one of those forty foot
Kanaka canoes. filled with singing Ka-
naka men and women. all with taro'
patch fiddles. drifts by. They're sing
ing to the stars, and / suppose they
don't know how to sing. Freshened up
by the swim in the sea, the bunch
come to the hotel, near by, with me,
and get a couple OF nightcaps then
bed. 1t is past in the morning.
Don't go to the hotel for lunch at
all on Thursday, but straight to the
Nuuanu Valley, where there's to be
luau given by somebody or other.
Women folks direct the eating and
drinking arrangements under the
palms, with Jap boys to help. Mar
quees quickly erected all around.
About forty men and women present
at the luau. Blind mans buff and such
like while the cloths are being laid.
Then some drinks. Then the lunch.
Kanaka stringed music during the
lunch. Toasts. Everybody smokes.
1.-THE hula girls. wearing their grass
circlets and amiable smiles. suddenly
appear from behind ledge Of rock and
advance, dancing. while one of the Ka.
naka men pounds the big gourd and
all the Kanaka musicians play theii
instruments frenziedly. The luau lasts
till six or seven in the evening. The
women folks leave, however, about 4.
Lawn concert at Young's that night.
after dinner and hop, and We have
chance to stay near home for one
night. anyhow, though we don't make
bed till after 8. Lawn concert and hop.
by the way, accompanied by many
drinks.
ION Friday morning the transport
army officers and their wives. No
work done by anybody in our set when
the transports get in. Rough houses
have to be arranged for the army PEG,
Pile, and the whole thing on that Friday
is a scampering hither and yon in
calooshes and launches. visiting, with
drinks inpovising another hasty luau
for all hands from the transport and
arranging for a whooping midnight
supper at Young's for the same people.
THE Australian steamer gets in DUR
ing the night, and before noon the pur-
ser of that one, an old friend, drops
into my office and pretends that he
has on board the ship a Samoan carved
pair or oars that he wants to show me.
1 fall for 1t, and on the way to the
lows, including a couple of the army
officers, are picked up. and when we
get aboard the liner the purser In,
quires If we've ever tried mango
mush. We tell him that with the help
of heaven and a few marines We nevel
intend to, and then he gets out the
Scotch champagne for the fellows who
like that kind of insipidity, and pres,
emily the steam cutter belonging to
an American steam yacht out in the
roads comes alongside with an invita- +,
ton from the owner for all hands to
visit his frigate, and we go over there
In the cutter, and there's lunch all
prepared and I have to telephone my
wife from the yacht-they string thu
lines to the beach from the roads-that |
won't be at the hotel for luncheon,
and the lunch Is winner and the
automatic harp in the yachts luncheon
room knows how to play itself all |
right, and the Cingalese boys who act
as mess attendants on board the Amer,
can yacht know how to serve drinks
also.
"A couple of the sailors do a rafting
,log, and then two bruisers of firemen
put on the gloves and put up corkine
hree-round bout. Then the owner of
he yacht insists that everybody stay
or dinner and send for the women. We |,
telephone to our wives that the dinner
will be served at Z, and the yachts
team cutter goes to the transport ana
,rings off bunch of the army officers.
md they in turn are invited for the
inner and telephone to their Wives
hat the cutter will call for them at a
uarter to T.
"There are fifty people on board the
'acht at the dinner, and the Royal Ha-
1aiian Orchestra has been quickly en-,
aged to give the music. Great din
er. many drinks. whooping choruses,
ing around rosy before the finish. drop
he handkerchief, too. and then some
Kinks. At quarter to ~ the host {
urns the clock back three hours, SOS
ot to interfere with any religious
rejudices.
ION Sunday-but I'm In the States
ow. and I'm not going to unreel the |
unday program. I have described an
verage Honolulu week. II you snow
hovelers ever get that busy up here
4 the States. I've got to be shown.
We sure had a rest in Chicago and In ,