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

could resist an invitation of that kind
anyhow, when this naval officer has o
reputation that spreads all over the
Seven Seas as a mixologist? On the
way down to the landing we pick UT
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'
chur over the harbor wavelets-the
color OF washtub blulng--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
'rials, 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 O
home--you never want to go there an,
more. After the Santa Cruz delirium,
all civilian hands into the steam cut
ter and back to the beach.
Leaning on the rail of big Pacific
liner just in from Yokohama, Doc
Burke-not his name, but near enough
the steamers surgeon, a gigantic,
huge voiced man known all over the
Pacific as an epicure and 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
cutter heads in toward the liner, and
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 end 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.
'As I wish to visit with my wife for
a little while before dinner, start for
home, but am held up by a man whose
wife is giving a lawn party out Wal
klki way in celebration of her birthday
she was "a last year and frankly
claims to be SO this year-and he
thrusts me into his trap and carries
me out there. Il 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 hurry to Young hotel,
where I am living, and the dinner
music has already begun, and my wife
is dressed and waiting, and l have to
hop into dinner togs like lightning
change man. A steamer skipper
know sends over to our table a bottle
of very smooth brandy and joins us
at the coffee, and we smoke for half
an hour.
1.-THE wife and are for 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
1t,
Everything to eat known to civilized
peoples, and more than that to drink.
Home at 2 in the morning, pretty we'll
1t up thanks.
"A little work during the forenoon Of
Tuesday, but when arrive at the
hotel for luncheon at 1 o'clock I find
hat everything has been arranged for
he afternoon. Some friends are go
ng to take an afternoons cruise in
heir houseboat in Pearl Harbor. and
he wife and / are booked. Get there
olks, pretty girls. larkish lads. gay
I'D boys, everybody with mandolin
n guitar or taro-patch banjo-fddle.
Iouseboat very large and sumptuously
ltted. Eight Jap boys doing nothing
nut fix and serve drinks. Eight more
ap boys arranging luncheon food. We
ut of over Pearl Harbor, which looks
Ike the blue sky turned upside down.
fuch picking of strings, then singing: |
agtime. grand opera, kanaka aloha !
uis. and just singing. Also very many :
Kinks Business of larkish lads get
Ing the girls off in corners and stalk
lg them to hot air. Then lot more
Kinks.
Break up in time for dinner back
, town. Make hotel at Z. dress for
inner like vaudeville persons hustlins
0 make train for long jump. Stag
inner that night with a Chinese mer-
liant who speaks all Of the European
lnguages, delights in entertaining and
a corking good all around fellow.
lost of the naval offlcers there. They
Ing weird ropehauling chanties about
low the man down and so on. and
hen the thing gets warm one of them
ives a Chinaman's idea OF a cakewalk.
'hich tickles the Chinese present i'm
Drinks. wallowings of 'em.
'inner cooked by the Chinese mer-
hant's French chef Dinner for your
fe. too. links till o'clock In the
forming. then bed.
THE thing begins on Wednesday