The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28

bottle, for the men. D,i lks sd lib, and
dispersal at O'Clock ~ the aternoon,
everybody singing alcha-nUi for the
doctors safe passage up to the States.
Billiards AT the merchants club, with sc me
drinks, till dinner hour. for the men.
The wife and ] are for a card party
at the home Of an interisland steamship
proprietor that evening. Bridge for the
women, poker for the men. Drinks. Host
gives us a saxophone solo with his wife's
piano accompaniment, thenthe kanaka men
musicians come in with their stringed things
and play and sing in unison. Drinks for
San Francisco to visit the hosts daughters
shows us what the new serpentine dance
up in the States looks like. Great. More.
drinks. Then the women to bridge and
the men TO poker, on different floors.
The women break OF at / o'clock and
60 home. We play till 3, and then the host
asks what the matter with a little stag dip
in the sea. Fine. everybody declares.
Game breaks up, and We trot over to the
water at Waikiki, pull on our clothes and
Jump in. Hosts Jap boys along withtowels.
While we're bathing n Of those forty foot
Kanaka canoes. filled with singing Kanaka
men and women, all with tara patch tiddles;
drifts by. They're singing to the stars,
and 1 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. II is past 4 in the morning.
Don't 90 to the hotel for lunch at all on
Thursday but straight to the Nuuanu
Valley, where there's to be a luau given by
somebody or ether. Women folks direct
the eating and drinking arrangements
under the palms, with Jap boys to help.
Marques 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.
Ill.,. A.. I,n,k EanaGa -krSn.~oI wa,v-S.
during the lunch. Toasts. Everybody
smokes.
The hula girls. wearing their grass
~oirclete and amiable smiles, suddenly appear
from behind a ledge Of rock n advance,
dancing, while one Of the kauaka men
ToInds the hig gourd and all the Kanaka
musicians play their Instruments frenziedly.
The luau lasts till ak or seven in the evening.
The women folks leave however, about 4.
lawn concert at YoUnR's that night, after
dinner and a hop. and we have a cha &c to
stay near home Tor one night, anyhow,
though we dom make he'd till ALTERS. Lawn
concert and hop, by the way, accompanied
by manv drinks.
"On Friday morning the transport gets
in from Manila filled with young army
officers and their wives. No work done
Ivy anybody in our act wien the transports
get in. Rough houses have to he arranged
for the armv people, and the whole thing
on that Fridav il a scampering hither and
ron in oalooshes and launches, visiting,
with drinks, imprOvising another hssty,
lIsn for all hands from the transport and
arranging for n whooping midnight sup
per at Young's for the same people.
The Australian steamer gets in duringthe
wight. and before noon the purser Of that
one, an old friend, drops into my office
and pretends hat he has on board the ship
= Samoan carved pair OF oars that he wants
10 show me. fall for Il, and on the way
10 the landing, As before. FIVE or six more
fellows, including a couple Of the army Of
iicers, are picked up, and when we get
aboard the liner the purser inquiries II we've
ever tried a mango mush. We tell him
that with the help ~ heaven and a fess
marines we never intend TO. and then he
gets out the Scotch. champagne for the
fellows who like that kind 81 insipidity,
and. presently the steam cutter belonging
toad American steam Yacht ont In the rOads
comes alongside with an invitation from
the oWner for all hands TO visit his friRate.
and We 20 over there in the cutter, and
thars's lunch al prepared. and ] have 10