The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-23
MRS, TINSLEY
ON HONOLULU
WIFE OF THE EDITOR OF THE
POMONA DAILY REVIEW WRITES
LENGTHY ARTICLE.

sent the following letter to the paper
she represents, the Pomona Daily Re
view edited by her husband:
Honolulu, September 10.
Editor Review. The street scinea
in Honolulu are always interesting.
We of the Southern California Editorial
party never tire of riding and walking
about this remarkable little metropolis
of the cross roads of the South Seas"
White duck suits and Panama hats,
the latter ribboned with delicate shades
of silk, and muslin dresses with wide
brimmed leghorn hats are common
among the upper classes and give an
equatorial glamour TO the passing show.
The prevalent Kanaka man is pictures.
que in a straw hat bound with flowers
and peacock feathers, a negligee suit
with floral circlets hung about the
shoulders. his feet unshod, and his at
/ titude supremely restful.
The native woman wears a bright
colored, loose gown that exposes her
brown shoulders, and a wreath of flow
ers which are called "leis." and she, too
goes barefooted. She is always neat and
is never without a wreath of flowers
and vines about her head or waist. No
one accuses her of prudishness and
she is likely to have an unappeasable
appetite for poi, raw fish and the hula
dance.
There are on the streets people from
every Oriental nation-Japanese mer-
chants and policemen; Chinese labor
ers, peddlers and horsemen; Siamese
fishermen; planters from the Philip
pine islands; British and American
men-of-wars men and tourists from
every civilized country. There are
hundreds whose nativity it is hard to
trace Not infrequently intermarriage
OCCURS between Chinese and Kanakas,
Japanese and Portuguese, Americans
and half caste native women, and the
issue is a sort of composite which, it
must be confessed is often an i'm
provement on the mated types
The color line divides society in Ho-
nolulu. The Americans are on the top
wave of society. The best class of
white people are refined, polished and
accomplished and their hospitality is
superb. In this society is a large ad-
mixture of the New England religious
element, sprung from the missionary
families which came here between 1926
and 1850. To be sure, the men and
women of this generation have lost
about all the sternness and rgidity of
their Puritan ancestors. Everyone
changes somewhat i'm this land of sen
suousness and early maturity. These
descendants of the missionaries are
proud of their lineage. They support
the churches and back all religious and
moral movements.
In the winter season when hundreds
of American, English and French tou.
rists come here, there may be weeks
of picncs among the banana and cocoa,
nua trees, evening dancing at the hotel
, dinners and receptions at the grea
roomy residences of the English ant
Americans who came here a generation
ago, married Kanaka girls, inherited
from them great amounts of land, anC
got rich in growing sugar for the Unit
ed States
The drives about the Hawaiian cap
ital are picturesque They run pas
r groves of the cocOanut palm and brack
ish ponds where the mullet is fattene,
for the local trade; past rice garden
half submerged by the copious irriga
ton which the plant requires; banana
plantations, the trees low in statur
e and bearing a single bunch to each
and then past tarO patches, where tn
poi root is grown, and wind in an
c out among green groves, with glimpse
of the ocean or some dead vOlcani
crater.
The annoyances of life at Honolulu ar
the insects. The mosquitoes name
legion. in the old times there wer
It no mosquitoes here. In fact the nam
It of them except a variation of the En-
It fish word, cannot be found i'm the Ha
# waiian language. The whaling ship
# brought the pests in their stagnant wa
# ter butts, and ever since then the ma
# tives have held the happening gentr
:. i'm distrust. oddly enough the mos
}, quitos are of two kinds, those tina
trouble by day and those that ravag
l. by night. The two species are quit
distinct as to size and shape as well a
to habits. People say the day waite
= seeks a quiet place on the wall afte
o'clock i'm the afternoon, when tn
night watch turns out and swarm
g down upon the human pasture, Grea
spiders, like the tarrantula, the famila
centipede and the barbed scorpion II
r. fest the islands, but they are no MOI
poisonous than the honey bee. PerhaI
this is due to what they eat or tn
nature of their habitat, but whatevC
the reason is the fact remains that the
are not even dreaded by children VIII
go among them with bare feet. Fol
tunately there are no snakes to mole
the Ewes of the Pacific paradise.
speculative German imported some
kill the rats in the sugar plantation
but for once in their lives the Kanak'
summoned up a little energy al
slaughtered the whole consignment
The manufacturing industries of H
nolulu are next to none at all, thoue
the country has twenty-five sugar can
This is apriCu1tural TppiC