The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-07

will then give the signal for the dane
ing to commence by tossing her "crys-
tai slipper" on the floor, to be snatch
ed up by the fortunate youth who is
to be her partner for the first dance
The identity Of Cinderella has been
kept a profound secret, and all St
Paul is on the qui vive to see who she
will be.
While Cinderella is making her bow
TO the guests the young women in the
march will be drawn up in a pretty
fanlike formation, and at Cinderellas
signal the men who are to be their
partners for the first dance will dash
to claim them from all parts of the
room.
The pupils Of Miss Eva Stevens gave
one of their regular recitals at the
home of Mrs, Theodore Richards this
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. James Cockburn. who
have been living in the osborne resi-
dence. have taken a cottage in upper
Fort street.
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The re-opening of the Royal Hawaii
an Hotel for the season will be good
news to many of Honolulu's pleasure
lovers, especially since the announce
ment has been made that the Ala
media dances are to be resumed with
the next coming of that popular boat
on next Friday. The dance will be on
Saturday evening The broad lanais
of the Hawaiian have always been a
favorite dancing place, and the open
ing dance is certain to be a large af-
fair Manager Childs is also arrang-
ing for a masque ball for Christmas
Eve. This will be an invitational afy
fair and promises to be unusually
pleasant.
Much interest is being taken in both
Punahou College and the Kamehame-
ha Schools this season in girls bas-
ket ball. Both schools have strong
teams which have been working hard
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results. Practice games are played
twice a week or oftener, by the aspi-
rants for places on the teams. A game
of much interest was played yesterday
afternoon on the Kamehameha
grounds which was largely attended
and which was won by the Kameha-
meha girls by four points. This was
the first Of a series of five games
which are to be played by the two
teams to decide the championship OF
the Territory. 1t is probably that the
series will not be concluded until al
ter the Christmas holidays.
This is the season when calling
cards fly through the air like snow
flakes in a stage scene. There is
something just as artificial in our
modern interchange of bits of paste
board as the paper semblanCe of snow
employed in stage-craft Calls have
become in our busy life a perfunctory
matter, made only in cases where con-
graduation or coincidence are neces-
sary. Coincidence demands only the
leaving of cards in person, an actual
visit depending on the degree of init
macy, and for congratulatory pur-
poses, the recipient is apt to name one
day upon which all her friends may
bank their good wishes, and on the
dreary obligation of mortgaging one
time for weeks is avoided. A few years
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call upon all her friends at least once
in a season, and for that purpose she
ordered a carriage, either her own or
a hired vehicle, and spent several dir
zy days making the rounds, fashion
able call being limited to fifteen minu-
tes Nothing could exceed the secret
and exultant joy which animated the
average woman when she found a
number of people out, and was thus
enabled to reduce her time of servi-
tude
Time has changed all this, and now
adays, unless one announces days at
home, acquaintance are not expected
to call So well is the difficulty of ac-
| complishing all ones visits understood
that people of the word do not hold
each other to strict account if a sea-
son passes without an interchange of
calls, They simply meet somewhere,
and with perfect good temper, take up
the thread dropped when they last
met, weeks before, at some ones re-
ceptiOn.
At first thought this may seem a
hard and shallow custom, but after
all, it is far more honest than the old
time round of meaningless calls. 1t
gives people more time to spend with
their real friends, and the opportun-
ity Of a pleasant interchange of few
moments with acquaintance is found
at the reception days of mutual
friends. Today one finds people, with
the most kindl'' feeling toward one