The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-05
PEACE FOR RECREATION.

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One who comes here merely for
recreation can flush more kinds of
larks that rise in him and sing and
| leave no bad taste in the mouth than
can be found in any other place with
in my knowledge. He may play with
an active volcano at Ktlauea or Mo-
kuaweoweo or explore the largest ex-
tinct crater in the world at Haleakala,
He may go snowballing on Mauna
Kea, $4,000 feet high, or wade out into
the Pacific ocean 10 lie down on the
coral and keep still. He may play polo
on the field of Moanalua, unsurpa ssed
If equaled. in polo geography, or go
canoeing in the surf in a native dug
out, with its outrigger, or on a board
every one to his taste. He can play
golf in Nuuanu valley or go grabbing
at Pearl harbor. He may go fishing
in Molokini crater, where the fish look
like a bewitched millinery shop, or see
good baseball at Kamoiliili He may
shoot deer on Molokai and wild cattle
and hogs on the slopes of Mauna Loa
or hire an automobile and kill dogs
and pedestrians anywhere. He may
take the little Oahu railroad and go
picking pineapples at Wahiawa, or go
farther and fare no worse, in his best
clothes, at HaIeiwa. Or, if his mood
is for bamboo chair on piazza, with
a pipe and a yarn. Honolulu hospital
ity will fit smile into every crow
foot at the busy corners of his face.
That looks like a joke, but it isn't.
So far as I know, there is no match
in any civilized country for the well
coming quality of Hawaiian homes.
BEST ROOM ON VERANDA.
The beauty of these homes does not
reside in the architecture which. in
deed, is fairly bad. being in the main
that of eighteenth-century New En-
gland, with the doors and windows
wide open and the best room moved
out on the veranda. There is no home
in the islands that suggests the riches
of the owner. Rich people live in plain
houses and magnificent grounds may
be the property of the poor.
Unless I am mistaken, these veranda
jewellers get certain ethical advan-
tage from the habitat If, as the
weight of authority seems to hold. peo-
pie that live in glass houses ought 10
exercise discretion in throwing stones /;
those that live on the front porch
should by the same reasoning be mod
crate in the use of the spy-glass: and i
in this deep principle of social diplo- +
macy Honolulu is a striking object les I
son. The life is so open that it has |
to be genuine. 1t is poor soil for
sneaks. Everybody knows all about
everybody. but there is a noticeable /
absence of ill-natured gossip.
CIVIC PERCEPTION DUILED.
At the same time this neighborIy
in a climate and or a
soil where struggle is eliminated and
he meditative habit is largely absent,
lulls the fine edge of civic perception
Ind sets the social current toward the
aissez faire.
The religious situation carries a sug-
sestion of the same lack of prompt
Ind fine perception 1t is a sincerely
Christian community, but the account
emafns too nearly where the mis-
ionaries OF 1919 put it. on the love of
rod, redemption by grace. justification
" faith. the authority and inspiration
# the scripture and so forth: things
ong since accepted in their vital and
easonable definitions by everybody.
nd now in danger of becoming stale
nd improbable by monotonous ftera-
ion when the world is waiting anx-
ously to see the other half of the
octrine, social salvation. by works of
aith and labors OF love
THE NEW CHRISTIANITY. !
But the new. big vision of Christian {
y has arrived. Up to date minis ]
ertal ability Of high order is battling :
nth the cheerful inertia and beating
he plowshares Of theology into swords
decent. manly, cody politics
thoughtful people are becoming i'm E
ressed with the tremendous impor- +
ance of this world-laboratory Of faith,
anguages, ideals, traditions and tenn