The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-08


Fastidious Paris would have found
fresh cause for the apple that must
long since have diffused itself into
fragrance had he been present at the
landing of the Korea in the Pacific
Mail dock
In the bow of the boat stood Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, under a wide
dropping hat gardened in affectionate
roses, very much surrounded and
smothered by many buds and tiny
\ flowers. Smiling, talking constantly.
she wave her attention first to one,
| then another, then all in the group
about her, spending herself as lavishly
to scare away the dual delays of land
| ing as would prima donna to rescue
a retreating first-night audience. Not
far to the stern of the boat stood
woman of a dark, radiant beauty, in
regal health, who looked seldom upon
the crowd at the. wharf, and spoke
seldom, if vivaciously, to the group
that made its court about her. When
she spoke there was much listening,
much repartee, much gay laughter, and
one would not have failed to mark her
splendor in the queens drawing-room.
When she looked out at sea and chose
to talk no more she was still the
Princess Kawananakoa, for that is the
name her friends must learn-and took
no more trouble about it.
Had Paris been there" as we sug-
gested, and offered his cotillon favor
to the more delicate beauty of Mrs
Longworth, the Hawaiian Juno of the
many-syllabled name would not have
been disturbed in the least.
1 venture she would have approved
comely winner a perfumed box in
which to keep the trophy.
The Princess admires Mrs. Long
worth and announced it enthusiastical-
ly after luncheon. as she sat in tete-
a-tete with the ceremonial of dressing
in her apartments at the Fairmont.
"She is a darling" said the Prin-
cess. "She is charming. She has been
among us in Hawaii for two months,
and no one was ever more popular
there. Every one feted her; her COM
ing created a rush of gaiety in Homo
lulu more lively than ever, for-well.
yes" she admitted, I'VE are very gay
in Honolulu, however difficult it would
seem to an American to imagine it."
SHE IS ENTHUSIASTIC
If one had anticipated finding the
Princess one whose English came in
hesitating and foreign accent, that one
was to meet disappointment. She
speaks in the low, well-controlled chest |
tones of the English woman, her flow
of words is tumultuous, enthusiastic, !
and has only the well-enunciated, we'll
chosen mark of the cosmopolitan who !
knows more tongues than her own.
AS the wife of Prince David Kawa- |
nanakoa, brother to Cupid Kalani- [
anaole, Hawaiian Representative to /
Congress, she has been for years one /
of the hostesses of the Queens friends, |
and the Queen, as every one knows, is
a true cosmopolitan. Her husband,
though cousin of the Queen, is, as she
insists with much decision, mo states-
man, no politician, only a plain gen.
tleman of leisure
Seated in Turkish fashion against the
pillows and enveloped in a roomy
kimono, the Princess made as mag
nificent a figure in her dressing-room
as standing on the deck of the big
steamer, and had one found audience
at that moment, as 1 did, and in one
glance sought to discover the most
lovely of the group of pretty Hawaiian
girls running in and out, all in the
early kimono stage of dressing, it
would not have been any more diff
fcult than it was for me, the glance
would not have been satisfied with less
than their chaperon, the Princess.
TEN SCHOOL FRIENDS.
They are all going to school with
me- said she, presenting her sister,
Miss Campbell, a decidedly American ,
little blonde. There are ten of them,
ali friends from Honolulu, and l am /
aking them to New York, where they
ire all in various boarding schools.
"Oh, yes, we in Honolulu have come
% the United States for school for
5ears and years; boys and girls from
III of the wealthy families like it, and ,
hat they shall go to school here is the
accepted thing, not" she averred with .
great emphasis, because the schools :
ire better here; we won't admit that ,
lot because the schools are any better: ,
'ut for the change, to see the world :
o know things as they are"
Then the Princess talked of a great =,
many things in rapid succession. from =
'olo to picnics, to the Queens recep- ,
ions, to the progress of Honolulu: ,
'olo first, for an English grandfather !
las conferred upon this woman of the =
uno physique the true sportsman's !
owe of the only game.
SPORTS IN HONOLULU.
I'm Honolulu sports are always first. II
We all love polo; we all play; we are c
III devoted to it, and L (ardently) L Q
owe it best of all. Next comes surf C
iding. No one knows how much that n
means to us. 1t is really our national '
Then there are the pic T
lics, of course. Automobiles have Z
made them popular, but they have al c
rays been an important part of anuse- s
nent with us. We do not become blase f
n that which makes up outdoor life. a
IN, often we take our luncheon TO the a
ountry in automobiles and wagonettes.
pend the day and come back to the
ity by moonlight. We build our
ouses with the great, wide lanais.
verandas) to get the benefit of the de- !,