The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-29

D.. vi Ni.f SAM NaANNN"IN| h'..
or aces full on kings
! And why Achi Is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings
The Walus and the Carpenter
Were strolliug hand in hand
They wopt like anything tO see
Such quantities OF land
And why no farmers were Boz sight
They could not understand
If seven ships with immigrants
Were 10 Doe hurried here.
DO you suppose. the Wa'rus s3id
They'd own land in a gplr2
doubt it said the Carpenter
And shed a bitter tear
= - .
In my walks about town during the
week was drawn 90 the coy cottage
of the Wic0Nes in the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel aarlIot Robert 50 WiIcDN
. large. comfortable. secure sort of q
. man with a big, benevolent. business
eye. congress shoes. light tliu-sfripod
. fanneIs and "a four-bit cigar was feed
II ing mother cat of the tiger variety
with Washington pie and chicken. Tie
welcomed me within and handed me
b mate 90 his rich smoke and told me all
about The cat o. seemed she had re-
s Gently kjstencd and ho and Ella
: Wheeler Wilcox had wondered where
. she had hidden her little coupons.
Z For three days a search was made
, and they were finally found iu the linen
} closet i'm the tower Of the Hawaiian.
They had been brought down and
placed i'm box on the yeranda of the
70 WiIcox cottage, but in the night fol-
lowing a dog or something had scared
the mother and she had packed the
. kittens back 20 the linen closet. The
mother continued to call for rations
and she was well cared for.
Ella had related the cat story at n
society function and numerous ladies
20 had asked to be given a Wilcox kitten
for a pet, Former Governor Carter
20 finally saying he would send round his
automobile for the cat and her brood
r when the Wilcoxes were about to de-
part and he would see that the kittens
got good homes
Mr. Wilcox and | talked Japanese
= situation, financial conditions, Ha-
l waiian history, government problems
Pearl Harbor, psychology cats and
ants until Ella Wheeler returned FROM
N a call.
ID She was a vision in twilight, a pur.
" pie poem. From under a CONNECTION o.
IL hat her astral eyes shot couplets
3 quatrains and seven-lined stanZas o
=. soul-sentiment she slipped the swee
-. scent of vioets in a cluster at he
70 throat and she was tipped with layen
r, der booties on silken hose
r. II have seen a hula" said she
or Everybody sees the hula" said
O. ooh, but this was real hula" urget
ne she, "and they made me promise no
al to tell"
he What do you think of it," inquisi
SO toned !.
by Some of the movements are yer.
Sc pretty" said she; the gestures Of tn
re hands are quite Desartean,' and he
ry fingers began to play some unseen har
en- and the infection spread to her wris
IL until the bracelets struck up a merr
ry melody and fingers and hands wer
. dancing on the air. Contagion ad
vanced to the graceful forearm ant
quite impromptu, Ella Wheeler VIII
n cox had composed a poem with he
ne arms. Then
us when the Hawaiian hula dancer
a. went to Buffalo" said /, there wer
IL many ladies who were anxious to lear
IN from them the hula dance, as ply
C1 steal culture"
,o Il would think what might be game
~ in sinew would be lost in grace" sal
ca she.
n 1T is question that has bee
he bothering local veterinarians and Ell
IS tomologists," said !, whether the hui
es dance or poi produces the greater en-
en- bonpoint"
m Ella Wheeler Wilcox will include
lie poem on the hula in her Hawaiia
lat writings.
ne -
he Does il ever occur to the yariOU
I'D leaders" who constantly bob up an
ke think they can combine the "Hawaiia
vote" that the Hawaiian is about Z
GU hard to lead as the Irishman? III
en- election results all show that I'm spi
VI Of all the efforts to create such far
% tor as a Hawaiian vote, as a defni
~ quantity IT doesn't exist. The HaWa
"a ians have voted Discriminatory ever
as time. My dearly beloved friend Acl
In once produced some significant figure
m to show that they voted whites biggC
lie maiorities than they do Hawaiians,-
nee / think it was Achi, but anyhow II
he analysis Of precinct votes where III
led waiians are thick In many cases SHOW
an. it, The Irish are said to be the chan
pion politicians but how much Of
plea would it be for one Of them to as
cts his fellow patriots votes on the grour
tai that he was Irish? Who would try
Of combine the Irish vote? IT'S much Il
or some with the eloquent Hawaiian, wi
loves politics as much as he does pc
A., Let leader arise among this race, ar
iiH he has to run a gauntlet Of CRITICS
.'e that is too much for a mere mortf
Moreover he always has too mar
10 rivals,-witness our famous first legi