The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-26

Honolulu, with its background O.
mountains, whose tops touch III,
clouds, is one of the most beautffu
spots in the globe. girt round by tn,
blue Pacific and its fringe of snow
white surf. The people, cut off from
the mainland, are largely dependent
upon social functions for their enter.
tainment, and which are therefore
! often very elaborate. While it might
| almost be called an educational CEN
| ter, the inhabitants of California send.
! ing their children here to school long
! before schools and colleges were es-
| tablished there. yet both men and
women have little priggishness or
pedantry. They take their culture
i lightly. There are the great Kameha-
| meha manual training schools, superb
| ly equipped, housed in magnificent
modern buildings, with an admirable
teaching force; st. Louis College for
| Catholic youth: the old missionary
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also literally endowed by the rich
planters, with it's group of fine build
ings; ST. Andrews Priory and Iolani
College. under the control of the Epis-
copal Church; Pacific Institute for
Chinese. japanese and Hawaiians:
with the public schools, which are also
tic buildings, the course of study con-
forming to that prescribed in the
United States. With all these faeili-
ties at hand, the young men and wo-
men of the weather. families are sent
to Yale, Harvard or Princeton. the
young women to Wellesley, Vassar or
Smith, often finishing abroad. The
University Club, one of the largest
clubs in Honolulu. has in it's roster
men who have taken degrees in the
institutions above named, at st. An
drew's and Edinburgh, London, Ok
ford and Cambridge. Clubs flourish to
an astonishing degree, and other such
organizations are the Commercial, the
Merchants Club, and the Kilohana
Art League, with its cultured member
ship of local writer's, artists and mu-
sicians. 1t takes it's name most clev-
erly from the kilohana. which was the |
finest native cloth, the outermost
coverlid on the native bed, and which !
illustrated the highest Hawaiian con- |
ception of decorative art. The Kilo-
hama Art League has a good building i
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permanent exhibition room. a library, |
an audience room, where musical and |
other entertainments are given, and /
where the Symphony Society, of which |
the German citizens are the moving |
spirits, hold their rehearsals.
The Country Club is a new depar-
ture. It has a membership of sew !
eraT hundred. both men and women be-
ting eligible. 1t owns 800 acres of land, /
which within the short space of a |
year has been redeemed from a will
derness of lantana,- set in grass. which
now clothes a fine, smooth lawn.
There are wonderful golf links and
good tennis courts, an artistic club
house, from the verandas Of which t
are unsurpassed views of mountains,
deep narrow valleys, the sea, and the
distant roofs of the city. Here may
be heard the enhancing song of the
skylarks. which We're introduced from.
England few years ago, the nests of !,
which are carefully protected. The
Country Club is about four miles from
the business district, up the Nuuanu
Valley at the foot of the mountains,
a pleasant drive, or a short run by
motor.
. There is a good deal of taste for
music, a native band and orchestra
being maintained by the Territorial
and which plays in the
parks, at the departure of the steam
ers, and on all public occasions, but
there is nothing approaching the en-
thusiastic and generous patronage
which Sydney. Melbourne and other
cities give, almost as a
matter of course, to any artist deserV-
ing the name LuncheOns and dinners
are ceremonious and frequent, and are
served with great elegance. The fire.
ouent presence of distinguished men
and women who visit Hawaii on their .
way to the Orient, or in making the /
tour around the globe, is an occasion
of much entertainment of this nature.
4 certain local color is given the din
ner by including native dishes in the
menu. especially some one of the many
fine varieties of fish wrapped up IN a |
thick ii leaf, baked breadfruit or taro /
The pleasure of the guests is en-
HANGED by the presence of the sing !
ing boys-native vocalists, who, clad t
in white. wearing thick leis or gar
lands of fragrant plumaria or tube |
roses around the threats, sing native
songs to the accompaniment of the
ukulele or Hawaiian mandolin and
guitar They also furnish the music i
for balls, the singing being peculiarly
effective, the dancers keeping step to |