Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-14

only 10000 inhabitants.
l. Truly cosmopolitan as 1t Is, 1t is also
very metropolitan in many of its
aspects. Despite its great oriental pop
ulation, its Buddhist temples and Shinto
shrines; despite it's sitting under an
extinct volcano; despite its blue tropic
skies and it's luXuriant tropic foliage,
Honolulu is a truly American city,
modern and up to date, and 1t looks the
part.
Probably not more than 5000 of its in
habitants are American or British in
blood. Nevertheless the American ele-
ment dominates, as 1t has dominated
ever since n little hand of New Eng
land missionaries landed here eighty
teresting of the sights" of Honolulu is
the Kaiulani school. one of the public
schools named in honor of the beautiful
Princess Kaiulani, who was heir APP
parent to the Hawaiian throne when
Queen Liliuokalani was dethroned. The
Kalulani school is attended each day by
about 600 embryo American citizens.
There are 59S of these 600 who are of
nom American parentage. Just two of
the 600 are Americans. 1t is signifi-
cant fact that these two American chill
dren are dominant In their respective
grades, and are the leaders in the
games and .embroyo organizations
which the children have.
There is no attempt at uniformity of
costuming in the American fashion.
There are Japanese boys In skirts and
Chinese girls in trousers. There are as
many styles of hair dressing in Kaiu-
lani school as there were in the ruffied
brain of him who invented the ondula-
ton Marcel. Japanese girls with hair
on paper trusses; Japanese girls with
pompadours la Illinois; Korean boys
with topknots, and Korean boys with
hair parted in the middle; Chinese girls
with bangs and bow tows, and Chinese
girls with kid roller curls.
In the morning the children in the
receiving ROOM" where q Hawaiian
girl is giving the infant class it's first
homeopathic dose of English, have a
song, the burden of which is Good
Morning." This simple salutation is
sung first in English, then in Hawaiian,
Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese and some
times in German, Swedish. Spanish
or French for the sake of variety.
After the days work in this school
is done the Japanese and Chinese
children scamper off for another set
to in the schools of their own people,
while all the Occidentals go to play
The old adage that "all work and no
play makes Jack dull boy is bit of
Occidental wisdom which cannot be
stretched to apply to the oriental.
Notwithstanding the American APP
pearance of that part of Honolulu
which is blessed with modern office
buildings and towering, hotels, which
makes this a truly American city, one
has to wander but a few squares away
to find himself in another world. The
sense of smell is the first of his five
sentinels which warns him that he is
approaching the Oriental quarter. 1t
Is not disagreeable after one is Csed to
it, but it is certainly distinctive and it
is certainly Oriental 1t is a smell of
China and Japan-the odor of Asia.
Prominent in the Oriental quarters of
Honolulu is Newspaper row." Here
in buildings side by side are published
three japanese dailies. one Chinese
daily, a Hawaiian daily and Korean
newspaper. Honolulu has more jap
anese daily papers than English, more
Oriental newspapers than English, Ha-
waiian and Portuguese combined. 1t
has a greater number of periodicals
printed in different languages than any
city of it's size in the United States.