The Washington herald., 1908-05-14

Special Correspondence The Washington Herld-
Honolulu. Hawaii, March Sl-Beautiful
Honolulu. the metropolis Of the mid
Pacific. disputes with ancient Babe! for
the polvglot championship Of the world.
Within a stones throw Of the capitol Of
Hawaii. formerly the palace OF the queen.
is a vacant lot IN which Is displayed
a warning placard which screams def
ance in seven languages. Not a public
highway" That is English. 'kapu." That
IS Hawaiian. MAO Sc passe aQui.' That
Is Portuguese. And then the hysteric paint
brush says the same ming in Chinese,
japanese. and Korean, and finally It turns
10 good old American slang and says,
''skiddoo, 3" This property owner IN
his desire to keep the wanderers OF his
grass. has paid a great tribute TO the
cosmopIitanism OF Honolulu. Great Ameri-
can cities which have received the enor-
nous influx of a European immigration
are to-day enormous congresses Of all
nations. but il must be remembered that
Honolulu has only 40.0o inhabitants.
Truly cosmopolitan as 1t Is, it Is also
very metropolitan in many Of its aspects
Despite its great Oriental population. its
Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines; de-
spite its sitting under an extinct volcano;
despite its blue tropic skies and its luxu-
RANT troplc foliage. Honolulu is truly
American city. modern and Up to date
and II looks the part
Probably not more than 5000 Of its in
habitants are American or British in
blood. Nevertheless the American clemens
dominates. as It has dominated ever
since a little band of New England mis-
sionaries landed here eighty-eight years
ago. one Of the most interesting OF The
sights" of Honolulu IS the Kaiulan
School. one Of the public schools named In
honor OF the beautiful Princess Kaiulani
who was heir apparent to the Hawaiian
throne when Queen Liiiuokalani was de
throned. The Kaiulani School is attended
each day by about six hundred embryo
American citizens. There are 59S Of these
COO who are non-American parentage. Just
two of the 600 are Americans It is sig
nifieant fact that these two American
children are dominant in their respective
grades. and are the leaders in TIE games
and embryo organizations which the chill
/ dren 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 hairdresslng in Kaiulani School
as there were in the rufled brain OF hin
/ who Invented the ondulation Marcel
| Japanese girls with hair on paper trusses
| japanese girls with pompadours la iii
nois; Korean boys with topknots. and
| Korean boys with hair parted in the mid
/ die; Chinese girls with bangs and bow
/ tows. and Chinese girls with KID roller
/ curls
/ In the morning the children IN the re
ceiving ROOM" where a Hawaiian gir
| is giving the infant class its first homoe'
| pathic dose of English, have song, the
burden Of which is Good Morning" This
simple saIutation is sung first In English
/ then in Hawaiian, japanese, Chinese
| Portuguese, and sometimes in German
! Swedish. Spanish. or French for the sak'
Of variety. After the days work in this
school is done, the Japanese and Chines'
children scamper of for another settle
| In the scnools of their own people, Will.
all the Occidentals go to play. The oil
/ adage that "all work and no play makes
/ Jack a dull boy" Is q bit Of Occidental
wisdom which cannot be stretched TO ap
ply 10 the Oriental
/ Notwithstanding the American appear
!