The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-07

FOR TEA
LADIES TO STIR HONOLULU UP
TO THE MODERN TEA-GARDEN
CIVILIZATION.

| A "tea-garden" wave has hit Homo
| lulu and whether it is to be allowed
to fall back into the ocean os inaction
or is to be taken advantage of, re-
mains with the initiative of people now
given an opportunity of filling the
proverbial long felt want and at the
same time coming riches for them
seles
If sentiment, without initiative, could
create, there would at this moment
! arise somewhere near the center of the
city an attractive retreat where there
could gather ladies who might ap-
pease their appetites for a sup of good
tea amidst pleasant surroundings.
Tourists would appreciate it and
the shoppers of Honolulu would be
steady patrons of such a soothing
sanctuary. Army officers and many
other gentlemen, too, would appre-
ciate the establishment of so popular
an institution.
| These ideas are not spontaneous,
but constitute the expressed opinions
of ladies who are very emphatic in
their remarks on what they consider
| a woefu lack of convenience in city
! otherwise so attractive.
Said one of Honolulu's newest lead
ers among thoughtful young women
| this morning: at is indeed sur
prise to discover Honolulu to be tea
gardenless. / noticed it the first
thing. You known, one gets tired
shopping in Honolulu sooner than one
would weary of the occupation In
| most cities of the mainland. 1t is
perhaps the climate. I am sure, If
there were such a comfort as a TEA
garden near the heart of the town,
there would really be more shopping,
for don't you see, if the ladies coulo
find cup of well-made tea, served in
dainty china the surroundings being
cool and pleasant and restful, they
would be refreshed to the extent OIL
renewing their onslaught on the coun-
tiers of your stores, whereas now many
go home sooner than otherwise for
the reason that they are tired and
md no resting place.
1T is all very we'll to say that we
can go to a restaurant for cup of
tea, or patronize the. soda-fountains,
but when one wants tea one does not
want soda-water, and the process OF
getting tea in restaurant is foreign
to the restfulness one would wish;
besides, in a tea-garden one would
meet people one would be glad tC
chat with awhile. l have spoken to
many Honolulu ladies on this subJecl
and they are very enthusiastic over
the idea and I'm sure there Will be
an attempt made to get a couple OF
ladies to put up just such tea-gar'
den or tea-house as is desired. There
should be a good living in it, unless
the restaurants should successfully
knock the enterprise. One lady roIt
me there was no use in trying t.
start an affair of this kind, for tn,
reason that the restaurants would dC
their best to drive 1t odt of business
But I am more hopeful, and I do be
lieve that the patronage would be sue
j that a tea-house would be bound Z
win.
Honolulu will not be complete I'm
til she gets such an establishment
I'm going to see what I can do to sti
up the right people to back the schem
and get a couple of girls, perhaps,
go in and win a comfortable living {
the enterprise and at the same tin
Z
do hope all the newspapers will hel
along the good work"