The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-03

I
The most elaborate affair Of the
week-one might even say of the year
was the reception given at Washing
ton Place yesterday from eleven a. m.
to one p. m. by Her Majesty Queen
Liliuokalani in commemoration of her
seventy-second birthday
Washington Place is one of our his
toric spots, and holds some wonderful
old and dear memories, and affairs
given within it's portals are hailed with
enthusiasm all over the islands. For
tunate indeed are those tourists and
mainland visitors who happen to Ho-
nolulu at this season of the year, when
the annual reception is held, and treas.
ured beyond compare of all the recol-
lections they carry away with them
for life, wherever they may go.
The reception yesterday at Wash
ington Place, smuggling under broad
historic trees and ferns and palms,
was gala with festivities land from
daylight most beautiful presents be-
gan to arrive, from leis to rock crystal,
the former accompanied by every va
riety of delicious foodstuff for the
feast today at Waikiki, and the latter
with marvellous quantities of rare
flowers from the Europeans, of whom
Her Majesty boasts legions of friends
The dining table was heavily laden
with bewildering display of loving
thoughtful takens, all of which, ex-
pensive or inexpensive, are priced by
the queen for the alohas they bring
into her home.
At eight o'clock the Hawaiian band
under the leadership of Captain Henry
Berger, who has serenaded many kings
and queens in former years, played
Her Majestys favorite selections
while she was at breakfast, and at
eleven o'clock the doors of Washing
ton Place were thrown open for the
four or five hundred guests who began
to arrive.
Washington Place was surely a
scene of beauty on this suspicious oc-
casion, and was a revelation of royalty
which stirred even the most accus-
toned spectators of former years.
The entrance hall was banked on all
sides by brass bowls and jardinieres
of delicate pink Duchess roses, in
such profusion one imagined he was
in flower garden set off by royal ka-
hills, whose stands were covered in
the regal tapa cloths. These were of
all colors and varieties from black
to snowy white, red and gold, pale
blue and purple, to combinations of
these shades.
Green and gold formed the charac-
teristic color scheme, MALE leis and
fragrant trailers being charmingly
combined with yellow lima leis of
which, rare as they are, hundreds
were presented in heaping masses by
Her Majesty's ardent Hawaiian
friends and devotees.
The regal Marpesian bust of King
Kalakaua on a carved teak wood pc
destal was adorned with MALE and
lima, and the twelve largest of the
royal kahilis stood about the reception
room where Her Majesty sat to receive
her friends and the public generally.
She was serene, noble and gracious
as ever and was handsomely gowned
in an imported creation of violet chit
fon with velvet stripes of purple in a
deeper shade, made Empire with pas
samentine trimming of silver sequins
and motifs of lilac. With this the
queen wore a tiara of diamonds,
which she formerly wore as a princess
of the realm. Another pretty feature
of the picture was the shower bouquet
of delicate orchids, which was one of