The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-03-18
Honolulu
Newsletter
Racy Paragraphs From the Capitol On
Current Topics.
(By Oscar Brenton. }
Honolulu, March ID.

The poi situation is getting seri-
Gus here in Honolulu where the
government has closed down the
shops operated by the Chinese and
forced the people to take their ma
tional dish from the factory at
Kalihi. And there is no serious
objection to this on the part of con-
sumers of this delectable article of
life in the tropics; the rub comes
because the factory cannot get
supply OF taro sufficient to make
into paiai and supply the demands.
The fraternalism that was never
known to exist among the Mongo-
llans is cropping out now and the
taro planters of that nationality
have banded themselves SO strongly
that there is no telling where it will
all end. There is talk of prosecu-
ton for conspiracy since Represen-
tatlve Coney wired to his constitu-
ents on the Garden Island to send 4
taro to Honolulu and word canfeG
back that there was nothing doing
in that line for the present. Then
Representative Keliinoi secured a
short leave of absence and sailed
away for Maui to consult, it is be-
lleved, the, people in his district
relative to shipping poi to the hun-sz
cry in Honolulu. -
Occasional cases of cholera appear,
among the contacts and an isolated !
case outside the infected districts. !,
The quarantine and the morgue, it
appears, are located in Kalihi with
in sight of the dormitories of the
Kapiolani Home for girls. learn
that half the inmates of the Home
have the fan -tods from seeing the
dead wagon drive up to the morgue.
This is mentioned merely in the hope
that some one of the wise legislators
will accept it as a suggestion for an
exchange OF land so the Home may
be built away. from a place next
door to a pest house and a morgue.
In locality, perhaps, where there
will be less frequent object lessons
for purer, better and more sani-
tary mode of living than many of
the Hawaiians familiarize them
selves with. In place like the
Home, presided over by the Cath
olic sisters, cleanliness of spirit and
flesh is akin to Godliness and a
morgue and the shrieks of the dying
are not needed to remind them of
the uncertainties of life in COM
munity where the mode of living is
conducive to abdominal pain torture.
A smile spread over the counten-
ance of Honolulu on Saturday when
the afternoon papers contained an
account of petition presented to
the court by Sam Parker for an in
crease in the allowance to his ward
and step daughter, Beatrice Camp
bell. Since her mothers death
Beatrice has struggled along on
measely six hundred dollars a
month. She looks the part. For
miss OF scarcely sixteen summers
she has done well if magnificent
gowns, often worn on occasions
when something quieter would have
shown better taste, extended travel
and automobile bills indicate any
thing. Now her guardian, Sam
Parker goes into court and makes
the statement thati is not sufficient
and he sets thousand month as
the proper figure for girl with as
good figure as has Beatrice. OF
course no one is surprised at the
action of Mr.. Parker who is guardian
ad something-or-other. He is used
to making demands for sums in