The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-04-12
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III bows, and occasional night rain
ne bows. Blazing sun but fresh
N N breezes and often wild gales
III IN Sea and mast and husky steve
W ~ dores. Green trees and lawns
SEN| down to the oceans edge, on
the brilliant water outrigger
canoes bobbing about, and surf-riders dashing
shoreward. An Arabian Nights wonder OF an
aquarium exhibiting great ugly shark and
h1deous squid that offer strongest contrast to
graceful small fishes tinted like unto the rain
bow arch before the Koolau mountains Val
ley after valley cutting the range that walls
Honolulu along the side opposite the
Cloud draped mountain peaks towering above
the town, ever inviting and challenging the be-
holder Flowers abloom on numberless hedges
and various tall poisoning trees. Brown
skinned men wearing hats wreathed with fresh
posies and ferns. Old Hawaiian crones and
young Hawaiian women sitting on shaded side
walks weaving wreaths and exchanging
badinage with tourists and Jackes. Milling
tary," enlisted and commissioned Representa-
t1Ves OF races ranging from subjects Of the
car, from the land of the Great Bear, all the
way to folk from lower Polynesia Between
these extremes the jostling of European and
Korean, New Highlander and Filipino, Porto
Rican and Chinese, with now and then a tall
white robed Hindoo, and swarming everywhere
Japanese men, women and babies.
Children, children children certainly are a
feature. The streets abound with them, the
tenements overflow, automobiles are crowded
to capacity with the rising generation. The
world hears repeated reference to the Ha-
waiians as dying race, but the part-Hawaiians
are unquestionably doing their duty toward
populating Tho Islands; large families are
the rule with the half-white Hawaians, and
the Chinese-Hawaiians all about the town. big
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ture. In the so-called Oriental quarter-al-
though now the Japanese are so numerous they
pop up in all portions of HonoIulu-the new
conner is stuck by the army of fond fathers
the dot1ng Snale parent, Chinese or Japanese
tenderly toting offspring up and down in hours
OF leisure, the hunched-up Oriental live doll
very fat at,d impressive and philosophical Jan
women pass along continually with anywhere
from two to four chubby babies clinging to the
mother-nayhap one tied to her back, one
carried before, two toddlers trying Iocomotion
for themselves.
The other day heard a newcomer remark
rs she surveyed a street in Chinatown: ~
never III my life have seen so many men
nurses, and how fond the. Chinese seem OF
their babies" 1t is all very different from
the Sunday school tales We used to read about
the cruelty Of the Chinese fathers who were
painted as ogres forever devouring unweicome
iHldulS. IleTe-peTndpS because so many or
the men are kept by the laws OF Uncle Sam
from having their wives and families Join
them the babies in the occasional Chinese
families appear to be household idols, objects
of worship and alteration. From the tenements
and novels these idols emerge decked out in
most remarkable hues and embroideries borne
aloft In the proud daddy's arms, they look
down with condescension and hauteur upon the
world at large.
The street cars day after day offer some
thing novel and interesting. or continued in
terest is the young Chinese girl standing with
hesitant feet between the new and the old
Her dress is that of her people and class long
loose jacket and wide trousers-a distinctly
feminine costume in spite of the bi-furcated
garment. Her smooth plastered hair with the
pure gold band in the fiattened knob at the
nape of the neck, her delicate complexion en-
HANGED by bit of rouge, the bracelet of gold
and jade, the slim beringed fingers, all bespeak
care with the toilet, care of appearances
About these girls there is an air Of reserve and
self-respect; they do not suggest, are not, the
painted ladies" of civilization.
Occasionally on the street may be seen
litte-footed woman not long ago l noticed
one that was Fastening to catch our car. and
as the conductor and motorman made unusual
ty long halt for her accommodation, they in
obliged in appraisal of her appearance, con-
Guided that she was real cute" She certainly
was gotten up regardless, bright blue silk, rich
" embroidered, and pearls for her jewels. A
passenger said that probably she was wife
number one and that the plainly-dressed wom-
an with her, attlred in what looked like cheap
black silesia, probably was wife number two,
= sort of handmade for the former Whatever
their relations, they consorted together very
amiably on this occasion, appeared to be
enjoying their outing with zest. 1t is only OF
late Chinese women have begun to appear on
the streets OF Honolulu with anything like
the frequency of women of other races. And
this. am told, is significant of the increase
of freedom Chinese women are enjoying in the
freedom that has spread to the
colonists.
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