The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12

eiess anu customs far more than they dc in Cali
orha IN iact' In passing through many of the
Villases on the Dig sugar and pineapple planta-
tons, the visitor is reminded oP tba ooun+rv
towns in Japan.
III is the exception in Hawaii when one meets
today a native Hawaiian of pure blood. The best
CROSS is that between the Hawaiian and the Chi
nese, the oriental blood giving that business abl-
ity which the native lacks. Next IN this comes
the Japanese and Hawaiian, a blend that produces
many beautiful girls. The energy of the white
man is greatly impaired by union with the Ha-
walian. With this blending of races is a complete
breaking down of the usual racial lines. In Cali
fornla the Japanese has no social standing and
a white girl who marries a Japanese is ostra-
cized. In Hawaii the Japanese and the Chinese,
when crossed with the Hawaiian, has as good a
social position as the whites.
This extraordinary cosmopolitanism was shown
very clearly at an entertainment given In Homo
lulu. 1t was a variety performance for the benefit
of charity, held in the roof garden of the Alex
ander Young hotel, and all Honolulu society was
out in force. Girls of great beauty, with COM
pleXions like rare porcelain, had the slant eyes of
the Mongolian;t others had almond eyes and the
dusky skin of their mothers; others were dark as
southern negroes, with thick lips and bold, rugged
features-representatives of the native race which
is fast disappearing. And all these people Of va.
rious races mingled in perfect amity and good
will.
1t is curious to observe the absolute breaking
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cars and at all public places and Entertainments
The man who is used to the Jim Crow cars for
colored people In all our southern cities will be
startled in Honolulu to see a dusky Hawaiian
woman, with her bundles of household purchases,
drop down into the seat beside him on any crowd
ed street car Of Honolulu, or a Japanese or Chi
nese share his seat, with no feeling that he is
an intruder. 1t is this absolute assumption of
social equality by what we have come to regard
inferior races that gives a shock to the American
visitor to Hawaii. But after the first surprise
one is apt to admire this new social equality,
which takes no count of race or creed or train
ing, of color of skin or setting of the eyes.
The two most wonderful sights in Honolulu are
the work of man. These are the Aquarium and
the Bishop museum. The first belongs to the city,
and, because of the extraordinary variety and
coloring of the fishes, 1t surpasses in interest the
great Aquarium at Naples. The other was found
ed by Charles Reed Bishop, a wealthy merchant
of Honolulu, in memory of his wife, the Princess
Pauahi, who was the great7granddaughter of the
ruling chief at the time Of Captain Cooks visit
and a direct descendant Of Kamehameha the
Great. The museum is housed in a fine stone
building in the center Of the Kamehameha school
grounds at Kaliki, a suburb of Honolulu.
The Aquarium is located near the famous Wal
kiki beach and is easily reached by a car ride of
about twenty minutes. The building is unpre-
tentious, and the tanks are not arranged with
the art shown in the Naples Aquarium. What
impresses the visitor almost at the outset is the
wonderful variety Of the fishes and their equally
wonderful coloring. To describe them as they are
laws one open to the charge of exaggeration.
Not only are there fish of fiery red, deep blue,
light blue, orange and other primary colors, but
these colors are blended In many variations Of
stripes and other eccentric markings. Then, too,