Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-27
RESPONDS.
To NIITATIONOF
FAIR COMMISSION.
Offers John Effinger Pointers
on Decorations of Hawaii
Exposition Building

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! The following communication has
been addressed to John Effinger. the
newest member of the Hawaii Fair
Commission. In response to his sug-
eestioA that the ladies OF the terri
tory be called upon for suggestions as
to the plan for decorating the Hawaii
building. 81
{ The letter is written by one Of the
ladies suggested by Mr.. Effinger as
being possessed Of ideas that would
prove Invaluable to the commission
and reads: ~ ~. - i
Honolulu. T. H., May &c, 1914.
Mr.. John Effinger, ~,
I Dear Sir: II gives me great pleas.
IRE to read in the papers that you
are going to give the ladies' chance
to help plan the decorations for the
Hawaiian building at the Panama.Pa.
cific Exposition In 1916. As you have
been kind enough to think of me in
naming the first few, thought that
You might like to read little about
some OF the ideas which Immediately
presented themselves to my Hawaiian
NnlOh ! nave ueC-
Grated many mansions.
For an assembly or reception room,
how would 1t be to have the entire
ceiling and freize, extending down sew.
eral feet, Of tapa put on like wall
paper. II the terra Gotta and brown
designs were used, the pieces pasted
near the center could be the thickly
designed or covered, and the parts
near the wall the variety lighter and
less ornamented. Tapa is expensive.
II the proper papers were sscuredl
ahead Of time, clever painter could
give the desired effect In very mex
pensive materials. have used tapaI
on ceilings and walls to good effect.
We must try to take our Hawaiian
materials and apply them with mod.
ern design but step short of having al
ridiculous imitation, poorly executed.
So much for the ceiling, unless the
lights belong to that part of a room
For Hawaiian evening at the XII,
lohana Art League, we derived q beau
tiful effect in lighting, by having
leaves and lined with green paper.
How would 1t be TO have the shades
made to represent huge hanging bas.l
kets of ferns, with ropes of foliage to-
represent LET'S on which to swing them.
from the ceiling?
At the places on the ceiling where
the ropes are fastened could be huge
round bouquets or rosettes of ferns.
If we begin at once, we could make
artificial fern leaves Of wire and cloth
or other proper materials As must
not cling like q spider to the ceiling
any longer II shall descend TO the
walls. =
OF course, q real Hawaiian lanai
or house should not have any wallis;
For San Franeisco, glass windows on
all sides, covered with an endless
chain of hula skirts, would give an.
effect which i know is unexcelled
where light, ventilation or protection
alternate. II all the walls are not
windows. perhaps shelves OF GALA
bashes and curios could cover the in
teryening space. Now we are down
the walls to the place where a Hawai-
Ian Hikiee could travel the entire dis
lance around the room. Please do
not have a little two-foot window seat
effect.
IL It is seven feet wide, the part
near the wall could be used for ex-.
bibiting little canoes, grass houses,
dolls, tapa sticks, cushions and the
hundreds of Hawaiian-made and nat.
ural articles, which every one will
wish to see. / think that large paint
<ings of Hawaii would look well rest,
ing against the walls or hula skirt.
covered windows. placed at irregular
intervals and angles. Hawaiian pot
ted plants could also be placed on this
wide Hikiee.
Last, the floor, painted TO repre-
sent a large Hawaiian mat in wide
plat. H.. - 80.
For furniture, koa chairs and tables,
and tabourety with ferns and palms,
everywhere. #--.-i
In the center a fountain, Of Hawai-
ian moss-covered stones with littleI
let to sprinkle all the handkerchief5
with MALE or aloha perfume. Would I!
it be possible to take any of our
pretty fish? The fountain could re-
present an aquarium and our fish pic
lures shown. =s~.3 r.. i 49,
s Do not let US have any dead fish
in bottles. Do try to make the place
look like our bright, pretty islands.
We want lots OF Hawaiian music,
flowers and ferns, hight and fresh air
and pretty Hawaiian dancing. Why
we are always advertising the old.
fashioned, ugly, vulgar dancing is a
mystery to many who know the arts. /
tic, dainty hula kui.
can see ! large, airy, light in
terror. the buff terra cottas of the
tapas, the tans OF the hula skirts, |
mats and grass articles, the green's
of the ferns and palms, the browns
Of the koa furniture and calabashes.
and the yeIlowRs Of fresh sunflowers,
coreopsis and paper lima leis. The
fresh flowers might be ordered ahead
of time and constantly reDlenished /
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