Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-21
PARADISEOF THE
PACIFIC CHARMS
WONANSCLuB
Address, Illustrated by Beauti'
full Sides, Shows Various
Points of Interest

Hawaii, The Paradise of the Pa
fific." was fascinatingly portrayed by
lecture and lantern, in the high school
hall yesterday afternoon before the
Woman's club, by William r. Castle.
Jr.. professor of English in Harvard
University, says the Newburyport
Mass Herald Of December }.
1t certainly is a land Of riotOus
color and spectacular scenery and its
people seem to have the joyousness
and back-to-nature spontane1ty OF
Eden. Longevity there is extraordi-
, nary.
DR.. Abby Noyes Little read a report
! of the last meeting of the Association
of Infant Mortality which she attend
ed.
Miss Eleanor J. Little. president OF
the club and of considerable local
! fame as a lecturer on Hawaii, herself
presided, and after the usual busl-
ness meeting introduced Prof. VIII
liam r. Castle, Jr.. Of Harvard, who
thoroughly Identifies himself with
Hawaii and in his introduction ex-
.pressed deep sympathy with the de-
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native point of view.
In regard to this great nation s
coming into possession of all the
crown lands, Prof Castle said, I'VE
who live there feel that it would have
been courteous in these United States
to have given the queen little OF the
| crown property, at least her own pri
/ vate property, and that, out or the
millions of royal revenues, 1t was Eru'
tai not to allow her the 100000 when
was all she requested"
| or the clear and beautiful slides
y shown, Honolulu took the precedence
j as the usual landing place Of tourists
land greatest port. :" II,
i Honolulu is nearly imprcgnable
] and surrounded by such rough seas
that it isn't counted against you II
you are seasiek in getting there said
the lecturer. The ocean steamer Is
seen sailing through an ocean OF
stage greenness and clearneSsf with
the bcbbing heads of the little mon
| key-like natives all around 1t. At the
landing wharf is suspended a great
shark. As we admire its stark ferocIty
we are told that the Hawaiians es
TEEN these leviathans for food ant
obtain them by diving underneath
them and stabbing upward! There
J will be found few white men WHIT
| even in black silk tights are willint
| to dive under Brother Shark and knife
him. = r. r
"The government buildings you WI
think to be rather ugly architecture
but yet they are wonderfully set II
the landscape The white coral pal
aces sits so we'll among its greer
palm trees, It is matter of regre
THAT there are SO few white building
| / in Hawaii. !" ' .sa .* w..
As the slide picturing the Old Pee
Hple's Home materialized on the can
lyas. with the swiftness Of Aladdin
Il palace, the lecturer said:
sThe old men and women are fror
so to 105 or 106 or so. Last summe
q young man OF SO was married to
woman of 95. Having reached thi
happy refuge in its gardens of frui
and flowers, and being relieved of q
tilabor and care, the old people seer
to think it would be absurd to di
and leave it. ~.
| "The Sandwich Islands are a Ian
of flowers. Great walls Of nigh
blooming cereus, hedges of hibiscu
of all shades and trees crimson wit