Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-09-11

dress and customs far more than thew do in Calf
iolhla' III Iact' IN passing through many of the
villages on the big sugar and pineapple planta-
tons the visitor is reminded of the country
towns In Japan
IL is the exception in Hawaii when one meets
To-Day native Hawaiian of pure blood The best
cross is that between the Hawaiian and the Chi
nese the oriental blood giving that business abil-
lty winch the native lacks. Next to this comes
the Japanese and Hawaiian blend that produces
many beautiful girls. The energy of the white
man is greatly impaired by union with the Ha
waiian With this blending of races is complete
breaking down of the usual racial lines In Cali
lorna the Japanese has no social standing and
white girl who marries a Japanese is ostra
cized. In Hawaii the Japanese and the Chinese
when crossed with the Hawaiian has as good
social position the whites.
This extraordinary cosmopolitanism was shown
very clearly at an entertainment given in Homo
lulu. 1t variety performance for the benefit
of charity, held in the roof garden of the Alex
ander Young hotel, and all Honolulu society
out In force. Girls of great beauty with COM
plexions like porcelain, had the slant eyes of
the Monaghan; others had almond eyes and the
dusky skin of their mothers; others were dark as
southern negroes with thick lips and bold. rugged
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the native which
is fast disappearing. And all these people of
rious races mingled in perfect ,amity and good
will.
1t Is curious to observe the absolute breaking
down of all race prejudice the street
cars and at all public places and entertainments
The man who is used to the Jim Crow for
colored people in all our southern cities will be
startled In honolulu to 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, Japanese or Chi
nese share his seat, with feeling that he is
an intruder. II Is this absolute assumption OF
social equality by what have come to regard
inferior that gives shock to the American
visitor to Hawaii. But after the first surprise
one is apt to admire this social equality
which takes no count of creed or train
ing of color of skin 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 fret belongs to the city.
and. because of the extraordinary variety ana
coloring OF the fishes 1t surpasses in interest the
great Aquarium at Naples The other was found
ed bv Charles Reed Bishop. wealthy merchant
of Honolulu in memory of his wife, the Princess
Pauahi who was the great-granddaughter OF the
ruling chief at the time of Captain Cooks visit
and n direct descendant of Kamehameha the
Great The museum is housed in fine stone
building in the center of the Kamehameha scnool
grounds at Kaliki a suburb OF Honolulu.
The Aquarium is located near the famous Wal
kihd beach and is easily reached by car ride of
about twenty minutes The building is UMPIRE
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 omen to the charge of exaggeration.
No, only are there fish of fiery red, deep blue,
light blue orange and other primary colors but
tbesa colors are blended in many variations or
str,nes and other eccentric markings. Then, too.