Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-09
TALES OUT or SCHOOL
Honolulu. January 7. 1915.


OF surprise as the different engage
ments were announced the early days
OF January are unusually quiet, and
the hall clock seems to tick with mo-
notonous regularity ''dull-day, dull-day,
dulEday."
Society folks are. looking forward
to the masque. ball at Fort Shafter
Tuesday evening. and from what
hear there are to be some wonderful
costumes there. The affair IS, to be
given as a benefit for the Army Re-
lief Fund and from the way the tick
cts are selling it~looks as though the
function is to bring in some pretty
big proceeds. The dance bug has
certainly got Honolulu, for the sug-
gesticn Of the army ladies' that they
raise money by means OF a dance won
hearty favor from everyone.
But then the dance seems to be the
uppermost thought in the minds of all
Americans. In the East the young so
ciety girls have become so enamoured
with the idea of exhibition dancing
that number of them with clever
partners give these exhibitions at var
ious entertainments, adding quite O
sum to their spending money. | was
thinking that there are a number of
Honolulu girls who. are marvelcusly.
expert in the new dances, and Won
dered why some of them do not give.
exhibitions 1t occurred to me later,
though, that 1t would be rather hard
for them to find graceful partners
Most OF the society men here are
such clodhoppers when it comes to
the fox-trot, Pavlowa gavotte and
some Of the other new steps At a
recent affair when dancing exhibit
ton was advertised by some of the
members of the younger set 1t was
suddenly announced that the exhibit
ton would be given by the young Ia
dies alone. or course everyone wen
dered why, and II developed that there
was some doubt as to the terpsicho
rean skill OF the masculine contin,
gent *. tN=
A young man who is visiting IN
Honolulu this winter, speaking OF Ho-
nohlu's feminine dancers, said that
II was toss-lp as to whether Peggy
Center or Ruth McChesney was the
best danmer here. thought he was
rather previous in his remarks for he
never danced with Rosie Herbert or
Carol Low, who are both wonderful in
their Interpretation OF the new terp.I
sichorean feats. ] do not mean to
detract the least bit from the honor
he bestowed upon Ruth and Peggy
for they truly are graceful.
sometimes think that the young
folks in Honolulu miss lot of fun
during the athletic seasons here. The
strong school feeling is not taken up
to any extent except by the contest
ants ia the games themselves. 1t is
SO. different in California, where the
supporters of Stanford and the Uni.
versity of California vie with each
other all the year around The twol
biggest events in the school year are
the championship rugby and baseball
games. Just the night before the
rugby game in November a party OF
Stanford students in an automobile |
rode through Berkeley painting red
SIS" on everything they could find. |
1t so happened that two of the occu.
pants of the car were u. c. girls.
When the wearers of the IS" were
half through their. destructive work a !
party of University of California stu
dents tracked them in another ma.
chine. The race was long one, but
the u. c. boys caught the fugitives
and after stopping their machine pour
ed the blue and gold paint all over
the occupants, running the gowns of
the young ladies, and when they had
finished that, painted the car blue and
gold. The next day Stanford won
an overwhelming victory and, accord
ing to their custom, stacked quantities.
of firewood for their annual bonfire
for the following night The Berke-
leyites were too quick for them,
though, and while they lost the game
they took the glory away from the
bonfire by setting fire to it "a hours /
before the scheduled time. And SO it
is each season when there is a big
game. III ......-
suppose you have heard some OF
the Hawaiian music in California re-
Gently for, from what | am told, the
tLtSiC I1dNdA ONu
ment, is winning favor all over the
state. ! heard the other day that
Kelvin and Alvin Keech are doing re-
narkably well with their uknlele bust.
ness on Powell street and sold guam.
titles of them to Santa Claus. The
Keech brothers lived in Honolulu
when they were in high school and
have hosts of friends here who are
interested in the progress they are
making in their newly organized bust
ness. | understand, too, that they
supply many of the society folk with
Hawaiian music for their dances. Al
vim recently came for visit.
From Chicago, too, comes the word
that the Hawaiian music is being
sung. Recently at an entertainment
given by the Girls Athletic Associa-
ton of Northwestern University, two
pretty goods sang Hawaiian songs.
which proved to be nit of the even
ing +. Il ID. 49,. =
was told by girl IN the younger
set the other day that there is to be
an Oo