The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-09-15

,,bington, D. c., Sept. 12.-Dur-
s" the last few months, Hawaii
ng ,s ' to have invaded the United
ksenls " The ukulele, which was al
ale,, Unknown at this time last year,
posi- .nw u he purchased in every mu-
y pay store or from Tallahassee to osh-
kn.b. h, from Tombstone to patcho-
osD' and has at least one devotee in
pe, ''IM boarding house. Alleged Ha-
et! melodies, which are syncopat-
Falia[li ; i;an,itations of the native folk
r4s lt are sung everywhere. The
naass' lnDiiCa reviews in New York are fea-
nus,[ na Hawaiian acts, and there are
ai1n1b ,n 1bulas to be seen in all the caba-
iaS y. Nearly all of the magazines
sS' sa arriving articles about Hawaii,
u an an Hawaiian play recently made a
eItit T. IS hard to explain. The Sand
,ilh III Islands have been there all this
sn !nn hi hut apparently we have just
nur' nnn to notice their existence. They
w tsur uo,ioying a popularity such as
s0v 'S have not known since Captain
rnck 'J discovered them, or at least
ivce vSe Mark Twain rediscovered them
ad NV cot the world laughing with his
.mons lecture half a century ago.
nesnite the wide advertising which
NAV Nv have been given recently, how
l.y pss lbp Islands are really almost un-
I,ovn s,, to the general public. The
'Tprage citizen is aware that the
u.waiian ladies' wear very short
Rnirts iaJ made of a good grade of Kan
ss hav, and that they play ukuleles
nj sIide around in the ocean on fiat
|nards-and that is about all.
Slowly Disappearing.
little known is the wonderful story
4 thc Hawaiian people, who have ad-
r,rced within a century from bar
%rism to civilization, who have lived
rrder barbaric empire, a constitu~
tonal monarchy, and a republic, and
lave finally become a part of the
United States-and meantime have
een slowly disappearing. The Ha-
yaian story has been one of pathos.
4 nature-people of unusual mental
and physical endowments, they tried
| d meet civilization halfway when it
nme to their Islands; but the con-
| act proved fatal. The outside
world brought them wealth and
knowledge, but also disease and vice
and alcohol. When Captain Cook
discovered the islands in ITS, he es-
|imated that there were nearly half
Ia million people living upon them.
Nov there are not ten per cent OF
|hat number of pure blooded Hawai-
|ans
The Hawaii that makes such a
good subject for songs and stories
|snd plays, the Hawaii that takes such
READY hold of the popular magma
|ann, is that of over a century ago,
| when first the islands were discover
led by white men. ''The paradise Of
|the Pacific" at that time to some eX-
tent deserved its name. The islands
| had remarkably healthy and equa-
|He climate; they were beautiful as
always; and they were devoid of all
large and dangerous beasts; while
sweet potatoes, yams, cocoanuts and
|sher tropical products could be rails
led by moderate labor. AS a result
|0f these conditions, life was easy and
| Safe; the people were largely vegeta-
tians, although they had few pigs
and dogs; they had neither to hunt
|1Or to fight natural enemies. The
| effect of their largely vegetable diet
was to make them even tempered, fat
land easy-going. They had to work
| just hard enough to keep them from
|iileness; but not hard enough to
|nake life a burden. They had
abundant opportunity to develop their
wonderful barbaric gift for music and
literature, to tell their folk tales, and
|sing their songs into which they wove
1.-THE voices of surf and forest, making
"a plaintive and unique sort of melody
that will live when all of them are
|gOne.
Beauty of Skin and Feature.
They were a fine tall people, with