Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-22
MRS. TITUSSHOWS
LIFE in HAWAII
Gives Intimate Account of Her
Residence in Little Sis
ter Republic


Mrs. Beatrice Smith Titus of Chi
cago gave what she called an init
mate little talk about Hawaii" to
the members of the Harrisburg
Civic Club in the assembly hall of
their official home yesterday after
noon. 1t was the final meeting of
the season and the regular routine
business and the giving of depart
ment reports was omitted. Through
the efforts of the house committee,
Mrs. Robert H. Irons. chairman;
Mrs. William Henderson called the
meeting to order and after being au-
to appoint delegates for the
annual State Federation in October,
she announced the chairmen of the
committees appointed for the Vari-
Gus forms of work during the COM
ing year: Information. Miss Jen-
nlngs; child labor, Mrs John c.
Stlne; current events, Miss Clute;
membership, Miss Eby; consumers
league, Mrs. John Oenslager; hospl-
tallty, Mrs. Lamberton: program and
year book, Mrs. Mabel Cronise
Jones; house, Mrs. Robert Ii. Irons:
vigilance, Mrs. John w. Reilly:
grounds. Miss Martha w. Buehler:
press, Mrs. j. Wood; social, Mrs.
Ray p. NJ. Davis; library. Miss Alice
Il. Eaton; memorial tablets, Miss
Eleanor Skunk. Mrs. Henderson
then introduced the speaker in a
few well-chosen remarks.
From the day of n raging bliz-
zafd In Chicago when the first sug-
gestion came to Mrs. Titus to visit
IIat Ito, I'll.
audience step by step into the lives
and characters of the littles brown
people she had come 10 know and
love so well.
They met us at the steamer,
upon our arrival. with their charm,
ing "Aloa!' (my love to you) and
II never failed us in the whole two
years of our residence there" she
said AS we drove up the main ave-
nue. L had my first glimpse of the
native women sitting upon the
ground the endless ''Ieis" or boas of
iower petals. In Hawaii when one
has a birthday or gives a formal
dinner or has a funeral or does any
of their things that we associate
with boquets and baskets of flowers,
these leis are used. "a Hawaiian may
be barefooted, he may have no hat
and his clothes be ragged and torn
bue he has money for a lei if it be a
fete-day or Sunday.
Simplificd Housekeeping
housekeeping in the Philippines
is simplitied to the last degree
through the employment of Chinese
help. These China boys, be they
II or 40, are as initiative as mon
keys and are as capable as they
are honest and reliable. They take
over the housekeeping budget and
do all the buying and planning of
the menus even for the formal dim
ner parties.
The dress problem is another of
Americas burdens which is swept
away in this land of flowers and ro-
nance. The native Hawaiian wom-
an, whatever her social station,
wears some modification of the
"holoku": satin and chiffon for the
attendant of the palace balls, cheap
cotton material for the daily tasks
of her humber sister This gar
ment is always made on the lines of
the American "mother-hubbard"
full, easy and straight with no COM
plication.
There was grief in the hearts of
the brown race when the little Pa
cific islands were annexed by Uncle
Sam. 1t meant the end of the an
cient monarchy whose kings and
queens had been simple e-nlinded peo-
pie anxious to do their best by their
subjects and whose history and folk
lore dated far, far back The day
their flag was lowered and the Stars
and Stripes raised in its place. the
grounds of the palace were crowded