Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-05
DR.. E. s. Goodhue in Sympa-
thetic Terms Tells of Play
week Impression
BY Or. {. s. eoooHUE

ORGANIZED pleasure gets tiresome
and the end Of a weeks carnival may
be very welcome.
At last 10 be able TO sit quietly at
bone without the call Of the street.
is real privilege.
II was a great week, no doubt.
pleasant and profitable to our numer-
Gus guests tin the end. the man who
buys legitimate pleasure gets more
for mis- money than the one who sells
iit): OF lasting benefit TO the city.
and for every one. educatiye and stim-
ulsting.
Besides, the daily routine OF work
which may grow irksome even In Ha-
wall, needs shifting by come such
process OF gaiety.
We must be drawn towards child.
hood again, and come 20 sense of
joyous irresponsibility that knows no
past or future.
Children played the most import
ant part in cur pageant: without them.
there would have been no Carnival,
and only insofar as we became chill
dren again were We real participants
in the festivities now so successfully
ended
There were some things to jar the
spirit OF an adult; TO shock perhaps
the sensitiyeness and refinement
which grows out of experience and
knowledge OF life.
IL was only the child'spiritr- the
Inconsistencies of youth. which would
See no evil In the hula.
I a. 20
any normal child, and by men and
women with young hearts it must
have been taken as a very unimpres-1
ssye incident In the long order OF
festivities.
| am not defending such an exiibi-
ton IL It Is TO be emphasized as harm
full by any one Possibly, in a mixed
crowd it would provoke remarks
which should not be said or heard.
but l am merely saying that, under
the circumstances to most persons
who saw II, the hula called for no
more notice than the hasty mating of
bird or zee.
They may be looked upon as
phase of life and nature; or they may
not
Certainly the children who did not
see such things" formea the principal
joygiving part Of the Carnival.
The parade of floats represented an
amount Of thought and effort almost
incalculable. All honor to the father
of 1t.
But. after all, It only represented
things; 1t was q picture always less
than lifo {foolf. man ,ynn,ar, and
children-the people.
To see them as they thronged the
streets in eager anticipation and salts
fled pleasure, was the best part Of
the show
Nothing in il was tawdry or insin-
cere Here were Gods neyer-ending
yonders-indtvidua entity, racial
types and characteristics, faces,
smiles, laughter, talk.
The Japanese lantern parade was
certainly wholesome and sweet in its
entirety. II was not only kindly
evidence of what our japanese citi-
zens can do. and are willing to do; 1t
was carried out with courteous con-
sideration for the feelings of all ma
tionalities at time hedged by sus.
cept1D1llty.
There was only one flag-the Stars
and Strlpes-displayed by a people
who love their own colors perhaps
better than we do ours.
We may Justly criticize the Japan
csc for many things. and their faults
mix with their virtues. but we may
well accept their considerateness at
its real value
The ehildren's festival none of us
may forget. There was no flaw in It.
clean. pure. exuberant, dear as child.
hood is.
How the sweet voices of the little
japanese children as they sang their
responsive choruses-I hear them yet.
A lack Of interest in tableaux,
statuesque representation of things
historical or otherwise, probably dis.
qualities me from an opinion on the
series at Kapiolani Park. But it had
its place, probably an important one,