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
sy Or. {. S. ooorHuE

Organized pleasure gets tiresomt
and the end OF a=week's carnival may
be very welcome.
At last 10 be able to sit quietly al
home without the call of the street
is a real privilege. fl.
II was a great week, no doubt
pleasant and profitable to our numer
GUS guests lin the end. the man who
buys legitimate pleasure gets more
for mis- money than the one who sells
tiD; of lasting benefit 10 the city,
and for every one, educatiye and slim
ulsting. .=..-
Besides. the daily routine Of work
which may grow irksome even In Ha'
wall. needs shifting by Ecme such
process OF gaiety.
/ We must be drawn towards child
hood again, and come to sense OF
joyous responsibility that knows no
past or future. s.-..... .....~.
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 :."-.. l..
There we're some things to jar the
spirit Of an adult; to shock perhaps
the sensitiveness and refinement
which grows out of experience and
knowledge OF life. -...
II was only tie child:sEirit,-th
of youth, which would
see no evil in the hula. --% .
am sure II was not suggestive to
any normal child, and by men and
women with young hearts II must
have been taken as very unimpres.
ssye incident In the long order OF
festivities. .s =.
! am not defending such an exnibi-
ton II II is to be emphasized as harm
full by any one. Possibly, in mixed
crowd IL would provoke remarks
which should not be said or heard,
but am merely saying that, under
the circumstances to most persons
who saw 1t, the hula called for no
more notice than the hasty mating of
bird or zee.
They may be looked upon as a
phase of life and nature; or they may
not r. \
Certainly the children who did not
see such things" formed the principal
joy-giying part OF the Carnival
The parade of noats represented an
amount of thought and effort almost
incalculable. All honor to the father
OF It,
But. after all. it only represented
things; II was picture always less
than life itself; men, women 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 it was tawdry or insin.
eere. Here were Gods never.ending
wonders individual entity. racial
types and characteristics, faces,
smiles, laughter, talk.
The Japsnese lantern parade was
certainly wholesome and sweet in its
entirety. II was not only a kindly
evidence OF what our japanese citi-
Gems can do. and are willing to do: It
was carried out with courteous con.
sideration for the feelings of all ma.
tionalities at time hedged by sus-
ceptibility.
There was only one flag-the Stars
and Stripes--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 children's festival none of US
may forget There was no flaw in 1t.
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 yeti
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 1t had
its place, probably an important one,
In the eYnfpSSion of mr. fasfiy;f1, e.