Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-05
Or. E. S. Goodhue in Sympa-
thetic Terms Tells of Play
week Impression
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4 Organized pleasure gets tifesome
and the end OF weeks carnival may
be very welcome.
1 Al last 10 be able to sit quietly at
home without the call OF the street.
! Is a real privilege.
/ Il was a great week, no doubt,
pleasant and profitable TO our numer-
Gus guests Gin the end, the man who
buys legitimate pleasure gets more
| for mis- money than the one who sells
iit1; OF lasting benefit to the city.
and for every one, educative and sttrn-
ulating.
Besides, the daily routine of work
which may grow irksome even in Ia
wall, needs shifting by some such
process OF gaiety.
We must be drawn towards child
hood again, and come TO a sense OF
joyous responsibility that knows no
tpast 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 we're 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 sensitiveness and refinement
which grows out Of experience and
knowledge OF life.
II was only the child;spirit-tte
|unconsciousness Of youth, which would
see no evil in the hula.
/ am sure Il was not suggestive to
any normal child, and by men and
women with young hearts II must
have been taken as very unimpres-
siye incident in the long order Of
festivities.
am not defending such an exhibi-
ton IL II is to be emphasized as harm
ful by any one. Possibly. In q mixed
crowd it would provoke remarks
which should not be said or heard.
but am merely saying that. under
the circumstances to most persons
who saw IL, the hula called for no
more notice than the hasty mating of
a bird or zee.
They may be looked upon as a
phase u life and nature: or they may
not.
Certainly the children who did not
see such things" formed the principal
joy-giving part OF the Carnival.
The parade of noats represented an
amount of thought and effort almost
incalculable. All honor to the father
OF II.
But. after all. II only represented
things; IL was q 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.
cere. Here were Gods never-ending
wonders individual entity, racial
types and characteristics, faces,
smiles. laughter, talk.
The Japanese lantern parade was
certainly wholesome and sweet In its
entirety. It was not only q kindly
evidence of what our Japanese citi-
zens can do, and are willing to do; It
was carried out with courteous con-
siderstion for the feelings of all ma
tionalities at time hedged by sus-
ceptibility.
There was only one flag-the Stars
and Stripes-displayed by q people
who love their own colors perhaps
better than we do ours.
We may Justly criticize the Japan
ese for many things. and their faults |
mix with their virtues, but we may |
wei accept their considerateness at
its READ value
The ehildren's festival none Of us
may forget. There was no flaw in II.
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 tabIeaux,
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,
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