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
By DR.. E. S. cooohuE

A
Organized pleasure gets tiresome
and the end OF a weeks carnival may
be very welcome.
At last to be able to SIT quietly at
home without the call Of the street.
is a real privilege. .~.. 4. .
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
I iii; OF lasting benefit to the city.
and for every enc, educatiye and slim
ulating.
Besides. the daily routine OF work
which may grow irksome even In Ha-
wall. needs shifting By some such
process Of gaiety. a.
We must be drawn towards child
hood again. and come 10 a sense OF
joyous irresponsibilIty that knows no
past or future ~
Children played the most import
ant part In our 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. er .. t..
There were some things to jar the
spirit Of an adult; to shock perhaps
the sensttiveness and refinement
which grows out of experience and
knowledge OF life. -"
IL was only the chIld.spirit-.the
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 1t must
have been taken as q very unimpres-
siye incident in the long order Of
festivities. :...
am not defending such an exnibi-
ton II 1t Is to be emphasized as harm
full by any one. Possibly, In q mixed
crowd 1t would provoke remarks
which should not be said or heard.
but I am merely saying that, under
the circumstances 70 most persons
who saw It, the hula called for no
more notice than the hasty mating OF !
a bird or zee. |
They may be looked upon as a !
phase Of life and nature; or they may |
not. II
Certainly the children who did not |
see such things" formeS 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 Il. /
But. after all, 1t only represented
things; 1t was picture always less |
than life itself: men, women and |
children-the people. i
To see them as they thronged the
streets In eager anticipation and salts 1
fled pleasure. was the best part of |
the show. b
: Nothing in II was tawdry or insin-
cere. Here were Gods neyer-ending i
wonders-individual entity, racial
types and characteristics, faces,
smiles, laughter, talk.
The Japanese lantern parade was
certainly wholesome and sweet In its 1
entirety. II was not only a kindly
evidence of what our japanese citi-l
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-
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
ese for many things, and their faults
mix with their virtues, but we may
we'll accept their considerateness at
is real value ., II,
The children's festival none OF Us
nay 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 tableaux,
itatuesque representation Of things
historical or otherwise. probably dis
Qualities me from an opinion on the
'eries at Kapiolani Park. But 1t had
Is place; probably an important one.