The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1920-04-20
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kauai CORRESPONDENT

with applause for any popular or we'll
represented family. Meantime there
is more or less of commotion, and
anxiety and the fretting of babies, and
unrest of small children in the rear.
1t is the gathering of the forces for
! the real contst.
An Exciting Contest
Finally, amid much suppressed ex-
element ard interest, the members of
the Judd family are calleed upon to
come up onto the stage. A host OF
them gather in, of all ages with
large majority of little children mar
shalled by fathers and mothers and
elderly aunts, and the stage fills up
SO full that the spectator cant count
them. The official tally men, how
ever, carefully check them off and
1 amidst great applause and many con-
gratulations the numbr is reported
63 That is good many more than
ever before,-it will be hard to beat
that.
The Cookies are then called for, and
they file up, and fill the stage, and it
looks to be a case of nip and tuck
And when the count is finally COM
! pleted, behold the Cookies have GA as
against the SO of the Judds-and
amid great applause and many con-
gratulations they file down. 1t trans
pires that newly arrived baby of on
Ily few days standing saved the
situation,-that and another little tot
| just arrived from the coast few days
before.
j Then the interest declines, only to be
renewed in measure by the count
| of the Rices, who number Al. They
are following hard in the rear of the
two big families and are doing we'll.
They may catch up some day!
The Glory Of the Pageant
The pageant was set for 2:30 p. m.
with the conditional provision that IL
the weather was threatening it would
be postponed, and the signal for the
same would be five long whistles from
the Hawaiian Electric Co.
At II o'clock the crowds were NOV
ing toward Punahou and the cars were
becoming more and more crowded,
that, in spite of the fact that thou
sands held tickets for reserved seats,
so didn't need to go early.
Ratified and Lost
Like some two thousand more / was
to march in the procession which
carry banner. But just where in
the procession, and where the banner
was to come from I didn't know. At
the gate however, fell in with well
known member of one of the old fami'
lies who was in the thick of things
thought, SO | appealed to him for help
He said, lust follow me and l will
show you where to go!" and he led me
right by where the line was forming
ana the banners were floating, and
restrained me from joining them
|
ing rooms, as it were, where the
princesses and hula girls and Pele
and her priestesses were putting the
final touches on their toilet.
Just before Tgot in however, | was
stopped by a feather mantled orderly
with long spear, who restrained my
growing curiosity and turned me back
down the hill to where had seen the
forming line and the floating banners
| got there just in time to fall in line
: in the first gap / saw, and without
: any banner or any companion. i
: transpired that had fallen in between
/ the Kawaiahao girls and the Maun'
: Olu Seminary. With blushing sci
: consciousness l managed to. marcl
| with them but when it came to mount
5 ing the bleac chers and sitting witt
them-I drew the line, and droppet
: out.
3 The Setting
r The setting for the wonderful pa
: geant was as unique as the pagean
3 itself. The stage was the upper ant
: middle slopes of Rocky Hill back o
s Punahou while the lower slopes ant
y the fiat below were the auditorium
( The stage and the flies were fenced il
E by long lines of cocoanut and dat
3 palm leaf hedge set in between wires
e A line of wire kept the audience OF
the stage, but otherwise they wen
y where they liked, and disposed them
g selves along the high points whereve
e they could find them, not even except
9 ing the trees and the telephone poles
n There are supposed to have been som
|. 5000 people there in the audienc