The Coconino sun., 1922-02-24
THERE'S ROOM FOR BELIEF THAT COLONEL GOT
 ALMOST TOO MUCH FISH
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dote. 1t was "okelehau," native liquid preparation compounded from . native herb, an innocent herb unti dashed into a fury of fermentation When one floats his fish and poi in dulgencies with several soupcons o1 okelehau, he almost immediately loses his timid tendency to embarrassment and as the heat waves float through his system, his hat moves back on his head to a rakish angle. Very often he will enter private conversations o1 strangers without invitation and make remarks usually very foreign to his ordinary mode of thought.
 The master of ceremonies an. nounced, as soon as there was an ap- parent satiation among the feasters and fasters, that the company would be regaled with sample copies of the native dances, which in the olden times was sacred to royalty alone. He said considerable about the dance and it's history. It seems that it really dates much farther back than 1898 (when the worlds fair was held in Chicago). Still it may be that the na- tive girls are more prosperous now than they were then and can afford more clothes. Anyhow, these girls did not wear up-to-date evening gowns with their hay or grass skirts, though they did go barefooted.
 Old man Koa and his assistant were the chief musicians, using couple of large dried gourds upon which they pounded with their fingers and alter nately bumped on the floor. The dance was very hip, hip, hurrah af- fair. In fact, it was mainly hips, with some little stomach trouble evidenced. The gentle pat-pat-pat of their feet on the floor was rythmical, though one thought what bold splinter on the floor might do during the excitement.
 As a matter of fact, there didn't seem to be anything out of the way with the dance as danced by these quaint, innocent-minded people, what ever may have been the opinion of the whites.
 Ex-president Sanford Dole, who was the first and only president of the is- lands during the transition period from kingdom to part of the United States, said the other day in a lecture on the early history of the, natives that they were stalwart, healthy race of people until mission aries came in 1920. As they were converted to the. new religion they were taught to wear clothes. They took kindly to clothes, which they thought were a sort of regalia which went with religion. Often on Sun days they would start for church all dressed up in their best. If rain came up, off would come the whole outfit, to be packed to the church un- der the arm, then put on again before entering church. They rapidly be- came tubercular and decreased in number.
 Intermarriage is general on the is- land except as to Japanese. The Japs are strongly against mixed blood in their people. It is difficult to tell who's who among the natives. I asked little dark-skinned newsboy what he was, and he promptly replied, Half Chinese and half Hawaiian"
 (Which half do you like best?" I asked him.
 Hawaiian" he declared without hcSiIhdoii, anu nt was pTCuu OI DeiIiB an American, too.
 have discovered over here that the government uses about all the pow der and the people use the paint on their buildings. Women seldom use either.
 We expect to go over to the Big or Hawaii, next Thursday and see the volcano at Hilo. We are advised that it is some little individual hell, with plenty of sulphus smoke to go with it. It is an all night ride by boat and we are looking around for a couple set of sea-legs we lost the third or fourth day after we landed here.
 If previous letters have not lost us any subscribers, we will endeavor to 1 gather up a few words concerning the volcano and how it works. While | Arizona has lot of old ex-stinkers, this energetic lava-mixer may show interesting symptoms.
 Aloha,
 F. s. BREEN.