Show SOCIETY AND SANDWICHES I Speaking of Hawaii one of the yolun teer officers passing through SalLake to his New York home where his regiment regi-ment Is to be mustered out says that the effects of annexation are most dreadEd by the halfcaste and native I women i They fear the introductIon of race prejudices from which the Islands have been practical free White men are not averse to walking out with native girls as the sentiment stands and many marriages between the races are reported Then there are no barriers of exclusiveness raised in restaurants hotels and other business houses at present It is 3 very democratic com munity It has only been a little while since the reme de la creme f Honolulu society so-ciety was a dusky court Encourage mont of aristocratic exclusiveness could have inconvenienced only the whites and possibly the Chinese The color line therefore fell into disuse Intennarr13es resulted and furnished fur-nished ample protection against race discrImination A resident of Hawaii recently furnished fur-nished an American magazine with a description of social equality at the Hawaiian capItal He said S Only last night in HOnolulus swell est restaurant I saw the former postmaster post-master general of Hawaii and his wife and daughters sitting at the next table to three Chinese apparently prosperous prosper-ous but obviously not high class mere were Kanakas American soldiers pretty girls with lightcolored skins and traces of Chinese origin about the eyes and a Kanalta flatness of the nose Ethiopians and Europeans scattered at the tables I doubt if such a mixture i dwells in such social equaiitranywhere else on earth i How long will it be possible for such r fraternal feeling to exist after the American assumes social leadershIp |