Show HANDSOME WOMEN OF HAWAIIAN ISLES copyright IIM1 I The original Molh Kt could seiree I I r have been I lovelier than some of then I the-n who Inhabit hat admirer are ont to call the KdVn or the Iaelfle I Tawny of skin with glint lulrou dark eye and fine alPy ttfffs of I Ilack they ate fair to lok 1 upon nor too their beauty fade < fly as Is I often the ease with women wh live In nature favored clime TIlt grace nf flgur and beauty of far uf these fair itiuthtera or the south 1ncino art quoted by their sprUhlllne ot wit and quickness of mmprehenelon They are related mla tre ei of nil the nlhlello arts fearless swimmers dnnhlng eftuestrlennes skilled skill-ed flihtrwomun fact veritable morn m-orn Dianas It was In the year ITT that Captain Cook on his famous voyage amuml the 01 tie is as e4 I 1 I world discovered the flandwlth Islands set Ilkar atm In the jewel Ckskel ot the blue ratine Their cumllilon hash has-h muth slme then but to far as the u IIIn are uneern4 has been one for Ibo better Within the space of about too yearn the Islanler have ad vanevid In clvlllcallun lu a way no other YAl People have loin III the City of Honolulu with Its churches Its fine business blocks and Its collects the palm trees and the cationinuts aved IM far ago In stood of the rather manger calournts In which the gets Itders of Captain Cooks Howell were clad they In now arrayed In the latest creation from Parts Tire women In Hawaii are blessed for they have no housekeeping duties worth ipeaklnz ot It the family lifts money anti live In one of the towns there Art Ar-t ruops nt servants in wait upon them unit If they live In primitive fashion In one ot the thatched cottages of the Into lor the head I uf the household 1 doc all the work which consists of IIIIK more han coin out and cutting n few bar Wines or YAm or euxtard tara II ba-r digging dig-ging up same rate tout to make the national na-tional dlh rol or chafing A 1111 or Wllol fowl throuh tile rot on feast days or lying for hours beside Santa fern Shaded Klrenm angling for fish Life Is I dylllc In thus far Island of Ih Nettle and had Tennyson known Hawaii he probably would never have written hoe world weary line Heller fifty year of Kurop than a cycle l of Cath ay Among the simpler classes In Hawaii that It the country people of the Interior Inte-rior there la I no heartache over n lack I of up lo date mllllneiy or frocks for clapping a 1lm or A banana leaf upon her head and gracefully donning A short father llubbant or perchance a gayly Wilson mol the IIAAlian lady 14 I Quit In the mouth am mod There Are very tw ot the nallytio of the flnndwlch Islands who da not know how to read ant write and aa a consequent conse-quent the women as a class oto educated edu-cated to a greater degree than In many communities that have had Use adan tons uf clvllliallon for hundreds ot yrtn The white women who have com I Into Hawaii mother wle and Itt It-t of Ihe American or Fngllehmen whose capital U helping to develop the untry haio set an example to the name which they are not slow to follow fol-low The children too In She kindergarten kinder-garten and the public schools are being rapidly Anglicised The halt caste t population families In nhlch the head of the house In I n Tortu Cites Chinese or Japanet find tin wlf a native woman receives greater restwet than Is I accorded lh write class anywhere else In the world There Is I the family of the Chinese Vanderbilt for Instance that nf Ah Pong whoso II daughter ar said to be the belle ot Honolulu and hove long been the toast of naval officer whore ship lingered In Honolulu lay The lovely slant eyed Mlssea Ah Fong are said to be very well educated lever and of excellent taste Those of the II now married have bestowed their hands and heart 1 and share of Ah Tung fortune upon appreclallve Caucasians Stsnr of the native Hawaiian women are quite well endowed with tan and this ties I ot course won them fortune hunters from other lands who have lIOn to Hawaii to take up ties or motor planting Harrying A Hawaiian lady Is of course cheaper than buying a plantation IVisslUy nothing will lilY n better II I lea nf the character of the Hawaiian women than the story nf Ihat splendid semlsavnge Princess Kaptolanl who visited this country In JUT Like all llawallans she believed that the Center ot Mount Kllaura was Inhabited liyth terrible goddess Iele who Whenever she wa angry or oltende1 poured forth a storm of f1re and lava upon the land Heine tnvlnd that Polo wa a humbug hum-bug and In order lo prove It to her peo Pie and perhap chtsa away any lingerIng linger-Ing doubts of her own the announced that on a certain day she would seen the mountain with her attendants and challenge the goMen In the name of Jehovah the Christian fled to do her worst As they climbed the mountain sM One nf tho priestesses of Tele who live on the mountain came out to urge her la rUe up her project Irlnceis Kapl olanl merely laughed at the old woman And worst on 11On their reached the brink of the craltr looking down Into the horrible Ill with Its seething lave I and flame the solemnly Invoked the coddessi These fire WIT kindled by Jeho tah sold I she He alone It I < JA and Tele Is I naught 1 trust In Jehovah and he will preserve me It Iele 1 pour forth art an1 I stone and lav a aa her answer nt Kaplolanl cast atone and other rub tUh Into Ihe sacred crater and breakIng break-Ing oft a duster ot the mountain berrle Sacred to the goddess she deliberate ale them In th presence of the priest esse of Veto and I her suit Hho also broke art the long fine threads of lava I that hung over the rocks upon the mountain lid and which were kni nat n-at Vales hair There was no desecration which she niul I think ot which she list lint offer the ancient goddess of the mountain but tile voice of the volcano wa sill For day after the faithful waited exPecting ex-Pecting Tel In make reply but the never resented the affront and with nn aoeard the Hawaiian dlsoiynol her sine then Christianity hall flourlshi In the Ulan I In their homes the Hawaiian people lire simple and hospitable The belle ilasse have an Ideal life being deed devoted on another Picturesque an1 perhaps a trifle emotional they add 10 the rather deliberate practical charao lerltllca of the American qualllle which may round out and soften sum of the more rigid national trails It may m t be generally known hut In I Hawaii men greatly exceed womc In number so that spinsters hare a de llBhtful range ot choice even though they remain single until well on toward ilia fair fat and forty stage irrnnii KNOX |