Show Y YANKEE DOODLE AND THE HULA-HULA HULA An odd coincidence brings in the same mail from Washington two volumes 01 of government publications l t that l together ther point ram a moral alf in an l unusual on su fashion SI fo From Irom the library of congress comes a a report on four tour national songs of the United Unie States The Star Spangled Banner Banner Ban Ban- ner nEr America Ameria Hail Hai Columbia and Yankee Doodle Those hose who who are are Interested Interested interested Inter Inter- ested in the origin and and development of patriotic melodies will wi find a I rich mine of material In the bol book but It catches attention In its is relation to the other volume volume volume vol vol- ume by the striking way it brings out the effect of time and events upon even such inanimate things as popular songs The Thc second book bok that accompanies this bibliography is a work worl by the bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau of American ethnology on the unwritten unwritten un un- un- un written literature of the Hawaiian islands isi- isi anUs ands an adequate and and apparently ex exhaustive ex- ex treatment of the subject In Incidentally In- In it i tells the origin orgin of ot another familiar strain strain of music the hula-hula hula dance Here are two sets of metrical Her compositions compo compo- one synonymous th the highest and best thoughts of the nation naton the other calling up a snicker or a frown according to the tho tolerance tolerance an n individual has for tor certain certin customs The hula hula Is associated now wih with gestures and bodily contortions that are re vulgar if not absolutely obscene sentiment But Its Is origin was in a very ver different In truth the ancient hula dance was wasa a a. manifestation of the religious spirit of the old Polynesians It I depleted depicted wor worship worship worship wor- wor ship of nature in her bel man many forms and conveyed no more sensual meaning meaning than titan Is found in the tle sum of life But It has come to stand for Cor on only I the evil evi portion porton of what used to tobe be an epitome of all al the good and bad in in existence How little there was of in tho the original hula dance is shown show by the reproduction t tion Uon in English of every even word contained In th the hundreds of songs that formed part of the earl early Hawaiian ritual The contrast contrat is If striking when one finds that photographic representation of an early Yankee Doodle could not bs- bs made for modern res without eliminating 1 ing part of the tIe text test Not is tho the origin of the other othel American America songs as noble as that of the despised hula tula lia dance dancE for two wo of or them were adaptations of mus music that hat had been bec used b by other nations for other ends than thal than expressing expressing patriotic sen son t Perhaps it i is incorrect to speak of songs a as inanimate Dr Holmes HolmEs used to havo a a theory that Ule they like le old fiddles gather to themselves associations through centuries of use which gave to them a ap p personality of or their own The divergent history of the the- hula and Yan Yankee ee DoodIe Doo Doo- lie dIe tle might be he cited to prove his I ture Detroit Fico Jre Press ss |