Show WOMEN NV 0 M FN OF THE TUB SANDWICH ISLANDS A lady writing from honolulu to the bulletin t thus h us discourses I 1 M s upon the native women and their theirl tree Treo and easy manner the women are arc erect aldein wide in the shoulders and carry their heads like queens wany kany many of them are truly hand sonie wearing their hair falling over their shoulders in curls and surmounted with little straw hats garlanded with wreaths of lovely native flowers they clothe modestly and prettily wearing the dress to cov eov cover er neck and arms and falling loosely from the shoulders dors to the top of the feet which are often bare not kot being civilized like us ug they have not been enlightened into inlo into compressing their ribs with iron and whalebone corsets nor to disturb and torture their feet 1 into nto over tight shoes nor to put bonnets upon their heads leads running up into of silk and artificial flowers an and ana leaving the cars at the mercy of the hitter bitter winds nor to make ap forty five yards of steel wire into cages and fasten themselves within them thiam nor to carry an extra half yard of dress stuff bravel bravely after t them hem over the pavement through thick and thin yes these women it have ave the advantage of us for are we not forced by the exigencies of custom when we come with bur our long garments u upon 1 i any impurities of the pathway to rio sio shut 1 t our eyes and clench our teeth and kush fush ush ish blindly over them whereas these kanaka women at the sight even of a spot of water lift their light garments gingerly ind and pass over clean and unsullied from its ita contact a aln ain can in this be barbarism |