Show TIlE THE XE E EHA HA UIAl GIRL GIHL Uy By Ella Wheeler fl The era a age arel-age 0 c white man who comes on his Ins visit to tho the Hawaiian is islands ism ism- lands however howe much he may have ha heard of ot the changes made b the thi passing passing- of oC years ears seems to expect an encounter with the savage conditions existing in the days of oC Captain Cook Cool The Polynesians who inhabited these islands were never cannibals they were vere never slaves they were al always al- al ways at least from tho the time of ot the great reat mea Ka organizers an and capable rulers Woman was n never ner er the subordinate creature in ln the Polynesian race which she has been and Is in many other skinned dark and sava savage e races laces The kings king's consort and tho the prIncesses princesses princesses prin prIn- always comman command great respect and the reign of many queens Is re re- re corded Yet Infanticide was vms prevalent here among the lower ranks costumes were tere abbreviated and anal Ideas of ot morality were ver not strict the native dance the hula pronounced as If u were double double double dou dou- ble o 0 was both historic anI and licen licen- The rIle kings of or old In all lands l Kept ept their theil dancers who were taught to cater to the sate sated imagination of mon- mon archs The king of the Hawaiian Islands is islands Js- Js lands lans made the hula dancers popular The importation of American n gin o often turned the dance ance into an orgy The fhe American torn tourist 1st expects to seo zoo the hula dance on hi his arrival He lie still sun expects the native girls to be more or less fre free when he makes males advances ad as he lie has been told they were In the days ays of the old sailing calling vessels an and after after aft aft- er or the arrival of the missionaries But Dul he is not long in discovering that a New allan 1 Girl has comInto come com Into c existence with the tho progress o or of time Honolulu possesses a n large population population tion of educated and in refined native girls an and women arid and as many more o or of white half young oung women There Thero or are arc descendants of both bolh lines of at royal rOJal families fam fain Hies here who are supporting self I young oun women women stenographers stenographers saleswomen saleswomen sales sales- women teachers clerks clerks amid and s-and and nowhere will vIIi a n. traveler find women in similar positions with higher ideals of ot behavior lor or a gi greater eater sense of or self respect than In the Hawaiian Islan Islands These young women are arc usually at attractive at- at e often beautiful They resent resen undu undue familiarity as would the tho wellborn wellborn wellborn well well- born girl in the United States Slates Many Ian of there girls have c been sen sento sent to Boston New York TorI or San Francisco to adorn homes to be bo good wives mothers an and citizens They resent the tho idea that because thc they are brown of oC sl skin ln men feel tree free freeto to approach them with nn any Idea of ot farni familiarity I These girls would no sooner think of dancing the hula than would our refined American girls think of or dancing dane dane- anc- anc ing the can-can can for strangers who happened to our shores Yet It Is difficult to convince the o th of ot tho tilo clean fine standards which thc these thero e young Joung women have set for tor themselves Because on these Islands ma may be found the class of women which exist everywhere e the tourist of a certain type presumes to Imagine that all nil the women belong to that class The Hawaiian girl today is no longer long long- er era a t type pe she sho is fa a woman with Ideals aspirations ambitions and moral moral mor mor- al nl standards I All hail to the New Hawaiian Girl She belongs to our new oi of tho United States Slates and she should be treated with the tho respect which she is entitled to All hail to the New Hawaiian Girl |