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THE HULA-HULA.
A DANCING SCENE IN THE SANDWICH
ISLANDS. ! > *
We enter a small room, perhaps
twelve by sixteen feet, in a small .house,
standing about one hundred yards back
from the street. There was one win
dow and one door in the room, and
the ceiling was open to the not vefv
lolfty roof—one room seeming to be all
there was in the house. Some mats
were spread on the floor, and along
one side were beds. We sat down on
the pulu pillows at the head of them,
the beds being on the floor. Presently
an old man, accompanied by a couple
of young women, came in with an old
leather gong, which he commenced to
beat furiously on one end as he sat
down on the floor. The women came
in one after the other, singing and
moving in time with their arms exten
ded. On their heads were wreaths of
flowers. Their feet were bare, and
they wore some kind of tinkling orna
ments around their ankles. Their
skirts came nearly down to their feet,
and around their waists they wore some
kind of a fancy overskirt, made of
coarse grasses, and falling from the
waist below the hips. Their bodies
were robed to the neck, and after they
entered the door was closed and also
the window, the hula-hula being in vio
lation of the law, and the transgressor
subject to a fine, if not imprisonment.
Aside from the two women there were
six men in the room, and the two per
formers, though apparently abashed at
first at the presence of so many stran
gers, soon became self-possessed, and
went to work with a will. The dance
consiste 1 in a kind of slip-shod move
ment of the feet in time with the drum-
beating, while the singers smiled
sweetly, and kept thrusting their arms
out in harmony with the music and
their feet, as they went through every
imaginable sort of gyration with their
bodies. They did not turn around or
move from the position they first as
sumed, only sufficiently for the full
sway of their bodies back and forth.
Their hips and limbs seemed to be
without joints, or all joints, and they
could bend and twist themselves as
one would suppose nothing but a piece
of jelly or India-rubber could be made
to work. But they thus Svent on for
several minutes with the most violent
exercise, smiling, and singing and danc
ing till the perspiration rolled off their
faces in torrents, and they became so
excited at length that we insisted that
they should rest, though they vowed
they were not tired, and could go on
that way all night. At length the ex
citement produced by the violence of
the exercise began to have its legiti
mate effect upon the two beauties—for
they were two of the most beautiful of
their sex, though copper-colored Kana
kas—and they were evidently becoming
careless of their conduct, which they
assured us, however, was a part of the
performance. And as soon as they be
gan to disrobe their persons from the
neck and breast downward, the natural
modesty of your correspondent com
pelled him to seize his hat and rush
through the door out into the open air,
and he was speedily followed pell-mell
by all his companions. We were af
terward told the two fair creatures
thought our bringing up had been neg
lected, and that most white men en
joyed the latter part of the performance
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Francisco Chronicle.
“Drunk or Dying.”
The British Medical Journal makes
room for the following: “ In several
articles we have insisted on the diffi
culty there frequently is in the diag
nosis between intoxication and fatal
apoplexy. In^particular we have sta
ted that apoplexy from cerebral he
morrhage imitates not only the coma
tose stage of drunkenness, but occasion
ally what we call the ‘uproarious’
sta<*e. A recent case exemplifies this
remark. A gentleman vf)is found
lying in a gutter by a policeman; and,
as the gentleman sang * Tommy, make
way for your uncle^nd algo’said part
of the Lord’3 Prayey* he wtyb supposed
to be drunk, and was taken to the po
lice office. Lateron, as heseemed to
be in a fit, he was sent to a hospital,
and died there next day of- apoplexy
from’ disease of the brain,- Whether
that apoplexy was owing to cerebral or
meningeal hemorrhage or not we don’t
know. The difficulty w, ofcourse, the
greatest I. hen futrs u no nistui^, ua
m hospital and in police cases. The
apoplectic patient, from the text-book’s
point of view, is taken ill at home, find
under circumstances in which the di
agnosis, so far as to exclude drunken
ness, its ready made. In hospital and
police practice, the history is too often
like that of this peor gentleman, he is
found in a gutter insensible or uproar-
ipus. i But not only may a patient lie
violent in cases of apoplexy to be
speedily fatal, but he may, when other
wise apparently deeply insensible, per
form elaborate actions. We must lie
on our guard, not to be misled by
these cases. Let us mention one or
twq cases of automatic actions occurring
during coma. We have never seen
actions so striking as that of singing a
comic song in a case ofapoplexy. The
‘ suggestion ’ of the particular action
often seems to be given by what the
patient was doing when his illness set
in. Thus, a woman who had fractured
her skull by falling down stairs while
she was laying down some oil-cloth,
kept arranging the counterpane when
partly insensible; she died in a few
hours. We have seen a lady who dur-
ring otherwise deep coma would elabo
rately sponge her face when the sponge
was put into her right hand, and this
only a few hours before her death. By
the way, this lady’s symptoms at the
onset were to the popular mind So like
those of drunkenness, that she was
hailed by the street boys. * See the
drunken lady,’ when she" was brought
out of the house where she was first
taken ill.
south "of the city of Mattbdh; aft to sbl
did nof ivish to live any longer among
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on a war with the SjUtan.wfiqHppdiu
to be sovereign of Jerusalem de^ mdtb, 1
the Messiah deemed it expedient for
the moment to‘fenounce nii tdignity;
and to» wait fofaneW call froiri heaven.; 0 y a rosebud.
rate to Woman,
among the’ flowed foster
tores a tedder plant' and she is,a thing
of fancy-waywardness and folly—an-
toyed. ay a dewdrop, fretted by th&
uph of 4 butterfly’s wing, ready to
sound ofa'beetle orito
a window-pane at night,
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A Sham Messiah.
The Alexandrian correspondent of
the Judishe Presse writes that the op
pressive conduct of the Sultan of Yemen
toward the Jews at the time of Dr.
Stern’s mission to Saana was turned to
account by an ambitious dreamer, in
the province of Hadramaut, who from
his youth had devoted himself to the
study of the cabbalah, by declaring
publicly that he was selected by Pro
vidence to gather the Jews from all
corners of the globe and lead them
back to Jerusalem. He princi
referred by way of proof to the won
addressed by the dying patriarch to
his twelve sons, and which, as known,
run thus: “And I will announce to
you what will happen to you in the
latter days.” [Genesis, xii., I.] From
these words, the would-be Messiah en
deavored to prove that as soon as Islam
should have reached its thirteenth cen
tury its dominion would begin to de
cline, and Israel would return to her
country. This new Messiah, generally
called Ibn David [son of David], found
numerous followers, not only .among
the Jews of Hadramaut, but also among
those of Yemen, and on all sides the
news spread that the true Messiah of
the Jews had come, and that he weuld When Mrs. Whittlesey, the North-
soon take up his abode in El Kuds j amptoa cashier’s wife, saw the burglars
("Jerusalem!. Pilgrims rmw arrived‘ 1 ‘ '—- 5 --
trom ail parts of Arabia, brought him
His followers did not quite agree with
this resolution, but neveHhefe-s 'sub 3
initted to the will of their lord. Ibn
David [Suleiuiuu was his real name]
soon afterward disappeared from Ha
dramaut, and his name died, away.,
But now I learn from South Arabian
mei chants that Ibn David; again shows
Himself in public, and that his followed
begin to look forward hopefully to the
time when he will redeem his pledge,
and place the crown of David on his
head.
Game and Fish Raising.
The Vermont Watchman and Journ
al, speaking of the disappearing of
choice game from our forests and
streams, suggests a reform in legisla
tion for the protection of game, based
upon the right of land-owners to that
which is upon their own premises.
What we need, it says, is a law not
simply protecting game and fish—for
such a law is as useless as any sumpt-
tary satatute—but one making game
and fish the property of the owners
of the land on which they are toulid.
Then every man who owned a forest
or stream would protect his property
in game and fish as much as he would
protect his property in poultry and
law pro
real calamity
come; rouse her affections, enkindle
the fire of her heart, and mark her
then! How strong is her hearti
Place her in the heat of the battle-
give her a child—a bird, or anything,
to ; protect—and see her in a relative 1
instance, lifting her white arms as a
shield, as her own blood crimsons her
upturned forehead, praying for her life
to protect the helpless. Transplant
her in the dark places of the earth,
call forth the energies Jo action, and
her Breath becomes a healing, her
presence a blessing. She disputes,
inch by inch, the strides of a stalking
pestilence, when man, the strong and
brave, pale and affrighted, shrinks
away. Misfortune haunts her* not;
she wqars away a life of silent endur
ance and goes forward with less timid
ity than to her bridal. In prosperity
she is a bud full of odors, waiti r g but
for the winds of adversity to scatter
them abroad—pure gold, valuable, but
untried in the furnace. In short, wo
man is a miracle, a mystery, the centre
from which radiates the cnarm of ex
istence. :
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sheep. A
protecting fish and
game can provide no adequate means
to secure their protection. A law mak
ing, the fish of the state the property
of those upon whose estates they are
found would make each landholder in
the state an interested keeper and
guardian of his property. Then every
man will protect his own rights in his
trout and grouse, as much as he would
in his poultry and flocks. The terri
tory of the state would be constantly
under the eyes of the watchful guar
dians of their own rights. The depop
ulated streams would be filled either
by the natural increase of the few trout
that are left in them or by artificial
propagation of both trout and salmon.
The artificial propagation of fish is of
little use so long as no ownership is
created anywhere in the fish themselves.
The result of such laws would be:
First, the enrichment of the people of
the itate. Every farm would become
a breeding-ground for the most delicate
and luxurious articles of food for the
table. In many a stream and forest
would lie raised, without cost to the
proprietor, food enough to equal the
product of the poultry-yard and sheep-
fold. The annual increase of fish and
game, under favorable circumstances,
is greater than the annual iucrease of
domestic animals. The woods and
streams furnish abundant supplies of
costless food to their denizens. The
proprietors in many cases, if they did
not wish to secure their own game,
could lease the privilege of shooting
or fishing, as is done in other countries,
for a sum that would exceed interest
and taxes and furnish a handsome,
revenue.— Grand Rapid* (Mich.) Eagle.
valuable presents, and declared them
selves ready to combat the Arabs under
his banner. In some parts of Arabia
the Jews went even so far as to alter
the text of the prayers. But while he
was busy in forming a ministry, equip
ping an army, and appointing generals,
the army of the Kadishah of Con*,,
stantinople arrived, conquered the
whole country, and Abd-ni-Aziz
thus became the neighbor of the
future King of Jerusalem, who mean
while resided on a mountain to the
take her husband’s goto watch she
kicked hers under the bureau and so
saved it. And when her new cloak
was in the robbers’ hands she said
“ Give me that old thing; I’m cold
and saved that likewise. If this keen
witted woman could have been at the
bank when the vault was opened she
would have persuaded the robbers that
half those papers were nothing but
family milk-bills.
It is said that not a single member
of the Minnesota Legislature was born
in that state.
Fight It Out.
story is told of a daughter } of a
prominent person now in the .lecture
field which is peculiarly interesting and
suggestive of unconscious wisdom. A
gentleman was invited to the lecturer’s
house to tea. Immediately on being
seated 4t the table the little girl aston
ished the family circle and the guest
by theabrupt question :
“ Where is your wife ?” r, ••
Now, the gentleman, having been
recently separated from the partner of
his life, was taken so completely by
surprise that he stammered forth the
truth:
“I don’t know.”
“Don’t know!” replied the enfant
terrible. “Why don’t you know ?”
Finding that the child persisted in
her interrogatories, despite the mild
reproof of her parents, be concluded
to make’a clean breast of the matter
and have it all over at once. So he
said with a calmness which was the re
sult of inward expletives : , r
“ Well, we don’t live together. We
think as we can’t agree we’a better not.”
He stifled a groan as the child began
again, and darted an exasperated look
at her parents. But the little torment
would uot be quieted until she ex
claimed : . £
“ Can’t agree! Then why don’t you
fight it out, as pa and raa do ?” .
“ Vengeance Is mine,” laughingly
retorted the visitor, after “ pa ” and
“ ma ” exchanged looks of holy horror,
followed by the inevitable roar, t.
When a girl retires for the night
now, she first fastens down the win
dow’s of her boudoir-. then opens the
door to its fullest cqctept tq permit of
ready exit in case or necessity; then
turns up the gas brightly, cautiously
approaches the couch, and tremblingly
looKs under the bed; then she shuts
and locks the door, looks under the
bed, lays hack her back hair, looks un
der the bed, turn* dnwr.iha g&s, pokes
around under the bed with a broom
stick, and at last jumps into bed with a
little yelp, and dreams of burglars all
night. ; -
Diptheria has been very preva
lent in Australia, and one of the most
successful remedies is said to have been
a few drops of sulphuric acid in a
tumblerful of water. The result of
this mixture is said to be a coagulation
of the diphtheritic membrane and its
ready removal by coughing.