view on the beach! He conquered the animal simply by calming his own spirit; and he led up to it step by step, gently, firmly and patiently, as a wise and loving parent leads on an irritable and too sensitive child.

THE NATIVE WOMAN.

HE word Aloha, for instance, must stand for love, and many

more things, for the native tongue is a very poor one. Every word ends with a vowel, and the language is very musical to the ear-not unlike the Italian.

There are but four notes to their music, but so weird, strange and pleasing it is, that on first hearing it one would wish to listen to it for hours! A piece of board, with a few strings across it (taro-patch fiddle), or a guitar, a gay holoku of red or green, a lei of flowers on hat of her own plaiting, and another around the neck, a grass hut on the beach, or in the valley, the taro patch at hand, poi in the calabash, fish drying on the roof, a horse in the little paddock, and her majesty the native woman-need take no thought for the morrow-nor will she! When Sunday comes she will go to church, or meeting, unless any of her friends or relatives (and "cousins" among the natives are legion) are going to have a feast, or luau, in honor of a birthday, wedding-day, the visit of a friend from one of the other Islands, or out of respect to the departed; then she will most certainly not attend church, nor meeting, but will go miles padding over

the road, barefooted, long before sunrise (for the natives are very early risers), to reach that friend's house or "place."

A luau means a pig roasted, chicken, fish and poi Of course, for royalty, one can be made very elaborate. The table is on the grass, and spread with taro leaves. The food is handled with the fingers.

A pig, fish or chicken, wrapped in taro leaves and baked, native form, in an oven made in the ground, of heated stones, etc., is a rich delicacy, often to be desired. Nothing could be better or tenderer in the way of dining. "There is a great deal in the native," is a proverb I delight to quote, for its perfect truthfulness. After my experience of a luau I could not blame the natives for not wishing to miss one, even on Sunday!

The weaving of garlands, of flowers and ferns, by the native women is very ingenious and beautiful. They make quite a trade of it on all fair days, but more especially on "steamer day," when steamers are leaving for the Coast or Colonies. This is the high-day-the harvest-of the native woman.

They will come in from the valleys very early, with their baskets of flowers, and sitting on their mats on the sidewalk of one of the principal thoroughfares leading to the wharves, will make their leis to sell to the passer-by; and every one, men as well as women, is expected to wear this pretty native chain.

A perfect tier of gaudy flowers is often seen on a man's neck, making him look ridiculous, ludicrous and sheepish. But when we are in Hawaii, we must

do as the Hawaiians do, I suppose. And they, certainly, do leis-wearing very brown!

In their weaving and plaiting of mats, fans, hats and other articles, the palm, banana, fern and other plants used, are prepared with great care for this most ingenious work. A mat woven of narrow strips, white, firm, smooth as satin and of pretty pattern, three yards square, is well worth forty dollars. The Panama hat cannot exceed in beauty and fineness some done by these natives. Oh, they are very deft in all this kind of work-it is their birthright.

In the mountains there is a small blackbird, with one tiny yellow feather under its wing. This bird is snared by the natives, the feather plucked and the bird freed. But there are close imitations of dyed feathers. I know that where a native has been employed to remake a necklace of these valuable feathers, she would steal some of them, concealing them in her mouth! And it is not, now, every native who can do this kind of weaving or netting. A cloak of his late Majesty, King Kalakaua, of these feathers, is worth one hundred thousand dollars, and has come down as an heirloom-a net of priceless, golden feathers! The natives are not thieves by any manner of means; they are kind, generous, hospitable, gentle, easy, happy-going people, fond of you, it may be, fond of music, flowers, song; fond of color, light and laughter; fond of poi-and of Hawaii! But if they enter your "place" (and such a thing as locks and keys, or bolts and bars to houses was unknown until

within a few years, until communication become so frequent between the Colonies, the Coast and the Islands), and see for instance, a plenty of thread in your workbasket, and they happen to want a little, they will take a little, as a matter of course; and if you are there and offer them a part of it, they will take it as "a matter of course"! "It's all in the family," that's what they mean. And you, finally, come to see things with their eyes.

The Islanders, to a great extent, not so much now as in former years, of course, have been dependent upon themselves for amusements and entertainments; and great attention has been paid to music, so that there are really many excellent musicians living there. When a concert or an opera is given in Honolulu you may be sure of a treat-not an amateur affair, but a finished and artistic performance. The proceeds are always devoted to charity. Many of the " homes" are beautiful-the houses are built as light and airy as possible, with wide verandas, and great regard is paid to dainty and simple and cool-looking furnishingmuslin hangings, bare floors and mats, easy, light and comfortable chairs and lounges of wicker or cane, with pretty lamps and pictures, open doors and windows, a garden of palms, ferns and flowers, and you see at once how the foreigner lives in Hawaii!