THE DAIL Y NEBRASKA
Thursday, February 16, ijj.jjj
NEBRASKA GIRLS HAVE
STUDIO IN HONOLULU
Helen Hewitt and Eleanor Framp-
ton Ends Tour With Annet
te Kellerman Co.
Miss Holeu Hewitt, '18, mid Miss
Eleanor Frumpton, '17, who have com
pleted a twenty-two weeks tour, as
dancers in the Annette Kellerman
Co., through Australia, are in charge
of a studio in Honolulu at present.
Following is a letter from Mis3 He
witt to her parents, who live at Al
liance, Nebr., tolling of the customs
of burying a prince in Honoululu:
Honolulu, T. H., Jan. 17, iy-'-'.--Dear
Folks: "Maybe you think that
1 have died an unnatural de.ith or
something of tho kind, it has been sn
long since I have written; but may,
not so. I have beon very lupy gei
ting the prince buried, and you men
tioned in your last U'tter that I might
write something about the place that
rwniiii hn nrlntf(l. so I waited till it
was all over, and thought that i
would interest people at home more
than anything else that was happening
here.
Describes Funeral of Prince
"I will start out by telling you who
the prince was and why he was so
important. Ho was the son of High
Chief" David Kahalepouli PiikA a do
scendant of the last king of Kauai
who was overthrown by Kamehameha,
who put all the islands under his rule
His mother was a sister of Oxaen
Kapiolani Kalakaua's (king) consort,
This makes him a direct descendant
of the two royal houses of Hawaii,
the Kamehameha and Kalakau.i dy
nasties. He did his best to keep Queea
Liliuokalani from selling the islands
when she did, and even led the people
against her. After the islands were
sold, however, he became a ver loyal
American, and was sent to congress
after receiving his education at Ox
ford. During his term in congress he
has always been very active and the
last thing he. was working on was tho
Hawaiian Rehabilitation bill which
was put into effect in 1921 with him
as one of the commissioners to see
it carried out. This uni was similar
to our homestead law but was to
benefit the native Hawanans. He was
the last of the royal house; tha" is, he
was the only one who would have a
right to hold the throne if tl.is was
still a monarchy. There are others
of the royal blood who could not Le
an heir to the throne. He died a week
ago last Saturday of heart trouble
combined with lung trouble, wlnen
was probably a result of his having
spent so much of his time in the
state where the climate Is so much
more severe.
Torch Light Procession.
"With the Princess' permission, the
people wanted to give him a royal
funeral, and, he being the last of his
line, she consented. He was left at
his home for two days, and the watch
ers stayed there. On the third night,
short services were said over him lv
the Episcopal clergy, and he wvs
moved from his home on Waikiki to
the first, church .built on the islands
by missionaries.
"Saturday night ho was mcved at
midnight by the same ceremony of
the preceding Saturday from tee
church across the street to tho throne
room of the old palace where the body
was laid in state till Sunday morn
ing. Only the Princess and the watch
ers were admitted after he was there.
In the morning the clergyman gave
the U3'ial Christian services and fol
lowing the benediction the Hawaiiaii3
took up their ritual. The body was
moved out on the catafalque that was
a mass of flowers, and over the cas
ket was spread a feather cape and
helmet. The procession marched on
foot to the Nuuanu cemetery wheie
the Kalakaua dynasty lias a mausol
eum. Natives Draw Catafalque.
"The army and nay were in the
procession, as also were all the Haw
aiian societies, British sold'crs hnd
state oficers; the women as well as
the men marching, and It Is about
three miles from the throne room to
the cemetery. Many of the old women
were white haired and had been to
the funeral of the last three of the
Hawaiian rulers, and they plodded on
as courageously as though they wcrs
but 20 years old. Besides the arm?
and navy marching, guns were fired
every minute from the time the fu
neral services commenced until the
body was lowered into the crypt. A
squadron of aeroplanes flew as Ions
as the guns were heard and iollowcd
the line of procession after it started
and circled the cemetery. Never iq
the history of this race has a ruler
of the people been drawn to the grave
except by the hands of his people, and
Hawaiian stevedores claim it as their
privilege to pull the satafalqne to the
final resting place, and about 300 of
them had hold of the rope h the
time. All the way there were old wo.
men who kept chanting they
walked. As they carried the body however, that the town can never be
down into the crypt tuey sang Aloha, changed, at least by her. The citizen
While many of the people were the.- resent the new.CCTOer'8 Intrusion into
out of pure curiosity, every one be- , , m , . . . .
o, . ... .... t ie r affairs, are suspicious oi her
mime iiueu wun great reverence ror i
the fine race that was no sudly giv- nd cal1 her snobb,ah- Inuow utIy
fng their last ruler all the respect she causes a great deal of gossip. She
and homage it was In their power to makes friends and enemies, but some
do. All the old feather ornaments . . . . , lnto th abou
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win now go to the Bishop Museum,
where they will only have historic use
from now on.
"Tho prince was then laid in state
in the church for a week. Never afrr
he died was the body left alone. Tn
have watchers around it. and the pub
ic was allowed to go in to see the books, fashionable clothes, bcaulirui
watchers, and Saturday they were al- Pictures, tapestry, statuary, ana irav
lowed to pass by and view t!w body. el. She hates materialism, which de
Of course we were anxious to :,cc the niands only tne necessary tilings oi
ceremony and went as often as Dos- fe. She feels Gopher Prairie to be
her. Perhaps the main reason Is that
she feels herself suneriior to it Hei
wholo nature cries out to got away,
but loyalty to her husband, her home
and herself compels her to remain.
But she wants poetry in her lif-i, iatt
sible, as it changed almost every hour.
The watcher arranged themselves
four on each side, the High Caieiess
at the head and one other watchei
at the foot. These people stand nu
tiouless for an hour and wave kahilis
over the body; they are wearhig tho
leather caps and lels which are al
ways of yellow, red and black, black
being the least of the colors. WLen
the embodiment of materialism, rep
resenting everything she abhors. But
when her son Is born she has suD
mitted entirely to her fate and con
siders herself a martyr to Main Street.
The author takes Carol's visw ami
is extremely pessimlistic over the
'outlook of small towns In general.
This Is one of the faults of the book,
since Its readers declare that there
their watch is up the other watcheia are still some small towns worth ex
vho are to take their place, maic. isting. The author leaves an lmpro3
up back of t'uem and standing direct- aion of hopelessness which makes one
iy .t back of them bo.v to the body, feel the book was not worth reading;
and the ' i ..! o the however, it has given thousands oi
body and back away. In this way Lie people something to think about and
body is never left alone. In back til has helped some small towns to sec
lIif. Hi eh Phiefpsa is rhair for tne themselves ar others see them
Princess and the sister or the Prlnco.
They were there most of the time.
the Princess always in white, and the
sisters always in black.
"One thing I forget to tell you
about. It has been the custom for the
men to shave their Heads In stripes
when royalty dies and there are lo
be as many stripes as there art days
that the body lies in state. There were
some of the older men who did this
I tried to get some pictures, but tho opponent, 'Mr.
crowd was so ereat that I dont know Mr- Hooper
whether I got anything. If I didn't
am going to buy some, and I am
getting all the papers that hav6 any
thing worth while in them about it.
"Another legend of the people Is
that when some of the royal family
died, one, King Kalakaua, was jealous
of their popularity and would not al
low the firing of the minute guns, and
when the ceremony took place, at
regular intervals, it thundered. Thun
der is very rare here. I can vouch
for the truth of this, but it is one of
the popular legends of the people."
Edvardine Hi'lyer.
"MR. FACING-BOTH-WAYS."
In commenting on the "can't-strike"'
suggestion by Ben T. Hooper, vice
chairman of the railroad labor board,
the Labor World of Chattanooga says:
"His present attitude recalls a
former campaign in this state when
he was dubbed by a political
Facing-Both-Ways'."
is an ex-governor of
this state. He was appointed a mem
ber of the public group on the rail
road labor board, and is supposed to
be neutral. While addressing a New
York gathering of railroad executives
he lined up with the railroads by
favoring legislation to outlaw strikes.
WILL WE HAVE PEASANTS?
In a recent speech in Boston Secre
tary -f Agriculture Wallace said:
"We are approaching that period
hih romea in the life of every
notion when we must determine
whether we shall strive for a well
rounded, self-sustaining national life
tn which there shall be a fair bal
ance between industry and agricul
ture, or wnemer, as naw u iuuuj
untlons in the past, we shall sacrifice
our agriculture for the building oi
cities and expect our food to be pro
duced not by independent fanners
but by men and women of the peasant
type."
FRESHMAN COMMISSION
ENTERTAINED AT DINNER
A dinner for the freshman commis
sion girls, given by a coinmiUee se
lected from that group, was served
at Ellen Smith hall Tuesday night at
o'clock. It is a custom to have a
dinner once a mouth along with the
egular meeting to create a better
social atmosphere and to bring tne
girls closer together. At each of
these meetings a modern topic is dis
ussed, each girl having a chance to
oice her opinion of the subject in
question. Tuesday night tne 'uaoo
Problem'' was taken up very thorough
ly in several of its different phases,
such as to what our uunstian alti
tude should be to the different races
nd how far we should go socially.
Tho girls show much interest in
these talks as they aid greatly in
keeping in toiuch witTi the topics of
the day.
HUSKER SPRINTERS
WILL MEET AME3
(Continued From Page One.)
Bloodgood were out Tuesday after
noon ana maae tne iirsi re':orus m
the meet with the Missouri freshmen.
Myers heaved the shot put thirty-
seven teet. L,ioyu sieppeu on me
fifty yard dash in five and 3-5 sec
onds, while his team mate, Eloodgood
made it in five and 4-5 seconds. Coaca
Schulte is anxious to have all fresn
men track men get out Immediate!;
s the first results will be telegraphed
to Misourl tonight.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Main Street"
This novel by Sinclair Lewis is the
most popular book of the year. Tt3
popularity is due to its being so real
as a present day situation and prob
lem of every small town of the mid
die west. Recently it was considered
for the literary prize of the year, but
rejected because it is said to be of
fensive to the small town. Perhaps it
is somewhat overdrawn and exagger
ated; nevertheless, in Gopher Fra.'rie,
it prasents a vivid picture of the
same small town. The two bad man,
the scapegoat boy, his adoring wid
owed mother, the rich man, the g03
sip, the prying old aunt, the foreigner,
the handsome young doctor, th? law
yer, the storekeeper, the clerk, the
poet, tho flirtatious young wemar.,
and ether such types of charac'T as
round in every small town, arc used
effectively.
The story contains little, ift any
plot, but simply relates the trais of
Carol Kennicott, impulsive, lively,
clever, a bit eccentric, lovable .nd
possessing a remarkable personality.
She has tender little dreams of re
modeling a small town to her own
taste and partly wiith this In view she
marries a doctor of Gopher Prairie
and goes there to live. She find?,
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organization is composed entirely of
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are to enter the educational "field.
And the convention offers a splendid
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