Identifier: richesmarvelsofh01stev (find matches)
Title: Riches and marvels of Hawaii; a charming description of her unique history, strange people, exquisite climate, wondrous volcanoes, luxurious productions, beautiful cities, corrupt monarchy, revolution, provisional government and annexation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Stevens, John L. (John Leavitt), 1820-1895 Oleson, W. B. jount author. (from old catalog) Stevens, Nellie M. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Edgewood publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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without them, but when they are ripe for it, as it w is roily immaterial what day is selected to celebrate.I or.:r t used two boys from school, at their mothersrequest, that they might go home to a luau in aon of the anniversary of their fathers death, which ocaone year previous. When they returned to school itunnecessary for them to say, as however they did, wha:so evident in every chubby wrinkle of satisfaction, viz., thatthey had had a good time. I do not knowr that it hadoccurred to them to be sufficient. _ :ul that their fathad so conveniently died the year before; probably theiranalysis did not go so far. But the :n a high state of ecstacy at their remarkable good fortune in g any sort of occasion for the killing of the pig.COME, LET US EAT! Such an array of edita luau brings together might well cause even Solomonst boards to bend in despair. This may be the reason a genuine, old-fashioned luau is always 3 on fems and ki leaves on the ground. It thus comes about >» tt~ « d
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THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN. 75 that he who would eat on these festive occasions musthave a stevedores skill to stow away his legs, and forgethe has a back. He must also eat with his fingers, forreally, after all, one can not do anything with a fork at aluau. You must untie your bundle of meat, and afterhaving got your fingers oily and sticky there is nothingmore to do but to plunge them into the poi and eat likeyour neighbors. The whole world is kin when youscooch on the grass and eat broiled fish with your fingers.All the viands are before you, and you eat according to the)whim of the moment, there being but one course, albeita very comprehensive one, and you are expected to slightno part of it. EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY. After all, the cnieffeature of a luau is the people. Utmost jollity and goodnature prevail. Every ones face is aglow, and everyones mouth open, and the viands disappear like thedew before the sun. Every one talks as he eats, andwith a fingerful of poi in mid-air, here and th

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