As to the ladies, you find them charming; beautifully dressed, of course, but they have not given the whole day and their whole minds to the dress; they are cheerful, easily excited to gayety, long accustomed to take life easily, and eating as though they did not know what dyspepsia was.
Indeed, when you have passed a month in the Islands you will have a better opinion of idleness than you had before, though in some respects the odd effects of a tropical climate will hardly meet your approval.

Euchre, for instance, takes the place here which whist holds elsewhere as the amusement of sensible people.
[Illustration: A HAWAIIAN CHIEF.] Finally, society in Honolulu is respectable.

It is fashionable to be virtuous, and if you were "fast," I think you would conceal it.

The Government has always encouraged respectability, and discountenanced vice.
The men who have ruled the Islands--not the missionaries alone, but the political rulers since--have been plain, honest, and, in the main, wise men; and they have kept politics respectable in the little monarchy.

The disreputable adventurer element which degrades our politics, and invades society too, is not found here.