. The street railway review . middle life, endeavoring to perform 296 creditably the duties of her difficult position. She is nowin mourning for the late Prince consort, although veryactive in all charitable and social enterprises. The Dowa-ger Queen is the widow of the late King Kalakaua, andher quiet, retired disposition is much admired by thenatives. The heir apparent isa sweet, half-white girl of i6,now being educated o n t h econtinent. From time immemorable ithas been the custom of thereigning queen to give month-ly, out-door receptions or gar-den parties to residents andtourists. These
. The street railway review . middle life, endeavoring to perform 296 creditably the duties of her difficult position. She is nowin mourning for the late Prince consort, although veryactive in all charitable and social enterprises. The Dowa-ger Queen is the widow of the late King Kalakaua, andher quiet, retired disposition is much admired by thenatives. The heir apparent isa sweet, half-white girl of i6,now being educated o n t h econtinent. From time immemorable ithas been the custom of thereigning queen to give month-ly, out-door receptions or gar-den parties to residents andtourists. These very enjoy-able occasions are participatedin by all the royal retinue,dressed in gorgeous satinholokus, the native militia, andthe Royal Hawaiian band. Behind the palace (as maybe seen in our engraving) isthe Bungalow, a low, latticed structure, containing theprivate apartments of the monarch. Near this is a castel-lated building called the barracks, which harbors house-hold troops, gun carriages, cannon ball, and other means. CAR BARN—HAWAIIAN TRAMWAY, HONOLULU, S Here are the offices of the ministers and justices, treasurydepartment, law library, and the national museum. Inthe latter may be found a most interesting and uniquecollection of spears, war-clubs, war-drums, necklaces ofhuman teeth, feather plumes or kahilis, tapas, and agreat helmet made of red andyellow feathers. Each has itshistory attached, and here wefind an anomaly in the his-tory of the world—a peopleK)oking back upon the bar-baric methods and utensils oftheir fathers, for not until 1824did Hawaii break its idols anddon garments, approachingthe amenities of civilized life. In the grandly proportionedcourt room the ceremonies at-tending the legislative gather-ings are held. This affair is abewildering assembly of thenotables of the land, clothedaccording to race and taste, and the tout ensemble is akaleidescope of feather cloaks, stars, badges, swallow-tailed coats, ministerial vestments, gold lace, brass
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