The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social StudyBlascoer, Frances
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The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social Study
Blascoer, Frances
Child labor -- Hawaii -- Honolulu; Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Social conditions; Women -- Employment -- Hawaii -- Honolulu
Dressing │$4.50, 9.00, │ 97│ 32-44 │
sacques │12.00, 18.00,│ │ │
│30.00, 48.00.│ │ │
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Footnote 1:
At present these articles are purchased in New York City.
AN HAWAIIAN SHOP
A tour of the local curio and art shops discloses many choice articles
typically Hawaiian in their manufacture or character. There are to be
found everywhere quantities of tapas, lauhala mats, calabashes and leis,
but in so heterogeneous a mass and so mixed with other things that their
appeal is apt to miscarry. Tourists find it difficult to select mementos
to carry away with them, and so much valuable patronage is lost.
There are infinite possibilities in an establishment of this kind if
managed by a person of good judgment and artistic taste. A careful
assemblage of the above articles, groups of the really artistic
photographs of native types to be found in some of the shops, framed in
the beautiful koa or kou woods; together with other wares which might be
easily evolved, would make an attractive showing. Home-made candy
specialties and other delicacies characteristic of the islands—creamed
cocoanuts; pineapple candies; home-made guava jelly; mango jam;
chutney—all are in demand. A tea room, with a young woman to check
packages for shoppers, has also been suggested by a number of people. A
poi luncheon (which is nowhere available at present) on steamer days
would be a novelty.
An article in the Sunday Advertiser called attention to the fact that no
fruit shop in Honolulu made a specialty of Hawaiian fruits; and
suggested that lauhala baskets filled with choice mangoes, Hawaiian
oranges, bananas, strawberry guavas, mountain apples, figs and papaias
wrapped in ti leaves, would be acceptable gifts to departing friends.
Any plan of this kind, however, would depend on the extermination of the
Mediterranean fruit-fly whose depredations have caused an embargo to be
laid on all fruits and vegetables from the Island of Oahu.
Hawaiian shop attendants, with Chinese and Japanese girls serving tea,
would be added attractions.
These features should furnish material for advertisements to be placed
on steamers and in the literature of the promotion committee.
It would be difficult to give the regulation store building the
distinctively Hawaiian atmosphere which ought to go far toward making a
success of such an enterprise: and an attractive cottage with a certain
amount of ground space would furnish a most appropriate setting.
PROPOSED TRADE SCHOOL
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