The paradise of the Pacific- the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource) (1900) (14740452476)

Identifier: paradiseofpacifi00brow (find matches)
Title: The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
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Publisher: Boston, D. Estes & Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives



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t of their workers than any otherrace can obtain out of them. The Chinese takethe lead among merchants and traders, more thanhalf of those so employed being Chinese. The Chinese servants, of which there are many,with Japanese a good second, seldom live in thehouse with their employers, but have dwellingsof their own, going to their place of occupationin the morning and returning to their homes inthe evening. They ask for only one holiday, theChinese New Year, which comes on February1st. Then they absent themselves for the time,and their places must be filled by other persons.Before going it is the custom to make their mamma, or mistress, a present of some Chinesetrinket, a high-coloured vase, some fancy work,flowers or sweetmeats, receiving in return somegift that is sure to be appreciated by them. The Chinese are among the most generous con-tributors to educational and benevolent enterprises,calling less on the general resources for charitythan any other nationality. The fountainhead
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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIT I ■ I ■ I ■ f^^ THE CHINESE IN PARADISE. 163 of the philanthropic work is the United ChineseSociety of Honokilu^ a representative body includ-ing all the smaller organisations^ concerning whichit has been said: The functions of the UnitedChinese Society includes all those things^ whetherof business^ philanthropy;, public spirit^ race, ornational matters, or matters of intellectual uplift,which can be better done through organisationthan by individual interests. It succours the poor^finds work for the unemployed, takes care of thesick, relieves widows and orphans, buries the dead,sees to the return to China of the bones of thosewho, dying here, wished their bones buried ontheir ancestral soil. It has charge of the publiccelebrations, of national holidays and events ; itentertains those who are the guests of the wholepeople. It looks after the general interest ofthe Chinese Hawaii. Honolulu has been aptly termed the Paradiseof the Chinese. In their quarters, for ev