Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — Laziest People on Earth. [ARTICLE]

Laziest People on Earth.

A traveler who visited the Sandwich Islands claims to have discovered among the natives there the “laziest people on earth.” He writes that during his visit to one of the islands none of the inhabitants did any work to speak of. They squatted, chatted, laughed, played, and acted in other ways more like a lot of little folks on a summer evening than the responsible heads of househdlds. Nature gives them enough to eat without any considerable labor, and they seem contented with what they thus receive. At Honolulu and other points work la done, but altogether the people of the islands are happy.