The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-06-19
Island 1respondenoe.

wife Is ON the rampage, OF your children have the
measles, or your cash Is getting low, or business is
dull, las they say it i il Honolulu or advertising
i lowered - Der cent, or the price of sugar going
down, consider lanes. just try the experiment, and
take my word FOR it the consideration Of lanes Will
make your home more cheerful, will make YOU sleep
better, have better appetite and digestion, AMI let
You arrive at the point Of destination just Us soon
and in better condition" So promised Brown that
| would try it, and sure enough, on the 24th Of MAY,
when about four miles from home, and pushing along
quite briskly on my gallant steei,' wet to the skin
and the rain pouring down fast and faster, whom
should l meet but that identical Brown, drippinglike
myself, goingalonga at full speed and shouting, LANES,
lanes, consider lanes - Ever since, welcome nice
little showers Of rain have come from time to time,
changing the face of the landscape around US. The
canefelis look brighter and refreshed, pastures are
clothed III fresh green colors, and mother earth
contains moisture sufficient for all purposes of vege-
tation, and l begin to feel inclined 10 think that
Browns theory of lanes is not a very bad theory
after all.
summertime
Is at the door, or rather has come already. In read
ing the weekly Commercial -1dveriiser, | see that
the list OF names of absentees from Honolulu, seeking
health and relaxation in California, the Eastern
States, or even Europe, is augmented by almost
every vessel that leaves these shores. But how many
there are that remain during the dull and sweltering
summer months cooped up in Honolulu, in ~listless
existence, to whom a short time of relaxation and in
vigoration would be perhaps as much and more nee
essary than to those whose purses permit them to
travel to and in foreign lands. Look at that young
clerk behind the counter in yonder dry goods store.
n I'll. - Gl .-s.f L.. .-.,rpo1 - raffipr -
neat and clean as if he had just the moment stepped
forth from cut of a band box and unwrapped himself
from a mass of siken paper in which the other fancy
articles were packed but observe how pale the
cheeks, how listless the eye, how ennuye. Surely he
wants relaxation, you may say health.
There is the young bookkeeper, the young mechanic,
the joiner, carpenter, though all are at work from
morning till night, they all feel the hot and enervat-
ing breath of summer in Honolulu they all want
health, more or less relaxation, inyigoration. Ask
them, - why don't you take u trip" and one will.
answer, II cannot afford t?''-another, where
could | 90 ?''-another what's the use of ity'-
and thus they all remain chained to their daily pur-
suits. Shall | tell you what you can afford, where
you can go, and what is the use Of your going
VIII you take my advice and follow it? Then let me
tell you, young man, go into the mountains. The
White Mountains, Mount Shasta, the Ilarz and Alps,
and all those higher ATTITUDES to which thousands
wander all over the globe in search Of health and
strength you have them here as grand, as magnit-
icent, rs picturesque, as health-glving as they can be
found in the wide world. Leave the beaten track
of roads that lead along the sea-shore or foot of
from village to village, or plantation to
plantation, sometimes n welcome and sometimes an
unwelcome visitor, but travel up, upwards, three,
four or five thousand feet above the level of the sea,
until you meet the exact climate, whose invigorating
influence you can perceive in a few hours sojourn.
There, in the primeval forest, build your shanty Of
boughs and ferns, or take up your temporary domi-
cile in some cool cave, spread your pallet ofdry leaves,
and a blanket or two and India-rubber will keep you
warm at night, while your lungs imbibe the cool and
invigorating air, and eradicate every symptom Of con-
sumptive tendencies.
Alone? you ask. No., by no means alone. Make
up IA party of your friends, six, eight or ten. 1t will
lessen the expenses, and fifteen or twenty dollars paid
into a common fund by eight or ten members, and
well husbandcd, will go a long way. What to do ?
Make excursions from your camp, or move your
camp itself from place to place, wherever your fancy
leads you; make discoveries in those mountain regions
that are almost a terra incognita to the white pop
ulation of these islands explore caves, hunt the wild
hog, the goat or turkey feast on wild Strawberries,
pohas, ulei, sc. ; take up your sketch-bOok, if you
have a turn for s%ketching invade the realms of bo-
tany, gathering leaves and flowers of the shrubs and
trees and plants, of (which four-ffths though you may
have been born on these islands or lived on them for
tens of years, are perfect strangers to you and your
friends and acquaintances at home. Rise early and
let the songs Of hundreds oflittle birds, that hop from
to twig. and are so free from fear in the green
solitudes, that they will invade your camp to have a
peep at you, usher in TO You n day of pleasure, ofa
life new, fresh, unknown.
Servants cook? M you need is a native guide
or two. BE your own cook, or cook when your turn
comes. Ii you don't know how TO fry q slaPjack, tits
time that you learn that noble art ; and if you learn
during your c~amp-life to fling a pancake high in the
air and dexterously catch it turning in the pan, you
may congratulate yourself on having acquired
one more accomplishment which though not required
in q lady's boudoir, viii nevertheless not detract
from your manhood. Lock up the dandy along with
the kid gloves and cravats and rufiiel shirts in your
trunk, and when you step on board the vessel to car
nv YOU towards Maunakea or Haleakala, make up
YOUR mind To rough it with the best of moutaineers,
and take my word for it, when you return, after eight
or ten DAYS life in forest, hill or mountain glen,
with rudy cheeks, expanded lungs, invigorated in
mind and body, and a goodly store of pleasant MEM
cries of the jolly mountain life, and the jest, the
laugh, the song around the blazing campfire, you
will be more fitted for your duties and long another
Summer to revisit the well-remembered haunts, the
kindly trees, old friends now, under whose friend
ly shade you rested, the rock over which you
tumbled. or the weei-grown a~sh-heap, where a year
ago the merry campfire blazed. Those who will in
itiate this method in search Of health, relaxation and
recreation, will undoubtedly find others to follow
their example, and thus become no small benefactors
to the community of Honolulu. As to
News,
Your correspondent has made diligent inquiries, but
received the answer, that g there is nothing new UNI
der the sun - and it is almost a fact that we on.
Maui are wholly dependent on the Commercial Id
r~eriiser for those little news items that from week to