Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-11-04
LETTER FROM MR. R =. SMITH.
a Spicy Account Of voyage to the Coast
"A "Crom6o" club in Md Ocean
A Bout Of "a Games of Crib
baae wiM Minister Kapena--
Local hits, etc.

When / had my last glimpse of
Diamond Head was trying to console
little woman, aged five, who "didn't
want to ride any more" An hour later
those of us who were looking saw the
jagged sky line OF Oahu through veil
of translucent gold--doubly fair by the
suggested possibilities and the realized
realities of its beauty.
We we're merry-enough yet a
sedate- enough party not at all antago
nistic yet separating easily into three
cliques. There was the English-1rish
set the Flora McFlimsey set and the
Island Hawaiian an-American set. There
was some little affiiation between sets
Nos. and ga mild mischief making
with the less gawky of the two English
youths by the most giddy of the two
American-Hawaiian maidens. And set
No. permitted the better looking Of
the British youths to firt with its one
pretty girl.
We of the island set largely out
numbered the others with whom our
connecting link was that most cosmo
politan knight Sir John Buck, Of
Nalehu. n
We had Cabinet Minister, a mer-
chant and his wife, merchant batch
.elor, sugar boiler and his wife, sugar
planters daughter, sugar machinery
draughtsman, clergyman's wife,
a Scotch-American young lady, news
paper fellow and three small children,
six, and two six bits in age.
We sang a little-helped by the
doctor and the engineer We played a
little We discussed each other, and
the sky and the water and the smooth.
ness OF the trip, and Hawaiian Politics,
and American ditto and the sugar out
look and various other understood
topics. We played shuttle on the
deck and cribbage and casino and old
maid in the smoking ROOM When
Minister Kapena returns to Honolulu
he will tell you that the cribbage bout
between him and me decided the fate
of Hawaiian politics. We played 81
games of which / won 28 and he 2o,
the final game being decided within
sound of the Point Bonito fog horn,
But am happy in the assurance tina,
abler if not more amicable men than
the Minister and myself must decide
that big question-if it shall ever be
decided
One of the members of the
McFlimsey set gave us no end o.
amusement. She was very stout anc
very sour looking and had ar
appetite as large as herself
Marmalade and crackers, and sherry
was her between-meals appetizer. Hel
sister was of the party-as pretty as she
was unpretty, as sweet as she was sour
An old maid in process of evolution
perhaps but as yet unfermented an6
turned to vinegar. The rest of the Sc
J was less McFlimseyish-th is, the
: man lady was colorless and the man a.
gentlemanly as his collar-starch per
mitted.
The two little girls had good time
! The baby also. The baby's mamma
not so good time. 40 mamma, see
the blueing water; they're gettint
ready to wash !" said the clergyman''
little girl, when we got outside The
many colored water near shore. There
were number of clever things said
which | don't remember; and no enc
Of clever things thought--which l have
forgotten.
But one night we played "Crambo
in the social hall and from severa
bits of verse made | select two Ques
ton, "How do you find the tonnage
of the kanposa Word, Doctor,
To find the tonnage Of the ship
At least this trip,
Subtract the doctors estimate
Of his brain weight
From sixty thousr~d tons
OF hot cross buns.
This was, Of course, libel upon thu
doctor, who is nothing if not modest
Question "Why do girls SO lik'
to play tricks upon innocent younl
men ? Word "goose.'
Did you ever see goose
In hustle and jersey
whether short or tall l care not
Only she must be goose sure)
Fill a poor mans bed with sugar,
Stick some pins into his coat sleeves,
Lock him, sleeping, in his stateroom'
II you've seen one did you wonder
, What possessed her that she did so'
What so filed her soul with mischief
What delight she found in such wies
Let me whisper, let me tell you,
: You, my friend of mind inquiring,
I You who watch or you who wonder
: When on shipboard one is idle,
Wanders ever knows not wherefore,