The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-25
Eastern Lady Charmed With Life
in That District.
DELIGHTED WITH THE NATIVES.
Longing to Have Lived in the Old Re-
gime-TraFeI by the Punaluu Route.
Hospitality OF Miss Paris-Bathing in
the Placid Pacihc-Beautiful Nights.

An Eastern lady, now on a visit
to Kailua, Kona, writes to a friend
as follows regarding life in the
islands:
You know how disappointed have
been not to have seen some repTesen-
tative Hawaiian life since my coming
to the islands. / have seen plenty of
Americans, Portuguese and japanese,
and have really a very good idea OF
their different ways of living, but un-
til now L have seen scarcely anything
OF the native.
Honolulu might be a pretty, little
city in America; the same language,
the same social life and the same
ideas. One sees Hawaiians on the
street, and, If interested, reads about
them and learns something OF their
history; but does not feel as II IN
their country. There is the constant
longing to have lived in the old re-
pime, when 1t was Hawaii, and not to
all intents and purposes an American
colony.
The cane fields take all the tropical
look out of the districts where the
large plantations are situated After
q number of months at the Islands,
my first glimpse of the wild, volcanic
mid-Pacific group of islands, was on
the road between the Volcano House
and Punaluu. The weird, dreary ex-
panse of black lava, with Maunaloa
looming above, is one of the most faci-
mating things / have seen in my
travels. 1t seems to me great pity
that tourists 40 seldom see what would
remain indelibly fixed upon their
minds. If, In visiting the volcano,
travellers would go by Hilo and return
by Punaluu, think there would be
less grumbliDg about the trip, espec-
tally now that the great crater only
sends forth vapor. OF course, the
Punaluu road might be improved,
but know you would feel as L do,
that you would not have missed that
part of the trip for good deal.
When you reach the Kona coast
and get out of the choppy sea, you
would even forget the hard berths
(why don't they have something more
comfortable than boards and q micro
scopic mattress p and by the time you
reach Kailua yOu would decide, as 1
did, to at least stay over one trip OF
the Hall and enjoy Miss PARIS hOspi
tally, take daily dips in the delicious
water, study the native-and he is
worth it-see the hills clothed with
different verdure than the eternal
sugar cane which makes so much of
the country look like an overgrown
corn field.
1 said stay over a trip, but would
notwithstanding how our tastes
agree-decide to remain through the
summer. There is always a breeze,
either from the sea or mountain, and
the broad verandas and loungiDg
chairs galore are most inviting during
the warmest part of the day. But the
moonlight nights
We have had a most enjoyable
week, daily dips in the clear, warm
water of the sea that almost encroaches
upon the lawn in front of the house {;
long siestas on the veranda a visit to
the Government school, where the
native children showed much ability
and good training, and much gazing
at the ever changing colors of the
Pacific. Wednesday night, July Sd,
two serenades by natives and the
sound of firecrackers introduced the |
"GIorious Fourth" Thursday some
friends OF Miss Paris came from the |
mountain side to spend the day, so
that the anniversary OF the youthful |
Republic was most pleasantly cele- |
brated.
am delighted with the natives. / |
find them so friendly and well be- |
haved. They seem thrifty too, in a |
nice, lazy, tropical way, and certainly |
show much energy in fishing, if in no |
muscular work.
If you decide to come to Hawaii let |
me know, and we will spend some |
blissful weeks at Kailua together"