San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

fermentation, is not intoxicating, and
whence it derives it's rehabilitating and
thrice blessed power no man knows.
1t is there, though, of a surety. There
are one or two places in San Francisco
where it may be obtained, and men
who have been to the islands and feel
its need call for it, but to the mass of
the people on the Pacific coast it's ben
efcent qualities are as little known as
to those who live in Chicago. 1t is
one of the many cases wherein travel
| is an education.
| This is not the place for Hawaiian
statistics, but Americans will flock
| there after annexation, and they will
find it land of pretty women. Even
the children of harsher featured ma
lions take on something of the beauty
of the cline, and American maidens
| born there are phantoms of delight.
The Kanaka woman possesses a clear
dark skin, black sensuous eyes that
| alternately sparkle and melt, small
hands and feet, and figures that are the
embodiment of grace and feminine
charm. Their sense of morality is not
all that it should be, but their DISPOSE
lions are charming. Lightheartedness
and tenderness are characteristics.
Their personal cleanliness is exquisite.
They literally live in water. They age
early, like the females of all tropical
countries, but when young are ire
sistible. 1t was a good thing for st.
Anthony that his visitants were not of
the Kanaka race. On those islands
many a world-worn and -buffeted
man has sunk into lethargy, the world
forgetting, by the world forgot. His
years passed like the shadow of duck
wing on the pool. His brown children
played around him; the breeze of the
ocean caressed him; the palm tempered
the shade of the constant sun; his
wives were his hand-maidens; nature
was his provider; he was chief of his
village; he did not long feverishly for
the coming of payday; the bill collec-
tor was but memory; yesterday was
as today and today as tomorrow. Why
should he not have laughed and slyly
shaken his head as told in story when
an Grant ship strayed to those shores
and his countrymen offered him a
passage home. Here are rest and
fair Dreams" he said Around you
rolls the blue expanse that looks so
fair and is so cruel. Its fish shall feed
you. The wine of the banana will
make you glad. The girls will love
you. Stay you with me-"
Even in the Hawaii of today social
restrictions are lax. The missionar-
les and descendants of missionaries
model their beings upon the folks in
the states and govern their lives by
their covenances, but other populations
are not so trammeled. Man and wom-
an do pretty much as they please so
long as they do not injure their neigh
bors There is not more immortality
than elsewhere, but freer system of
living. 1t is summer always and the
siesta is a fixed institution. Ham
mocks inviting to repose swing in all
houses. Flowers are in profusion and
their scent is on the air. Languor
compels quiet. There is no necessity
for exertion, and there is no exertion.
Soft blow the breezes and the dull
lbloom OF the ocean lulls to slumber.
Mr.. Dole and his associates have en-
deavored to form an American republic
with the means at hand, but an Ethio-
plan may not change his skin nor the
leopard his spots. There will be great
opportunity for our countrymen in the
islands. provided they can retain their
energy but that will be found almost
an impossibilty. They Will be happy
in those modern Hesperides, but they
will lose their reverence for the dollar
Under the shadow of vast Mauna-Loa,
whose burning heart smolders through
the centuries, life is pleasant, but the
lotos is eaten and men and women
dream.-H. s. Garfield in the Chicago
Times Herald.