The record-union., 1897-07-18
FAIR HAWAII.
SOME OF ITS DELIGHTS AS A
PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
Here Grows the Taro Root, From
Which is Made the Peculiar
and Appetizing Poi.

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If Hawaii becomes a part of the grea'
has adhered to the principle of con
tinental aggression only, but nov
stretches its giant tentacles seawar(
east and west, let us hope that Amer
lean citizens will be made better ac
quainted with the poi cocktail" For
oh brethren of the blazing nose and the
rheumy eye and the trembling hanC
and the dark brown taste next morn
ing, it is the king pin of ''pick-me'
ups" One of them will cause the bill
ious hue of the world to turn green
two of them Will make the sound Oi
running waters to fail on the ear in 6
weary country, three Will induce bios
SONS to bloom on a telegraph pole, anc
four of them will put you into condition
to fight for your life. In its tender
depths lie life and hope, strength anc
| appetite, sweetness and light. 1t Is
cool to the eye and tongue. 1t is CRATE
full to the stomach whose coat has beer
| rumpled 1t will stick when mu-
cilage fails. Poor dwellers in America
who have whooped her up until the
dim red morn has lain half fallen across
the threshold of the sun, can only Ions
| and listen for the ''clink of the ice
in the pitcher that the boy brings doWT
the hall" as so beautifully and pathet-
ically remarked by the gifted and re-
GREETED Field, but the Hawaiian lays
his lawless thumb upon the electric bel
and yells in a cracked voice for poi.
| of the elevator
half an hour afterward you would sup
pose that he had spent ten hours IN the
dreamless sleep of childhood.
Poi" is made of "taro,' and "taro'
is a tuber which grows in water and II
a God given profusion in all of the
islands which form that beautiful
chain that is the ornament of the mid
die Pacific. The Kanakas, benightec
creatures, not recognizing its noblel
| uses. make bread of it. The name o.
the man who discov that it is g
| panacea for katzenjammer is lost II
the murk of years, but if it We're knoWl
his grateful countrymen would bullc
him a. monument higher than Hamar
was hanged Soft be his rest, wherever
he sleeps The chances are that It's
discovery was accidental. That has
been the case with so many of the beS'
gifts to man Probably he had tr1eC
''Manhattans' and Martins" and "ab-
sinthe frappes" and ''silVer fizZes' anc
milk punches with eggs in them unit
his soul tainted within him. Then III
fit of despera tion he ordered something
made of poi" and the barkeeper, true
| to the traditions of his class, served Il
in the form of a cocktail. Then the
person privileged to stand near saw the
sufferers face suffused with a sot1
glow of delight, heard his deep-draWr
breath of satisfaction, and listened ap-
provingly as he said TO the man behinc
the counter. Make 'nuZZer." From
that golden time until the prosaic now
the Hawaiian gentleman of uncertain
hours has feared no foe, having always
within reach a restorative dlscounllhs
anything before dreamed OF man.
The poi cocktail is made in TINS
wise: The manufacturer takes lohs
thin glass and a spoon. The glass he
fills with cracked ice, and across lh'
top he lays a sprig of mint. he dpS
| the spoon into q bowl of pulVerlzec
sugar. then transfers it to the glass
Two heaping spoonfuls of the poi are
added. as we'll as a few drops OF ao'
sinthe. The glass is then drawn 1ul
of sparkling Apollinaris, and the Worf
| of mercy is accomplished. Paul Neu'
mann. Attorney General for queen LII
iuokalani, advocated always couplt
/ of straw berries, if they We're optalha-
BILE. but that takes time, and IS d re-
finement which no man with neat
like a balloon and throat ike lime
kiln has time to wait. Indeed, you VII
see his shaking hand stretched across
the counter in an effort to grasp the
glass before the artist has given Il
these final loving touches when NJ
would not forego if his customer SAM
to the floor before his eyes.
The taro root, except in state OF
high fermentation, is not Intoxicating
and whence it derives its rehabliltating
and thrice blessed power no mar
knows. 1t is there, though, OF surety
| There are one or two places IN san
| Francisco where it may be obtained
| and men who have been to the lslahos
and feel it's need call for 1t, but te
| the mass of the people on the RACINE
Coast it's beneficent qualities are as III
tle known as to those who live in Chi
| caso. 1t is one of the many cases
wherein travel is an education.
This is not the place for HaWallaI
statistics but Americans Will hocR
| there after annexation, and they VII
find it a land of pretty women. Ever
! the children of harsher featured ma
| tions take on something of the beauty
| of the cline. and American maidens
born there are phantoms of delight
The Kanaka woman possesses clear
dark skin, black, sensuous eyes that al
| ternately sparkle and melt, small hands
and feet and figures that are the en-
bodiment of grace and feminine charm
Their sense of morality is not all thai
it should be. but their dispositions are
charming Light-heartedness and ten
derness are characteristics. Their per-
lsona1 cleanliness is exquisite. They
literally live in the water. They age
early. like the females of all tropica
countries, but when young are irresist-
| ible. 1t was a good thing for St. An
| thony that his visitants were not of the
| Kanaka race. On those islands many
| a. world-worn and sea- buffeted man
has sunk into lethargy, the world for
gotten, by the world forgot. His years
| passed like the shadow of ducks
| wing in the pool. His brown children
| played around him; the breeze Of the
ocean caressed him: the palm tempered
the shade of the constant sum- his wives
| were his handmaidens; nature was his
| provider. he was chief of his village;
he did not long feverishly for the com
ing of pay-day: the bill collector was
but a memory: yesterday was as to-
dav and TODAY as Tomorrow Wby
| should he not have laughed in story