The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-09
4 MAN WHO ENJOYS THE WAR At
HOME.
How Hawkins Got Gu TO the Lati-
tudes and had His Eyes Opened
Didn't Know About Washington.

Didn't Know About Washington.
II tell YOU" exclaimed Hawkins
ioyously, as he sat down by Simpson
IN the car and unfolded the paper he
had just bought, 81 am enjoying this
war hugely
Our navy" assented Simpson, sis |
winning fame every day"
"Oh, | don't mean that corrected |
Hawkins, I'm proud of course of the |
navy, and the army, too, of course.
Oh. YES, used to belong to the army
and my wife's uncle was in the navy.
But | am getting a great deal of real
pleasure out of this war by brushing
up my geography
We're all doing that affirmed his
friend.
Every night l am studying the
MAPS" said Hawkins. 81 take my
boys geography out on the front step
and from the moment | get the grass
wet down till the fire flies bring the
twilight | am at it.
by the way. do you know that our
Toledo and SPANS are almost in the
same latitude? That's where | am
ENJOYING this war I'm looking up
the ATTITUDES, you know. When | was
| in that log school house back there
in Ohio, didn't dream there was so
much in geography-we called it
'iogafy.' Teacher and all did that.
We learned the definitions of latitude
and longitude and were told that, they
were Of use for mariners to find out
where they were at sea. ! never sus-
pected that there was any latitude or
! Longitude on dry land, and | was 20
wears old before | discovered that
two places on opposite sides of the
earth could have the same latitude.
Just think. the two Toledos are about
the same distance from the equator.
SDain's Toledo is in the land of lem
ons, oranges. wine and raisins, and
ours, only ninety miles further north,
is "A thousand miles from lemon.
This war was worth something to me
if only to make me brush up my jog
afy.'
Now. what place, Simpson, in this
country is on the same parallel with
Gibraltar?'
ooh, I suppose Minneapolis or Que
bee"
"Ha! Ha! You're way off-colder
!
the place. Just think of it-Norfolk,
Toxic, Shanghai. Cashmere and Gil
braltar hang or the same clothes line.
Funny, isn't it?
Now, here's another, Simpson. Did
YOU suspect that the Canary Islands
and Mount Sanai were in the same
latitude? Or Delhi, Foo Chow and
New Orleans? Well, they are, all OF
them. | tell you it is glorious to
look these things up, and | never ev-
en- thought of doing it until Dewey
banged the Spanish all to pieces at
Manila.
See here. Simpson, did you know
Cairo, the run aub, The blue sea and
the northern part OF the Desert OF
Sahara, were on the same parallel as
New Orleans, Delhi, Mt. Sanai and the
Canaries? Well, they are.
I "Now, take London, Simpson, what
town over here is on the same lati
tude?"
1T ought to be New York"
"Well, it isn't. All England is fur
Their north than any part of the Unit
ed States except Alaska. The Aleu-
tian Islands and Winnipeg, up il
Manitoba. are in the same class will
e London.
y "Here's a scorcher now, Simpson
: There's Venice: if Venice stood still
and the earth turned round under her
what places would get a worm s-ey'
view of Venice?" You give it up
Well, north Wisconsin, Simpson. JUS
think of it-up there in the land o
q saw mills and dance houses brool
! trout and cold summers. Venice ant
y Ashland! There are two Thousand
miles difference in the climate of thos
= places Minneapolis and st. Paul, toe
Y would see Venice as they rolled un
der.
New York and Peking are on tn
e same line and Edinburg and lrllutsk
E. in Kamschatka; Marseilles, in France
is north of Milwaukee; Portland, Me
is south of Florence, Italy; Constant
% nople, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Naples
: Barcelona, Providence, II. l.; Chicag
- and Nladivostok, are on the sam
strong of beads. Thank God, Dewe
whipped those Dagoes and set me t
looking up these things"
. what places" asked Simpson, Ear
on the same parallel with Washing
ton?"
Hawkins trembled
= simpson, | ought to know that.
is important. But [ confess | don
now | haven't looked it up. Ho'
on earth could | have over locke
that? BY the way, | remember Lii
bon, Malaga, Smyrna and Bokhar
are on a par, so to speak. That's I'll
= best can do for you just now, SIM
SON"
The car stopped and with it Hay
kins' string of ATTITUDES. He ha
. come to his street
- "Ill look that up, Simpson,"
said as he landed on the asphal
. ''just as soon as / get the law
sprinkled. To think | shouldn't llno
all about my own latitude by tn
70 time. It's simply dense ignorance. :"
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