The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-04
OUT AND ABOUT.

Miss Frances c. Morse, who is travel
| ing in the east with Mr.. and Mrs. II.
H. Flagler of New York, has written
very interestingly to friends in Wor-
cester of her experiences and impress
sions since leaving Worcester. She was
in Honolulu at the time of the funeral
| of Princess Kaialaini, and in Japan for
| the cherry blossom season.
Under the date of March Is, Miss
Morse writes from the Hawaiian Hotel
Honolulu:
IF ever you want to go to Paradise
before your appointed time, come here.
| 1t is the loveliest spot ever saw; green
and luxuriant, with great masses OF
flowers, hedges of hibiscus, all in bloom,
tropical trees and plants in the greatest
profusion, and all so green and fresh.
not dried up, as in California. Back OF
the town is a range Of high hills and
every morning l step out of my room,
which opens by shutter doors las do
all the rooms in the house, upon a
wide yerandah, and look across all
| these feathery, green trees up to the
| hills with white clouds on their tops.
| The air is delicious, fragrant with flow
ers, and so balmy and warm. We love
| this place and hate to leave it. l knew
we should when we landed.
I'VE had a badly rolling steamer to
come in and are trusting that the G2e-
| lie, which we sail on at midnight, will
| be better, as we have eleven days on
her. We have not yet received our mail
from the Gaelic, for she has not yet
| reached her dock, although she is IN
| harbor.
1--WE reached here the day after the
Princess Kaialaini died, and, thanks to
| Mr.. B., we were in at everything; saw
| her lying in state in her own house,
with eight men, each in a $4,000 feather
cape, standing guard over her and way
| ing great, long-handled feather fans,
! called kahili, over her body, which lay
upon a draped bier, dressed in long
white satin ball gown, like bride
| THE natives were filing in to see
her and wailing. I never heard any
thing like it and never shall forget it.
1t was a really wonderful experience.
II went out again in the evening
with Mr. B., who was an intimate
| friend of the princess, and sat under a
banyan tree and listened to the natives
singing their songs of grief and
| through the open window l could see
the poor little princess with her guards
waving kahili over her. I felt as
were dreaming anu IL COulull NC 4te1t
after our six disagreeable days on the
ocean. Only two weeks before we had
left behind us the SHOWS and cold OF
New England.
I'VE had two days at Los Angeles q
day at Pasadena and one at San Fran
cisco. 1 did not like California at all
it was so dry and sandy. The tropica
growth is not attractive as it is here
where everything is green and luXuri-
ant and remains so the year around
There are slight showers every day
with the sun shining, and it keeps tbs
green so fresh and clean. 1t is lazy
life we led here, like everybody. No
body walks a step, and it is so easy L
fall into the indolent life of the trop-
les"
One week later Miss Morse writes
again, dating her letter SIS. Gaelic, of
the coast of Japan, March %.
II never imagined anything so abso-
lutely desolate and uninteresting as the
} Pacific-not a steamer, not a boat OF
any Sort and nothing but the wide
ocean since we left Honolulu. March
/. 49, If anything happened to the ship
the best thing you could do would be tC
: die at once, for no ship would ever pass
, to find you. A heavy gale ragged foI
two days and broke in venulatOrs anG
washed a coffin of a dead Chinamar
overheard. The entire crew and all the
servants on board the Pacific steamers
are Cinnamon. They gamble inces-
sanity and have an opium joint anC
two joss houses on board, where they
burn joss sticks to their gods. Many
of them are rich men going home tC
live, and some of them to die. Wher
they are dying they get on a steamer
so as to be buried in China. They al
! ways have eight or ten die on board.
1.-THE collins are out on the back O.
the boat, covered over with canvas, anC
the one that was washed overheard has
been replaced, unknown to the China
men, with a coffin filled up with some
thing heavy and the funeral will go or
just the same.
THE table boys wear long white lawr
| gowns over their other clothes and, OF
course, long pigtail with the front
? of the head shaved closely. They are
never allowed to land from the minute
they ship at Hong Kong till they gel
back
Miss Morse's next letter is under the
date of Friday, March 81, and was
written in Yokohama.
and am already repaid for all the dis
a agreeable trip. Never in all my travels
? have l enjoyed anything as much as
have Japan.
when we stepped on the docks. we
all got into jinrikishaws, and off trotteC
the little Jap in the shafts. The jim
rikishaW is like a baby wagon with
thills in front and will hold only one
| You never imagined anything so fun.
. | M nd rAIa T.,
) a steady jog, not like man, but like q
dog. and he keeps it up for hours The
fare is five cents, ten cents an hour
: for one.
Il can't tell you how interesting ant
: strange and beautiful everything is
The little children are all dressed il
their brilliant cOlOred garments, theil
black hair done up like the grown III
ones, with ornaments in it. The girl!
and young women are enchantingly
pretty and all nave a clear skin. mo-
dark, and a natural brilliant high co
) Tor, with very often touch of brigh-
paint put on the middle of the lower
lip, and with the glossy thick blacl
halr, and the darling gowns, they ar,
pictures.
AS for the shops, I see. plainly that
ruin stares me in the face. Such EN-
broideries! And everything so cheaJ
| lA4"I IL ,oCILllS d uONuIlSHt shame no
to buy. Such beautiful centre-piece
and doylies with draw work. will
chrysanthemums, wistaria, cherry bios
SONS and peonies-I am just wild.
THE people here all wear hose to fl
the big toe, like the thumb of a glove
and either sandals or clogs. The clog:
are made of two wooden pieces JUS
across the middle of the instep, fasten-
ed on a piece of wood, and a band OF
lcloth goes between the toes and the bic
toe and around the ankle. so it holds
/ the clog on. TheN dron at eNe1-u So