The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26
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back room and put down mating. And
such mating, She said it was cooler
than the rag carpet. Every strand in
that mating was shy of every other
strand. When l came in from prayer
meeting after taps / used to shove my
toe under a strand just inside the door
and throw a somersault right into my
couch on the opposite side of the room
1t was a great convenience and fine exer-
else And / dislike walking after an
evenings devotions. But I'd like to show
my old landlady some of the mating the
natives make over here. Some of it is
nearly as light as mosquito bar, but
firmly woven and strong. Some of 1t is
thicker than body Brussels and so soft
that the foot sinks into it. And all sorts
and sizes, from mat for a tea tray to
"a rug for a big parlor, in the quaintest
designs and patterns. Mating. An
American doesn't know what mating
means. The soldiers here sleep on mat
ting that would be considered treasures
in the States. A native woman can't
cook and is ignorant of the uses of in
secticides, but she certainly can make
mating and hats and nipa cloth and pima
Cloth and pima embroidery. And her hus-
band can make baskets. Baskets big
enough to live in and basket work dainty
and delicate enough to be worn as an
ornament. When / come home / am GO
ing to bring a basket trunk that will
break the heart of every English actor
that sees il.
These woven things that I've been tell
ing about cannot be initiated in the States
or Europe. The material isn't there. The
hats and mattings and baskets are made
from the fiber of the Burr palm and the
Nito fern. And nipa cloth also is made
from the Nito fern. Before many years
-, II
these thingss and | wonder whether the
North American Woven Goods Syndicate
is going to control the business, or If the
HCngkong Banking and Trading Corpor-
alton (Inglish) is going to finance the
business as 1t now does about everything
else in the Orient. What's the matter
with ''Old Chawncey?" He's overdue
When 1 struck Honolulu I took off my
hat and carried it under my arm. That
town made heaven, as ordinarily describ-
| ed. look Ike a cancelled revenue stamp.
/ If I'd had a million that first day in Ho-
nolulu. I'd have walked up on the porch
OF the first home / struck on the Waikiki
road, sat down in a bamboo rocker and
said to the owner:
Name your price! ANY old price, I'm
going to stay right herer
/ But not having the million l moved on
At first these Negros pueblos, in compar-
ison with Honolulu, look pretty shabby
But when you figure on the soil, the eli
mate and the natural wealth of the coun-
try. you realize that all these pueblos
with their nipa shacks and gardenless
streets, are just unmatched Honolulus
All that is needed is plenty of American:
of the warm" sort. to set on the egg!
and hatch 'em. II every one of thes'
lpueblos doesn't eventually blossom into
Honolulu, then there's something gont
wrong with Yankee blood AS for TIN
natives! Well, are the Kanakas of Ho
rolulu worse off than before the fial
went up to stay?
1t feels more homelike in quarters her
wires running into one end of the casa
and there's a telegraph office next doc
to the orderly room. l can sit in the or
Derby room and hear that sounder &
tiok-tick-tiok and it makes the place fee
sort of homelike. And then for 1888 pc
word can send cable direct from her
into The Sun office. knowing that is
sort of antidote for inconsistencies, even
a fellow hasn't got the 1888.
The other evening / sat here and lister
ed to that sounder and imagined picture
of what this country will be fifty year
hence. Then / turned in and tried
make up topical songs to the tick of thu
soUnder. Pretty soon / woke up feelin
hungry. So ! took a walk down the Call
Real Chats the main street of the puet
lo), until I came to a big building
white stone, called the Castoria Hous
l sat up on a big stool, like the other GU.
toners and ordered a 30-cent lunch and
glass of cool beer. All the customer
were Americans and they kept clmbin
down off their stools and going over
{ look at the stock-ticker. Just for curio
ity / went too. l didn't speculate ar
! lneither did these other fellows, who wei
just well-salaried clerks. / took loo
, at the tape and this is what L read:
'Iloilo Stock Exchange-Panay Potter
Qtd.), s1OS; Cebu Copper Company 81 /
{ Luzon Electric, $1.O3: Manila Street Raj
way, S6.61: Negros Hardwood Syndicat
. S2.16; West Coast Sugar, s1.9S; Philippir
Pima Trust, $3.50; North American Banl
ing and Trading Corporation, sl0.0S o
fered:"-and then I woke up.
NAnd no wonder. 1t was 8 a. m, and
native woman in n'pa hut across Il
plaza was singing. That's what they ca
it-singing. But when Governme1
, mule makes the same sort of a noise
is called braying. I've read nearly
dozen items in papers from the Stat
telling what musical people the FL
piros are. The Munchausen who inven
ed that fairy tale should be fred TT
Filipino is noisy individual, especial
when he has his pots on" He win 4
to sing until the lights go out He w
ano smile complacently in the belief TIL
he IS making music at the first attemr
If he owns a piccolo he will get up
a. m. and toot on it until daylight tt
: women have voices like dying grof
!. and they get up at the same hour al
erunt and moan and groan until reveill
IT may be music, hut If man made Il
same sort of a noise in the Silly night
, New York he'd get sixtydays with La
~. CThey tell me poor Larry is dea
\ Private Sevenspot says: "He were
o good soul and kind to the boarders.'o
This whole Philippine business is goi,
TO be settled some day, all in a minut
Y There's god here. There's gold on Gel
and Mfndanao and half a dozen other is
q ands. The natives wash out gold on p
nay almost witnIn sight of Iloilo. Sin
\ the lighting has let up the soldiers wi
Y Know something of prospecting and ha
been located in different sections and /,
q ands are beginning to meet and comma
x notes. Placer gold in a chamois SIX
< sack isn't an oddly. Quartz specime
Y are common. There's gold and conn
\ mere. and that, I imagine, will soon So
G tie the destiDfes of these islands. If +
money makers wont come tho GOLD IN,