The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-09
BRAcING CLIMATES AT HOME.

II is a pity that the people of Hawaii
,,ax.a NOT vet utilized in more than
scant and casual way the advantages
which their own group of islands gives
TO those who periodically need a change
of climate. 1t is the testimony of the
doctors that white people, born and
brought up in northern ATTITUDES, can
not live in the tropics for many years
at a stretch without coming to require
a climatic antidote for the eneryation
which life in an endless summer be-
slows. So we'll is theory borne out by
experience that those who have the
means and leisure make frequent trips
to the mainland. Unfortunately means
and leisure are for the few, yet the
many are quite as susceptible as their
more fortunate brethren to the weak
ening effects of Interchangeable solar
heat. To the two questions: What
shall the stay-at-home class do? and
Is it necessary for the rich to go away
from Hawaii for a different air? the
varied climates of this group give an
easy and conclusive answer.
There are climates as bracing in some
of the islands as can be found any
where on the Pacific coast. Altitude
takes the place of latitude and brings
down the scale of travel distances
Given good roads and a convenient inn
and the sun-tired dweller in lowland
Hawaii might take his Thanksgiving
dinner among the frosts and his Christ
mas banquet among the SHOWS. There
| is a climate on the Kona coast of Ha-
wall as bracing and as full of life as
any in the world. On the upper reaches
1 of the highest mountains one may, II
| the nidWinter months, feel the JOY o.
the blizzard and the need of furs ant
a rousing fire. At Olinda and Other
places on the. rolling uplands of Mau
one finds clear, sharp autumnal weathel
in August-weatler that revives thu
nerves, brightens the eye, reddens tn
cheeks and clears the brain. The for
1 ests with their rare medicaments ar
/ ours to enjoy as we'll as the sea witt
it's SAVIOR of health and strength. Blu
forests and attitudes are kept from IN
use of the many by the trouble in get
ting to them and in finding accommo
dations when they are reached.
The. people of Hawaii could not spen
money in a better way than by maxim
their natural sanitariums accessible
What is needed is to open the road
places at an elevation of 5000 feet an
upwards, provide reasonable accommc
dations there and induce transports
ton agencies to make cheap excurslo
rates to reach them. Maui is nea
: enough to Oahu to get the large vista
ton from this city and island whic
: it assuredly deserves. Upon the side
: of majestic Haleakala, any climate or
I wants, except the tropical, may /
found. The climates range between II
o GOODNESS of the northern spring to tt
4 boreal stress of the northern wintel
$ they offer the attractions of the ten
i perature of the California foothill
t mountain valleys and Sierran cliffs
: itufn. And yet how little we apprecia
: them. Those who can afford the TT
: go to San Francisco or Lake Tah'
or Banff; those who cannot go so Il
lafield have to turn their backs on Il
inviting attitudes of Hawaii and sta
at home In the mosquito belt, paylI
: doctors bills and longing for bett
= things. It is a pretty unreasonable VIZ
= to live but the people of lowiand III
wall have been doing it for lol
:. time