The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-12

study. Our little chamber-maid-man,
quiet, deft, polite and always child
like and bland" taps at our door at
dusk, enters with a pleasant, low
spoken good evening" turns down our
bed clothes in quite artistic fashion,
arranges the mosquito = canopy about
our bed and then never forgetting a
good night 'retires as noiselessly as
the mosquitoes enter, and enter they
do in scores and hundreds when night
comes on.
They are not great vocalists and
their bite does not poison badly but
they make one very fdgety, all the
same. Chinese and Japanese women
are numerous on the streets, bare
headed; the japanese women clad in
the scantest kimonos with gay obs a
foot square hanging bustle-like out
side their gowns down the back from
the waist, with bare feet loosely
strapped to sandals which make a
great clatter as they walk. When
they sit they frequently drop them off.
The Chinese women in trousers and a
loose sacCue
Their babies and young children are
the most picturesque creatures imag-
Unable. The little mothers carry them
on their backs, pig a back fashion,
sometimes bound with straps, a gay
little bundle of half a dozen colors.
and both races look like toy people
masquerading.
The soil is rich and deep and there
is an abundance of moisture. The an
nual rainfall averages % inches and
recently on Hawaii, the largest island
of the Hawaiian group. so inches fell
in less than three weeks!
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We walk beneath huge banyan trees,
tamarinds, bread-fruit, cocoanuts, pa
paias and pomegranates and pick wild
guaVas on our drives
In the park surrounding the former
Kings palace, now the Government
Building. are a couple of banyan trees
whose branches would shelter a regi-
ment and they are but twenty years
old. Clusters of roots depend from
high branches seeking the earth and
having gotten a hold therein they pro-
coed to thicken and form supports
to the parent limb. These trees have
been cut back greatly as their branches
interfered with other trees fifty feet
away. We have seen here a cocoanut
grove, twenty acres in extent, full of
fruit.
The papaia is a fruit as large as a
IileuluIH SlZeQ CdHIdlOupe grown on a
tail generally branches tree in clus-
tiers beneath crown of leaves When
ready for the table they are yellowish-
green on the outside and pumpkin
colored within. They are served in
sections plain or with lemon as a first
course at breakfast. Sliced ripe figs
sprinkled with sugar are also one of
our breakfast deliCacies. The taro
from which poi is made and which
cooked in various ways forms such an
important item in the menu of the
Hawaiians, grows in water. is a big
tuber and has leaves somewhat like
young caladiums in shape and size.
Cooked it is of lavendeT color. Boil
ed and served like a potato, its taste
resembles chestnuts. Made into a
paste, it is fried in cakes. or, diluted
with cream, ii is served as a first
course at dinner. under the guise of
poi cocktail. a plant which bears a
leaf much like our Gamma is called ii.
pronounced tee) and fish wrapped in
ii leaves and cooked take on a flavor
much liked by many. The coffee we
drink is excellent. 1t is raised on the