The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-24
TIE MISSOUHIAN
By Jas. w. Girviu.


/ sourian. many of my readers have
asked me if you are not a mythica
| character and my wife also has beer
asked the same question by her lady
| friends -
well, if that is not the worst yet, 9
| said he; what do they mean by that ~
Why, a creation of my brain
said I.
We'll" said he. Il thought 1 had
fallen pretty low. as people are apt TO
be judged by the company they keep,
but TO be deemed a creation of your
BRAIN" laying great emphasis on the
possessive pronoun, wouldn't that jar
friends?
1 told him that I could easily de-
ceive them on that score by a few
examples, and that they would con-
clude, as / have done, that he was real
and one of the freaks of nature like
Burbank's spineless cactus, etc" In
lodging his umbrella 1 ran into pass
ing Chinese hawker of vegetables and
fruits and had to stop and assist him
in collecting his scattered wares, in
which work the Missourian kindly
Joined.
When we first began our journeys up
and down the valleys of Oahu he
stoutly opposed my pro-Chinese views,
and did not believe that it was wise to
said that in Missoureh they preferred
TO see their neighbors' girls and boys
doing the washing and chores and they
We're a neighborly people, and when
planting or harvest was on they liked
TO call in their neighbors. 1t was nice
to see the young folks sparkling while
the work was going on, and if the coun-
try was full of Chinese what would
their own people do for work?''
He had told me of innumerable dark
les standing along the sunny side of
the road on a. cold spring morning,
with their saw horses and axes wait
ing for a call to saw up pile of wood,
and L asked him if those were the
neighbors he referred to. He said:
You remind me of a story of a couple
who had got stranded in our country
and went TO farmhouse seeking food
and shelter. 1t was meal hour and the
lady asked them in and there sat a
big darky at the head of the table.
They decided to go farther and at the
next house an old couple made them
when they told of their ex-
perience at the former house. Yes,
said the old lady. that is our daugh- |
ter's place What said one of them, !
your daughter married to a darky?' |
Yes, she answered and he is right I
good proVider too, but our other daugI- |
-er is married to a Missourian, and it |
S lucky you did not strike their
place
However. since the Missourian has
lone the islands pretty well and seen |
somewhat of the great benefit the is
ands have received from the indus
rious Chinaman he has come to agree I
With me that at least for tropical |
america the exclusion law is decidedly |
and prejudicial to the devel-
,pment of the country.
Then, again, since he has travelled be-
yond the periphery of Missouri and
earned somewhat of the great market
which China may afford for our over
and manufactures. he be-
ieved it would be advisable to ex-
,unge the exclusion laws and to make
showing of friendliness to the Chi
lese in order to secure the lions share
y
md an opportunity for the develop
nent of its resources by our pushing
people. You see. when you touch the
:upidity of even MisSourians you find
hey are Americans.
Another incident to show that the
Missourian is not mythical charac-
er. One day in our peregrinations we !
noticed a couple of large naked natives
making poi. Of course, he must stop
md have a look at that process and 1
make the usual simple inquiries. We !,
,ound they were making poi from -four
rom the United States. when he sug- l
sested. that if they used that from the
middle states they would have a more
slutinous flour which would make bet
er poi than that produced from the
lard wheat of the north. 4
1 remarked on the fact that flour
made very good poi and poi digested
With much more facility than bread,
and was better food for infants in
galids and the aged. why" said he,
we ferment the flour first with yeast,
hen knead it and cook it, while these
people cook it first. then knead it with
heir stone pestles and then mix water
With it and let it ferment. I believe
they are in advance of US, as the |
cooking destroys the fungus produced /
during fermentation and thereby re-
iuces its value in assimilation in the
human economy. / am going home to
lake out a patent on the process and |
revolutionize the industry of bread
making
1 suggested that he file a caveat i'm
as some fool writer's de-
of the process might reach
the States before he did and he would |
De too late. | have no doubt there is