The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-12
The Island of Welcome, '0'p table. law

By Katherine Pope.

cotton, many of silk and satin. You
will, with keenest interest, watch the
half-white girls, so charming under
their wreaths of flowers look admir-
ingly on the brown handles in white
duck and ever a posy in the button
hole; listen to the language, all ripping
with vowels and yet 1jtturally utter
ed, and pick out the folk from foreign
shores who have sought home and for
tune in Hawaii-Japs, Chinese, South
Sea islanders, Portuguese, and "plentv,
plenty haoles (whites)
Horseback riders add considerably to
the picture, men and women, boys and
girls, often bedecked with wreaths of
flowers, or adorned with long garlands
of green MALE, a mountain vine as dear
to the Hawaiian as myrtle to the Ger
man. All ride astride, and it is need
, less to say they ride as to the saddle
born. With merry jest and laugh, with
| bright-hued garments and gay flowers,
/ they flash through the streets, a sur
| vival that the automobile has not quite
crowded out.
Other sights not common to one from
1.-The states are those of curled-up
figures sleeping peacefully on mats
spread on the pavement OF the public
| street; women squatting in the shade
wearing small kimonos and queues or
/, Mother HubbardC cDooly;no o;rr,ro+ > a,
| or disporting in the gutter.
From the city's center you drive
along a hard white coral road, past
palm avenues, glorious hibiscus, great
bougainvillea arbors-to Waikiki, the
water playground of Honolulu; and
here find a palm-fringed shore, the
trees and grass growing to the very
edge of the ocean. Far, far away
stretches the Pacific, sapphire or
green, as its mood may be- Sometimes.
| at late sunset, if you are SO minded,
you may have the beach all to your
self. Again, it is populous with bath
ers and fisherfolk and searchers after
| the delicate Hawaiian seaWeed
Out in the country you come upon
the old-style fisherman. the sort that
reduces clothes to the simplest terms,
whose costume fits in well with the
business in hand.
You must ascend PunchbowI that
queer crater that rises UP from Homo
lulu's back streets; you should visit
it at sunset and by moonlight, and
from its top look down upon the semi
circle of the city, the forest of masts
in the harbor, the glitter of the waters
of the ocean; see the hedge of night
blooming cereus at the foot of Punch
bowl, and drink in the beauty of the
thousand flowers thereon, the great
white goblets' holding incense of in
! toxicating sweetness.
When you visit the Pail 1 wonder if
you will agree with me that no earthly
beauty can be greater than this which
bursts upon you as you reach the cut
| in the mountain. You have been
| travelling from Honolulu slowly up, up
for miles, delighting in the green noun
| tain walls on either side, fairy water
| falls shining here and there; you have
! looked back with vivid pleasure on the
| EMPOWERED town below and the gleam-
/ ing ocean At the top of a last steep
rise the mountains close in. then you
| turn sharp curve and suddenly are
! looking on the other side of the is
| land, down a sheer precipice of great
! depth-the Pali But you care not for
any hundreds of feet, you are so en-
raptured with the glorious coloring.
Way below CLEAN emerald rice-fields:
all about are mist-filled valleys, pur-
plish mountains: beyond the emerald
fields sapphire waters reach out and
blend with the distant sky. The Pail
you will visit and revisit!
Then the many trips of unusual in
terest beyond Oahu, the 1ittle-known
island on which is situated the we'll
known city of Honolulu. short voy-
age to the island of Maui, will result
in a pilgrimage to the wonderfully
beautiful mountain of Haleakala, a
peak rising 10000 feet from the sea.
The voyage to the island of Hawaii is
we'll worth while, with the journey to
the world; and such an eccentric one,
for it is not a cone-shapped, bare ele-
walton, but a crater within a crater
low on a mountain side, where the
vegetation is of tropical luXuriance,
You will be much interested in the
great lavabeds of the old crater, in
the mysterious vapor columns rising
here and there, in the smoldering
smaller crater: but more thoroughly
will you enjoy the majestic beauty of
the peaks of Mauna Loa and Mauna
Kea, revel in the jungle of ferns. |
the big parasites, the crimson-hued |
blossoms of the lehua trees, and all |
the color and vividness that gladden. |