The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-22

ing taro, the native potato. The taro
is ground into paste, and after fer
mentation, becomes poi, on which the
natives mainly live. l tasted the poi.
1t tasted like sour paste, and Mr..
Emmeluth says it may be used as
paste. The original taro plant looks
exactly like what we know as the call
!adium, and the bulb looks like the
palladium bulb. When the taro crop
fails the natives make poi out of Amer
lean flour, and it seems to answer the
purpose, though it is light in color,
instead of dark. Americans soon learn
to like poi, and it is said to be very
wholesome. (Note.-I hate a man who
writes travel notes, and frequently
uses queer words taken out of the
guide books. 1 apologize for ''taro,'
and poi and shall not offend again.)
Mrs. Emmeluth is a native of
Hawaii, and is very fond of American
bacon. Her husband also says she
reads the Atchison Weekly Globe reg
ularIy, and says that Mrs. Lysander
John Appleton must be a queer woman.
The Emmeluth home is supplied with
modern plumbing, and the rooms are
delightfully."- light and airy. Instead of
having mosquito netting at the win
vows, Tic Is around the USuS.
There are no heavy draperies, and no
plush furniture. Flour, sugar, etc, are
kept in earthenware jars in the kitchen.
These jars are raised on cup-like legs
to keep out the ants, which seem to be
somewhat of a pest. The cook has a
modern range, with hot water attach
ment and uses wood as fuel. In
the family bed room, 1 saw a native
bed. Imagine a platform as high as
a kitchen table, and the length of
an ordinary bed. The platform was
eight feet wider than an ordinary bed.
The bed being placed in the center Of
the platform, a space of four feet was
left on either side. On hot nights, the
sleepers in the bed can roll out on
either side. where it is cooler. The
bed itself is without springs
fear have given a poor description of
the bed. Imagine that the top of the
platform is of the shape of a playing
card, with the bed occupying half the
space, but placed in the middle. >. .
Much to my regret, I did not meet
Mrs. Emmeluth; the Korean boy said
she had gone down town. Mr.. Emme-
luth visited the United States in 1893
and his wife accompanied him. They
intended visiting Atchison, but at Ar
mour, Mrs Emmeluth backed out and
they continued their journey. I asked
Mr.. Emmeluth why his wife backed
out. and he laughingly replied: Let her !
tell you When We arrived at the
house Mrs. Emmeluth was not at
home, and I forgot the incident |
Mr.. Emmeluth has been in Honolulu ,
twenty-five years. He went there in
a sailing vessel from San Francisco, /
yir,er h N1~l
timers in Atchison will remember him
as timer who worked for Jacob Leu. /
His sister has been in Hawaii eight |
years She was employed as a book
keeper in Atchison by the Mangelsdorf
Co, and by Greenleaf & Baker She
reads The Globe, and always pays
Atchison travellers attention. She was
On the dock when We arrived and when
we sailed, and I would like to wager
thai she will meet Captain Harry
smith and wife, who are due in three
Or four days, on the transport Sher-
man. When I reached my room after
sailing. 1 found two immense baskets
Of fruit there, sent by Miss Emme-
nth. Besides the fruit, they contain
I'd several packages of jams, jellies.
narmalade,. etc, all home made, and
7ery fine. These we pass about at the
ship tables. The baskets contained
ort Of melon known as papaya. It
ooks like a large cucumber. except
hat it is darker in color. The flesh
s yellow, and L found it delicious.
They say you must cultivate a taste
or it, but mine is ready made. For
Mattel does not like it, nor
10 the other passengers care for it.
t is said to be a natural cure for in
DIGESTION. I have enough to last sew
raj days. The baskets also contained |
inc apples and bananas, besides sew
raj other fruits which are new to me-
fresh pineapple is also said to be good {
Or Indigestion s
In the afternoon we all went bath !