The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-23
HonoIuIu---A Fancy Mixed
Drink

= - . 1885 - - y 80 1888 = i
soming trees, the royal poineiana. with
| the reddest, most burning scarlet that
/ ever was. and trees unknown TO me with
| flowers canary yellow, Copenhagen blue,
cleaning purple, white and pink. and
all as brilliant as the tropical sun. and
I twice as brilliant as any temperate
| flower, and palms enough TO make any
old maid drop dead for sheer delight.
! 1t seemed good, / tell you, to hear a
bird sing again and birds do sing in
Honolulu. l don t blame them a bit.
One bungalow especially appealed to me.
| for it had a canary piping on the
veranda and palm trees, big and little,
scattered over the lawn and lots OIL
sentiment, it seemed to me. / enioved
the duck pools out in the marshes and
the innumerahle ducks and geese sail
ing around and scrambling through the
reeds This picturesque spectacle in
spired the pessimist of our party-ana
what party would be complete without
one-the numberless water fowls on the
dozens of ponds inspired him to say
''This is fine malaria, boysi Oh,
brilliant, brilliant Then we came to
that famous beach, Waikiki, where be-
tween the tall palms we could see the
light luminous emerald water of the
southern-like sea change into the deep,
deep blue of the deeper water. Maybe
I WASH t disappointed because / had no
chance to go in swimming at charming
Waikiki, but the trouble was I could
n t get a soul to go with me. So / had
to make up my mind to wait until I
visited Honolulu again and I certainly
shall have to visit Honolulu again some
4 Z j.
live there and we had no doubts about
the matter either. We exclaimed right
through the famous aquarium at the
most fantastic fishes in the world. I
couldn It imagine anything gayer than
those fishes and never again shall / feel
justified in using that original smile, as
gay as bird. Whoever used the dia-
mond dyes on the plumage of those
fishes did an exceedingly good piece of
decoration. Their colors certainly ap.
peared artificial and carefully schemed,
but, then, who ID have the imagination
And you couldn It get me to put the
eolors on the poopaa, an eelish beast
which reminded me of a brown stock
ing with yellow horizontal stripes,
Uh-hl The names too, sound good
nu, hikihiki, kakupahu, hilunea, almost
as original as some of the family names
in a Chambers novel. The devil fish
was very lively and, though small he
was enough TO scare almost anyone to
death. When | saw one dried down on
the fish counter in the big reeking mar
ket place later on, / had no notion Of
buying, even though a souvenir would
have been nice. We did, however. in,
vest in a handsome big pineapple which
we carried back to the boat and spoon
ed out in delicious spoonfuls. | bought
some mangoes, but, alas, no one, not
even I, was sorry to see me fire them
out of the port hole with spirit and un,
Even Honolulu has its Palace cafe,
which is certain indication that Amer
has arrived. And that
moves me to say, in this connection, |
Honolulu as a whole strikes me as be |
ing a fancy mixed drink. just look |
at the people that swarm the streets |
and the highly interesting tourists.
The Nippon Maru pulled out at four |
o clock in the midst of busy scene |
and fearful. New Storage passengers |
were finging their leis of carnations |
and marigolds and beads, and whatnot. |
back on the wharf, where whole Jap /
anese families struggled for the pos
session of them and little children made |
themselves boas of flowers until they
could scarcely look out of their eyes and
other youngsters would march up the
gang plank, fairly smothered with leis.
al the celestials, either on boat or
shore, kept bowling and smiling pro-
soundly. The boys would dive from the
ife boats and bobbing up, begin to yell
'or nIckels and dimes. They escorted
Is out quite a way, their light coffee,
,o1ored, perfect figures appearing to
rood advantage in the green shore wa /
er. Right next to me stood an oldish
Japanese woman who could hardly bow
or the weeping she did. She was bid
ling, / think goodbye to her daughters
1t was d-bye to Homo
en- days without a sight of land and to-
morrow is the eleventh day, also the
lay before the Fourth of July.
| IN scarcely in a position to state
what / We been doing those ten days Ii
LAST night we actually played Simon
aysthumbs-up and Up-Jenkins and our
ide was pathetically beaten out, sixty
o ten. And for two successive nights
We entered into perfect whirlwind Of
ocial gaiety We had two birthday |;
'artes and two tasteless birthday cakes
n all their magnifeence. The first {
With the candles and all was, as yon !
night know, in honor of one of the
chOol girls going home. the other was
n honor of the stude from California,
md my! How giddy we were in our